Year 5

Class Teachers Residential 2025 Parent Meeting Spelling test Spellings will be handed out on a Friday and the test will be the following Friday. Times tables tests Times tables will be handed out on a Friday and the test will be the following week. This is timed so please try to practice using a...

Daubeney Loves Reading

Reading for Pleasure We have a rich reading culture at Daubeney. We are committed to creating an ethos and an environment that excites, enthuses and inspires children to read for their own enjoyment. We aim to develop a community of readers through high quality reading provision. The children have...

Clubs

Please submit applications to admin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk Breakfast Club Breakfast Club runs every day from 7:45am – 8:55am. This includes fruit, cereal, bagels and juice. Activities will start at 8:15am Breakfast Club Registration Form 26-27 Breakfast Club Changes Update Form 26-27 Breakfast...

Contact

Daubeney Primary School Daubeney Road Clapton London E5 0EG Telephone: 020 8985 4380 Fax: 020 8525 7639 Email: admin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk The person who deals with queries from parents and members of the public: Debi Groves Other Key Contacts Executive Head Teacher: Robin Warren Head of School:...

Year 1

Class Teachers Meet the Teacher Phonics Screener Meeting Pupil Survey Survey Link PE Day - Friday Please ensure your child brings their PE kit and suitable footwear to school every Friday in a bag. At home, please allow your child to practice getting changed by themselves to help them to be able to...

Starting Reception in September

Your Teachers The Early Years Curriculum at Daubeney Your child will be learning skills, acquiring new knowledge and demonstrating their understanding through seven areas of learning and development. There are three prime areas that are embedded in everything we do: Communication and Language...

Nursery Open Evenings

...r odd socks for Anti-bullying Week EYFS Video Tour...

Home Learning

Home Learning is an activity that should enhance your child’s experience so at Daubeney the activities we give all children are based on skills that will be useful and help them to learn during class time. Lower School Years R, 1 and 2 children should have 1 hour per week of home learning and...

Year 4

Times tables tests We advise children to log into Times Tables Rock Stars daily to practise their times tables. They will be tested every Friday and will compete against other class groups weekly. PE Children in Year 4 have PE every Monday and must bring in their PE kit to school including trainers...

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

...Green) and Eco Days Swimming Work Week BBC initiatives and enrichment Daubeney Village Parental Workshops SEN support...

SEND and Our Local Offer

...chool. Read more... Word Aware Game of the Week...

Mental Health

Here at Daubeney, We are very lucky to have a team of people working to support mental health and well-being. This team consists of DHML - Designated Mental Health Lead - Cheryll Gustave CWIS - CAMHS worker in school - Karolina Balciunaite WBF - Wellbeing Framework Partner - Claire Tregear EMHP -...

Maths

Our Vision Our vision at Blossom Federation is to nurture a life-long love and confident use of Maths. We aim to develop lively, enquiring minds encouraging pupils to become self-motivated, confident and capable in order to solve problems that will become an integral part of their future. Through...

Nursery

EYFS Team Welcome to Daubeney Nursery! In the nursery, we plan exciting activities every week based on our observation of children’s needs, interests, and stages of development across the seven areas of learning to enable the children to achieve and exceed the early learning goals. We hope you...

School Council

Daubeney School Council are a hardworking and enthusiastic group of children from years 3-6. They are the voice of their peers. They are elected every academic year by their peers in a democratic fashion of campaign, speech and voting. The School Council is made up of three committees. Admin...

Nurture Group - The Nest

The Nest is a place for children to have the opportunity to grow in confidence and become engaged, successful learners in their classrooms and the school community. Nurture is an environment where adults and children work closely together; a place where mistakes and accidents are discussed; where...

Science and Sustainability

Science We recognise the importance of Science in every aspect of daily life. As one of the core subjects taught in Primary Schools, we give the teaching and learning of Science the prominence it requires. Our vision for science is, “to ensure that children are given a science curriculum, which...

PSHE - Jigsaw

...ing online. Implementation Weekly sessions help teachers to focus on tailoring the lessons to their children’s needs and to enjoy building the relationship with their class, getting to know them better as unique human beings. Through a comprehensive programme called Jigsaw. Jigsaw is a schem...

Computing

If you would like to know more about this area of the curriculum, please talk to Joel Power. Computing in EYFS We understand how important it is that children develop their technology skills and we will continue to use a range of technology to support and enhance learning in other areas of the...

Reception

Meet the Teacher EYFS Team Yearly Overview Welcome to Reception! Important information PE is on Monday. Please send your child to school in their PE kit. Please bring in your book bag on your book bag day. Please bring in a water bottle with your child’s name clearly labelled. Please bring a spare...

Humanities - History & Geography

Intent To deliver a broad and balanced curriculum, which includes ensuring children are able to access cross curricular subjects like Geography, History and RE regularly. To have a deeper understanding of the world that we live in by learning in a cross curricular, creative and experiential way. To...

Physical Education

Intent The Blossom Federation believes that Physical Education (PE), experienced in a safe and supportive environment, is essential to ensure children attain optimum physical and emotional development and good health. We intend to deliver high-quality teaching and learning opportunities that...

Year 6

...objective to be practiced daily Weekly spelling list PE Children in Year 6 have PE every Wednesday and must bring in their PE kit to school. Breakfast Please ensure your child has breakfast before coming to school as it can affect their focus and concentration. If you would like further informati...

Religious Education

Intent Across the Blossom Federation, our RE curriculum provides children with an understanding and appreciation for beliefs, cultural practices and values. The Blossom Federation follows The Hackney Education agreed syllabus and lesson plans where available. We hold six designated RE days at the...

Music

Every child experiences the opportunity to realise themselves as composers and performers in their whole-class weekly music lessons. Lessons are delivered by our Music-specialists, using a holistic approach that includes moving, singing and playing as a way to understand and be creative in a range...

Assessment

...pil progress meetings Second Half Term Assessment Week End Second Half Term Re-assess data drop Teachers re-assess and make judgements based on assessments and books; modify EOY predictions where necessary End Second Half Term Pu...

Admissions

Daubeney is moving to a two form entry sized primary school. There are currently two classes of Reception children and this will continue for the academic year 2023 and beyond. It is currently three form entry primary school in Years 5 & 6 although it retains three classes of Year 2 children....

About our Curriculum

At The Blossom Federation of Daubeney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools, we shape our curriculum to ensure all pupils have access to a rich, exciting, experiential curriculum, which celebrates the rich diversity of our schools. Drawing on the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and...

Year 3

Class Teachers Welcome to Year 3 Daubeney Pupil Wellbeing Survey https://forms.office.com/e/VUwUMb0Mq2 Times tables tests We advise children to log into Times Tables Rock Stars daily to practise their times tables. They will be tested every Friday and will compete against other class groups weekly....

Forest School

Autumn Term – Year 2 Spring Term – Year 1 Summer Term – Reception During Forest School sessions, children are encouraged to work with others to carry out activities such as den/shelter building, role play, exploration, practical and creative skills and tasks. These sessions will be delivered by...

Literacy

At Daubeney we are committed to raising standards in Literacy and follow the National Curriculum in order maintain accurate coverage across the year. In order to maximise opportunities to develop literacy skills, we make cross curricular links wherever possible. In Early Years we follow the Early...

Year 2

Class Teachers Meet the Teacher PE Days Children in Year 2 have PE every Friday. They must wear their school uniform in to school and bring their PE kit in their bag to change in school. Forest School Parakeet class will begin Forest School sessions on Friday 15th of September and they will run...

Year 6 - Geography: Physical Geography

We started the lesson by recapping what we learnt last week, first by looking at our floor book and second by completing a recap quiz as a class. We discussed the difference between physical and human geography. We played a game as a class where we had to figure out if the landmark was a physical...

Mr Logan’s weekly video - 15th September 2023

Nurture 2023/24 Our first Week

Reception - Ducklings first week!

We have had a superb first week in Duckling class. We have been making new friends, meeting our new teachers, playing different games, getting creative and enjoying the weather outside!

Year 2 Computing Week 3

This week we started our topic for this half term which is 'creating pictures'. We explored impressionist art and then made our own impressionist style painting by using 2 paint a picture

The Nest - This week in Nurture - Autumn Week 2 2023

This week Nurture 'The Nest' have created their own portraits inspired by Picasso

Golden Achiever’s - 22nd September 2023

Massive congratulations to this week's Golden Achievers!!!

Mr Logan’s weekly update video - 22nd September 2023

Computing Week 2

In Computing we explored pictograms as part of our Questioning topic for this half term. We discussed what types of homes we lived in and made a pictogram to show the answers

The Nest - Painting

This week we are expressing our emotions through painting

Mr Logan’s weekly video update - 29th September 2023

Reception Duckling Class - Me and my Family

This week, we have spent time talking about our families. We have discovered that families come in all shapes and sizes and that's okay! We have had fun creating our home, drawing our family members and creating a family tree

Computing Week 3

This week we explored binary trees and worked collaboratively to think of questions that could be used to classify a range of avatars. We then tested our binary tree to make sure each question worked well and we could identify each avatar by asking yes/no questions

Year 5 - Maths: Angles in real life

aving focused on angles for the last few weeks, we thought it was time to take our learning into the outside! We took our protractors with us to investigate different types of angles that we could see in the playground

1A's RE trip to the church

Take a look to see what a wonderful time we had at The Immaculate Heart of Marys and St Dominics church last week!

Year 5 - Science - Life Cycle Wheels

After recapping last week’s lesson on human life stages, we looked more in depth into each of the following areas: physical changes, mental changes and independence. For each of the human life stages, we considered how each of these areas would change. In partners, we took our whole class...

Year 2 – Spanish: Story telling and learning a second language

Language learning begins with listening and speaking, so storytelling is a fabulous tool for teaching any language, whether that is a first or a second language . At Daubeney we learn new Spanish words and phrases in KS1 from stories. Stories teach us grammar and syntax in the most natural way....

Reception - Yellow Class Easter Bonnet Parade

We loved making our Easter hats this week! We used coloured card, gems, googly eyes and tape to make our bonnets, and some of us made our own bonnets at home!

Year 3 Science and ICT

The children in Year 3 used their Chromebooks today 13-09-2023 to research information about plants which is part of their Science unit. Next week we will be learning more about plants and what they need in order to grow

History and Art

We painted a scene from the Great Fire of London last week. We thought about the colours you would use for the fire and how to create the silhouettes of the buildings in front

Computing Week 4

This week we used 2Question to follow a binary code in order to find out the names of each avatar. We carefully answered yes or no to each question to find the correct names. We then used our debugging skills to find the errors in a binary tree and fix them so that each step worked correctly

Mr Logan’s Weekly Update Video - Summer 2 Week 2

Year 2 – Art lesson - Pablo Picasso

Something different this week for Year 2 students who have had the opportunity to learn about Pablo Picasso’s life and art style. Students have designed their own abstract portraits inspired by the work of the Spanish artist. Very creative and interesting pieces of work!

Hispanic Week

We have thoroughly enjoyed learning about different Hispanic cultures and traditions this week. Students in Yr2 designed their own Mexican sombrero , listened and danced to some Mexican folk music; and students in Year3 had the opportunity to learn about Peru’s history. Maybe one day we can all...

Mr Logan’s Weekly Update Video - 30th June 2023

Dear Parents and Carers, I hope you enjoy this week’s video update. Comments are always welcome. Have a great weekend

Year 5 - Art: Final Pieces

Over the last 2 lessons, we have been working on our final pieces of art for the topic inspired by 1960s Popart! To start, we had to sketch our own portraits. We had to decide what part of our faces to begin sketching and work from there. To complete our final art pieces of the topic, we received...

Year 5 - Computing: Blog Publishing

In computing last week, we spent time publishing our writing. But because we wrote a few blog posts, we decided to type them up as if they were on a blog. We learnt about how to include photos by copy and pasting, change the colour and font of the text as well as what layout would look best for a...

Parakeet class learn about continents

This week year 2 have been learning about the 7 continents. We love singing the continent song! Ask us about them when you see us!

2L RE day trip

Last week 2L went on a trip to East London Mosque to learn more about the religion of Islam. We visited various parts of the mosque, learning about the environment and layout, and we also learnt about some actions that would be seen when Muslims are praying. We discussed why there are separate...

Year 5 - Computing Week 2

We've spent another week familiarising ourselves with the 2Design and Make program. This lesson focused on changing the shapes of our vehicles. We did a few challenges as a class

Year 5 – Los planetas

What a great start to this final term! Students in year 5 are learning new vocabulary and grammar structures while learning about space. Students have revisited days of the week and discovered the origins of the words, many of them coming from planets in both, English and Spanish

Spanish - First week

Very busy week for students at Daubeney after the summer break! Students in Year 1 have enjoyed singing along to familiar songs and revisiting greetings, while students in Year 5 have had the opportunity to improve their memory skills to help vocabulary retention through games, and learning about...

Year 2 - Computing Summer 2

This half term our topic has been presenting ideas. We have looked at a range of ways to present the story of Goldilocks. We read an e-book, took a quiz and explored concept maps. Last week we made our own quizzes, thinking carefully about the types of questions we wanted to include. We chose from...

Year 2 Art - Collaging

Last week year 2 had fun collaging a piece of work in Art. We thought about what image we wanted to make, colours we would need, and where we would be placing the pieces

Mr Logan’s weekly update video

Please see my first update video of the summer 2 half-term. I hope you find it informative and useful. Kind regards,

Mr Logan’s update video - 24th July 2023

Dear Parents and Carers, Please find our weekly update video for your viewing infotainment

Mr Logan’s Weekly Update Video - 21st July 2023

Please watch my final video of the year. Wishing everyone a great summer holiday. We look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 6th September

Ducklings in Reception

This week, we have been so lucky to play host to 10 ducklings. We have watched them hatch from their eggs in their incubator, to scurrying for food as a duckling. We have enjoyed watching these ducklings and have very much loved having a cuddle!

Mr Logan’s weekly update video 8th September 2023

Mr Logan’s Weekly Update Video - 23th June 2023

Week 1 in Parakeet Class

We have had lots of fun in our first week back at school! We have done lots of activities to get to know each other and have settled into our new classroom, ready to learn lots of new exciting things!

Mr Logan’s Weekly Update Video - Summer 2 Week 5

Year 6: Science - Discovering new animals

After completing the recap quiz as a class, we looked through our floorbook to remind ourselves of what we learnt and made last week. Then, we learnt about vertebrates and invertebrates and how they are different. We learnt about specific types of vertebrates and invertebrates and what makes them...

Parakeet class trip to Hackney City Farm

This week year 2 enjoyed a trip to Hackney City Farm! We enjoyed exploring the habitats of many farm animals as part of our Science topic this half term. We saw a range of animals including pigs, donkeys, goats and ducks!

Duckling Class - Parent Lunch

This week, we invited our parents to come and join us for lunch. We had such a great time! We enjoyed showing off the wonderful lunch we have at Daubeney. We can't wait for the next one!

Year 2 Science - How to keep our bodies clean

This week we have been learning about ways in which we should keep our bodies clean and healthy, from showering and bathing to using a tissue when we sneeze. We conducted an experiment using water and dried herbs to try and find out why soap is so important to use when you wash your hands. Ask us...

Year 6 - Trip to Museum of London Docklands

Last week, we spent the day at the Museum of London Docklands. Here, we learnt more about how the East End was affected by World War II. We also spent time exploring the rest of the museum, which was about the Docklands

Duckling Class - Its beginning to look like Christmas

This week, we started our Christmas and seasonal holiday prep. We have been talking about Christmas and Hanukkah - making decorations, writing lists, playing games. We enjoyed playing in the Antarctic small world with the snow and beginning to practice our Nativity

Duckling Class - Library

We enjoyed our last weekly visit until after Christmas to the library. We loved looking at the different books and enjoyed listening to a story

Parrot Class - Science, exploring our sense of touch!

This week we have been exploring our sense of touch. We explored different textures and had to describe what objects feel like. We said that our sense of touch was important and useful for distinguishing objects around us

Duckling Class - Final Christmas Week 2023

This week has been our final week of Autumn 2. We have been doing a lot of different Christmas/seasonal activities. This includes showing of our nativity (video coming soon!) making decorations, cards, making gingerbread men, practising wrapping presents and talking about what we will be doing...

Year 2 Maths - Shapes

This week in Maths, Year 2 have been working on naming and identifying a range of 2D and 3D shapes. We then focused on 2D shapes, identifying how many sides and vertices each shape has and using mirrors to find the possible lines of symmetry

Year 2 Spring 1 Week 1 computing

This week we began our new Computing topic, learning all about coding. We discussed what an algorithm is and took turns giving sets of instructions, being careful to be precise. We then used Purple Mash to create algorithms which made our planes take off from the run way. We also tried debugging an...

Year 2 – Maths and Spanish joint project. Shapes

CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning and as the term suggests, this approach is used to teach students about a new subject in a language foreign to them. Through CLIL, students not only learn a second language but also learn about a topic totally new to them. This week Year 2...

Year 5 – Spanish and Music joint project

As part of project in which Music and Spanish are combined to deliver the National Curriculum requirements in both curriculum areas, this week Yr5 students have had the opportunity to take their Spanish outside the usual classroom and use key vocabulary and grammar structures in the Music room

Falcon Class at Into Uni!

Falcon class had a brilliant week with the staff of into university! Our toooc of the week was liberal arts. We learned so much about different universities, university courses, and about people who studied liberal arts. We also went to the Wallace Collection in central London and learned about the...

Year 2 Science - Exercise

This week for our Science lesson, year 2 have been learning about exercise and the effect it has on our bodies. We took turns showing an exercise and thought about how our lungs and heart had to work harder to pump blood with oxygen around our bodies. We also explored how exercise is good for our...

Duckling Class - Valentines Week and Party!

Last week of Spring 1, we celebrated Valentines Day! We enjoyed making cards for our family, making play-doh hearts and making decorations for our party! On the last Friday, Duckling Class hosted a family Valentines Party. We enjoyed making heart shaped biscuits for our family to enjoy at the...

Year 3 - Mystery Reader

The children had a fantastic story telling session this afternoon 19-2-2024 when our Mystery Reader came in to tell them a story. Each week we will be having a parent as a mystery reader to read and tell a story. If any parent is interested please contact your child’s teacher

Duckling Class - Chinese New Year

This week, we have been learning about and celebrating Chinese New Year. We have been talking about 'The Great Race' and all the animals involved. We have learnt that this year is 'The Year of the Dragon'. We have been designing and creating our own dragons and fans to celebrate...

Duckling Class - Ordinal Numbers

This week, we have been learning about ordinal numbers in maths. We have been reading about Chinese New Year so we have been talking about racing. We had our own running races with each other, and had to use ordinal numbers to help us present our winning rosettes. We had so much fun!

Year 6 – DT: Design

We began recapping our previous lesson and we shared our research on different types of shelters. We began this week’s learning by considering the different factors needed when building a structure. We thought about what the purpose of our structure would be, how it would be used and the...

Year 6 – DT: Make

Today we recapped what we learned and did last week. We looked at our designs and discussed some of the decisions we made. We then had a serious discussion about using tools such as junior hacksaws and hot glue guns safely. Then we looked at all the different techniques we can use to create a...

