Governors

Welcome to the Governing Body section of the website. My name is Will Emms and I am the Chair of Governors of the Blossom Federation of Daubeney, Sebright & Lauriston Schools and Children Centres. Our governors represent our wider school community: elected parent and staff governors, one Local...

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...

About our Curriculum

... children to learn and remember more “Working scientifically” means that students can learn scie......uting we follow the Purple Mash Scheme of Work. Internet Safety is taught in all lessons and is a fo...

Admissions

...ion Credit Child Tax Credit, Working Tax Credit (or both), and the household income is £16,19......a year or less before tax the Working Tax Credit 4-week run on (the payment you get when you s......ou get when you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit) If parents are Working, they might be eli...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 -...

Daubeney Children & Family Hub

Daubeney Children & Family Hub is just down the road from Daubeney Primary School. The centre shares its state of the art facilities with Daubeney Nursery which is a high quality and beautiful environment for children to learn. The centre is run by our Children’s Centre Manager – Suzanne...

Daubeney Village

Daubeney Village is an organisation of parents and staff. Its role is to encourage closer links between home and school and organise fundraising events to provide an opportunity for parents, staff and pupils to get together. How is money raised? Daubeney Village raises money through events. They...

Early Years Foundation Stage

The Early Years (Nursery and Reception classes) will provide an environment that is happy, warm, secure and stimulating. We aim to ensure that all children become confident and independent, and enjoy exploring and learning. We aim to enable children to develop a strong sense of self, while also...

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

...ring the data. Children are assessed as being either: Working below the expected standard for thei......king on the curriculum from a lower year group (below); Working within the expected standard for t...... exactly where they should be for their age (expected); Working within the expected standard for t...

Free School Meals

...x Credit (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income ......n annual gross income of no more than £16,190) Working Tax Credit run-on Universal Credit, prov...

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...

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...

Inclusion

Launchpad for Language The school have invested in an exciting early years package with the Speech and Language Therapy service. Listening and talking are the key foundation skills for later literacy and academic achievement. Launchpad for Language is a fun filled language enrichment programme for...

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...

Vacancies

We proud to be part of the Blossom Federation, so you may want to check for vacancies at Lauriston Primary and Sebright Primary to see if there are any opportunities to work at our wonderful partner schools

Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural Development

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

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...

Spanish

...kills in Spanish. Our Scheme of Work shows how we deliver the National Curriculum Programme of Study for Languages. We refer to the yearly objectives mapped out by Hackney Education to inform our planning. The units of Work in which our curriculum is divided, are the medium-term plans, covering appr...

SEND and Our Local Offer

Our SENDCO Welcome to the Blossom Federation SEND offer. From the moment I took over as SENDCO at Daubeney, my dedicated team and I have tried to create a personalised experience for you - and bring back, the element of working together to serve your child. Our inclusive curriculum is supported by...

Staff

At Daubeney we are federated with Sebright and Lauriston Schools and some of our staff work across all three schools

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...

Quick Links

Staff Links IT Support Helpdesk - To log a call, enter your work email address and click ‘Log In’. An email will be sent to you with a link to the Helpdesk. Click this link and you will be taken to an area where you can see your calls. To log a new call, click the button in the top right and fill...

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...

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...

PSHE - Jigsaw

...d completely original Scheme of Work for the whole Primary School from Years F1 and 2 through to Yea......ons Communicate effectively Work with others Respond to challenge Be an active partner in th...

Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL)

Introduction to OPAL OPAL stands for Outdoor Play and Learning and is a programme endorsed and supported by Sport England . OPAL's mission statement is "To ensure that every schoolchild has an amazing playtime every day with no exceptions." We aim to: improve well-being develop self-regulation...

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...

Online Safety

Today’s pupils are growing up in an increasingly complex world, living their lives seamlessly on and offline. This presents many positive and exciting opportunities, but also challenges and risks. We want to equip our pupils with the knowledge needed to make the best use of the internet and...

Year 5 - Design Research

Year 5 are learning about windmills and wind turbines so they had the opportunity to use their ICT skills to research how they work. They had to look up how generators work, how transformers work and how windmills and wind turbines are similar and different

Year 1 - DT: Making a Chair

As part of our DT topic of 'How do you make a structure strong?', we thought carefully about designing a chair and then used resources from the classroom to make it! We worked hard to make each part of the chair and then thought about how we could secure them together

Nurture Group - Cross Curricular: Making a Chair Using Cardboard

Today we made a chair using cardboard. We worked as a team to make the legs, seat, back and spindle. We managed to make it stand for our teddy to sit on, unfortunately it did not stay standing when a child sat on it

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 3 - Forest School - Making Boats from Natural Materials

Year 3 have been working with Forest School and made boats from natural materials the children were then able to see if their boat floated

Family Phonics Workshop

Today we went through all of phase 5. We looked at split digraphs and created a 'spelling snake'. We made our snakes really long by reading the words and matching it with the correct snake. Do you recognise these split digraphs? a-e, e-e, i-e, o-e, u-e. Take a look at what we had

Year 2 WOW Day - The Great Fire of London

To finish off the topic of the Great Fire of London, Year 2 designed and made some houses which replicate how the houses would’ve looked in 1666. They all worked brilliantly as a team and created magnificent masterpieces! Take a look

Year 4 and Year 5 Workshop - Giving

...alth Support) and Vana (CAMHs Worker in school) to discuss memories of helping others, friendship and feelings. Can you think of a memory that you helped someone? How did this make you feel? How do you think it made the person you helped feel?...

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

Year 5 - History: Windrush and Hackney

What is the link between Hackney and the Windrush generation? Today, we investigated this by looking at images and maps of bombs sites in Hackney. We also reminded ourselves of the experiences of Windrush generation after they arrived in the UK by watching some videos. Finally, we learnt about the...

Junior Mental Health Team Place2Be Fundraising

The JMHT raised £309.39 for Place2Be. They met with Matthew Charlton the Community Fundraising Manager at Place2Be to discuss the work they do, explain how our £309.39 could make a difference

Year 4 – Spanish - Summer Term 1

Year 4 in action! Students in Year 4 have worked incredibly hard this very short half term, and enjoyed learning about Costa Rica’s fruits and animals. We will continue reading Tico Tango’s story after a well-deserved break

Spanish Music Project

The school band and class 5MC have been working on our own arrangement of the Mexican classic , La Cucuracha. Linking music to Spanish language lessons is a special project that Daubeney is part of , in collaboration with other Hackney Schools and the Hackney Music Service. We hope you like our...

Comic Relief 2022

Our Junior Mental Health Team helped raise money for Comic Relief. Our Daubeney children donated £1 and dressed up with the theme of, Make us Laugh! Helping others and helping yourself. It’s good for you! Doing things for other people actually has a beneficial effect on developing our own...

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 - 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

Student Council go to London Buddhist Centre

The Student Council have been working relentlessly this year and as a bit of a special treat and a way to learn more about different cultures, they were invited to go to the London Buddhist Centre with the Year 6s. They learnt about the Buddhist way of life and enjoyed a fantastic morning of calm...

Year 5 – Spanish/Music joint project

As part as a pioneering joint Spanish and Music project, students in Year 5 have revisited vocabulary and structures we originally learnt in the Autumn term. Students are now able to express their musical preferences and justify their opinions using music specific vocabulary, such a timbre ,...

Year 4 - Outdoor learning

Spending time outside is proven to have a positive effect on children’s physical and mental health. At Daubeney we are making the most of this sunny day and have taken our Spanish lesson outside. Great opportunity for them to take ownership of their learning and enhance teamwork skills

Year 5 - Reading: Art

We are starting a book called The Firework-Maker's Daughter by Phillip Pullman in Year 5 this half term and to get us really excited, we created our own art inspired by fireworks! Have a look at our creative work!

Year 5 - Maths - Multiplying 2 Digit Numbers

We are learning to multiply 2 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers and to help us understand what we are doing, we used dienes and worked with our partners to answer questions together

Prefects' Morning Out

As a reward for all of their hard work this term, the prefects were treated to a morning at London Fields Park with some sweet treats from Broadway Market. We also had a Christmas sing song on the way home

School Council - Meeting with Mr Warren - 8th December 2021

School Council invited Mr. Warren to meet with them. The meeting was scheduled for Wednesday 8th December 2021. School Council Committees had a selection of questions and ideas they wanted to share with Mr. Warren. Here are some of the questions they asked Mr. Warren; What are your plans for the...

Nurture Group - Shapes in the Environment

We went to the park to look for some shapes. We drew some shapes in the sand too. We got to have a little play after all our hard work

Christmas in Reception

... and making toys in our Santa Work Shop. We have been talking about what can keep on us on the nice list…...

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!

Year 6 - COP26 Climate Change Summit Workshop

Today, 26-11-2021, the Year 6 children had an unique opportunity to meet a special guest, who personally attended the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The children discussed how climate change affects the entire world, how we can play a part to reduce climate change and countries that are looking at new...

Year 4 - 4K Sharing Assembly: The Hunter

4K sharing assembly was held on 18/11/21 and was inspired by our focus book 'The Hunter.' The children worked so hard to present and act out the story with great confidence. A huge thank you goes to all the parents who came to watch us perform

Understanding and Managing Behaviour Workshop

On the 9th November, Vana, our CWIS (CAMHs worker in school) lead a parent workshop about managing emotions

Nurture Group - Play Dough

We made play dough for both playgrounds for lunch time play. We used maths to work out the measurements

Year 4 - 4S Diwali Workshop

4S enjoyed a Diwali workshop where they learnt about the story surrounding the festival of light and they achieved this through stories, song and dance

Year 5 - Aspiring Artist in 5SM

Well done to this young aspiring artist in 5SM. This layered painting took almost one year to complete!! It is entitled ‘Explosion of flowers’ We are very proud of the amazing work

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...

World Mental Health Day 2022

It was World Mental Health Day on Monday 10th October. To celebrate mental health at Daubeney parents were invited to a “Child Anxiety” parent workshop. Children in KS1 and KS1 attended assembly around Mental health day. The children learnt about how children are supported with their...

The Nest - Parent Workshop

We invited our parents in to make Christmas decorations with us

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 5 - Literacy Outdoor Learning

Year 5 were set the task of building dens suitable for the Himalayas. Ashley who sets off on a long arduous journey across the Himalayas would have had a similar experience when trying to find shelter in the evenings. The children had to work as a team and think about the properties of the...

Family Phonics Workshop - Spring Term 2023

It was so lovely to see parents and carers taking part in our family phonics workshop yesterday. This half term we will be focusing on phase 3 phonics and looking at digraphs and trigraphs. Parents had a wonderful time playing phonics bingo and reading with their child. Take a look to see what fun...