Year 6 – Eagles Class: Into University

Monday We learnt about what liberal arts are and the subjects that make it up. We took part in a carousel activity about psychology, philosophy, classics and social sciences. At each activity, we learnt about what that subject means and then completed an activity that relates to our learning. An...

Year 6 – History: Diversity of the Allied forces

Having taken a week’s break from history due to RE Day, we spent the beginning of this lesson recapping our learning from when we went to the Museum of London Docklands and what we learnt about how World War II impacted the East End. After that, we reminded ourselves of the Allies and Axis...

Duckling Class - Handas Surprise

This week, we have been reading 'Handa's Surprise'. We have been talking about the animals and the fruit in the story. We created our own animal scene and we wrote postcards about what animals we saw. We also learnt how to weave and created our own fruit baskets

Year 2 Computing Week 3

This week we began our topic of Music. We used 2sequence on Purple Mash to create our own digital music, thinking about the tempo, volume and range of instruments we could choose from

Year 2 Cross Curricular - Australia week 2

For this weeks lesson we focused on learning about ways in which Australia and Great Britain are similar and ways in which they are different. We explored how both countries are islands, the main language is English and that they have the same head of state. We also identified that they are in...

Reception Duckling Class - Maps

This week we have been learning all about maps. We have been discovering what a map is, why we use a map and looking at different types of maps including zoo maps, tube maps, street maps and treasure maps! We have been creating our own maps, following the routes and finding the treasure. We had so...

Duckling Class - Library Visit

This week was Group 2s first week at the Library. We enjoyed our walk to Homerton library, we listened carefully to the library rules and then we explored the children's section. We founds lots of books that we would like to read and we were able to bring some of them back to school!

Year 2 - Art and literacy

Year 2 have been exploring the story of The Magic Bojabi Tree as our long burst writing focus this half term. This week we created scenes from the book using watercolours, thinking about the setting of the story and the animals we would include

Year 2 - Add by making 10

This week we practised adding two single digits together. We made each number on a tens frame and then moved some counters to make a ten frame full. We thought about the new number sentences we could write and how this could help us add numbers easily

Year 2 - Computing week 4

This week in our computing lesson we explored pointillism art. We discussed aspects of this theme and looked at lots of example pieces. We then used 2paint a picture to create our own pointillist art pieces using a body outline as a template

Golden Achievers - 17th March 2023

Massive congratulations to this week's Golden Achievers!!!

The Nest - What A Busy Week

Year 2 - Comparing numbers

This week in maths we have been comparing and ordering numbers up to 100. We have been using the less than and greater than symbols and using this vocabulary when discussing numbers

Year 2 - Computing week 5

This week year 2 continued their creating pictures topic and learnt about the artwork of Piet Mondrian. We then explored making our own pieces of art on 2paint a picture, and focused on using solid lines and blocks of colour

Duckling Class - Hello Alan! Welcome to Earth

This week, an Alien named Alan visited us from outer space! We introduced ourselves to Alan and made him feel very welcome! We created space pictures using chalk to make Alan feel at home and showed Alan how to sort items by colour and shape! We're very excited to show Alan the smells and...

The Nest - This week in Nurture - Autumn Week 6 2023

This week we have been using our fine motor skills,learning number bond, plants,hot seating Rapunzel and the witch, art and much more

Reception - Duckling Class - Smell and Taste

Last week, we enjoyed exploring our senses. We talked about different smells and we had a discussion on good smells and bad smells. We made our very own big smelly bear! We tasted different food including sugar, salt and lemon. Some of us enjoyed the sourness of the lemon...some did not. We also...

Year 2 - Food Chains

This week we have been learning about food chains and how animals depend on each other in their habitats. We identified predators, prey and producers. We also identified animals that were herbivores, carnivores and omnivores

Mr Logan’s Weekly Update Video - 20th October 2023

Year 2 - Computing Week 2023 - Week 7

This week was our final lesson on creating art. We looked at some of the work by William Morris and thought about the patterns he made, how he used symmetry and rotation, and how he repeated patterns. We made our own repeated patterns in two different ways, they look amazing!

Year 2 - Computing A2W3

This week we continued our Online Safety topic, and were introduced to emails. We discussed how emails can be a quick and easy form of communication, but we have to be aware of who we are talking to and how we conduct ourselves. We used 2email to start a conversation with Barnaby Bear, and were...

Year 2 - Geography and Computing

We learnt about the equator and the north and south poles this week. We explored why these places are either really hot or really cold, and compared their distance to the sun. We used atlases and Google Earth on chromebooks to identify countries that are close to the equator and polar regions and...

Exploring numbers

This week we have been focusing on numbers . We also used our number skills when making cookies

Year 6 - Literacy: Speeches

This week, we have been working on writing speeches about things that matter to us - the environment and our library. We performed these speeches in front of our peers today!

Reception - Duckling Class - Week 2

... our daily phonic sessions!...

Year 2 - Zoo Trip 2023

We had so much fun visiting the zoo last week as part of our Science learning! We were able to get up close to lots of animals including lions, tigers, monkeys, gorillas and penguins. Ask us about our favourite animals when you see us!

Year 2 Computing A2W2

This week we started our new topic of online safety. We explored the search bar on Purple Mash and discussed why it's a safe search compared to search engines such as google. We also used the filter option to narrow down our results and found our activity for the day. Once we completed our work...

Reception - Duckling Class: Anti-bullying Week - celebrating Kindness Day!

...his Week, it is Anti-Bullying Week! We started this Week off by celebrating ‘Kindness Day’. We talked about what it means to be kind, how we can show kindness and why we should show kindness. After our circle time, we drew pictures of ourselves and our friends being kind to each other!...

Year 2 - Spanish - La oruga glotona

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is one of Eric Carle’s best books, and it can be used as a fantastic resource for us to learn the name of some fruits and other food items, days of the week and the words for caterpillar and butterfly in Spanish. Excellent lesson today!

Year 3 - Anti Bullying Week 2023

Today 15-11-2023 the children in Year 3 enjoyed a fun workshop around bullying

Duckling Class - Autumn 2 - Week 3

This week, we have been continuing to read 'The Extraordinary Gardener'. We have been using describing words to talk about how Joe is feeling and story sequencing. We have been making our very own flowers with play-doh and gems, we have been finger painting our own gardens and making flower...

Duckling Class - Our first trip!

Today (16/11/23), was our very first school trip! Group 1 of Duckling Class visited Homerton Library! We enjoyed looking through different books from fiction to Non-fiction, and we enjoyed reading them to each other. We were lucky enough to be able to take books back to school! We are so excited...

Year 1 A - Story Seekers Project

We had a brilliant telling session from Miss Gustave a few weeks ago. We were inspired by Miss Gustave's story and then came up with our own Anansi stories. Have fun listening to our stories!

Year 5 - Maths: Fractions of Quantity

This week in Year 5 has been full of fractions. We've spent time multiply unit and non unit fractions with integers, multiplying mixed numbers with integers and finding the fractions of a quantity. Here is us recapping some work and learning some new things!

Spanish Champions Help at Parents' Evening

Spanish Champions working! Earlier on this week, at parents' evening, some members of the team helped parents with their Spanish language, as well as informed them about how we learn at Daubeney. HUGE gracias!

Year 5 - Computing: Levels, Instructions and Titles

This week, we focused on including instructions and titles onto our games. We even thought more about how levels can be different or more difficult

Year 5 - Ducklings Come to Visit

Daubeney has had a bunch of new friends in the form of ducklings! They started last week off in Year 3 and have now arrived in Year 5. We have been loving playing with them and watching them grow and play!

Year 2 - Computing: Searching the Internet

This week 2KF have been learning about searching the internet. They had lots of fun trying to find answers about dinosaurs using a search engine called Google. When they finished, they tested their knowledge of dinosaurs by completing a quiz on Purple Mash

Year 4 Swimming at the Aquatics Centre

For the past two weeks, Year 4 have been attending the famous Aquatics Centre in Stratford. They were learning how to swim with professional swimming instructors. By the end of the two weeks, everyone passed their swimming test!

Year 5 - Literacy: Dragon Trump Cards

To finish up our week of the Dragon Slayer, we designed our own dragons and made trump cards for them! We considered their powers, favourite food and appearance

Year 5 - Computing: Game Design

This week we spent time really focusing on our game design skills by using 2DIY3D on Purple Mash once again. We spent time adding more levels to our games as well!

Year 5 - Yoga - Week 3

It’s our third week of yoga and we are definitely becoming much better at it! We still get the giggles sometimes but we’re learning how to slow ourselves down much faster than we used to be able to

Year 1 - Computing - Week 2

...e lines they needed to use....

Year 1 - Computing - Week 3

For week 3 of computing in Year 1, we used Chromebooks to practise our Maths skills, sequencing numbers from 1-100. We thought about how to navigate a website to get to the page that we need and how to accurately use the touch pad

Nurture Group - Shopping Trip

This week in maths we have been learning about money. We wrote out our shopping list and headed off to the shops. Today we are making fruit kebabs and chocolate Rice Krispies. We bought the ingredients and looked at how much each item will cost and what coins we will need. Finally, we worked out...

Year 1 - Computing - Week 4

This week Year 1 have been using the mouse bots to practice giving precise instructions when they are coding. They thought about the route the mouse had to take in order to get to the cheese and avoid any obstacles in the way. They also had to debug the mouse if any of the instructions were wrong!

Year 5 - Literacy: Features of a Poem

This week, we are looking at poems in literacy and today we spent the lesson looking at the features of poems. We looked at different kinds of poems. Do you know what the features of a poem is?

Year 1 - Art: Exploring Sculptures

Year 1 have been exploring sculptures this week as part of our new Art topic. We thought about what the sculptures looked like, what they might have been made out of and how they made us feel

Year 5 - Yoga - Week 5

We are definitely getting a lot more comfortable with silence, stillness and breathing. Our yoga instructor, Evi, even let us choose and come up with some yoga positions that we wanted to try!

Reception - Forest School - Blue Class Friendship Week

Making elder necklaces for our friends

Year 1 - Computing - Week 5

This week Year 1 have been practicing their coding skills using 2Go on Purple Mash. They thought about which direction they wanted the object or person to move and could press the correct button using a range of different backgrounds and paths

Year 4 - Transition Day in 5C

This week was super exciting. To get us ready for September, we spent the day with our new teacher, Miss Cheung and did lots of fun activities like learning about Miss Cheung and talking about ourselves, creating class charter, writing a letter to our old teacher and play team games

Year 5 - 5C Reading Outside

Is there a better way to end the week than sitting outside, enjoying the sun and learning through reading? We spent our reading lesson in the Hop Garden today!

Year 5 - First Week

How was your summer? We spent the first day of Year 5 learning our new routines, finding our new seats and starting some new learning. We can't wait to experience more new things in Year 5

First Week in Reception - Yellow Class

We have had so much fun during our first week at Daubeney! We have made lots of new friends, explored the school and enjoyed getting to know our new adults! We have been writing and decorating our names, building in the sand, drawing pictures of ourselves, cooking dinner in the Monster Cafe,...

Year 2 - 2L's First Week Back!

We had lots of fun in our first week back! We created beautiful self portraits, made some collaged flowers, and explored our new classroom

Year 5 - Literacy Roleplay

This week we are doing our moderation writing task, which means we are showing what we know and remember from our learning in Year 4 to our new Year 5 teachers. To start off, we discussed and roleplayed the story of The Three Little Pigs but we put a twist on it and told the story from the...

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 2

This week we discussed our online safety agreement, talking about how to keep ourselves safe when using a device and who we should ask for help. We practised logging in to the chromebooks using our individual usernames and passwords, and then logged in to LGFL to access Purple Mash. We then had...

Reception - Ducklings Week 1

This week we were lucky enough to have 5 duck eggs arrive! We waited patiently for the eggs to hatch and over the first few hours, they all hatched! We have watched them eat, drink and cuddle with each other. Both classes have enjoyed watching them, stroking them and watching them grow! Alongside...

Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance

This week, we have been learning about water resistance. We learnt that water resistance is similar to air resistance but we can lessen water resistance by being streamlined. To test this out we made our own boats and tested them out in a paddling pool

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 3

This week we used 2Paint on Purple Mash to create a piece of art using impressionism as our theme. We created our own individual paintings and explored the way they made us feel

Year 6 - 6M ICT and Science

This week in Science 6M will be learning all about circuits. They used their Purplemash accounts today, 1-3-2022, to learn and discuss more about creating open and closed electrical circuits. The children used their program, which allowed them to draw, create and understand how to complete an...

Year 5 - Literacy Roleplay

This week we are writing a narrative based on the video Taking Flight and to help us understand the story, we used our imaginations to go on an adventure like Tony and his grandpa does in the video. Some of us flew on planes, whilst others swam through the depths of the dark, blue oceans

Aspiring Authors in Year 5

Well done to these two young aspiring authors, who spent their free time last weekend beginning to write a novel. They thought carefully about their title and front cover. They were inspired by their favourite books and began writing their first three chapters. We are very proud and can’t...

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity

The children in 6M enjoyed a whole week of activities with the team from IntoUniversity. They discussed and learnt all about life at university, the courses on offer and activities provided by many different institutes. They children also discussed diversity and empathy and visited the Dialogue Hub...

Year 5 - Science: Separating Materials

We explored how we can separate different materials. We had to separate metal from sand using magnetism. We then investigated how different liquids can separate depending on their density. We also mixed some salt into some water and we will be observing it over the next few weeks to see if the salt...

Year 5 - Science: Filtering and Sieving

This week we learnt about another 2 separation processes: Filtering and Sieving. We learn about how these are both reversible changes through our experiment!

Year 1 - 1L Growing Together

As part of Children's Mental Health week, we took time to think about how we have grown and who has helped us to grow. We celebrated all the things we are able to do now and decorated a butterfly with all of those things. We also decorated parts of a caterpillar to show all the people that have...

Year 3 - 3HC Dress to Express

3HC have dressed to EXPRESS! As part of Children's Mental Health week taking place this week. Don't forget the junior mental health team are helping to raise money for Pace 2 Be to help children get easier access mental health support

Year 5 - Adding Fractions

In Year 4, we learnt about adding fractions but what happens when the fractions don't have the same denominator? We worked with our partners this week to find the lowest common denominator to solve each number sentence

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheets

We have started a new computing topic and it is Spreadsheets! We are learning about formulas and how to make our lives easier when we are adding and subtracting by using a spreadsheet. This week, we learnt how to make a spreadsheet that converts metres to centimetres and centimetres to metres!

Year 5 - Greta and the Giants Roleplay

We are learning about the book Greta and the Giants for the first two weeks of this half term. To help us understand the story more, we acted out the story and even made props inspired by Greta and her friends. We will be writing a blog based on the book

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheet Counters

This week in computing we continued our topic on Spreadsheets and learnt how to add a counter. We used this to answer the question "Is 'e' the most popular vowel?" Look at how we did!

Year 1 - Iggy Peck Architect

Our book focus for two weeks is Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty. We used role play and hot seating to explore the story and the characters, and we also had a go at making our own structures out of items from around the classroom!

Year 5 - Character and Setting Description

We are continuing to look at the Greta and the Giants story this week and to help us with our descriptions, we spent the lesson talking about how we can describe characters and settings. We worked collaboratively as a group to come up with descriptions and write it down on our brainstorms

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheet Area and Perimeter

This week, we learnt about how we can use formulae to calculate things for us easily, like area and perimeter. By copying and pasting a forumlae, we could find the area and perimeter of a shape by simply typing in the length and width of the shape

Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 - Growing Together

...ated Children’s Mental Health Week. The theme was Growing Together. Growing Together is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt and trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of po...

Fitness and Mental Health Assembly

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Golden Achievers for our Teachers

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Year 4 and Year 5 Workshop - Giving

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Year 1 - Forest School - 1A Celebration Week

Making crowns and Easter egg hunt

Year 1 - Forest School - 1S Celebration Week

Making crowns and Easter egg hunt

Reception - Forest School - Yellow Class Friendship Week

Exploring friendships and making Elder necklaces

Year 5 - Computing: 3D Modelling Introduction

This week we started our 3D Modelling unit in Computing and we explored a new program called 2Design and Make on Purple Mash. We designed our own houses that we can print the net for to create a 3D model of our houses

Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance

This week in science, we have been learning about air resistance and friction. To test this out, we made our own parachutes using tissue paper and string and tied different weighted objects to it to see how that affects the speed of falling

Year 4 - Reading: Non-Fiction Text About Earthquakes

Today, Wednesday 21st September 2022, the children in Year 4 had the opportunity to read a selection of Non-fiction text about earthquakes. This helped the pupils to gain a further understanding of how earthquakes occur as they will be learning more on this topic in their Geography lesson later...

European Day of Languages

This week we are celebrating European Day of Languages. Students in Yr5 and Yr6 have had the opportunity to learn about some loanwords or ‘borrowings’. These are words which are now English words that come from other languages. As well as being a great chance to celebrate the diversity...

Year 2 - Spring 2 Week 2 Computing

This week we started a new topic, learning about effective searching. We explored the difference between the internet and the world wide web, thought about different browsers that you can use and identified search engines to help us find information we need. We used this knowledge to search for...

Year 2 - Coding Week 4

This week we continued our coding topic and learnt about using a timer to run a block of commands after a delay. We had fun making a magician's rabbit disappear and then reappear!

Christmas in Reception

We have had a fun-filled week of different Christmas and winter activities! We have been making Christmas cards, decorating biscuits, making tree decorations and had an end of the year party! We were also lucky enough to go on a school trip to see 'Whiskers First Winter' which we loved!

Year 1 and Year 2 - Spanish Children's Stories

This half term students in Year 1 and Year 2 are learning key vocabulary and some simple grammar structures through familiar stories. 2L students have enjoyed learning the main characters from 'Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see?' this week

The Nest - Literacy and Maths

Our week of fun literacy and maths in The Nest

Reception - Mini Rabbit Cake Baking

Last week, Reception focused on a story called 'Mini Rabbit Not Lost' and it was about a little rabbit who got lost when he was searching for berries for his cake. We decided to make our own cake. We figured out what ingredients we needed, measured them out, mixed everything together and...

Year 2 - 3D Shapes

This week we made 3D shapes using nets. We had to cut and stick carefully in order to make the correct shape. We then discussed the shape we had made and thought about what 2D shapes we could see on their faces

Year 2 - Coding Week 2

This week we started our coding topic! We had lots of fun trying to make planes take off from their runways and adding code blocks to detect any collisions. We had to think carefully about the algorithm we made and how we could debug if there were any problems!

Reception - Chinese New Year and Ordinal Numbers

This week, we have been learning about Chinese New Year. We have been reading a story called 'The Great Race' which explained about the chinese zodiac. We made fans, red envelopes, dragon masks, lanterns and used chopsticks for our wooly noodles. We also used the Great Race story in...

Year 5 - Hackney School of Food

This week, we went to Hackney School of Food where we learnt about knife skills, kitchen safety and how to create a healthy and balanced meal. We did everything ourselves! We cut our own vegetables, prepared a sauce by grinding up ingredients in a mortar and pestle and even made our own meatballs...

Year 2 - Coding Week 3

This week we continued our coding topic. We created an algorithm to instruct characters to move when they are clicked and to stop when they collide. We also explored how to change the character image once they collided!