Year 2 - Spanish Christmas Cards

This term in Year 2 we have learnt numbers, colours and shapes through Cubism and Pablo Picasso's art. Today we have decorated our own Christmas cards inspired by his work

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...

Family Phonics Workshop - Session 3

Thank you to all the parents and carers that attended our third family phonics session today. We focus on oral segmenting and blending and the children had a great time feeding 'Metal Mike' all the words. We revisited all of our phase 2 sounds and then practised reading CVC words by segmenting and...

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...

Music - Summer Term 2022

It was a great year of skateboards, ukuleles, djembes, recorders with lots more in between. We enjoyed and celebrated our interschool concert with guest bands from Ickburgh, a local special needs school and also a band from Rushmore. Alongside this we often had our outdoor jam on a Friday lunchtime...

Year 5 - Persuasive Arguments

Year 5 spent some time using a word processor to type up their persuasive arguments about climate change! This is their final piece of work based on the book the whole school has been reading - Varmints

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 - 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

Therapy Dog

Research has shown many benefits to therapy and reading dogs in school settings. Daubeney School has introduced the access to a dog promoting emotional well-being, curiosity and engagement as an additional provision for pupils with high additional needs at school. Although there is a risk in...

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 2 WOW Day - Autumn 2022

For WOW day, Year 2 explored cold polar climates and hot tropical climates. We chose one and then worked as a group to make a diorama, thinking carefully about the plants and animals that you would find there. They look awesome!

KS1 Sewing Club

KS1 Sewing club have worked very hard during Autumn 1 with Miss Joan. They have had fun learning to sew and exploring the different patterns they can create to make their own personalised bookmark

Year 5 - Art WOW Day

WOW! What a day! We wrapped up our Summer 2 half term with a WOW Day dedicated to art inspired by Antony Gormley. More specifically, we created our own art pieces inspired by "Field for the British Isles" which we called "Field for the Year 5 Isles". We even had a Year 5...

Year 2 - 2KF RE Day

Yesterday we had a really fun RE Day learning about four religions. We learnt that all religions have teachings about forgiveness. Later, we discussed how it feels to ask for forgivness. We looked closely at a picture that shows forgivess and talked about how the bird flying away means to be free...

Year 5 - Science: Day and Night

Do you know why we have day and night? We learnt about that today and we showed our learning through discussions and written work!

Family Phonics Workshop - 9th February 2023

Today we had a great time learning phonics outdoors! We went through all of phase 2 and 3 sounds. We had to read words outside on the ground and find the matching picture. Parents had a wonderful time doing this with their child. Take a look to see what fun we had

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 2 - 2P Singing School Trip

On Tuesday Class 2P went on a very exciting singing school trip into central London. We went to a small but very grand church called St Ann and St Agnes . It is in the vicinity of St. Paul’s in the heart of bustling central London. 2P sang their hearts out with a professional ensemble called...

Mini Garden

The School councillors came up with an idea earlier this year to develop a green space in the KS2 playground where wildlife can flourish and our Daubeney family can enjoy nature. They have worked hard with support from Dave and Gavin to design a “Mini Garden”. The friends of the Earth...

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 4 - Wow Day: Building Board Games

Today 9-02-2023 the children in Year 4 created and built their own board games with electronic components. The children used various electrical components and played the game to ensure it works. After evaluating their game the children pitched their game to the CEO (their teacher) to make and...

Year 5 - Science: Reproduction Revision

To remind ourselves of all our amazing learning this year, we spent some time revising words like sexual and asexual reproduction. Now that we are just looking back at our work, we found that we had a lot more questions to ask and some of us have even noticed plants in our home growing sexually or...

Year 1 - 1L Big Draw - Summer 2022

We had lots of fun taking part in todays Big Draw! Look at our art work!

Year 5 - Wow Day - Tanzania

How would you prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? To end our geography topic we had a wonderful WOW Day where we recapped all of our learning and answered the overarching question. Then, we spent the rest of the day learning about the Maasai people. We created posters all about them and the ways...

Year 5 - WOW Day: Pulleys, Levers and Gears

What are mechanisms? Why do we use pulleys? Where can you find a real life example of gears? These are all questions we considered today when ending our DT topic with our fantastic WOW Day! After writing our reflections on what we learnt. we worked in small groups to make wells that included a...

Year 6 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Extremely busy term for Year 6 students who have worked really hard at Daubeney. Students have developed the ability to use context and previous knowledge to estimate new words, to identify words in written form through dictation using their phonics knowledge, and to work with a partner in dialogue...

Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

Year 5 students at Daubeney have worked really hard this term. They have made great progress and are now able to create sentences using a range of different buildings and shops in town. They can also engage in a dialogue and ask and understand directions. They have also had the opportunity to...

Year 5 - Literacy: Artwork Inspired by Poetry

In today's literacy lesson, we drew some art inspired by the imagery created by the poem "Mrs McPhee" in the book "The Puffin Book of Utterly Brilliant Poetry" Here is the poem: Mrs McPhee Who lived in South Zeal Roasted a duckling For every meal. 'Duckling for breakfast And dinner and tea And...

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 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!

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 4 - 4B Diwali Workshop

4B had an amazing time learning about the origin story of Diwali and who the important people are

Robotic Arm Science Team Meeting

One of our science team members kindly brought in a robotic arm and expertly explained how it worked to the rest of the group. Everyone then had a go at using it and we tried to pick up different objects using the claw and suction cup!

Year 3 - 3HC's Class Assembly - 21st October 2021

3HC’s sharing assembly was held on 21/10/21 and it was ALL about Brazil and saving the RAINFOREST! Must watch! The children worked so hard and were super excited to perform. The children shared some facts, acted out the story ‘The great Kapok tree’ by Lynne Cherry and sang and danced to the song...

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

Family Matters Workshop - Dreams and Goals

"Have a vision, it is the ability to see the invisible. If you can see the invisible, you can achieve the impossible" (Walt Disney) Our dreams and Goals, a truly fun filled and creative workshop were the invisible became a visible by creating a vision. We had some lovely feedback from...

Trees for Cities Planting Workshop

We were very lucky to be part of the Trees for Cities workshop to plant more trees in Hackney Marshes. Children planted young trees to add to an existing woodland area to create more space for wildlife and for the local residents to enjoy. They learnt about different types of trees in the area,...

Year 6 - 6M IntoUniversity Week 2020

6M spent a week at IntoUniversity learning all about inclusion and diversity. The week included learning about a range of subjects. On Monday and Tuesday, we looked at inspirational people throughout history such as Martin Luther King Jr, Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai. Also, we had an...

Year 6 Spanish Champions visit Petchey Academy

Our Spanish Champions from Year 6 visited Petchey Academy and observed a Year 7 Spanish lesson. It was a great opportunity for our Year 6 pupils to get to know what Spanish is like in Secondary school and to work alongside Year 7 pupils. They enjoyed working together and sharing their experiences...

Year 1 - 1L Explore Our Senses

1L had lots of fun in Science this afternoon! We explored what each of our senses are used for at senses stations around the room. We had fun working together and discovering how our senses help us every day!

Year 5 - Comic Gallery

In literacy we have been learning about the features of comics and we create our own comics based on ancient Greek myths such as King Midas and the Golden Touch. Today we showcased our comics in Year 5 gallery and discussed what we liked about each others work. What is your favourite ancient Greek...

1L's Class Assembly

1L had so much fun in their assembly this afternoon! They retold the story of Monkey Puzzle and told us lots of interesting facts about the body as we have been learning about animals including humans in Science! They worked really hard, well done 1L!

Year 3 - Stone Age workshop at the Hackney Museum

Year 3 have been learning all about the Stone Age this term. During their visit to the Hackney museum, they got an insight into how Hackney was during the Stone Age era. They were able to have a touch of a range of artefact replicas including animal fur, flint tools and fossilised poop; they were...

Year 2 - Great Fire of London Workshop

Today we experienced the Great Fire of London! Some of us dressed up like the people who were in the Great Fire of London. We spent the morning working in different jobs from 1666, like soap making and ink making. While doing our jobs, we also imagined the fire had started and some of us had to...

Year 4 - Arabic Calligraphy

Today (27-02-2020) the children in year 4 studied the Islamic Faith. They used Arabic style calligraphy writing to write their own name and used many patterns to beautify their work

Year 1 - 1L World Book Day 2020

1L had an amazing time celebrating world book day today! We came dressed as our favourite book characters, we made our own bookmarks and finger puppets as well as designing our own book front covers! We worked together to make a big book themed art piece too!

Junior Mental Health Team - How to Look After Our Mental Health

The Junior Mental Health Team wanted to create a video for everyone to share information on how to look after our mental health. The children had a premier where they presented the video to the Senior Leadership Team and it was then presented to the KS2 children in assembly. The children worked...

British Science Week 2020

The pupils and staff of Daubeney primary school drew the curtains to a close 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...

Scientist of the Week

One pupil stood out for his hard work and dedication and emerged as Daubeney'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 2

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] What an epic Day 2 at Youlbury. Not just because we started the day with a sumptuous breakfast of cereal and a fry up to compete with any Michelin star restaurant; not because of the lovely warm dry weather but because the Team Daubeney at Youlbury...

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...

Home Learning

These home learning resources were published to support children during school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. They are no longer being updated. Welcome to the Daubeney School home learning portal! There are links to useful resources, access to online activities and information about what...

Athletics Final At Urswick

Well done to the athletics team, to reach in the final. Many have work hard to compete with the best and represent Daubeney with all of they abilities

Wow Day in Year 3

Year 3 have been learning all about the Prehistoric World, and in particular from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. They discovered that even though there are no written documents left about this period of time, there are plenty of clues that tell us what their life was like. One of these clues is...

Year 6 - Spelling Test - 27th March 2020

Hi year 6! This video is just for you. It’s the weekly spelling test just like we do every week in class! I’m missing you all massively - please comment in section below if you found this video useful, or even just to say hello. Keep up the good work!

Year 3 - Using Smarties to Work Out the Fraction of Quantities

Today Year 3 used Smarties to work out the fraction of quantities. They counted all the Smarties from the tube to work out what the denominator was. They then counted how many Smarties there were of each colour and wrote their final answer in fraction form. What a bunch of SMART-ies (get it?)

Year 2 - Wow Day in 2P

We spent the day looking at different landmarks around the UK. We than worked in groups to create our own 3D versions!

Year 4 - RE Day: Hinduism

The children in Year 4 had an exciting day today (31st October 2019) learning all about the Hindu faith. The children studied the main beliefs of Hinduism, the importance of the Mandir (Hindu Temple) and signs and symbols from the religion. They also had an opportunity to create their own art...