This Week in The Nest - 20th January 2023

Year 5 - Computing: Friction and Functions

It's week 4 of coding in Year 5 and we are working on some more complicated things like friction and functions. We know that friction stops us from sliding all over the place and made use of this knowledge to stop the football on our screen from sliding off. Then we created a function where the...

Year 2 - 2L Christmas Prep

This week 2L have been making lots of Christmas decorations! We decorated Santa faces for our hoop, made a paper wreath and even made our own baubles. We then decorated the tree with our creations!

Year 5 - DT: Moving Dragons

Did you know that this last weekend was Chinese New Year? It is a celebration that takes place all around the world and celebrates the new year according to the lunar calendar. To celebrate this, we made moving dragons in DT, using cardboard, paper and split pins. It contains a lever and by moving...

Year 2 Science week 2 - Plants

This week we planted some beans as part of our Science topic. We planted in 4 pots in total and have given each pot different growing conditions to investigate what plants need in order to grow well. Ask us about our bean plants!

Year 4 - ICT: Spreadsheets

The children in 4M enjoyed their ICT session today learning all about spreadsheets. They were able to use a spreadsheet and make a pattern that they have programmed to count in various multiples. Next week, we will be looking at creating more patterns and sequences using spreadsheets

Year 6 - 6MC - IntoUni Week

We have spent a week with IntoUni! We learned about inspirational people such as Malala Yousafzai and Martin Luther King Junior. We also visited the Wallace Collection in Central London and Cambridge University! "It was one of the best into uni sessions we had and we had lots of fun with the...

Year 3 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

This term year 3 students have been introduced to new language structures that enable them to talk about their birthdays, and their favourite colours, months of the year or days of the week. Students have enjoyed role-play tasks, asking and answering questions from memory, and of course, singing...

Safer Internet Day 2023

This week we all participated in Safer Internet Day on Tuesday 7th February. The theme this year is 'Want to talk about it? Making space for conversations about life online.' We had lots of wonderful activities that enabled children to think about how they use the internet and what the...

The Nest - Our Trip to Pizza Express

This week we went to Pizza Express and we were lucky enough to make our own pizzas. Emmanuel the chef gave us his secret ingredients to a perfect pizza. "It was the best day" "The pizza tasted delicious and scrumptious " "I am going to save some for my sister"

Year 2 - Computing Week 6

This week we made our own race course with a range of characters. We thought about how the options for the turtle were different from other objects and programmed each of them to move. We had fun exploring how we can create and change algorithms of our own!

Year 5 - Literacy: Curiosity Collage

This week, we have started reading a new book called Quest. We made predictions about the book yesterday and today we created a curiosity collage, which had all our brilliant ideas that we want to include in our writing next week

Junior Mental Health Team - Mindful Colouring Sessions for Children's Mental Health Week

... Children's Mental Health Week....

Year 2 - Science Plant Hunt

As part of our Science topic we went on a plant hunt in the hop garden this week! We had fun exploring and identifying a range of plants that grow right here in school!

The Nest - Fruit Kebabs

This week we made fruit kebabs! We talked about healthy eating and the benefits of each fruit that we used. "The pineapples were the sweetest" Fun Fact - did you know that bananas contain a natural chemical called 'seratonin' which makes people happy?

Family Phonics Workshop - Session 4

This week we enjoyed singing the Blossom Phonics song. We sang the alphabet song and joined in with the actions. We played a game of 'I spy' and practiced our oral segmenting and blending skills. We then read CVC words using our phase 2 phonics sounds. We look forward to our following...

Year 4 - Roman Numeral Clock

Today, 29-09-2022, the children in Year 4 had a fun Maths lesson where they made their own Roman numeral clocks. They have been learning about Roman Numerals this week and used their Design and Technology skills to create a Roman Numeral clock

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 1

This week we learned how to use the search bar on Purple Mash to find resources on the site. We spoke about it being a safe search bar, and how search bars on the wider internet might not be safe. We used the filter option to make sure we found relevant resources. We completed an emotions activity...

Year 2 - Art in Literacy

This week we have been focusing on the book 'The Magic Bojabi Tree' in Literacy. We have had lots of fun using role play and oracy to understand the story, and today we used water colours to paint a scene from the book

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 4

This week Year 2 learnt about pointillism art and how it is different from last weeks art technique. We explored some art work from Georges Seurat and Paul Signac before we created our own masterpieces using the chromebooks

Year 4 Timetables Club - 5th October 2022

The children in Year 4 enjoyed their first Timetables club today, 5-10-2022, where they practiced their times tables and their fluency. Every week they will be practicing and each week will assess their learning using the assessment tool on their Purplemash program

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 5

This week we used 2Paint on Purple Mash to explore the art work of Piet Mondrian. We discussed how they used lines and colour to produce their art work, and then had a go at making our own versions

Year 2 - Geography and IT: Exploring Earth

This week for our Geography lesson we were exploring the Earth! We used atlases and Google Earth to identify the North and South Poles, as well as the equator. We had fun identifying countries around the world and discussing what the climate is like in each place

Year 3 - Computing - Coding

Year 3 have started learning about coding this term in Computing. They have now learnt what an algorithm is and how to make virtual objects move using the coding symbols and instructions. They are super excited about computing lessons and always look forward to it each week!

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 6

This week we explored the art work of William Morris and discussed how they use repeated patterns and rotations. We then used 2Paint to make our own repeated pattern piece of art. We thought about the design we made and the size of the pattern as well as the option to rotate our designs

Year 1 - 1A Computing: Harvest Festival

This week we've been using the Chromebooks and linking it in with our RE topic - Harvest festival. We used Purple Mash to create a harvest basket, full of delioucious fruits and vegetables. We've been using the programme to drag and drop and select colours on paint

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 1 Week 7

This week we completed our final lesson in our art topic for computing this half term. We explored surrealism and then used eCollage on Purple Mash to make our own artwork using drawings and clip art

Year 4 - Outdoor Maths

Today, 3-11-2022, the children enjoyed their math lesson in the playground. They continued with their focus for this week, addition and subtraction

Year 2 Act Out Varmints

This week Year 2 explored our Book Fortnight story, Varmints, by using talk partners and role play. We thought about what the characters may have been feeling at each point in the story and explored the meaning of the book

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 5

This week we continued with our topic of Spreadsheets. We made a magic square using our coloured cells and identified and used the 'total' buttons this week. We then explored ways in which numbers could be placed inside the square to make the totals the same around the outside

Family Phonics Workshop

A big thank you to parents who attended our first family phonics workshop this half term. It was so lovely to see parents engaging in various phonics activities. We went through all of phase 2 sounds and had an excellent time playing table tennis phonics and snap! We look forward to seeing you...

Year 2 - Spanish: Number Knowledge

In Year 2 we have started the week reinforcing our number knowledge and making links between figures and words using a tangram. Students really enjoyed this hands-on activity and the competitive element of it

Reception - Yellow Class - The Extraordinary Gardener

This week we started our reading groups! We really enjoyed our first reading sessions. We have also been reading 'The Extraordinary Gardener' and have been making different types of flowers. We have been practicing our phonics with different games, learning Spanish and building different...

Junior Mental Health Team - Anti Bullying Week 2022

JMHT have been delivering art therapy for Anti Bullying week. We have been celebrating differences, friendships and reaching our with kind words

Year 2 - 2L One Kind Word

This week we took part in thinking of 'one kind word' as part of anti-bullying week. We had fun exploring all the kind words we could use and showed off our odd socks today too!

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 2

This week we continued our internet safety topic and learnt about using emails as a way to communicate with other people. We learnt how to reply to a message and send an attachment too!

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 3

This week is the final week in our online safety module. We explored our digital footprint and discussed how everything we do online leaves a trail behind us, like taking barefoot steps on a beach

Year 3 - Stone Age Blogging

This term Year 3 are learning all about the Stone Age, Iron Age and Bronze Age. In computing this week, Year 3 were learning about blogging so the children got the opportunity to produce a blog about what they have learnt in History so far. Children got to post their blogs and read and comment on...

Autumn Book Fair 2022

We had another fantastic Book Fair at Daubeney last week. It was great to see so many children excited about books. Altogether you spent an amazing £959.26 which equals £479.63 in rewards for us to spend on some great new books for the school. What book did you buy? Would you recommend it? Comment...

Reception - People Who Help Us

This week we have been learning about the people who help us in our community. We have been looking at police officers, fire fighters, carers, recycling collectors, teachers and others. We are looking forward for the police and the fire fighters to come in next week!

Year 2 - Computing Autumn 2 Week 4

This week we started our new topic of Spreadsheets. We learnt how to colour individual cells in our rows and columns, and also how add an image to a cell. We then explored adding a value to an image, and using the counting tool to say how many items we had in a certain area

Year 2 JIGSAW Spring 2 week 2

Computing This week year 2 were using a search engine to find answers to a range of questions relating to dinosaurs. We discussed our online safety agreement before using Google Chrome to search for our answers. We explored the images tab and also discussed how search engines work by giving us the...

Duckling Class - Planting sunflower seeds

This week in Duckling Class, we have been learning about how plants grow. We have been talking about what plants need to grow and the life cycle of a plant. We used this knowledge to plant our own sunflower seeds. We are hoping with the right amount of water, sunlight, food and space they will grow...

Year 2 - British Science Week 2024

Year 2 have enjoyed British science weeks by carrying out experiments, visiting a science exhibition and welcoming real life scientists to our school

Year 3 - Angles

This week, we began learning about angles by using maps and toy animals, giving directions using degrees and compass points. In our maths lesson, we also created origami to explore different types of angles, as well as shapes, edges, and vertices—setting the stage for our upcoming sequence on...

Year 5 - Reading at Daubeney Fields

During SATS week, we enjoyed the outdoors by reading our whole class reading book at Daubeney Fields!

Spanish - Transition session 2025

Earlier on this week, a group of Year 10 students from Urswick school visited Year5 classes for a special transition session, focussing on developing dictation and reading aloud skills – key foundations for success in secondary school. A wonderful opportunity to build bridges between KS2 and...

Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive

If the start of the day is a sign for the rest of the week, we are in for a spectacular time! The coach was right time, right place and to top it off there was no traffic on the way. We arrived around half 11 which means there was plenty of time for everyone to settle into their cabins, unpack,...

Reception - Number bonds of 5

This week, we have been learning our Number bonds of 5! Have a look at the facts we have learnt. Next week, we are learning about Number Bonds of 10!

Reception - Our own Ducklings!

This week, we have been so lucky to hatch our own eggs! We have been learning about the lifecycle of a Duck and we saw it for ourselves. We received 5 eggs and we watched them hatch into Hatchlings. They are now growing into Ducklings! They are super cute

Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive

This was the last day of the 2025 residential and probably the most organised day of the week for residential. The kids were well behaved today and were really well at getting ready to go back to Hackney. We had a really nice week and a week that will create memories forever and will also be in the...

Year 3 - Kingfisher - Andy Goldsworthy Art Project

Today (02-07-2025) the children in Kingfisher class were super excited to complete their art project inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. The children had their canvas prepared last week and used twigs to paint their image. They added leaves and on Friday will add a setting sun to complete the project

Year 3 - Rumpelstiltskin

This week, Year 3 have been exploring the story of Rumpelstiltskin in their literacy lessons through the Power of Play sequence. They've thoroughly enjoyed their first week—acting out scenes, building a fairy tale world, and bringing their imagination and drama skills to life

Year 1 Parrots - Our First Week in Year 1

Parrot class have been very busy doing maths, literacy, phonics and geography. Take a look at our amazing work!

Nurture Group - What a fun week we had

Year 2 - Maths - Week 1 2025

To get us back into the swing of things with our amazing maths, we spent the first week reminding ourselves of what numbers up to 20 look like and what tens and ones look like

Rainbow - SEND Music & PE

Wow! This week, our pupils were fully engaged in exciting activities as part of SEND PE and Music. In SEND PE, they enjoyed jumping on the trampoline, walking along the bench, and throwing bean bags. During SEND Music, the children were captivated by the sounds of various musical instruments,...

Rainbow Room - Exploring Autumn in Hop Garden

As the weather turned warm and sunny, pupils enjoyed exploring autumn in the school garden—collecting colourful leaves and even spotting a snail! This outdoor learning has inspired staff to plan exciting new activities for next week. Can our pupils guess what the next topic will be?

Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Roleplay

We are reading The Magic Bojabi Tree! We will write a narrative about it in the next few weeks. Today we read the Magic Bojabi Tree and to help us remember the story, we did some acting and roleplay!

Year 5 - Arsenal Community Outreach - Week 1 2025

Year 5 completed they first lesson with an Arsenal community coach . They actively participating of having ideals to improve they community

Year 2 - Literacy: The Magic Bojabi Tree Watercolours

To end our immersion week, we made beautiful paintings inspired by the Magic Bojabi Tree! We talked about what we could see and added adjectives to our observations then we drew it out on paper. Finally, we added water colour to make it really shine!

Year 5 - British Science Week Workshop

...iments during British Science Week! We had fun learning using dry ice! We even attempted to make our own ice cream!...

Year 1 Parrot Class - Paddington!

This week we've been having lots of fun with Paddington! We made marmalade sandwiches and then wrote a set of instructions on how to make marmalade sandwiches. We used imperative (bossy) verbs and connectives to write instructions. Later on, we also wrote a list of things Paddington will need...

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 7th March 2025

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 14th March 2025

Year 3 - Informal Letter Practise: Mother's Day Cards

In today's lesson, we practiced writing a Mother's Day card since the occasion is coming up. This ties into our focus this week on writing informal letters

Reception - World Book Day

Last week, we celebrated World Book Day! Have a look at our costumes!

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 21st March 2025

The Nest - Arts and Crafts - March 2025

Please add these photos to the Nurture page under the heading. This week in Nurture we have been cooking , doing arts and crafts and having a fun time finding the Evil Pea from the story Supertato! Thank you

The Nest - Making Flap Jacks - March 2025

Nurture had fun making Flap jacks this week

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 3)

Tort Law. Gross Negligence. Trespass. These were only some of the law terms that we learn about and discussed in this week’s School Tasking session run by our LSE law students!

Rainbow Room - The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Children listen to an adult read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar," where they learn the days of the week and the fruits the caterpillar eats. They match the fruits with the corresponding days and arrange them on a caterpillar model

School Council off to a Great Start!

The School Council of 2024-25 is off to a great start! Their dedication to working for the betterment of their peers and splitting into focused committees shows a strong commitment to addressing different aspects of school life. The committees are; Admin Committee, Journalist Committee and Junior...

Year 3 – Toucan: Shadow Puppet Show

In today's lesson, we reviewed what we learned last week and explored how shadows are formed. We experimented with creating shadows using torches and other light sources. Using cut-out shapes, we put on a puppet show featuring moving shadows. During the show, we experimented with the size and...

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 28th March 2025

Tenerife Adventures

What a weekend we have had! Friday was an exciting day travelling in which we had the opportunity to get to know a bit better the rest of the group and their adults. On Saturday we had a fantastic day at Las Teresitas beach where we played games and had a swim in the Atlantic sea! Sunday was a...

Rainbow Room - Autism Awareness Week Celebration

...lebration of Autism Awareness Week at our school, the pupils in the Rainbow Room participated in meaningful and enriching activities with great enthusiasm. A highlight of the Week was the creation of their unique "Autism Puzzle." Each pupil carefully selected tissue paper colours that refl...

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 4th April 2025

Year 6 Hawks - British Science Week Workshop - Dry Ice experiment

... term was the British Science Week . This year’s theme was ‘Adapt and Change’ the 6 Hawks enjoyed science workshop whereby they learnt about state of matter and even attempted to make ice-cream. The children had the opportunity to explore different hypothesis and the functions of dry ice....

Year 4 - PE Games - Autumn 1 2025

Today the boys in Year 4 had a fun filled session with Mr Simeon playing dodgeball. Next week will be the Year 4 girls turn to show off their skills

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 28th February 2025

Year 3 - Sports Festival

The Year 3s took part in a Sports Festival this week. The children participated in Dodgeball, Cricket, Dance, wheelchair Basketball and Netball. They were really impressive and was able to win a trophy at the end!

Rainbow Class - Science & DT Learning

This week, our pupils became investigators as they explored different materials and their properties. They practised writing simple sentences about a variety of materials and matched these sentences to the correct picture descriptions. This helped them develop early writing skills, including...

Rainbow Class: Iggy Peck, Architect (Design & Technology)

This week, our pupils enjoyed a story that opened a window into the world of architecture. The pupils explored different types of buildings from around the world and learned about the important work that architects do when designing the places we live, learn, and play in

Year 2 - Tagalog taster session

Our Year 2 pupils enjoyed an exciting Tagalog taster session last week! They learned greetings in Tagalog and explored a little about Filipino culture. A wonderful way to celebrate languages and broaden global awareness!

Year 4 Hornbills - Literacy - Writing Notes

The children had fun in their literacy lesson and as part of immersion week they wrote informal notes to their friends. They then designed their own envelopes and gave their notes to their friends

Cross Country & Dodgeball

The Year 5/6 groups took part in two competition this week. Showcased they impressive stamina and celebrating each other achievements. It was a fantastic week of sports as they was showing teamwork and school spirit

Year 3 - Ministry of Stories

Year 3 had the exciting opportunity to work on a 12 week project. Working alongside a professional author, the children first took part in fun drama and oracy activities to spark their imagination, inspired by their history topic on the Stone Age. These creative sessions helped them develop...

Year 1 Peacocks - BIG DRAW and Art

This week, we have had fun making Coral Reef pictures for our BIG DRAW. These will be displayed at the school exhibition later on this month

Year 1 - Raising ducklings

Over the last two weeks, we have watched these ducklings hatch from eggs and watched them grow, and grow and grow! We gave them names of Little Joe, Big Tom, Milo, Rosie and Lily

Rainbow Room - Exploring and Learning about Materials

Our pupils have been diving deeper into their science learning this week as they explored a variety of living materials in our investigation tray. The pupils were encouraged to observe, touch and discuss both familiar and unfamiliar items, allowing their natural curiosity to guide their...

Year 1 Peacock - Science: Lego

This week in Science, we have been learning about Lego. We spent time researching Ole Kirk Khristiansen (creator of Lego) and we also spent time experimenting with Lego, making our own Lego Masterpieces

Year 5 and 6 - Spanish-language adaptation of Romeo and Julieta

Earlier this week, Year 5 and Year 6 pupils enjoyed watching an engaging Spanish-language adaptation of Romeo and Julieta , bringing language learning to life through theatre

Year 2 - Art: Exploring Pop Art

We are learning about Pop Art! Last lesson, we learnt a bit about the famous pop artist Andy Warhol. This week, we learn about some pop art features and created art inspired by Andy Warhol’s pop art pieces. We also saw how pop art is very different to just drawing a picture!

Nurture Group - Our first few weeks in Nurture

We have just started our journey in nurture and we are extremely excited to be there

Rainbow Class - Exploring Plants & Tress (Science)

This week, the children in Rainbow Class explored the life cycle of plants and trees through a range of practical, sensory, and engaging learning activities. Using pictures and matching activities, children explored the different parts of plants and trees by matching, labelling, or writing the...