Year 5 - Art: Watercolour Paint

Today Year 5 became masters of watercolour paint. We recreated our favourite scenes from The Lion and the Mouse by Aesop. What is your favourite part of the story? What techniques did you use to create your artwork?

Debating in Year 3

Year 3 read the fable 'The Lion and the Mouse' and determined that fables are stories that teach us a message. They thought that the message of the fable was that TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK. They then applied this idea of teamwork to a debate. They argued both for and against the idea...

Year 4 - Maths: No Pen Wednesday

During our No Pens Day, Year 4 children took an alternative approach to learning their times tables - a relay where they competed between them to test their times table knowledge. Additionally, we worked systematically and deepened our reasoning skills using dominoes. Take a look at our maths...

Daubeney Awarded Top Award of PSQM Outreach for Science

Last night (13th November 2019) our ex-science lead Mr Swarbrick had the honour of collecting our PSQM Outreach award. He led science for 3 years and this is testament to the incredible science work that happens at Daubeney and it was a pleasure to be a part of the process. At Daubeney we truly...

Year 1 - 1TK: Where Are We in the World?

Year 1 have been working hard this term learning about where we are in the world. We had lots of fun making this video and presenting our knowledge of countries, continents and oceans to end our topic. We hope you enjoy watching our video as much as we enjoyed making it!

Year 6 - Maths: Arithmetic Questions

Today in maths we did our arithmetic a little bit differently. Instead of working independently, we worked in pairs to work through arithmetic questions. We had to discuss the questions and agree on an answer. When we’d finished we had to compare our answers with another pair and any answers...

WOW Day in Year 1TK

Year 1 have been learning about 'Who and what is in my world?'. To end their topic the children had Wow Day! 1TK had lots of fun being creative and making a shoe box world of their local area. They worked in groups to create different parts of their local area. Using a range of materials...

Year 1 - 1S Jolly Christmas Postman Artwork

In 1S, we have been very busy with all things Christmas and have absolutely loved reading the story of the Jolly Christmas Postman! During Art, we sketched one of our favourite pages from the book - 1S are incredible artists, they were concentrating very hard on their artwork as you can see in this...

Year 4 - Angle Investigations

We made our own angles then identified the types of angles in Kandinsky's work. We know that angles are made of intersecting lines so we collaboratively identified those on our tables

Year 4 - Information Posters

Today (13-12-2019) the children in year used their Science knowledge and their learning from their Science lessons, to help them to create an information poster all about our teeth. They included the key features in their posters and worked with their peers

Spanish - Español: Autumn Term Summary.

“FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PRÓSPERO AÑO NUEVO! = Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! -Y4 & Y2 worked on using more Spanish with their teachers and their classmates to follow instructions and to talk to each other. They had a great time playing bingo and many other games. - Y4 learnt...

History Projects

What inspiring children we have at Daubeney! Over the holidays whilst most of us were feasting and relaxing, our children set about independently researching their history topic for the Spring term. They presented their findings in the most creative ways, from sculptures and painting to computer...

The Junior Art Team

We are very pleased to introduce ourselves to you. We are the Junior Art Team. We are in Years 2 to 6 and are very excited to get under way with lots of plans and projects over the year! We met this week to decide what we want to do and to think about why we do it. We asked ourselves why the arts...

RE Day in Year 3

Today was RE day at Daubeney and year 3 were learning all about Judaism. They learnt what the main beliefs of Judaism are, their place of worship and the festivals that are celebrated. In the afternoon, they created their very own Judaism inspired masterpieces. In the pictures below, you will see...

Year 4 - RE Day

The children in Year 4 studied Christianity as part of their Religious Education session. The children read stories from the Bible, identified key features of a church, Stain glass art work and understood the main teaching from the Bible

Year 3 - Celebrating Your Work

Hello Yr 3 (& 4!), I can see that you’ve been very busy on the Busy Things website. Here’s a selection of your wonderful work. Don’t forget to keep checking the assignments page-we’re setting tasks and are enjoying seeing your work. I hope you are all keeping well &...

Art Time with Miss Patel - Humbug Illusions Pattern

As requested, here is the tutorial video on how to create the Humbug illusions pattern. Enjoy! Don't forget to sent your artwork to admin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk so that we can feature your work in our virtual assembly

Year 4 - Wow Day: Crayon Resist

For Wow Day in Year 4, we learnt about the technique of crayon wax resist where you draw something in crayon and paint over it. We were able to create amazing artwork of Mount Everest as a result

4S Art & DT: To Create Patterns on Textile

4S focusing on different patterns used on Indian textiles. They used these patterns and added their own designs to create wonderful pieces of work!

Art Team Easter Competition

Take part in this years Young Artists Summer Show, presented by the Royal Academy of Arts. Submit a piece of artwork based on any theme, using any materials to admin@daubeney.hackney.sch.uk by the 21st April for submission into the competition. For more information, visit the Royal Academy website

Year 4 - 4M: Peer Tutor Award

In 4M today. 14 - 05- 2021. our young peer tutor received a personalized award for supporting and developing Maths with his peers. Our young peer tutor worked hard to help his peers develop their arithmetic skills and Maths knowledge. Well done to our young STAR!

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!

Nurture Group - Year 1 - Graduation Party

Today we are delighted to celebrate one of our nurture students graduating back to class full time. She has been a delight to work with and we will miss her vibrant caring personality in the nurture room

Year 6 - WOW Day

In year 6 we have been studying rivers. On WOW Day we designed and built our very own bridge. In the afternoon we took part in a scavenger hunt. We had to work together as a team and stay focused to make sure we were successful

Mental Health - Staff Well-being Week 2021

In Summer 1, week 6, Daubeney 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...

Nurture Group - Music With Mr O'Flyn

After our keyboard session in nurture Mr O'Flyn took us to play the big piano in the hall. We were lucky enough to see how the piano works and experiment the high and low notes. The children really enjoyed seeing how the hammers worked inside of a piano

Nurture Group - Maths: Money

In maths we are learning about money. We created a supermarket so we can go shopping and buy some groceries. We worked in a group. One of us was a customer and the other a shopkeeper. We chose what to buy then paid with the right amount of coins

Superhero Day in Year 2

What amazing people we have in our lives. From our nans to our dads and our sisters. From the scientists who created the vaccine to the NHS workers who have helped us so much. Thank you and you are our heroes!

Year 5 – Spanish - Antonio Gaudí. Trencadis technique

As part of a series of cross curricular lessons, year 5 have explored the famous Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi’s life and work, and created their own artwork inspired by the architect. Trencadís is an artistic method popularised by Gaudi. It is a mosaic-like effect, achieved by cementing together...

First Days in Year 5

We have had so much fun in our first two days back after the summer break! We’ve already begun working on our maths and we’ve submitted our entries for the logo completions for our new federation name “The Blossom Federation”. We’re very happy to be back!

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

Anti-Bullying Week 2021 - One Kind Word

Daubeney enjoyed spreading 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...

Mental Health Parent Workshop - 12th October 2021

... Lamprogianni lead our Parent Workshop. We discussed the WAMHS project and how she supports in our school. She also discussed the importance of looking after our mental health. Please see below Vana’s presentation. There will be another Workshop on the 9th November at 9am, this will focus on behav...

Year 6 - 6M Poetry Workshop

Today, 15th October 2021, the children in Year 6M had a wonderful poetry session led by Donna Powell, who is an artist, songwriter and poet. The children with links to Black History Month enjoyed the session with creative ideas to use to create their own poem/rap or song

Year 5 - Maths: Making Graphs

Today we made bar graphs and created questions about the data that we collected yesterday. "It was really fun because we all worked together to create our graphs and questions" - Elijah "I really liked making graphs today because maths is my favourite subject" - Rachel

Year 3 - Wow Day: Should We Worry About the Rainforest?

Year 3 had a fantastic WOW day! The children have been working to answer the overarching question...SHOULD WE WORRY ABOUT THE RAINFOREST? They prepared to go on a protest! They got placards and speeches ready. Yes, that's right! They went to save the RAINFORESTS!

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...

Year 4 - Poetry Workshop

Today, Thursday 18th March 2021, the children in Year 4 enjoyed a virtual Poetry session led by Adisa Stephen Ezeocha a poet and publisher. The children had fun with poems and rhymes

Ms Shaikh's Banana Bread Recipe

Hello everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful time playing, learning and creating at home! In my spare time I love to cook, so today I wanted to share one of my favourite recipes with you: banana bread! Hopefully my video will make it super easy to make some banana bread of your own, showing...

WOW Day in 1A

Year 1 have created 3D maps as part of our WOW day. We used a 2d map of the school to help us plan and create our 3D maps. We had lots of fun assembling pieces of paper together, cutting and sticking. We included features such as the school building, playground and the big slide in the KS1...

Year 4 - Spelling Test - 9th April 2020

Hi Year 4, Happy Easter and I hope you are having a lovely time. Here is this weeks spelling test! we know you have been working hard all week so good luck. The words for next week are on page 44 on the website . Stay safe, Year 4 team

Baller Boys Author Visit

To celebrate World Book Day (5th March 2020), Daubeney had a very special visit from Venessa Taylor, author of the book ‘Baller Boys’ which is based on our late Coach Reece and his football team. The children got to learn about the characters, hear an exclusive extract from the story and take part...

Prefect Applications for 2020-21

Job starts in September - applications accepted from Year 5 only A prefect is appointed by the Executive Headteacher on the recommendation of the Senior management team and other staff. It is expected that prefects will follow and demonstrate the Daubeney Standards in their everyday lives. Position...

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 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...

Year 3 - Maths: Multiplication

Today in maths Year 3 have been learning about multiplication. We started by using repeated addition. The children used place value counters and charts to show their work

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

WOW Day in 1L

1L had lots of fun for Wow Day! We started by practising following directions - left, right, forwards, backwards. We loved playing Simon Says! Then we went for a walk around the school using a map to guide us. We thought about the direction we had to turn to find the next place on the map, and...

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 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 Maths

In Year 1 we have been exploring the part-part-whole model recently. We have used it to help us add numbers and subtract numbers. We worked hard to complete whole fact families using the model!

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...

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...

Year 6 - African Drum and Dance Workshop

Year 6 have been busy with an African drum and dance workshop as led by Miss Harley and Mr. Aaron

Learning Mentors Excellence Award - Autumn Term 2020

6S Winners Has won the award for working extremely hard to turn his behaviour around and being a positive influence and example in his year group. Has won the award for improving her behaviour over a long period of time and maintaining a high standard, by following the golden expectations at all...