Rainbow Class - Flower Painting (Arts & Science)

This week, the children in Rainbow Class combined their science and creative skills while learning about flowers and the different parts of plants. Children had an opportunity to to explore the features of flowers and used paint to create their own beautiful flower artwork. The children carefully...

Spanish - Little Linguists Team

The Little Linguists Team met for the first time this week! Students received their Language Challenge Booklets, filled with exciting activities to complete throughout the year as they explore new languages and cultures. We can't wait to see their progress!

Rainbow Class - RE day - Exploring Christianity & Church

As part of our RE Day, our pupils were engaged in learning about Christianity and explored some of the important symbols associated with this faith. As a creative activity, the children carefully designed and decorated colourful crosses using tissue paper, helping them to deepen their understanding...

Rainbow Class - Attention Bucket & Singing

Pupils maintained their attention well during Attention Bucket activities, showing curiosity as they explored new and exciting items. They enjoyed choosing songs and demonstrated good listening skills by responding immediately with actions and movements linked to the music. The session supported...

Reception - Sprinkle Words: Week 4

Rainbow Class - Shaped Rockets

🚀Zoom Zoom Rockets! 🚀 This week, our pupils were fully engaged in exploring rockets — wow! It has been an exciting journey of discovery, imagination, and hands‑on learning. In our school library, children enjoyed looking through books about spaceships and rockets. They focused on the...

Year 4 - Brain Buddies

The children in year 4 had a fun session today learning about their feelings and emotions. They played many games and discussed strategies to play as a team. They will continue Brain Buddies for the next 7 weeks

Year 4 - Amazing Home Learning

This week we celebrated amazing home learning by some of our Year 4 Superstars. They completed their weekly home learning and a Science home learning project

Year 4 - Brain Buddies - Autumn 2025

The children in Year 4 enjoyed their weekly session ‘Brain Buddies’ where they focussed this week on their emotions and feelings. They also identified how their bodies react to different feelings

Nursery - Making New Friends

This week we welcomed new friends. We are learning about each other. we are learning to share and take turns

Year 4 - Collabarative Learning

The year 4 classes Nightingales and Hornbills enjoyed a research session together exploring Japan as part of their topic with Mr Finkle ( student teacher) who showed the children a slideshow of his trip to Japan. The children were able to use facts and information for their travel leaflet which...

Year 4 Research - Literacy and ICT

The children in Year 4 had a session today where they researched facts about Japan for their leaflets they will be making next week. They used their ICT skills and their note taking skills to locate and record their information

Year 4 Hornbills - Outdoor Learning - Autumn 2 2025

The children enjoyed their weekly whole class reading session in our Hop garden where they read our story and discussed the events

Year 4 - Brain Buddies - Autumn 2 2025

The children in Year 4 had another lovely session in their weekly Brain Buddies Lesson. They explored the zones of regulations and their feelings in each zone. This helped them to understand how they can use techniques to move from one zone to the next

Rainbow Class - Learning Showcase

This week, some of our pupils had so much fun during their engaged learning sessions. They used magnetic letters to place them in alphabetical order, helping them develop letter awareness, understand spacing, and even form new words. Our trains and tracks was a big success too! The children loved...

Arsenal Community Outreach

The children had an amazing time creating they own project about different topics which were Food waste , Anti-racism with inclusion and Promoting technology in education . The social project lasted for six weeks, working with a Arsenal community coach

Year 2 - Literacy: Rainforest Artwork 2025

We spent the last week of our first half term completing writing that relates to our geography topic: Hot and Cold countries. We created artwork inspired by the rainforest!

Year 1 Peacocks - Subtraction

We have been learning different ways to work out subtraction. We have used cubes, our fingers, pictures and drawings. Next week, we will be using number lines to help us!

Year 4 PSHE - Anti Bullying Week

The children in Year 4 had a special PSHE lesson today as a whole year group. They were told a story of a beautiful soul who was bullied and the effects it had on him. The children understood the big message today and completed a task to make them aware of the negative effects of bullying

Year 6 - Transition session

This week, Year 6 students welcomed a small group of Year 11 ambassadors from Urswick Secondary School for a transition session focused on developing photo description skills—an essential foundation for future language learning. The visit boosted our students’ confidence and underscored the...

Rainbow Class - Under the Sea: Sensory Story

This week, pupils explored the sensory story ‘Under the Sea’ through multi-sensory activities. They engaged with tactile resources like textured sea creatures, fabrics, and water play, while adults enhanced the experience with ocean sounds, calming music, and visuals from the story....

Year 4 - Boardgames

The children had a fun lesson today in our Design and Technology lesson. They had an opportunity to play different boardgames and critique the games they played. They discussed function versus appearances and shared their views. next week the children will begin to plan making their own board game

Year 1 Peacocks - Greta and the Giants

We have been reading Greta and the Giants this week! We have been talking about climate change and what we can do to help. We acted out the story and had our own mini protest

Year 1 Peacocks - DT Chair for a bear

In DT, we have been looking at how chairs are built. We have been looking at the features of chairs. Did you know chairs have ears? We used Lego to help us design our own chairs, and we used labels to help us know which parts we need. We are so excited to build our own chairs next week!

Year 1 Peacocks - Tens and Ones

We have been looking at tens and ones this week in Maths. We have been grouping together 10 and counting how many of those groups are in a bigger number

Reception - Week 1 of Spring 2!

This week we have been really busy! We have been reading Handa's Surprise, so we had activities based around this story! In Numeracy, we have been looking at capacity and ways to measure capacity

Year 2 - Computing Week 4

For this Computing lesson, we used 2sequence again. This time we each started with a tune for Twinkle Twinkle Little Star before changing it to make it our own. We added a range of instruments and listened to how different each of our tunes were

Year 6 – Spanish Transition session

Children’s school transition has an impact that lasts for many years and extends throughout their academic career. Earlier on this week, children in Yr6 had the chance to welcome a group of ex Daubeney students from Urswick who led a phonics lessons

Year 2 - Maths: Time

This week we have been focusing on time in our maths lessons. We started by making our own clocks, thinking carefully about where the numbers go and what each hand measures. We then used them to show a range of times including o'clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to

Year 2 - Science: Week 5

This week we finished off our topic of 'environment' by recycling household items that we had brought in. We made a whole range of new items out of something old that would have gone in the bin! Lava lamps, jewellery boxes, jet packs....the ideas were endless!

Reception Duckling Class - Sharing

This week in maths, we have been learning about sharing! We have been talking about what equal means and how we can make sure things are 'fair' and the 'same'. We used gingerbread men to help us practice our sharing and we shared out counters

Duckling Class - Forest School: Summer 2024

This week, we enjoyed Forest School with Miss Clare! We made our own bubble wands using sticks and pipe cleaners. We also had our own small sketch books to sketch, paint and collect leaves and flowers. We had so much fun!

Mr Logan's Weekly Update Video - 7th June 2024

Spanish Champions at Tate Modern

A group of Spanish Champions had the chance to visit the Tate Modern this week, where they explored various works of art by Hispanic artists. Amongst these artists was Doris Salcedo, a Colombian-born visual artist and sculptor. Her work took the form of a long crack in the floor in 2007, and today...

Duckling Class - Our Ducklings

This week, we have been lucky enough to hatch our own duck eggs! We received the eggs in an incubator to keep them warm whilst the eggs hatched. On Monday and Tuesday, we started to see that cracks on the shells and knew that we would soon have ducklings. When we came back to school on Wednesday,...

Year 2 - Jigsaw: Week 1

This half term our Jigsaw topic is 'Change'. We began the topic by thinking about how a range of animals change from babies to adults. We discussed how some animals are born with the same features as their respective adults, and also thought about how some baby animals are completely...

Year 2 - RE: trip to Aziziye Mosque

This week we took part in our final RE day of the year. We went to visit Aziziye Mosque in Stoke Newington. We met the imam and he taught us all about the features of a mosque. He explained why there are lines on the carpet, why there is a dome in the middle of the mosque, how the prayer times are...

Mr Logan's Weekly Update Video - 14th June 2024

Year 5 and Year 6 - Spanish: Eurocopa 2024

EURO 2024 takes place in Germany between 14th June and 14th July. In our lessons this week, children in Year 5 and Year 6 have revisited topics such as numbers, colours, days of the week and European countries, as well as simple verb forms using EUROS as a stimulus

Year 2 - Jigsaw: Week 5

This week in Jigsaw we thought about the people that we trust and why. We discussed what can help to build trust and what may also break trust. We then worked in groups to create a circle of trust, thinking about who we trust the most and why

Year 6 - Eagle Class’ last trip to IntoUniversity

This week, we went to IntoUniversity for the last time altogether. Of course when we are in secondary school, we’ll be able to come back for Academic Support but we will still miss coming here together during the school day. We thought about how we might prepare for secondary school and discussed...

Year 2 - Beach Trip 2024

This week year 2 had the best time at the beach! We travelled by coach to Margate and spent the day in the sun! We went into the sea, played football on the beach, painted pictures, buried our legs in the sand, there was so much to do!

Year 2 visit the ducklings

This week we had lots of fun visiting the ducklings in reception. We got to hold them and stroked them gently. They were very cute and fluffy!

Hispanic Week – Afternoon film screening

A selected group of children have enjoyed the Madrid-set film, Ferdinand. Based on Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s 1936 children’s book The Story of Ferdinand, this animation film follows an adorable flower-sniffing bull named Ferdinand. Ferdinand is a beautiful film when it comes to...

Year 2 - Now Press Play in Science

Year 2 had lots of fun using the Now>Press>Play headsets last week to learn more about Mary Seacole. We were immersed into life in Jamaica, learning about healing soldiers using herbal remedies. We were taken through the journey of travelling to London to try and support with the help efforts...

Year 3 - Spanish: Los volcanes y las Islas Canarias

A few months ago, alongside CC lessons, we learnt about volcanoes - how they are formed, the different parts of a volcano and its different states. We investigated the beautiful landscape of the Canary Islands and pupils had the opportunity to consider the impact of living in La Palma following the...

Year 6 - Science: Shadows Experiment

We finally did our experiment this week! A couple of weeks ago, we discussed and wrote up our predictions to the question: How is the shape and size of an object’s shadow determined? Today, we got to see if our predictions were accurate! We even drew bar charts and wrote up our conclusions...

Year 6 - Art WOW Day 2024

We began this week’s lesson by recalling wood blocking techniques and how we would replicate that using polystyrene. We also looked back at our designs for our polystyrene printing pattern. For our WOW day we found out that we were going to do some of the techniques that we had learned about. First...

Reception - Our First Week

We have loved our first week in Reception at Daubeney! This week, we have been exploring our new classrooms! We have been reading in our garden themed reading are, making Play-Doh faces, playing in our home and our doctors' surgery, as well as exploring our maths and writing areas. We have been...

Year 5 - Our second week in Year 5

This week was full of exciting activities, from Mapping Skills Day to a practical maths lesson. We even created posters and researched the author of our new whole class reader, Michael Morpurgo. Have a look at our fun week!

Reception - Our Family and more!

This week, we have been talking about our families and how they might be different to our friends. We also have been having lots of fun taking part in Drawing Club and making most of the sun outside!

Year 2 - Literacy: Week 5

To end our story of Vlad and the Great Fire of London we worked in groups to create a scene from 1666. We used all of our learning and knowledge from previous weeks to make a diorama depicting a location in London. Take a look at London Bridge over the River Thames, or the bakery on Pudding Lane....

Year 2 - Computing: Week 4

In week 4, we used all of our knowledge about binary questions to use a program to find out the names of our avatars. We had to answer questions carefully to get the right name! We also debugged a binary tree that had some errors!

Reception - Colour Sorting

This week in Maths, we have been colour sorting! We have explored different objects which are different colours and used our fine motor skills to sort them!

Year 2 - Jigsaw Summer 1 Week 2

This week we focused on physical contact, including touches that we like such as high fives, hugs, and holding hands, compared to touches that we don't like such as pushing, hitting, and fighting. We also discussed how it is ok to not like physical contact even if it is kind, and talked about...

Year 2 - Computing Week 6

This week we used 2Beat on Purple Mash to create our own beats for our music. We were then able to upload this into 2Sequence to finish making our tunes with our own melodies on top

Year 2 - Jigsaw Week 4

In week 4, we thought again about food groups and how we need a balanced diet with items from each group to keep our bodies healthy. We worked together to group food items and discussed our favourite healthy meals

Year 2 - plant careers

Last week we explored a range of jobs that involved plants. We discussed farmers, florists, gardeners and botanists. We then had a turn being a botanist by using a microscope to look at our bean plants that have been growing in the classroom!

Year 2 - Australia Wow Day

This week we've had lots of fun for our Spring 2 WOW Day. We took a virtual trip to Australia, making sure we had our passports and boarding passes ready! Once on the plane we were ready for take off! In the afternoon we made some delicious fairy bread using colourful sprinkles

Year 2 science Trip - March 2024

This week Year 2 visited Hackney Marshes to finish our Plants topic. We went on a plant hunt to see what is growing in our local environment and spent some time sketching the plants we could see

Duckling Class - Easter Egg Hunt

On the last day of Spring 2, we went on an exciting Easter Egg hunt. All week, we have been designing our own Easter eggs and making cornflake cakes so what better way is there to finish the week off than an Easter egg hunt. We had so much fun!

Duckling Class - First Summer Week!

This week, we have been super busy in Duckling Class. We have been reading, writing, playing table tennis, playing musical instruments, planting, working in Tesco and so much more

Year 1 - 1A Senses Experiment

1A have been doing an experiment this week using our senses. We explored what our senses can do! We had fun hearing different musical instruments, using telescopes to see, smelling and tasting different food items. Take a look to see what fun we had!

Year 2 Maths Partition with Bar Models

This week Year 2 have been focusing on partitioning numbers into parts. We split the numbers into either 2, 3 or 4 parts and discussed if we had made equal groups. We identified that two equal groups would show half and that four equal groups would give us quarters

Year 2 - Computing Week 2

Our new topic this half term is Questioning. This week we were introduced to binary questions which only allow for 2 answers. We played a game of guess who with our computing avatars, making sure our questions could only have yes or no as answers. Next week we will be using binary questions to...

Year 2 - History: GFoL Week 2

This half term we are learning all about the Great Fire of London in our History lessons. This week we discussed how and where the fire started, on Pudding Lane in 1666. We explored a range of reasons for why the fire lasted for five days, including having a very hot, dry summer, the houses being...

Year 2 - Literacy: Exploring the narrative of Vlad and The Great Fire of London

This week we have been taking part in immersive Literacy lessons to really imagine what it would have been like during the Great Fire of London, for Vlad the flea and Boxton the rat. We used lots of fun techniques to help us remember all of the details of the important points in the story

Nurture Group - Phonics Fun!

This week in nurture we have been playing lots of fun phonics games

Year 2 - Science: Dream jars

Our topic this half term is the environment and we are thinking about how humans can help the planet. We collected old jars throughout the week and then recycled them to give them a new purpose. We used paint and glitter, along with cotton wool, to create our very own magical dream jars. We had...

Hackney School Challenge Training Week 1

Mr Logan's Weekly Update Video - 3rd May 2024

Hackney School Challenge Training Week 2

Mr Logan's Weekly Update Video - 10th May 2024

Year 2 - Computing: Week 3

This week we used the same avatars and began to use our binary questions to identify characters. We thought about questions we could ask that would have a yes or no answer, that would split our options into two equal groups. When they were all complete we had made our own binary tree!

Year 2 - History: Tudor Houses

This week we discussed Tudor houses. We explored how they were made from timber beams that were covered in tar, and then filled with sticks called wattle. They were then covered in daub, which is a mixture of clay, sand and dung! We designed our own Tudor houses both on paper and online using...

Year 2 - Literacy: Explore the World

This week we have focused on exploring the world of the story. We began by making collages to explore scenes of London in the past and during the fire. We thought about what London would have been like in 1666, discussing the locations in the story. We used masking tape to map out the setting,...

Year 2 - Science: Recycling

This week, we took our learning outdoors and decided to help our school with recycling. We picked litter from the playground and decided which bin to put it in. We discussed how each one of us has a responsibility to look after our environment and thought of other places we could help with picking...

Duckling Class - Forest School

Earlier this week, we enjoyed another Forest School session. We enjoyed looking for snails and other wildlife. We built homes and hotels for the nature that lives in that part of the forest and used magnifying glasses to have a closer look

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 17th May 2024

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 27th September 2024

Reception - Week 4

This week, we have been reading 'The Three Little Pigs'. We have been creating our own pig noses and investigating different materials that we could use to build a sturdy house

Year 2 - DT Wow Day

Year 2 had such a fun filled day for our Spring 1 Wow Day! We have been learning all about vehicles with wheels and axles, so what better than to make our own car prototype! We made our basic shape using a chassis, 2 axles and 4 wheels. We then thought back to our design from the week before and...

Reception - Spring 1 - Week 3

This week, we have been having lots of fun! We have been fossil hunting in our Investigation Area. We have also been using our fine motor skills to create lovely images using hammers and pins. We have also been reading 'Monkey Puzzle' this week and have been doing fantastic writing, as well...

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 6th December 2024

Year 5 – Partner school in Spain. Christmas cards

Last week, in our Spanish lessons, pupils from Kiwis and Robins classes created Christmas cards for our partner school in Tenerife, Spain. All pupils have written individual bilingual messages to wish them Feliz Navidad . A small group of children will be visiting the school next year, so they also...

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 13th December 2024

Mr Logan's Weekly Update Video - 20th December 2024

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 10th January 2025

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 17th January 2025

Reception - Week 1: Spring 2025

We have enjoyed our first week back at school! We have been talking about our holidays, practising our numbers and our phonics

Year 3 - Design and Technology

The children in Year 3 Kingfisher enjoyed their Design and Technology lesson where they used their knowledge about linkages and levers to make their own example. The children used card and split pins to make a lever which moved a waving hand around a pivot point. Next week they will create another...

Reception & Year 4 - Hockey and PE

KS1 work on they throwing and catching with the bean bags, While the year 4 was able to complete a games base in hockey. Both year groups done amazing and improve so much though the past couple of weeks

Year 2 - Column Addition

This week we have been learning a new method in maths called column addition. This helps us to add together two 2-digit numbers easily

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 7th February 2025

Year 2 - Computing in DT

We spent time this week using Purple Mash designing our very own cars. We thought about where we wanted to place the wheels, the shape of the chassis and the colour or pattern of the body. We had lots of fun being creative with our designs!

Year 2 - Jigsaw

For this week’s Jigsaw lesson, we had a go at learning a new skill. We worked in partners to spend time learning how to count to 10 in Mandarin or count in twos in French and then presented this to the class. We thought about how learning something new can be difficult, and how it takes...

Year 2 - Making Equal Groups

To start our multiplication topic, this week we focussed on making equal groups. We used cubes to make towers representing various sentences such as 3 groups of 4. We talked about how groups we would need and how many cubes there would be inside each group. We could then work out the answer to the...