Year 5 - British Science Week 2021

This week is British Science Week and we have been doing lots! On Monday, we had a virtual electricity workshop and used balloons to learn about static electricity. On Tuesday, we built our own mini rockets and went outside to test them. We've been having lots of fun!

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 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 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!

The Nest - Putting Sand in the Reception Playground

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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 3 - Black History Workshop 2025

Year 3 had fun learning about Black History with Immediate Theatre Company. We used drama to celebrate diversity in our class and learn about different aspects of Black culture such as food

Year 2 - Black History Month Drumming

To celebrate Black History Month, we had an incredible visitor who came in to lead a drumming assembly and he even did a workshop for us where we each had our own drums and we drummed along to his beat

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

Rainbow - Autumn Vocabulary Learning

Pupils were exploring fantastic learning about autumn vocabulary and oracy by being introduced to new words related to this season. Some pupils were able to look at the autumn-related illustrations on the worksheets and talk to each other about who they saw, what they saw, etc. Then, with the...

Rainbow - Letters, Fingers Writing and CVC Learning

We had so much fun exploring literacy in our learning! The children enjoyed using the colorful sequence mats to create various marks and letters with their fingers, helping to develop early mark-making, letter formation, and fine motor skills. Also, were also fully engaged in practicing how to...

Year 4 - Brain Buddies workshop

The children today continued their Brain Buddies workshops where they explored choices and how their brain reacts to different choices and actions

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 2 - Maths: Column Method Addition

To introduce ourselves to the idea of column method addition, we spent the lesson representing this using our dienes and working in pairs. We are beginning to look at what column method means

Rainbow Room - Autumn Maths Learning

Wow! We Have Fantastic Mathematicians. Our pupils had a fantastic time exploring autumn-themed maths activities! They practised number formation on the interactive board and enjoyed tracing numbers on pumpkins and acorns in their worksheets. This supported their number recognition and helped...

Year 5 & 6 Cross Country League

Well done to all our fantastic Year 5 and 6 pupils who took part in the recent cross-country competition! Every runner showed incredible determination, teamwork, and resilience as they tackled the challenging course

Year 4 Science - The Digestive System

The children discussed and identified the main parts of the digestive system. then they looked at the functions of each part. with this knowledge they created their information posters all about the digestive system and how it works

Year 5/6 Boy's & Girl's - Hackney Football Competition

The Year 5/6 enthusiastically took part in local Hackney football tournament. Showcasing great teamwork and sportsmanship, Unfortunately both team got knocked out of the semi-finals but was extremely proud of the children accomplishment

KS1 - Lego Club

Today, KS1 children in the Lego Club worked together to build their very own Santa’s Grotto out of Lego

Year 4 - Group Maths 2025

The children enjoyed working in groups today completing their maths and solving reasoning problems

Cross Country League Match 3

Daubeney Pupils from year 5/6 groups showcased impressive stamina as they raced across the challenging course, cheering one another on and celebrating each achievement. It was a fantastic day of sport, teamwork and school spirit. We are incredibly proud of all the children who took part

Nursery - Working together to build

We have been working together and building our own ramps and tracks to create paths

School Council Meeting - January 2026

The School Council recently met with Mr. Warren to share updates on their committees’ work since being elected and to outline their plans for the future. During the meeting, the Council had the opportunity to learn more about Mr. Warren’s experiences growing up, his journey to becoming...

Rainbow Room - Shapes Tracing and Colouring

Pupils explored 2D shapes like circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles on the interactive board, showing focus and independence while colouring, tracing, and drawing. In an adult-led activity, they traced and coloured shapes on large paper to create drawings. Then, pupils used the activity...

Rainbow - Fun Attention Activity

Our pupils had a magical learning experience that captured their attention and fostered teamwork. Sitting eagerly on their chairs, they worked together to guess sensory toys that were shown to them from the attention bucket. Each toy sparked curiosity and excitement while helping the children...

Rainbow Class: Writing and Phonics

Our Rainbow Class pupils have been very busy and dedicated as they practised their handwriting. They worked on writing simple CVC words in their learning books and explored mark‑making through dot‑to‑dot activities to develop fine motor skills and correct pencil grip for accurate letter formation....

Year 2 - Great Fire of London WOW Day

To finish our learning about the Great Fire of London, we spent the morning making our own Tudor Houses. We thought about the designs we wanted to make with timber beams and worked collaboratively with a group. In the afternoon we watched as all the houses burned down just like in 1666!

Year 5 - IntoUniversity: Astronomy

What is it like to study at university? What kinds of classes do they have? We explored the types of lessons university students might have by learning about astronomy. We took part in a variety of activities and worked with a team!

Daubeney Art Exhibition!

On Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th May, we are holding a whole school art exhibition, and you're invited!! It is taking place in the KS1 hall at 3.45! Come along to see your child's artwork, have a few snacks and take part in a few activities

Parent Art Workshop - REC/KS1

...sday, we hosted an Art Parent Workshop for our Reception and KS1 cohorts. The children and their carers enjoyed taking part in a range of different art activities including bracelet making, collaging, painting, air dry clay and making paper plate fish! We look forward for our next Workshop!...

Year 1 - Family phonics workshop 2024/25

...t attended the Family Phonics Workshop this year. We hope that this has been useful and that you are feeling confident in supporting your child with reading and phonics now. Here are a few photos to highlight what we have been doing....