Year 2 - Role on the wall

We started a new book this week called ‘How to Live Forever’. We began by exploring the characters of the story and identifying adjectives to describe how they are seen by others on the outside and how they feel or want to be seen on the inside

Year 2 - Science Hop Garden

We went to visit our very own garden this week for Science to take part in a survey. We made a tally chart to record how many trees, plants and animals we could see and then discussed how this is useful to know. We also discussed what we can do to look after our environment

Year 2 - Science Recycling

This week we discussed recycling items from around the classroom and at home. We identified various recycling bins that we may have for different materials such as paper, metal, glass and fabric. We learnt about the recycling process and why this is a better option than throwing things away in the...

Year 2 Maths Arrays 2025

This week in Maths, year 2 have been learning about making arrays to help us with multiplication. We were able to recognise how many counters were in each column and each row and used this to help us work out the answer

Year 3 Kingfisher - Show and Tell

The children today had another fun session in their weekly Show and Tell Session. They shared their favourite animals and gave some amazing facts about them

Year 3 - Built a Stone Age Village

The children in Year3 had a fantastic Literacy lesson. As part of our Power of Play project the children built a village where they would be living in during the Stone Age. This week they will write a travel guide for visiting the Stone Age

Year 2 - Captain Robert Falcon Scott

This week in History we learnt about the explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. We discovered that he was part of a British team that were trying to be the first people to reach the South Pole. His expedition was called Terra Nova, and they set off in 1910, finally reaching the South Pole in January...

Reception - Week 5

This week in Reception, we have been taking part in 'Drawing Club' based on the animation 'Trapdoor'. We have been creating our own monsters through art and creativity. We have also been learning about patterns. We have been learning how to continue 2 and 3 way patterns, as well as creating our...

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 11th October 2024

Reception - Week 6

This week we have been so busy! We have been learning about measurement in Maths. We have been comparing objects to see which is taller, shorter and longer. We have also enjoyed Drawing Club this week, focused on the Colour Monster. We drew our own colour monster, traps and maps! Last but not...

Year 2 - Computing Week 5

For this week's computing lesson we looked at the artwork of Piet Mondrian. We thought about how he used lines and blocks of colour to create his pieces and then we created our own!

Year 2 - Computing Week 6

For this lesson we focused on the work of William Morris and explored repeated patterns. We identified that lots of pattern work contains flowers and leaves, and we thought about what pattern we could make. We used 2paint a picture to create our repeated patterns, and experimented with size,...

Year 2 - Jigsaw Week 3

In week 3 we explored our rights and responsibilities as children. We discussed our right to learn, our right to play and our right to be safe. We also discussed responsibilities we may have in the classroom or at home, such as tidying up and being in control of our own behaviour. We thought about...

Year 5 - Literacy: Adverts

Today, we started our new topic on adverts. We started the lesson off by watching some ads and discussing the purpose of those adverts. We then learnt about the features of written ads so that we are equipped to make our own next week!

Mr Warren's Weekly Video Update - 17th October 2024

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 18th October 2024

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 25th October 2024

Reception - Halloween Week

This week, we really enjoyed focusing on 'Batfink' for Drawing Club. We have been enjoying a lot of Halloween activities this week and we are looking forward to dressing up day on Friday!

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 8th November 2024

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 29th November 2024

Year 2 Literacy - Man on the Moon immersion

This week we introduced our new Literacy topic of non-chronological reports. We are going to be focusing on the topic of astronauts and space, and so are using the book 'Man on the Moon, a day in the life of Bob' as our long burst text. We retold the story as a whole class using our...

Year 2 Maths - Addition across 10

This week we have been learning about adding across a multiple of 10. We have been using our number bonds to help us and thinking carefully about the steps we need to take. Ask us how we would work out number sentences such as 35+8!

Year 2 Maths - Subtract across 10

This week we have been learning new skills in Maths to help us with our arithmetic. We focused on subtracting across 10 today, identifying how many counters we need to take away to get down to 10, and then working out how many we still needed to subtract, using our number bonds to help us

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 15th November 2024

Reception - Odd Sock Day

... celebration of Anti-Bullying Week....

Mr Logan's Weekly Video Update - 22nd November 2024

Year 1 - Parrot Class: The Three Little Pigs

This week we have been reading the story 'The Three Little Pigs'. We've been creating our own story puppets and acting out the story. We've also been describing the characters in the story using adjectives. What words can you use to describe the big bad wolf?

Year 2 - Week 2 Computing: Online Safety

For this topic we have been learning all about keeping ourselves safe when we are using online devices such as computers, tablets and phones. We discussed how to search and filter information, alongside exploring how Purple Mash is a safe site to search on. We learnt about emails, and how we can...

Year 5 - Literacy: Greek Drama

In today’s literacy lesson, we did some drama activities to help us come up with brilliant ideas for our comics that we will create next week. We are becoming superb drama practitioners!

Nurture Group - Hackney City Farm

Last week Friday we were lucky enough to go visit Hackney City Farm. "We saw the pink pigs and it went oink oink and they had oval noses" "My favourite part of the trip was the ducks, I heard the ducks saying quack" " I loved all the animals in the farm except for the pig...

Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: Learning About Place Value

As part of our outdoor learning this week, Year 5 went to Daubeney Fields to learn about place value. We used different natural resources such as leaves, sticks, stones along with string to make place value charts. We then used these resources to make number representations all the way up to...

Year 1 - 1L Senses Experiments

In Year 1 this week we have been experimenting with what our senses can do. We tested what we could see, hear and feel, and then had lots of fun with things we could smell and taste!

Year 4 - Time Capsules

On the final day of the school year 4S and 4G dug up their time capsules from the hop garden that they had planted during their transition week in Year 3. It was very exciting to read the notes they had written over a year ago. Mr Garber was particularly impressed with how so many children had met...

Year 3 / 4 - Spanish in the World and Geography in Spanish

This week, Year 3 & Year 4 are learning about Spanish in the world and Geography in Spanish! They can find Spain in a map, they can name all the continents, the most important Spanish cities and the Spanish speaking countries in Spanish. They also learnt the history behind how Spanish spread...

Year 3 and Year 4 - Science Club

The children in year 3 and 4 enjoyed experimenting with surface tension, floating and investigating how different objects, even unlikely ones, can float due to manipulating the surface tension. Mr Ricardo was amazed to see how well the junior scientist carried out the investigation and their...

Year 3 Author Visit

... as part of Literacy Festival Week. We had a visit from Roland Chambers who wrote ‘Nelly and the Quest for Captain Peabody’. He told us about all the books he has written and gave us lots of top tips to write interesting stories. Year 3 had lots of interesting questions to ask him. On...

Year 3 Numeracy - Autumn 2015

In numeracy we have been focusing on subtraction and addition via column method, partitioning, and using a number-line. We have also been doing weekly multiplication test and mental maths test to improve our at home learning

Year 4 - 4C Work Week 2019

4C had the opportunity to visit Pizza East in Kentish Town to learn about Literacy and Numeracy in the workplace. They learnt about all the different skills needed for doing different jobs and even had a go making some pizzas and mocktails! "This is the best trip we've had so far!" -...

Year 4 - 4C Work Week 2019: Meeting a Foley Artist

4C were very lucky to have Sue, Ellis' mum, come in to talk about her very special job. She is a Foley artist which means she reproduces everyday sound effects in cartoons and movies. She has worked on some cartoons that the children watched such as Peppa Pig! Sue showed us different ways of...

Year 4 - African Silhouettes

Year 4 had a fantastic time creating their African Silhouettes last week. They used red, orange and yellow water colours to create a beautiful African sunset. They then created their Silhouette by drawing the outline of an African Animal onto black card and cut around it. Have a look at their...

Year 4 - Designing Bridges

Year 4 have been learning about how maths and literacy are important in the world of work. In maths this week, Year 4 were designing their very own bridge, just as an architect would! They then used their design to create a model of it. Mikey said "I loved building the model, it was so much...

Year 4 - Meditation

Every Friday, Year 4 spend 10 minutes of their afternoons meditating. Meditation helps you to relax and feel calm after a long week of learning (and playing) at school. It also helps you relax your mind so you are ready for a fun afternoon of learning. "Meditating helps me feel calm and...

Year 4 - Mummifying

Year 4 had an exciting this week as they had the opportunity to experience what it was like to be an embalmer. Instead of a real human (of course), they mummified oranges!

Year 4 - Viking Helmets

Year 4 had an exciting week creating Viking helmets. Did you know that the real Viking helmets did not have horns? Take a look at the pictures below to see how they really looked! "Before learning about the Vikings, I thought their helmets had horns" - Zakaria "It was so much fun to...

Year 3 - Work Week

This week, year 3 are learning all about how money is dealt with in the adult world. Today (27th March 2019) we brought Hackney's Mare Street into our classroom! The High street included a Cinema, Post Office, Bank and a Supermarket! Pupils all got their own wallet which included some money,...

Year 4 - Viking Helmets

This week, Year 4 were creating Viking helmets to help them understand life during that era. They were able to identify the key features of a Viking hat, along with discussing where the Vikings conquered between AD793 to 1066. They had a great time and are looking forward to learning more about...

Year 4 - Work Week

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Year 4 - Work Week Dress Up

As part of work week, children got to dress up as professionals from work. Fathia said "My dream is to become a doctor an open up my own surgery" Anaya said " I want to be a teacher just like Miss Patel" Justin said "I want to be a tennis player because it's fun and I...

Year 4 Have Had a Great First Week Back!

They have shared what they did during the summer holidays and have got to know their class teachers better. They have also jumped right into Year 4 learning for RE day where they learnt about Judaism. Have a look at the concentration on their faces!

Year 4 Swimming at The Aquatics Centre

For the past two weeks, Year 4 have been attending the famous Aquatics Centre in Stratford. They were learning how to swim with professional swimming instructors. By the end of the two weeks, everyone passed their swimming test!

Year 5 - 5M Friendship Week Posters

Today (12th November 2018) the children in Year 5M made posters to celebrate their friendships and used vocabulary to describe what makes a good friend. They created word posters using a style and technique

Year 5 - 5M Sustainability Pledge

...eans....

Year 5 - 5M Word Tree

5M are excited to have their word tree on display in the classroom. Every week we choose two new words based on our topic. We explore the word, learn its meaning, apply it in a sentence then try to use the word in our daily learning. What other words from our topic can you list at home with your...

Year 5 - Adverts

The children in Year 5 were very busy today (11th October 2018) designing and creating their own adverts. They used the key features and included some catchy slogans to enhance their adverts. Next week, we will be creating our own leaflets as part of our Topic and Literacy units

Year 5 - Author Karen McCombie Visits for World Book Day

The Year 5 children were delighted to meet an author today (27th February 2018), Karen McCombie , who came in today and spoke to children about writing books. They were introduced to new writing techniques and were amazed to learn what it takes to write a book. The children are enjoying their World...

Year 5 - Biographies

The Year 5 pupils today (14th March 2019) were focused in their literacy session, where they began writing their biographies based on a famous person. The children used their notes and planning sheets from this week to help them construct their biographies. next week we will be publishing our...

Year 3 - Work Week 2017

...th each other....

Year 3 - Science Week 2019

As part of science week, Year 3 used their engineering skills and creativity to create their unique inventions. Their invention must help people/the environment. They will be taking part in a national competition and if they are lucky enough to be the winner, REAL engineers will bring their...

Year 5 - British Science Week 2019

Today (12th March 2019) the children in Year 5 used their engineering skills and creativity to design a product as part of a nation wide competition. Their product must be able to help in any way or form and all applications will be submitted by to the nominated university and their engineering...

Year 2 - Maths: Adding Using the Column Method

It's been a fabulous week of learning in Maths. Year 2 have been learning how to add using the column method; regrouping in ones. They practiced with dienes where they learnt how to 'Stop and Swap' moving the 1 ten in the tens column

Year 2 - 2C Postal Museum

After work week, we went to the postal museum to learn more about the history of mail in the UK. Royal Mail plays a really big part in making sure our mail gets to where it needs to be! At the Postal Museum, we learnt through play and Alan took us around the museum to learn about how mail used to...

Year 2 - 2C Singing the Continent Song

Last week in Year 2, we learnt about the continents by singing a song about it! 2C loved the song so much that they can’t stop singing it! Here is a video of our class singing the continent song. Do you know all 7 continents?

Year 2 - 2C Traction Man and Our Favourite Toy

This week we read a book called Traction Man is here and it is about a helpful action figure who saves the lives of characters like the dollies and spoons. Today, we brought our favourite toy to school and drew a scene where our favourite toy and Traction Man go on an adventure. We made sure to...

Year 2 - 2C Trip to the Library

This week, we got to go to the Homerton Library! We met the librarians who told us all about the library and what we could do there! Did you know that you can borrow books, read books and even use the computers to find out new things? We also found out that to borrow books and use the computers you...

Year 2 - 2C Work Week 2019

During work week, we learnt about lots of community jobs. We learnt about working at the Royal Mail and how mail gets from one place to another from Lenny the Letter. We had another visitor come visit us, who was a construction worker. He told us all about how his job was about keeping people safe....

Year 2 - Black History Month Art

It's been an amazing week! As part of Black History Month, children had an exciting opportunity to participate in the 'Big Draw'. Year 2's Art drawing was an inspiration from Derek Walcott who was an artist, play writer and a poet from the Island of St. Lucia

Year 2 - Conscience Alley

Over the next two weeks in literacy, we will be learning about how to write an excellent informal letter. Today, we read a book called “The Day the Crayons Quit”. It is about a boy, called Duncan, and how his crayons quit and left him because they were not happy with how he was treating...

Year 2 - Giving Intructions Using Imperative Verbs

In literacy we this week, Year 2 have been learning how to give intructions using imperative verbs. As part of a practical lesson, the children gave each other instructions using imperative verbs while making a jam sandwich

Year 2 - Great Fire of London

Year 2 got ready for next terms topic on the Great Fire of London, with an exciting workshop this week. The children role played the scene of the buildings in London and in role as shop keepers. They learnt how the buildings were burnt down in the tragedy. The Great Fire of London happened in 1666,...

Year 2 - Maths Workshop with the Happy Puzzle Company

Year 2 took part in an exciting maths workshop with the Happy Puzzle Company. We developed our team work skills whilst solving challenging maths problems!

Year 2 - Planting Onions

In Science, we are learning about plants! Last week we learnt about what a plant needs to grow and live. This week, we refreshed our memories and put this to the test. In class, we planted some beans where we made some predictions of how they might turn out in different conditions. After that, we...

Year 3 - Roman Roads

Year 3 have been learning all about the Romans this half term and this week’s focus was Roman Roads. Did you know that Roman roads were extremely straight and had no bends? Year 3 also studied that Roman roads had different layers starting with the rubble then stones and sand and lastly the...

Year 2 - The Geffrye Museum

Year 2 visited the Geffrye Museum this week for our topic on The Great Fire of London. We looked at different artefacts from 1660’s and we had the opportunity to dress up in some costumes from the period. We also had the chance to write using a quill and ink just as Samuel Pepys did when...

Year 2 - Work Week

We had police officers, EchoActive, dog and cat protection team come to visit us and talk about their jobs

Year 2 Science Week - Molecules and Atoms

...ific slime!...

Year 2 visits Year 1 - Science Week Experiments

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Year 2 Work Week - Dress Up

Children dressed up as their preferred profession

Year 3 - 3P's Friendship Week Message to You

Year 3 have been learning about the importance of a good friendship and being kind. They have an inspiring message for all of you... take a look!

Year 3 - 3T Friendship Flowers

...miles!...

Year 3 - Exploring Stone, Bronze and Iron age Burials using Augmented Reality

Year 3 were exploring Stone, Bronze and Iron age burials this week using augmented reality on the iPads. We uncovered the graves and their remains using AR in our classroom! We then drew and designed our own barrow or cist!

Year 3 - First Week Back At School

In Maths, we have been looking at place value and representing numbers using dienes and counters. We have also started to add on 1, 10 and 100 onto different numbers using our knowledge of place value so far. In Literacy, we have been recounting our summer holidays and we are preparing to create...

Year 3 - Poetry

Year 3 worked in groups to practise and perform Michael Rosen's 'Don't'. We use tone, intonation, actions and emphasis to bring the poem to life! We will be planning and writing our own performnce poem this week!

Year 3 - Reading Club

...nked with our British Science Week. The book was called 'I have an Idea' and showed many great inventions from past to present. The Year 3 boys will be meeting every Week, on Wednesday to celebrate reading and read for pleasure. Next Week they will read a book all about 'Super Heroes&...

Year 5 - Biography

Our young writers in Year 5 published their biographies today. They used their paragraphs which they had been writing for a week and compiled them to create their biography on Nelson Mandela. The children included features of a biography and used key facts and information

Year 5 - Cooking Week

Cooking week at Daubeney was amazing! Year 5 made some scrumptious muffins, check them out:

Year 2 - 2C is Feeling Festive

Over the past few weeks we have been getting in the festive mood by doing lots of colouring, singing and card making! It was also Christmas Jumper day last week so that made us even more festive! Take a look at what we have been up to in our photos!

Year 6 - 6S Mental Health Week

...As this Week is Mental Health Week, 6S have been focusing on ways we can look after our mental health and well-being. We have had some insightful conversations surrounding what mental health is and we designed posters to help educate people on how they can take care of their own mental health. Whils...

Year 5 Residential 2017 - Day 3

It's been another fantastic day on the residential! We started the day with cereal, juice and a huge selection of pastries! We read out all the parents, families and friends comments whilst the children ate. The comments really helped the children get motivated for another fun filled day of...

Year 5 Residential 2017 - Day 4

It's our last full day on the residential and it's been another inspiring one! At breakfast we had cereal and juice for starters and then beans on toast, vegetarian sausages and saute potatoes. Yum! We read some more of the messages from families and friends whilst the children ate. We have...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 5

Good afternoon everyone. This is the last update so I’ll keep it short. It’s been an absolutely amazing week. In the words of Senior Aribas, “Muy Bien, fenomenal!” The children have been brilliant and have pushed themselves to the absolute limit. It’s only been a week...

Year 5 Work Week

Year 5 had a brilliant start to the Spring 2 term with an enjoyable work week! They had the opportunity to meet a creative director that works in the fashion industry and learn and experience what it is like to work in an ethical clothing company. 'Work week showed me how to work well under...

Year 6 - 6F IntoUniversity

6F had the amazing opportunity to spend an entire week with the IntoUniversity team. The focus for the week’s learning was diversity and inclusion. On Monday and Tuesday we looked at inspiring people throughout history such as Emmeline Pankhurst, Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and...

Year 6 - 6F Work Week 2019

....’ - Hussain 6F...

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity

Last week, (Monday 28th January – Friday 1st February) 6M has the exciting opportunity to go to Into University. Each day brought new and exciting learning. On Monday, we learnt all about the theme of the week which was diversity and inclusion. Following on from this, we learnt all about...

Year 6 - 6M Work Week 2019

This week, 6M had a unique learning experience this week, we had to create an invention to begin a business enterprise. To do this we had to think about our profit and how much it would cost us to produce our item. We used our numeracy skills to come up with a useful business plan. Following on...

Year 6 - 6S go to Sky Studios

In 6S we are taking on the role of journalists as we read the thrilling London Eye Mystery. Following our trip to The London Eye last week, we went to the O2 in London to visit Sky Studios and tried our hand at presenting the news. Whilst we were there we also got to experience VR, used a green...

Year 6 - 6S Into University

6S had the amazing opportunity to spend an entire week with the Into University team learning all about diversity and inclusion. On Monday and Tuesday we looked at inspiring people throughout history including: Emmeline Pankhurst; Martin Luther King Jr; Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai. We also...

Year 6 - Into University

6F spent a week at Into University doing a variety of activities focused on our topic World War 2, including a visit to Churchill War Rooms and HMS Belfast. On the Friday we visited Goldsmiths University. We had a tour of the campus, learnt about university life, all the different courses you can...

Year 5 Maths Workshop

Year 5 took part in a maths workshop last week where they had the opportunity to use their problem solving skills to solve real life problems!

Year 6 - Learning Percentages

In maths this week Year 6 have been learning all about percentages. Today (21st November 2018) we had to explain how to find out different percentages and then teach the rest of the class

Year 6 - Making Shapes

Today (04.04.19) Year 6 completed their week of learning about shapes by getting creative and making some. They have been revising properties of shapes this week - making sure they know about faces, edges, vertices, volume and shape names

Year 6 - Maths Week 2016

Year 6 - Posting Letters to America

Today, two of our Year 6 children took our responses to the local post office. They had to find an appropriate envelope and pay for that. Then they had to write the address we were sending it too, as well as the return address (in case it gets lost). They then had to choose normal air mail or...

Year 6 - Researching with Spanish Dictionaries

This week Year 6 learnt how to use a Spanish paper dictionary to research on words about food. They used their Spanish alphabet skills to independently learn food names and whether they were masculine or feminine

Year 6 - Science Week 2016

Year 6 - Transition Week Trips

Art club in the park

Year 6 - Work Week 2019: Enterprise 6S

...Week.” - Hayden...

Year 6 - Writing: Peer and Self Assessment

This week Year 6 have been writing short stories based on the short film “The Piano”. Today (03.04.19) they read through each other’s writing and used their teamwork and feedback skills to improve their peers’ writing. On Friday, they will share their short stories with each...

Year 6 Continue Being Mindful

Some of the children in year 6 finished off the week continuing their goal to become more relaxed and mindful. They completed some beautifully intricate patterns, some of which contained inspiring messages of hope and peace

Year 6 Get Calm

Year 6 can be a stressful time and this week we have been doing assessments. Therefore, we have been learning different ways to relax, be calm and forget any concerns or worries. We have been practicing meditation, listening to calming music, taking part in mindfulness colouring and creating our...

Year 5 Planting Trees on Mabley Green

Year 5 children were excited and thrilled to have been invited to Mabley Green to plant 12 trees as part of our ECO project and also be a part of helping our local community become green. The children in pairs were each given a tree to plant and were taught skills like how to dig, levelling the...

Year 5 - Young Engineers

Miss Calsite set up a wonderful activity for the year 5 children, where they designed and created their own moving mechanism. The children used their own creative ideas, resources from school and made their very own moving piece of engineering. 50 shared their designs with the other year 5 classes...

Year 5 - Drama and Literacy

On the 25th March 2019 the year 5 children watched a short story and use the story to help them role play scenes. The children enjoyed making up characters and having a dialogue with other characters. This week in literacy, the children will be creating their own short stories

Year 5 - North America Topic

The children in Year 5 enjoyed their afternoon session today (20th September 2018) where they used their factual notes they researched and created a poster about North America. The children demonstrated a wealth of knowledge around the topic, even though we have only been studying the topic for the...

Year 5 - Exploring Earth and Space

The children in year 5 were excited today when they began their topic on Earth and Space. They will become scientist over the next few weeks, exploring the depths of space and answering scientific questions that will stretch their thinking to 'space and beyond'. It will be beneficial for...

Year 5 - Fashion Show

...and materials as part of Work Week. They also showed off their modelling skill on the cat walk! Well done for all the hard work Year 5! What was your favourite part of the fashion show? What company's products would you buy?...

Year 5 - Fitness

The Year 5 children started this term (23rd April 2019) off with a once a week fitness session led by our sports coaches. The Year 5 children will use the good weather this term to promote a healthy lifestyle and develop their fitness levels over the coming term. In addition, they have been...

Year 5 - Graphic Novels

This week, the Year 5 children will be studying Graphic novels and will be creating their own version by Friday. The children will look at speech bubbles, actions and creating characters. Today (10th December 2018) we created on our character and a front cover for our comic

Year 5 - Graphic Novels Expo

For the past week, Year 5 have been busy creating their own graphic novels. Today we shared our graphic novel with our peers in other Year 5 classes. We gave each other effective feedback by saying what we liked about each others work and by suggesting ways that our peers could improve

Year 5 - Headlines

The children in Year 5 had an interesting literacy session today (16th November 2018) where they created headlines. They used pictures from newspaper articles and their own ideas to come up with catchy and suitable headlines. Encourage your child to read the newspapers over the weekend and watch...

Year 5 - Inspire Work Week

The children in Year 5 were extremely busy today designing and making their fashion products. The class made their own handbags, bags and we were even lucky enough to have some Tie Dye T-shirts, ready for our fashion show on Friday 23rd March 2018, in front of three judges

Year 5 - Leaflets

The Year 5 children were busy today (18th October 2018) publishing their leaflets. They used the key features of a leaflet and their frame, along with their information in their books, which they were writing this week. Ask your children over the half-term holiday to create a leaflet on any topic...

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

Today (27th February 2019) the children in Year 5 were excited when we had a cross curricular learning session, Literacy and Art, and created our own dragons based on the writing we did this week. The children watched an animated clip about a dragon slayer and re-told the story with their own...

Year 5 - Literacy Unit

Year 5 had an exciting week back in school. They started their Literacy unit this term and are learning all about travel leaflets. The children will be creating their own travel leaflet based on their topic - North America. The children are excited to learn all about North America, the culture,...

Year 5 - Number and Place Value

The Year 5 children started their Summer T1 today (23rd April 2019) with a focus on number and place value. We looked at the various topics covered by number and place value, and during this week we will be covering more on this topic

Year 5 - Work Week Fashion Workshop

Today (26th March 2019) the year 5 children had an interesting visitor to their class. A professional fashion designer cam to see them to help with creating ideas for their fashion show this Friday (29-03-2019). they used a mixture of collage and patterns to create their own unique style and...

Year 5 - Online SPAG

The children in year 5M enjoyed their first session using the online Spelling, punctuation and Grammar activity. Each child was given a unique password and username, which will help them to log on at home in order to complete the weekly activities, which are set by the teachers. The online program...

Year 5 - Planting Bean Plants

The children in Year 5 enjoyed planting their own bean plant and will be looking after the plant throughout the weeks to come. We hope to grow the plant till it is ready for us to plant in our Hop garden

Year 5 - Poems in the Hop-garden

The children in Year 5 had an amazing time in the Hop-garden where they performed their poems. This week the children had been reading a selection of poems and developing their skills to perform the poems. Next week, they will write their own poems using a range of different techniques

Year 5 - Poets

The Year 5 children had an amazing week of poetry. They developed their skills in writing different types of poetry and ended the week with an amazing poems called, My Gift To You... which they presented to their families. I hope all the mums, dads, brothers, sisters and grandparents enjoyed the...

Year 5 - Publishing Diaries

Today (11th February 2019) the Year 5 children published their diary entries that they wrote last week. The children focused on including the features of a diary and using emotive language

Year 5 - Roman Numerals

5M, 5Mc and 5F joined together today (9-01-2019) and had a session with Mr Fahy who helped us understand how to identify Roman Numeral numbers and how to work out the amounts. The children in year 5 have been encouraged to use IXL this week to practice Roman Numerals

Year 5 - Science and Maths

Today (30th April 2019) the Year 5 pupils used their science and maths skills (cross curricular links) to draw a bar graph in order to present their data from the friction fair test carried out last week. The children used their data, and constructed a bar graph to show the effects of friction on...

Year 5 - Story Time in 5M

The children were excited today to begin writing their own story based on the book we are reading in class. The children used many features of writing today like; similes, personification, fronted adverbials and varied sentence starters. Each day this week the children will be writing a part of...

Year 5 - Time Capsule - Back to the Future Part 2

Today (25th April 2019) the children in 5M were super excited to be a part of our time capsule project. In 2002, Mr Dave, our building manager, buried a time capsule containing wonderful photos of staff and children, pupils learning and messages in the playground. This week after renovations took...

Year 5 - We Made Our Own Planets

The children in Year 5 had an extra amazing afternoon session today (31st January 2018), when they painted their own planets. We used polystyrene balls and paint to create our planets. Next week, we will attach our planets to our non-chronological report and our work will be displayed on our...

Year 5 - Work Week 2018

...had a fantastic Week for Work Week. We created our own ethical t-shirts and bags and modelled our clothing to a panel of expert judges. Well done Year 5!...

Year 2 - 2C Literacy Monsters

We have been writing about monsters from the book Flanimals for the past few weeks. Today we drew and labelled our own monsters! We even wrote some descriptions based on our drawings. Maggie wrote “Nacher Feary has crazy grass hair. When he sees a girl Nacher Feary his head goes pink and when...

Year 1 visits Year 2 - Science Week Experiments

...water.....!...

Year 6 Work Week

...brilliant pitches....

KS1 Spanish & Music Assembly

This week KS1 had an amazing time in our Spanish & Music assembly. They played a Spanish quiz and sang their favourites Spanish songs. We could see how much they have learnt about numbers, colours, wellbeing or body parts, just to name a few. They were awesome!

Daubeney Has Talent 2016

On 9th March 2016, 14 children from Daubeney school took part in the Cluster E Dance show. Daubeney was one of 11 schools taking part and they finished the show with a bang! We are very proud of our students. They only had 8 weeks to learn the dance and then perform it in front of over 200 people!...

Eco-Team Monitoring Air Quality

The Eco-team have been keeping busy with meetings to improve Daubeney primary school. One of them being monitoring our air quality. We know that London has some of the worst air quality in the whole of Europe and so we are measuring our air quality around Daubeney to find out how clean the air we...

First Week in Year 3

Take a look at what Year 3 have been getting up to in their Maths and Literacy lessons this week: In one of their Literacy lessons, Year 3 got to know the story of The Gingerbread Man in preparation for a writing task later this week. In groups, they created freeze frames of different scenes from...

First Week in Year 6

It has been a busy but exciting first week back for our new Year 6s. They have had to demonstrate incredible resilience as their first task was to complete a round of assessments. The children met this challenge with grit and determination and were still smiling at the end. We have spent time...

First Week of Nursery

The children have had a wonderful first week at nursery. They've painted, practised writing their letters and numbers, built tall towers, played instruments and sung as loudly as they can. And that was just on their first day! Don't forget to check our class page for weekly updates. We look...

Healthy Me Week 2019

...We had a fantastic Healthy Me Week, focusing on ‘Healthy Body, Healthy Mind’. The children had the opportunity to look closely at how looking after your physical health can support in looking after your mental health . The children: Participated in meditation during their music sessio...

Hispanic Day 2018

This week all Daubeney celebrated their first Hispanic Day! Everyone had an amazing time learning to dance flamenco and pupils from all year groups learnt everything about all the Spanish speaking countries. They made flags, posters, drawings, masks and they could even enjoy a Spanish lunch!

IntoUni

Year 6 spent a week at IntoUniversity studying Shakespeare's Macbeth. The topic covered a whole range of subject areas including English, Maths, Music and Art. The children were treated to a visit to the Globe Theatre and the week culminated in an amazing Graduation at the prestigious...

IntoUni Graduation

Year 6 spent a week at IntoUniversity studying Shakespeare's Macbeth. The topic covered a whole range of subject areas including English, Maths, Music and Art. The week culminated in an amazing Graduation at the prestigious University of East London

KS1 Red Team Trip

Key Stage 1 Red Team had lots of fun at Zap Space trampolining park in Stratford this week! They all had fun bouncing around!

KS2 Assembly - Life in Spanish Primary Schools

This week, KS2 pupils enjoyed a Spanish assembly where they could get to know what life is like in Spanish Primary schools. They learnt new vocabulary related to the school, like do the register, classroom, playground, line up, teacher, just to name a few. Pupils had a great time watching Spanish...

Creative Arts - Art and Design Technology

At Daubeney, the children are given the opportunity to have a broad, balanced and exciting curriculum. Art is taught through our cross-curricular lessons with a special focus during Art weeks throughout the year. We will inspire, engage and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and...

KS2 Assembly on Spanish Food

In our Spanish assembly this week, KS2 pupils had a great time learning about foods in Spanish and listening to children in Spain talking about their favourite Spanish food (churros & chocolate, fresh fish, etc). They also enjoy watching how to cook a yummy Spanish omelette (tortilla...

KS2 Spanish Assembly About African Black History

This week, pupils in KS2 learnt the unknown history of black African people and other African ethnic groups crossing through the strait of Gibraltar to Spain, blending artistic, cultural and religious traditions still present in both Africa and Spain. The biggest interaction took place when Islamic...

Literacy

In Literacy we have been reading the book called Flaminals. We had so much fun creating our own monsters this week! Which one is your favourite monster? Why?

Mapping Out a Walking Zone

The Eco team and Junior Road Safety Team went on a trip around our local area to map out a walking zone that children and parents can use to commute to and from school. The children were very excited to be creating this map and be part of such an important project for our school. The routes we...

Maths Week 2016

...16....

Maths Week in Nursery

The children in Nursery have been very busy this week using and applying their maths skills. We have been creating beautiful pattern necklaces and 2d shapes out of straw!! The children also went on a number hunt and buried through the sand pit to find them

Nursery - Artic and Antarctica

Last week Nursery children learned about Artic and Antarctica. They learned about animals that live there and how their bodies help them to survive. They also had lots of fun playing with the ice and exploring how the ice melted!

Nursery - Chinese New Year

Nursery enjoyed their first week back after half term. We have had fewer tears than usual... which means children are settling in more easily after a break. This week we have been celebrating the Chinese New Year. Children have enjoyed taking part in the activities. They have decorated and painted...

Nursery - Cookery Week and Chinese New Year

Nursery had a wonderful time celebrating Chinese New Year. We created some lanterns and beautiful 'rooster' hats. We also cooked noodles and the children enjoyed tasting it! "I love noodles, it smells so good and I like eating it" - Courtney "It taste like pasta, noodles are...

Nursery - First Week of School

Welcome to Our Nursery! A warm welcome to all our new parents, children and carers at Daubeney Nursery. So far, the children have been exploring the nursery and gradually settling in. Take a look at the photographs below to see how the children have enjoyed their first week in Nursery

Nursery - First Week of the Spring Term 2017

Nursery enjoyed their first week of the new Spring term and indeed it very much felt like Spring! As you can see, they enjoyed the warmer weather and discovering that new flowers had grown in the nursery garden. Rio said, "Look at the daffodils! They smell so nice!" They also enjoyed...

Cross Country at Hackney Downs Park

A selection of Daubeney's finest long distance runners, competing at Hackney Downs park. An excellent effort by the team, with every individual improving on their performance the previous week

City Year UK: We don't know who benefits most - the students, the schools, or the volunteers

City Year UK: We don't know who benefits most - the students, the schools, or the volunteers Last week, we had the pleasure of seeing one of our newest project partners in action. Alex, Karl and I travelled to Daubery Primary School in Hackney to meet with the City Year UK Team, take a tour of...

Nursery - Mothers' Week Tea Party

... who came to our Mothers' Week tea party! It was wonderful to see so many of you there. As you can see from the photos, the children were beaming with pride; they were so excited to show their mums around the nursery and, of course, share delicious food and drink together. Sholto summed up the m...

1P Class Update

What a fantastic few weeks we have had in 1P! Lots of writing and maths. We have been continuing with free flow time but focusing on writing about the gingerbread man in literacy and odd and even numbers in maths

1A - First Week Back At School

In 1A we have been busy exploring our new class. We have enjoyed, building, reading, writing, puzzles and construction. Take a look at some of our pictures. Year 1 is lots of fun!

1A Planting Beans

This week in 1A we planted beans! We had a class discussion on how to make beans grow big and strong, and described the steps we need to take to plant beans

1B's trip to Sainsbury's

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1D - First Week Back At School

We've achieved a lot in our first week back in 1D. Take a look at some of the things we've done:

1FA - Maths Week

...roblems. It was fun!...

1P - Number Bonds

In 1P we practiced our number bonds to 20. We used the part, part, whole method. These will help us with subtraction problems we will be solving this week

1P - Work Week

... We had a great time!...

4G Visit Wahaca in Westfield

... restaurant managers....

Christmas in Nursery

Almost everyone in Nursery loves Christmas! The Nursery has been very busy preparing for the last couple of weeks. They have made Christmas decorations for the Nursery and to take home. The children have also created their own Christmas cards to give to their families. Since September, the children...

4G's Work Week Mannequin Challenge

Can you guess what jobs everyone does?!

4P’s trip to Tramshed by Mark Hix

This week, year 4 got to experience what it felt to work for the very first time! They were lucky enough to go to the famous restaurant and make delicious doughnuts and marshmallows with the head chef. Not only that, they also got the chance to make their very own mocktails! After making the...

5M - Inspire Work Week Project

... tie dye for our Inspire Work Week project. They enjoyed making and mixing colours to make their products colourful and amazing. Watch this space to see our finished product, which will appear very soon. Their fashion show on Friday 31 March 2017 will be a big hit!...

5M - Nelson Mandela Biographies

5M were busy last week publishing their biographies based on Nelson Mandela. The children worked extremely hard to create notes, then turn them into factual sentences, using formal language. Next they drafted a copy, edited it then prepared their biography for publishing. We are all proud of their...

5M Fashion Show

The children have completed designing and making their fashion clothes, ready for our fashion show. The boys created funky tie dye T-shirts and the girls designed a Hawaiian style skirt with fashionable handbags as an accessory. The children had so much fun making and designing their product for...

6D - Globe Theatre

Year 6 spent a week at IntoUniversity studying Shakespeare's Macbeth. The topic covered a whole range of subject areas including English, Maths, Music and Art. The children were treated to a visit to the Globe Theatre and the week culminated in an amazing Graduation at the prestigious...

6S - Spanish Dictionary Challenge

This week, 6S took on a new challenge on their Spanish learning by using a Spanish online dictionary and translation websites to be able to understand and independently translate a text. They used their expertise in dealing with the Spanish alphabetical order confidently to be able to look up...

Autumn Term in Nursery

The nursery children have been busy this week. They've been enjoying exploring what happens in autumn. In particular, they were fascinated by how the leaves changed colour and fell off of the trees. They discovered that the fallen leaves are fun to play with too, as you can see in the video!...

Blue Class Assembly

Blue class shared their learning this week. They talked about new years resolutions. They were very confident reading out their work. Blue Class also shared their Pictogram, they told everybody about what information the pictogram shows. They ended their assembly with a song "Wheels on the...

Boys Book Club

Today (22nd January 2019) the Boys Book Club members met for their first session. Our first activity was to complete a survey to establish our views on books, reading and reading for pleasure. Our session then began with reading genres that we usually enjoy. So we decided to read a range of comic...

Bring your Mother and Grandmother to School Week

Some highlights from our bring your Mother and Grandmother to school week

Nursery - Learning About Autumn

Nursery enjoyed learning about Autumn last week. As you can see it pretty much looks like Autumn. All the children enjoyed the leaf rubbing activity and going on a leaf hunt. This is just a short clip of how much fun they had

Nursery - Snow Fun

Nursery children have been having a lot of fun when it snowed last week!

Year 1 RE Day

Year 1 learned a great deal during RE day this week. This term was all about the Sikhism religion and the children learned about Guru Nanak and the Vaisakhi festival which was celebrated in April. Manpreet one of our children's family members happily came in and gave a detailed talk about the...

Year 1 - 1l Easter Parade

1L had lots of fun today at the Easter parade! We made hats in class earlier this week and everyone enjoyed dancing round the playground. We hope everyone has a lovely Easter break!

Spanish Champions Armbands

Gracias, champions! Our Spanish champions now wear new armbands to show everyone at Daubeney that we really love Spanish in our school. They are doing a fantastic job in helping all pupils to learn more Spanish and encouraging them to practise what we learn in class throughout the week. We had a...

Spanish Champions Make Displays About Themselves

Our Spanish champions had an exciting meeting this week and they had a great time making creative and colourful displays in which they spoke about themselves in Spanish! They shared what their hobbies, favourite food, birthday, etc. are in Spanish

Storytelling with Phil McDermott

...lebrate National Storytelling Week (29th January - 3rd February 2018), we invited Phil McDermott, the master storyteller, to Daubeney. Each year group had a fun and engaging session listening to Phil tell amazing stories. The children were inspired by mysteries, myths and fables and enjoyed Phil's a...

Superhero Week in Nursery

Look at all of our superheros!

This Week in 1S

1S have settled into Year 1 super quickly! They have been playing and writing, drawing and running! This week we have been drawing our own maps and writing our own sentences using colourful semantics. We even know all about odd and even numbers! We can't wait to learn even more :)

Transforming our School Gates

This week, children from Years 1-6 have been involved in an exciting screen printing workshop. Using pictures of local Hackney landscapes the children got stuck in to create one of the local landscapes. The children used cut out shapes of paper to create their chosen building. Using their designs...

Work Week in Nursery

Nursery enjoyed finding out about-and trying out- different jobs people do. They pretended they were builders, wearing helmets and high-vis jackets and building with the building blocks. Fawaz said, "builders wear the helmets to protect their heads from the falling bricks! I'm making a...

Work Week in Nursery

Nursery enjoyed trying out different jobs in nursery this week! We had doctors curing ill people, vets treating poorly animals and a mini-teacher or two reading to their 'class'. Bea said, "I want to be a rock star or a zoo keeper- or both!" Levi reported that he wanted to be...

World Book Week in Nursery

...f the higlights of World Book Week....

Year 1 - Work Week Trip to Marks and Spencer

Year 1T went on a trip to Marks & Spencer in Hackney. We had a go at visual merchandising and at using the tills. We also walked around the shop floor to have a look at all the different departments and had a go at finding items from a shopping list. Finally, we went on a tour of the stockroom....

Year 1 - 1L Trip to the Beach

1L had a great time at the beach this week! We paddled in the sea, built sandcastles and collected shells!

Spanish - Champions at the Cinema

... celebrations of the Hispanic Week in Hackney....

Year 1 - 1L Visit Virgin Trains in Euston Station

1L had a great trip on Tuesday to visit Virgin Trains in Euston Station as part of work week. We had fun exploring a train and split into groups to learn more. We visited the train shop and found out what it would be like to work there. We took a seat in first class! We also spent time with the...

Year 1 - 1L's Weather Report

1L have been learning about weather in Cross Curricular this half term. We have been identifying different types of common weather, learning about some types of extreme weather, and we have watched lots of weather reports. We had fun making our own weather report last week!

Year 1 - 1L: What We Want to be When We're Older

1L had fun dressing up last week to show everyone what they want to be when they are older! We had some fire fighters, footballers, vets and even an Olympic swimmer! Some children even had their picture taken with some police officers that were visiting the school! We had a great time talking about...

Year 1 - 1P Big Draw

For our art week, we looked at the artist Klimt and used him for inspiration to create our own pictures. We used oil pastels and fine liners to create shapes

Year 1 - 1P Work Week 2018

... of different things for Work Week! We had footballers, teachers, ballerinas, a builder, a speech and language therapist, an architect, doctors and nurses, a vet, chefs and even a manager of John Lewis! Well done everyone!...

Year 1 - Christmas Dinner

Year 1 had a fantastic Christmas dinner last week! We enjoyed a yummy roast dinner and pulled crackers with our friends! We wore our party hats and had lots of fun together! Merry Christmas to everyone from Year 1!

Year 1 - Identifying and Classifying Different Materials

In 1P we have been learning about different materials and their properties. This week we had the task of identifying and classifying different materials. We worked as a team to decide where to put things and really enjoyed our experiment!

Year 1 - Jaws, Paws and Claws Workshop

Last week Year 1 had a workshop called Jaws, Paws and Claws come in to visit from Zoolab. The workshop linked with our current science topic of Animals including Humans. There were lots of different animals that we were able to hold, touch and stroke. We learnt lots of new information about each...

Year 1 - Sports Day 2018

Year 1 had a great time at sports day this week! They participated in lots of different activities. Thanks to all of the parents for coming!

Year 1 - Work Week 2019: Meeting a Construction Worker

Today in Year 1, a construction worker came to visit us. We discussed beforehand what questions we could ask them and why they might be visiting. We talked about stereotypes in the workplace and how that might affect us

Year 1 - Work Week Fun

Work week fun in 1L! 1L had fun dressing up as nurses, fire fighters and police officers today! We spoke about what job we would like when we are older and what skills we would need for the job

Spanish Champions 2016-17

We have selected the Daubeney’s Spanish Champions for 2016-2017. Our Spanish Champions are pupils who LOVE Spanish and who always show their passion about learning the language. They are children who HELP other pupils and their teachers practising what we learn in Spanish class throughout the...

Science in 2G

In Year 2 we have been learning about plants in our science lessons. We have conducted an experiment where we planted some beans and cared for them in a variety of ways. Over the past 2 weeks we have observed how they have grown. We planted the beans in the same way but then changed the conditions...

Nursery - Staying Healthy

As part of our topic this week the Nursery children have made some healthy fruit kebabs. Take a look at these photographs!

Reception - Red Class Parents' Lunch

Reception parents had an amazing opportunity to share lunch with their child last week. It was so lovely to see lots of happy faces and empty plates. Take a look at parents in Red Class enjoying their lunch

Nursery - Vets Role Play

The children in the nursery have been so excited to be Vets this week. They have been pretending the animals are sick and need to be taken to the vets. The children dressed up pretending to be the vet and used lots of different equipment to make the animals feel better

Nursery - Work Week

...ok at what we did during Work Week....

Nursery - Work Week 2019

Nursery enjoyed trying out different jobs in nursery this week! We had vets treating poorly animals, gardeners planting seeds, farmers collecting eggs and chefs making gingerbread! Nursery were lucky to have a chef come in and talk about cooking and the children had the opportunity to eat their...

Nursery Reads 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy

This week nursery have been reading the book 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy. We have enjoyed acting out the story and using a range of story props. We also received an invitation from Owl to join Baby Bear for a picnic on the moon. So........... nursery made some jam sandwiches for our...

Our New Playgrounds

Great news!! Construction of our new playgrounds have been approved - take a look at these computer generated images of how our new KS1 & KS2 playgrounds will look! The Daubeney Road access will only be through the main gate until further notice, as work begins on our KS1 Playground from Monday...

Rainbows and Canyons

This week we had a special treat for our KS1 assembly as we had a stunning performance from our Daubeney Choir. Here is a great rendition of "Rainbows and Canyons"

Reception - Blue Class: Work Week 2019

Blue Class have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about different jobs this week as part of work week. We were very lucky to have lots of wonderful parents who volunteered their time to come and talk to us about their jobs. We had TV producers who showed us adverts they had created, a daddy who...

Reception - Chicks Day 3

Day 3 - We have three new chicks churping away. Once they are dry and fluffy, they will move to their new home, the Brooder box. Please check back for regular updates. Our school will have the Chicks in residence for two weeks. We are ending our day with seven chicks, all seem happy and hurdling...

Reception - First Week At School

Our first week at school, we have been getting to know our new friends and teachers. We have been busy drawing, painting, climbing, running, bouncing, playing and learning at the same time

Reception - Parents' Lunch

Reception parents had an amazing opportunity to share lunch with their child this week. Take a look at parents in Red Class enjoying their lunch

Reception - Work Week 2019: Red Class Learn About Their Parents Professions

...vely time during Inspire Work Week. We had parents come in to talk about their professions. We learnt so much from them. We had an actor, a costume designer, an events planner and Adam's mum from the children's air ambulance charity. Many thanks to the parents that volunteered!...

School Council Elections

We are preparing to elect our school council for the 2016/17 school year. As part of the process children will complete speeches in class next week. The subejct is: "Why I should be chosen for Daubeney School Council". Once the class has selected the 4 members they will be putting forward...

Reception - Work Week 2019: Red Class visit the Fire Station

Red Class had a brilliant time at the Homerton Fire Station. We looked at the fire engine and the fire fighters uniform. The children really enjoyed using the hose to squirt water. We also learnt about the importance of having a fire alarm at home and what to do in an event of a fire. Red class...

Reception - Yellow Class Journey to Africa

Last week we went on a journey to Africa. The children thought deeply about what it would be like to go to this very large continent and what they might see there. We watched real life video clips of some of the amazing animals that live in Africa. We talked about what the weather would be like and...

Reception - Yellow Class Learn About Autumn

Last week Yellow Class learnt all about Autumn. We learnt about the many things that happen during this season from the leaves changing to yellow, orange, red and brown and falling to the ground. We learned about the animals that their own important job of collecting food so that they can store...

Reception - Yellow Class Work Week 2019

During work we had lots of visits. The police came in to tell us about their important job. We also had some of our very own Yellow Class parents come and visit. Pearl's mum who is a Foley artist (makes sounds for films and tv programmes), Freddie's mum who is a doctor at Homerton hospital...

Reception - Yellow Class: 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy

We had a fabulous week focusing on the story 'Whatever Next' by Jill Murphy. The children learnt all about onomatopoeia words. We pointed out many of them in the story and we thought of some of our own onomatopoeia words, which we then put into our literacy writing. As part of the...

Reception - Yellow Class: Growth and Transformation

Yellow Class are learning all about growth and transformation. Today we have planted broad beans. The children were so excited! We shall be looking at them carefully over the next two weeks to see what happens as our broad beans grow

Reception Hub Velo visit

...l visitor during Inspire work Week. We met the owner of Hub Velo. He showed us how to change a tire and fix a puncture. We spoke about the different accessories you can buy for road safety. We also went on a interactive tour of his shop and his workshop where he fixes ANY bike problems. He changes t...

Red Class - Fire Station Visit

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Red Class - One Week in 1P

Red Class are having a lovely week in 1P. They have settled in really well, getting used to Year 1 routines. Well done everyone!

Red Class - Our First week in Reception

We are having lots of fun in our new class!

Red Class - Our First Week in Reception

We are having a wonderful time in Red Class!

Year 6 Meet Holocaust Survivor Eve Kugler

Year 6 had the privilege of speaking to a holocaust survivor, Eve Kugler, this week. Eve explained all about her family history and how she was separated from her parents who were interned in a concentration camp while she was forced to flee to an orphanage in America. The children were fascinated...

Yellow Class - Christmas Fun

Yellow Class have been having lots of amazing Xmas fun over the last couple of weeks. We did our nativity show where we all dressed up to perform for our families. It was very special and we sang Christmas songs and acted out a show. All the grown ups were so pleased at our talents. Definitely the...

Christmas in Reception

Christmas she’s started this week in Reception with Christmas jumper designs, Christmas tree decorating and making toys in our Santa Work Shop. We have been talking about what can keep on us on the nice list…

1A RE Day - How and why do Christians celebrate Christmas?

Last week in RE Year 1 explored the big question, how and why do Christians celebrate Christmas? We read the Christmas story and acted out the story using props. We discussed how the birth of Jesus was a significant event. We also discussed how Christmas is celebrated all over the world. We...

My First Week in Red Class - Autumn 2020

My First Week in Yellow Class - Autumn 2020

Year 5 - Setting the Scene

This week Year 5 have been retelling the story of the Three Little Pigs but with a twist! They have been retelling it from the perspective of the innocent wolf! Today Year 5 drew a scene from their version of the Three Little Pigs. What would you change about the Three Little Pigs in your version?

Year 1 - Science in the Hop Garden

Last week Year 1 visited the Hop Garden as part of our Science topic 'Nature All Around Us'. We looked for plants that were growing in our school environment and explored the bug hotels too! We then practised our sketching skills by drawing our favourite plant in the garden. We had lots of...

Year 1 - Science in 1S

Last week, 1S ventured into the hop garden to investigate our topic: 'nature around us' We loved being outdoors, looking at (and listening to) all that was around us. We loved the tomato and raspberry plant, carefully observing that different stages of the growth cycle - we especially liked...

Nurture Group - Adding Using Cubes

We have been adding this week using our cubes, we can write a number sentence

Year 5 - Geography: Tanzania

This week we have been learning about physical and human geography of Tanzania. Physical geography are natural landmarks such as mountains and beaches and human geography are man made landmarks such as buildings and cities. Where in Tanzania would you like to visit?

Nurture Group - Year 1: 'In the Driving Seat'

This week we played a Boxall game called 'In the driving seat' This game encourages attention and listening skills. This also lets us explore our feelings when behind 'the driving seat' for example a spaceship, racing car or a deck chair. The children really enjoyed this particular...

Nurture Group - Year 2 Clockwork Toys

This week the Year 2's played the Boxall game called the clockwork toys. This encourages working together and following instructions. It also gives the least confident children a chance to take the lead role

Reception - Black History Week 2020

Today children celebrated Black people making a difference in Daubeney. It was amazing to see so many children dress up - thank you parents for your effort and support

Reception - Diwali

This week in Reception, we have been learning about Diwali. We have been learning about why people celebrate Diwali and what activities we can take part in. We have been making Diva Lamps using clay, sequins and beads. We have also been designing Rangoli Patterns both inside and outside the...

First Week in Year 6 - Autumn 2020

The children have all settled in fantastically to their new classrooms. We have already begun working on maths, spelling & handwriting and literacy. We have started our class reader 'Under the Lights' so make sure to ask the children what is happening in the story when they get home....

Year 3 - 3G: Poetry

In 3G today the children published and performed their poems. All of the poems were inspired by the book Look Up! Look Up! The children have been learning about features of poems this week and have included some of them in their work

1L Look Up!

Our literacy focus for the first two weeks of Autumn 2 has been a book called Look Up! We enjoyed reading the book, acting it out, hotseating characters from the story and learning lots of facts about space! We even drew our own space pictures! I wonder what you will see when you look up?

1L Science - What does a plant need to grow?

In Science we have been exploring plants! We planted 3 beans in class and are going to give each bean different things over the next few weeks. One bean will get sun and water, one bean will only get sun, and one bean will only get water. Which bean do you think will grow best? We're excited to...

Nursery - Friendship / Anti-bullying Week 2020

This week Nursery have been celebrating friendships, they have been working together, helping each other and talking about differences. Nursery celebrated their peer's success. She won a prize for her wonderful art work. They all clapped and said "well done". They all wore odd socks to celebrate...

Year 5 - Anglo Saxon Helmets

For the past couple of weeks, Year 5 have been learning about the Anglo Saxons! This week Year 5 were asked on Google Classroom to create their own Anglo Saxon helmets! If you could create your own Anglo Saxon helmet, what would it look like?

Boys Book Club - 7th December 2020

Today the Boys Book Club met and read an interesting text all about sharks. They discussed the text and used their reading stems to understand the text. Next week they will focus on comprehension questions about the text

Our 2020-21 Spanish Champions!

These are our 2020-21 Spanish Champions! We have new Daubeney Spanish Champions for the 2020-21 school year! There will be two Spanish champions on each KS2 class. Our champions are enthusiast of Spanish and try really hard to learn and also to help other children to learn. They will lead their...

Virtual Assembly - 14th December 2020

Dear Daubeney family, Welcome to our final virtual assembly for 2020. Enjoy the last week of school with all of the festive celebrations and a special farewell to Mrs Thomas on Wednesday. Stay great! Mr Logan

The 2021 RSPB School's Bird Watch Event

Did you know that there are 622 species of birds in Britain? Did you know that the most popular birds in London are woodpigeons, house sparrows and starlings? Daubeney has been invited to take part in the RSPB Schools Bird Watch event this weekend! If you are interested, watch the video below. Find...

Mental Health Week

Reception and Nursery meditating whilst listening to rain. The children liked the feeling of being quiet and calm

Nurture Group - Creative Bird Feeders

Last week we made bird feeders using Cheerios. We then hung them in our hop garden. "The birds are going to enjoy it" Try having a go!!

First Week in Nursery - Autumn 2020

Well done to all the new nursery children for such a wonderful first week! We’ve had so much fun playing, drawing, running, jumping, climbing and painting and we cannot wait for the fun to continue in the weeks to come! Have lots of rest this weekend and we will see you next week for more...

Virtual Assembly - 13th July 2020

...Graduation Week...

Reception - First Week Back

Reception pod have had fun learning all about the rainforest this week. We have been looking and learning about the animals of the rainforest and their habitats. We have created masks and parrots, and we have been completing rainforest research in our rainforest research centre! We have also been...

Virtual Assembly - 9th June 2020

...Art Week - Day 2...

Virtual Assembly - 15th May 2020

...sembly lead by Nevan....

Virtual Assembly - 18th May 2020

...ispanic Week - Travel...

Virtual Assembly - 19th May 2020

...ek - Cooking and Food...

Virtual Assembly - 20th May 2020

...eek - Art and Reading...

Virtual Assembly - 21st May 2020

...ispanic Week - Sports...

Virtual Assembly - 22nd May 2020

...ek - Music and Cinema...

Virtual Assembly - 26th May 2020

...ead by Rosa...

Virtual Assembly - 27th May 2020

...d by Laniya...

Virtual Assembly - 28th May 2020

...nted by Mei...

Virtual Assembly - 29th May 2020

...ed by Poppy...

Virtual Assembly - 10th June 2020

...Art Week - Day 3...

Virtual Assembly - 9th July 2020

...Carnival Week - Day 4...

Virtual Assembly - 11th June 2020

...Art Week - Day 4...

Virtual Assembly - 12th June 2020

...Week - presented by Esther...

Virtual Assembly - 15th June 2020

...ot Talent / Daubeney Bake Off Week...

Virtual Assembly - 22nd June 2020

...Sports Week...

Virtual Assembly - 26th June 2020

...ek - presented by Hamza...

Virtual Assembly - 29th June 2020

...Transition Week...

Virtual Assembly - 30th June 2020

...ll About me Booklet...

Virtual Assembly - 2nd July 2020

...looking forward to?...

Virtual Assembly - 6th July 2020

...Carnival Week...

Virtual Assembly - 7th July 2020

...Carnival Week - Day 2...

Virtual Assembly - 8th July 2020

...Carnival Week - Day 3...

Children's Mental Health Week 2021

Express Yourself - 1st February 2021 - 5th February 2021 Daubeney have been Expressing themselves during Children's Mental Health. More than ever, it is really important to talk about how we are feeling. The children participated in a variety of activities, including, yoga, origami, creating a...

Year 1 - 1S Back at School!

1S are super excited to be back at school! This week, we're putting even more fun into our learning! We're making, drawing, playing, creating, chatting and PARTYING! Today in Maths, we played snakes and ladders, counting our spaces and racing to get to 100!

Virtual Assembly - 12th May 2020

...Literacy Week...

Year 3 - Science: Plants and Flowers

In Year 3 we are learning about plants this half term in Science. The children have spent time in the Hop garden carefully observing the flowers growing there. This week they have been learning about the functions of different parts of a plant

Year 4B - The Dot - Pointillism

As part of immersion week in Literacy, we have been reading The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. We learnt about Pointillism and using a computer, we created Art with a variety of dots in different colours and sizes to produce a bigger picture

Mental Health - Staff Well-being Week 2021

... staff participated in ‘Duvet Week’. The staff had a big focus on self care and taking care of their mental health. It is really important that staff and parents take time for self care. Our Junior Mental Health Team created certificates and a video to show their appreciation for all the hard wo...

Mental Health Awareness Week Nature Competition

The Junior Mental Health Team organised a competition asking children to create an art piece of why nature is important for our mental health. The JMHT chose their winners and took them on a trip to Daubeney Fields. The children had a special picnic and had fun being creative using natural resources

Reception - This Week in Red Class - 23rd June 2021

This week, we have been doings lots of fun learning! We have been learning about 'The Rainbow Fish' and what makes a good friend. We have created rainbow fish using craft materials, we have created friendship cards and fish using play-doh. We have also been learning about money this week,...

Nurture Group - Tribute to Mr O'Flynn

The Nurture Group made a short video to say thank you for the extra music sessions that they have each week. We very much appreciate it. Thank you

Year 4M IntoUniversity

Today, 9-07-2021, the children in 4M were excited to meet the team from IntoUniversity via on online Google Meet session. The children learnt all about different careers and the skills needed to pursue certain jobs. They will visit Into University when they are in Year 5 and a whole week in Year 6

Year 5 Outdoor Learning

This week Year 5 went outdoors to begin their topic learning about mountains. They had to work as a team to choose items that they would need on a climb up Mt Kilimanjaro

Welcome Back Nursery

It was all smiles from our Nursery children who returned to school this week. They have been enjoying the new Baby Clinic role play area and having lots of outdoor fun!

Year 1 - 1L Mapping Skills Day

1L had lots of fun this week for Mapping Skills Day! We played Simon Says to help us remember our directions, went on a map hunt around the school and then made a 3D map of our playground!

Reception - Our First Week

This week, we have said "Hello!" to our new Reception children. We have been taking part in many activities including playing in the mud kitchen, having water play in our paddling pools and having a bite to eat at our Farm Shop Café! We can't wait for next week for even more, fun learning!

Reception - Yellow Class - Our Body

This week, we have enjoyed learning all about our body. We have been learning about our different body parts and what we use them for. We really enjoyed going outside and drawing around our friends, listening to the initial sounds and labelling the body parts

Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 - Nature

...rated Mental Health Awareness Week by discussing how nature is important for our Mental Health. The children loved participating in activities outdoors....

Golden Achievers - 17th September 2021

Massive congratulations to this week's Golden Achievers!!!

Anti-Bullying Week 2021 - One Kind Word

...ing kindness in Anti-Bullying Week. The focus was, One Kind Word. Children had the opportunity to participate in activities during their JIGSAW sessions and ended the Week with our annual Odd Socks Day . The children discussed bullying in assemblies and workshops and discussed how bullying has an im...

Golden Achievers - 11th September 2021

Massive congratulations to last week's Golden Achievers!

Golden Achievers - 15th September 2021

Massive congratulations to last week's Golden Achievers!

Golden Achievers - 22nd October 2021

Massive congratulations to last week's Golden Achievers!

Year 1 - 1L One Kind Word

1L spent time this week thinking about how we can be kind to others both inside and outside the classroom. We drew pictures showing us being kind and using kind words and then shared them with each other

Year 2 - Forest School - Session 16

Anti-bullying week 2021

Year 3 - 3HC Odd Socks Day 2021

3HC wore old socks last Friday to celebrate anti bullying week

Year 1 - 1L Science: Parts of the Human Body

This week in Science we have been learning about human body parts, as part of our Animals including Humans topic. We used sticky notes to label the parts of the body that we know!

Year 1 - 1L Shape Hunt

This week we have been learning about 2D shapes - we can name each shape and describe how many sides and corners each shape has. We went on a shape hunt around the school to see which shapes we can find in our environment!

This week in Reception... - 21st May 2021

This week in Reception, we have been having fun learning both inside the classroom and out. We have been learning about dinosaurs in our new outdoor Dino Reading Den, cooking up carrot soup in our Mud Kitchen, building sandcastles at the beach and dressing up to perform on our outdoor stage! We...

Year 4M - TTRS Champions - 14th May 2021

A huge well done to 4M who have retained their championship status as TTRS champions once again this week. They won their weekly battle and had 100% engagement on TTRS. Well done 4M - Keep up the great work!

Year 4 - British Science Week 2021

Today 9th March 2021 the children enjoyed making their own lava lamps using simple ingredients and apparatus. They had loads of fun during our afternoon of science

Year 5 - British Science Week 2021: Solar System

We looked at the solar system in Year 5. We talked about the planets and how the sun is at the centre of our solar system, although people believed differently in the past. We then made our own models of this!

Year 4 - British Science Week 2021

Today 10th March 2021 the children in Year 4 had a fun session making close circuits. The children had bulbs, batteries, switches, motors and connecting wires

Year 5 - British Science Week 2021

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Year 2 - British Science Week 2021

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Year 3 - British Science Week 2021

Year 3 conducted an experiment to discover what colour bubbles are. We made bubble bottles to observe the colour of the bubbles. We found that at first the bubbles appeared colourless, but when held up against the light the bubble split revealing different colours of the rainbow

Year 3 - British Science Week 2021: Egg Investigation

In Year 3 we had the task to make an egg travel down a zip wire. The children were given pipe cleaners and straws to design a harness for the egg. the children were very inventive in their designs. We were learning about fair tests and how to introduce variables to the investigation

Year 1 - 1A First Week Back at School

1A had so much fun being back at school this week. We played lots of games, made friendship bracelets, wrote compliments and messages for our friends and even enjoyed playing in the hop garden. Take a look to see what fun we had

Year 1 - 1L Literacy: First Week Back

1L read the story of Rainbow Fish this week and thought about what it meant to be a good friend! We acted out the story and made scales for Rainbow Fish saying how we could be a good friend. We also made compliment cards for our friends, telling them what we like about them and then made friendship...

Year 1 - 1L Maths: First Week Back

1L had lots of fun playing maths games and practising addition and subtraction during our first week back together! We focused on working together with a partner and using mathematical language to explain our work!

Year 4M - TTRS Champions

A huge well done to 4M this week for being the TTRS Champions. They competed against the whole school and were crowned the winners

Year 5 - British Science Week 2021: Outdoor Learning

Today, we went outside to play bingo! We had to find certain plants, animals or objects. We discussed this after and talked about anything unusual we found. We also passed around some plants and herbs that were in the hop garden

Year 6 - First Week Back

and breathe! Wow! What a first week back. To say it’s been busy would be an understatement. Year 6 started the week off with a whole school virtual live assembly followed by an electrifying science workshop. We continued with our CC topic looking into the wondrous ancient kingdom of Benin....

Year 1 - Outdoor Learning

1A really enjoyed doing outdoor learning this week as part of our mental health week. We had literacy, maths and story time outside. We also did meditating in the hop garden. It made us feel calm and relaxed and we were able to concentrate and focus better

Reception - Journey through African

We have had a fantastic first week back! This week, reception have been taking a Journey through Africa, learning about the countries, animals and landmarks! We have been making African inspired masks, African patterns using 2D and 3D shapes and bright colours. We have also enjoyed playing in the...

Year 1 - 1L Science Week 2021

1L have had lots of hands on science fun this week! We started with a skittles experiment to find out what happens when you add water to skittles, then thought about which materials would keep Incy Wincy Spider dry from the rain! Then we went on a very windy senses hunt around the school to see...

Year 4 - 4M SEAL Lesson - Give

This week the children in 4M were set a challenge to GIVE something anything like a smile, or a helping hand or even time to talk. We had a lovely session sharing as a class

Year 4M - TTRS Champions

A very special trophy was delivered today Friday 19th March 2021 to class 4M. Once again they won the weeks TTRS battle and had the most players on TTRS. Well done 4M!

Boys Book Club - 22nd March 2021

Today 22 March 2021 the Boys Book Club enjoyed a session reading a text then answering questions online. Next week they are looking forward to continuing using the online text and questions to develop their comprehension skills

Year 3 - Science

This week in science Year 3 have continued learning about light. We conducted 2 experiments to answer our learning question Can mirrors control light?

Mental Health - Giving

The week commencing the 15th March 2021, Daubeney focussed on the word, GIVING. The children discussed the importance of giving and raised money for Comic Relief. The children purchased Red Noses and on Friday 19th March the children donated money and came to school dressed as Superheroes! It was...

National Autism Awareness Week 2021

... is National Autism Awareness Week....

Nurture Group - Reception: Cooking

This week in Nurture we have been reading the book Owl Babies. We were lucky enough to do some 'cooking' and make some owls on toast. We were able to practise our cutting skills. We also developed our language and maths skills by practising doubles

Nurture Group - Year 1: Cooking

This week in Nurture we have been reading the book Owl Babies. We were lucky enough to do some 'cooking' and make some owls on toast. We were able to practise our cutting skills. We also developed our language and maths skills by practising doubles

Year 4 - 4M Outdoor Learning Space

...or learning for Mental Health Week. The children found the outside calming and soothing and was a nice place to focus while completing their times tables....

Virtual Assembly - 14th May 2020

...teracy Week - Writing...

Virtual Assembly - 11th May 2020

...Literacy Week...

Yellow Class - Jobs

Yellow Class had a fantastic work week. We have learnt about many different kinds of jobs that we could be when we get older. In work week we had a visit from the police. They talked to us all about what they do and how they keep people safe. We made police hats in our class to pretend to be police...

Year 2 - 2C Comics

This week, we have been learning about comics and we even drew one of our own based on the book Journey by Aaron Becker. We learnt that comics have lots of pictures and lots of thought and speech bubbles. An amazing comic will also have onomatopoeia. Do you know what an onomatopoeia is? Our...

KS1 & Reception Mariachi Assembly

For Hispanic week, KS1 and reception had fun this morning taking part in an assembly with a Mariachi band! We listened to them play lots of songs and we all joined in passing maracas around and having lots of fun! Thank you Mr Arribas for organising such a lovely assembly!!

Year 3 - Mariachi Workshop

Today (10th June 2019) Year 3 got the fantastic opportunity to experience live music performed by a Mariachi band. They even got do do a bit of traditional dancing. Year 3 have definitely started Hispanic week off with a bang at Daubeney. Watch this space for more updates!

Year 1 - Hispanic Week in 1L

1L have been having lots of fun during Hispanic week! We have taken part in a Mariachi workshop, painted flags of Mexico and made our own maracas! We learnt lots of facts about Mexico and made a video to present to the other Year 1 classes!

Year 1 - Hispanic Week in 1P

...ope you enjoy it!...

Year 3 - 3T's Costa Rica Presentation

...osta Rica!...

Year 2 - 2C Hispanic Week

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Boys Book Club - 18th June 2019

Today (18-06-2019) the Boys Book Club explored the many online stories available which are suitable for primary school children. We used the iPads, and read a selection of stories. Next week we aim to read some classic fairy tales and hope to create our own fairy tale story in the session

Nursery - Visit Old MacDonald's Farm

Nursery had a wonderful time at Old MacDonald's Farm last week. They got to meet and feed so many animals, including and the Josh the pony, Thumbelina the rabbit and Gladdis the tortoise. Some children enjoyed stoking the animals too! The children went on some great rides and played in the...

Reception - Red Class trip to London Zoo

Red class had a brilliant day out at London Zoo last week (12th June 2019) The children were amazed to see a variety of animals. They particularly liked the black headed python, the penguins, the sleepy lion and and the beautiful butterflies. We also enjoyed eating our lunch at the aquarium with...

Hispanic Week 2019

Our pupils learnt a lot about the Spanish speaking countries by researching, making presentations, posters, flags, maracas and many more. All staff, parents and especially children had an amazing time. A first-hand experience of the culture of all Spanish speaking countries: we had a Mexican...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 5

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] Good afternoon everyone. This is the last update so I’ll keep it short. It’s been an absolutely amazing week. In the words of Senior Aribas, our silver medalist Spanish champion, “Muy Bien, fenomenal!” The children have been...

Year 5 - IntoUniversity Centre

The children in 5M, 5F and 5Mc had a wonderful time exploring engineering at the 'IntoUniversity Centre' in Clapton. The three classes went on different days but all had the opportunity to use their designing and engineering skills to create a solution for a problem that was posed by the...

Ukulele at the Adventure Playground

Transition week is in full swing and we brought ukuleles on all our trips. Check out Jada and Mr. O‘ Flynn’s jam at the adventure playground

Year 6 - Transition Week 5F to 6S

It’s been an absolutely fantastic week for the new 6S and an incredibly busy one too. In just one week the children have: completed a piece of writing, published it and begun their writing folders for Year 6; taken part in school council elections; practised their dancing for the end of year...

Year 6 - Staying Calm and Focused

6F made a fantastic to start to the term and had a great first week in Year 6. We learnt some breathing techniques to help up stay calm and focused. We also created a 'calm corner' with encouraging words of affirmation to keep us motivated throughout the year. 6F are excited for the term...

Red Class - Our First Week in Reception

We are having a wonderful time in Red class!

Year 2 - 2C Mapping Day

To start off our week, we spent the day learning about maps! We learnt about map language, went on a treasure hunt, drew pictures and even made our own maps! Do you know what the arrows and letters on a compass stand for?

Year 3 - WOW Day 2019

Year 3 had a brilliant start to their new topic - the rainforest - today. They found out about the deforestation that is going on in the Amazon & wrote news reports about the fires that occurred recently, which they thought were devastating. In their reports, they call for action & make...

WOW Walk to School Challenge

For the second year running, Daubeney has decided to take part in the WOW walk to school challenge! WOW is a pupil-led initiative where children self-report how they come to school everyday. If they travel sustainably (walk, cycle, scoot, hop off the bus early and walk the rest of the way) a few...

Year 1 - Favourite Places

This week in Year 1 we talked about our local area. Firstly, we talked about our favourite places in our local area, then we sketched a picture of our favourite place using pencils and finally we finished our pictures with oil pastels. We shared our pictures with the rest of the class. Watch our...

Reception - Yellow Class Maths Activities

Yellow class have really enjoyed doing lots of maths activities this week. They enjoyed exploring 2d shapes and creating shape pictures, matching numbers to quantities and creating patterns using different colours

Year 6 - First Week in 6S

We have had a fantastic first week in 6S. In science we have started by asking questions about all the things we want to know about classification. In Literacy we got into character by performing role play of our modern version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. We have also had our WOW Day and...

Year 4 - Note Taking Skill

Today (18th September 2019) the children in Year 4 developed their knowledge by learning the skill of note taking. They then used the notes to help them create factual sentences for their travel leaflets, which will be published later this week

Spanish & Art - Our Champions Creating Their Own Paintings

The Spanish champions had a great time painting on canvasses, inspired by the Spanish impressionist artist Joaquin Sorolla. After seeing his exhibition, they learnt about his work and impressionism and this week they used impressionist techniques to create their own artwork. They will now learn to...

Year 1P - Learns The Gruffalo

This week in 1P we started learning The Gruffalo. First we chose a character that we wanted to be in the performance and explained why we would be good for the part. We discussed how we could stage the story and worked together to rehearse each part. On Friday we performed our stories to the other...

Year 4 - Our First Published Piece of Work

Today (20th September 2019) the children were excited as they completed their first published piece of work. This week, the children were learning all about leaflets and used the key features to create their own travel leaflet for India

Yellow Class - Maths Week

The Junior Creativity Team

The Junior Creativity Team have been busy. As well as our club every week where we work towards gaining the Explore Arts Award, we attending a morning SLT meeting. We talked about how art inspires us and what we want to do for the school. On the same day we took KS1 Assembly and taught everyone...

Year 2 - Take a breath...

This week in literacy we have been looking at what the benefits of breathing are. We started every lesson by doing some breathing activities and talked about how that made us feel. Afterwards, we made posters about what breathing is, why we should do it and when we can do it. We made these posters...

Year 5 - Adverts

This week Year 5 have been learning about adverts; their features and their purpose. Today we shared our final adverts about porridge with our peers, discussed the many different features we included and if we would want to buy each others porridge

Year 4 Spelling Test - 1st May 2020

Hi Year 4, Here is this week's spelling test! Please let us know how you went and keep practicing for next week. Stay safe!

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 5

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] A very good morning from Team Daubeney at Youlbury! We’re packed, fed and ready to go, once we’ve completed our last two activities and had lunch. My aim is for us to leave by 1.30pm if not a few minutes before. I will update the school...

Year 4 - Blogging

Today (24-02-2020) the children in Year 4 discussed Blogs and identified the features of a blog. They were given various Blogs to read and identified the features while working with their partners. This week we hope to create and write our own blogs

Reception - Blue Class: Concept Cat Visit

Concept Cat came to visit Blue class for our Launch Pad for Language session yesterday. Concept Cat loves learning so Blue class did lots of learning too. Concept Cat will visit us every Wednesday for the next few weeks to helps us with our learning

Spanish Champions & Mental Health Week

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Science and Art in Year 2

Did you know it’s science week? We started our new science topic by doing some art! We are learning about plants this half term. We looked at pictures of different types of plants and talked about similarities and differences of it. Then, we painted them using bright colours! Have a look at our...

Year 4 - Young Scientist

...tist to celebrate our Science Week in Daubeney. The children were excited to explain who they came d......dren have enjoyed our Science Week and will be very excited to welcome our next science activity in ...

Year 5 Wow Day: Design and Technology

Year 5 took part in their Wow Day this week focussing on Design and Technology. The children were challenged to make a well which had a pulley in it. The children were asked to be innovative in their designs and succeed with flying colours!

British Science Week 2020

...on an awesome British Science Week. Parents spent the afternoon in school educating and motivating pupils on a wide range of stem related jobs, from building their own animation into a film, taking fantastic photos when working with the best light, learning about the power of wind, experimenting ...

Scientist of the Week

...ubeney's Scientist of the Week. He worked tirelessly, assisting the team in Daubeney's science gadget shop but also assisting the science lead in presenting jaw-dropping experiments to the rest of the school....

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 4

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] It’s Day 4 and you’d have thought the tiredness would have set in by now... well it has for the adults! The children are just as energised as ever. After a hearty breakfast, they were pasting their way down, by now, a well trodden and...

Times Tables Rock Stars

Daubeney is truly rocking with their times tables! There are too many rock heroes to count. A huge congratulations to 3T as they are on top of the league table this week. Good luck in the battles everyone. Please visit the website every Friday for an update on the league table and information on...