Year 3 - Kingfisher: Exploring the Zones of Regulations

Kingfisher had an interesting workshop today learning and exploring the Zones of Regulations. Their workshop was lead by a doctor in this field and they completed their own booklet demonstrating their knowledge and understanding surrounding the Zones of Regulations

Whole School Art Exhibition - May 2025

On Monday and Tuesday, we held our Whole School Art Exhibition where we celebrated the art of all the children at Daubeney. Each year group were given an artist as inspiration and were asked to create a self-portrait based on this artist. The results were amazing! If you would like to purchase your...

Year 5 - ELWP Circular Economy Workshop

East London Waterworks Park came to visit us and teach us about the benefits of circular economy. We created our own circular economy designs for the park, which may be turned to life!

Team Point Winners!

In Daubeney Primary School, students are awarded points for working as a team, meeting the Golden Expectations and always aspiring to achieve their best. This year, YELLOW TEAM amassed the most points.  On Wednesday 25th June 2025, Reception and KS1 Yellow team will be spending the day at Adventure...

Rainbow Room - Our Body and Senses

As part of our PHSE and Science curriculum, students have the opportunity to learn about their bodies by naming and identifying various body parts through worksheets, interactive games, and coloring activities. They are encouraged to identify familiar body parts on their own bodies, such as eyes,...

Year 5 - Mapping Day

Year 5 recently took part in a fantastic full-day workshop focused on developing their mapping skills. The children explored a wide range of maps and learned how to read them using keys, symbols, and directional language. They were fascinated to discover how maps can tell stories and help us...

Nurture Group - Art work inspired by Giacometti

Year 3 - Kingfisher: Art

The children in Kingfisher class enjoyed their outdoor art session inspired by Anthony Goldsworthy. the children used mostly natural resources to create their art work

Year 3 - Creating Drawings using Chalk

In today’s lesson, we took our learning outdoors and used chalk to create drawings on the KS2 playground. Around our artwork, we wrote adjectives inspired by our fortnightly focus book, Chalk

Year 3 Art - Andy Goldsworthy

In today's art lesson, we have been learning about Andy Goldsworthy. Today, we went outside and took pictures of our sculptures. We used buttons as rocks and wooden sticks to create our artwork

SEND PE - Autumn 2025

"The SEN pupil's completed their first PE lesson. They actively participated in all activities and were always willing to take on challenges during the session. Keep up the excellent work!"

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!

Year 5 and 6 - Boys first federation match

Everyone enjoyed themselves and were able to work together as a team

Rainbow Room - Letters Learning

Pupils had a fantastic time exploring letters through engaging fine motor skill activities! They practiced forming letters on the interactive board and completed letter formation worksheets with enthusiasm. Some children were actively involved in matching letters in alphabetical order, while others...

KS1 - Lego Club

Children from Reception to Year 2 had a fantastic time at Lego Club, working together in small groups to design their very own Lego Hotel. Their creativity really shone through as some pupils built unique and stylish features such as hotel buildings, swimming pools, aqua parks, car parks, and...

Year 4 Maths - Peer Tutoring

Year 4 classes are working together to improve their mathematical skills. Peer tutoring is a great way to make sure concepts are embedded in the minds of everyone

Rainbow Class - Learning Subtraction

Our pupils have been working hard to develop their early math's skills through practical subtraction activities. Using counters and number worksheets, the children explored how numbers become smaller when objects are taken away

Rainbow Room: Human Body Learning

As part of our Science and PSHE learning, pupils explored the human body, beginning with singing their favourite song “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes” with actions to support identifying the names of different body parts. Then, pupils were using an interactive board to match facial and...

Rainbow Class: Big Draw Day

Our pupils enjoyed a fun and engaging Big Draw Day! Pupils were able to express their artistic skills using crayons and felt tips by creating expressive mark-making drawings. Even, pupils explored different patterns, lines, and shapes by showing creativity and confidence in their artwork

Rainbow Class: Colorful Hands

We had so much fun creating colourful hands! Pupils explored making their own handprints on a range of different textures, using both primary and secondary colours. They enjoyed experimenting with colour mixing, discovering how new colours can be created by mixing colours together. The activity...

Year 5: Wow Day - Windrush

Year 5 had an exciting WOW Day learning all about the Windrush generation as part of their History topic! During one of the activities, the children explored the work of a famous artist linked to Caribbean culture and created their own vibrant artwork, using bold colours and patterns to reflect the...

Rainbow Class - Human Life Cycle & Needs / Human Body

As part of Science and PSHE, pupils learned to identify and name parts of the human body. They were able to find, match, and write body part names on worksheets using a labelled human body diagram. Pupils demonstrated understanding by pointing to and naming most body parts independently. In...

Year 4 - Hornbills at Intouniversity

The children in Hornbill class had a fun session learning all about different and exciting careers with the Intouniversity team. Next year, they will continue to have workshops exploring more career options in the future

Rainbow Room - Art: WOW Day

WOW! As part of ART WOW DAY, our pupils immersed themselves in a vibrant dot painting activity, exploring creativity through colour, pattern, and design. With great enthusiasm, they carefully used colourful dots to create beautiful artworks, developing their concentration, fine motor skills, and...

Rainbow Class - Exploring Subtraction (Maths)

Pupils were able to explore simple subtraction problem-solving activities by counting objects, crossing out the required number, and identifying how many remained by using a house-themed. They were able to select and match the correct numeral on the door, window, roof and other parts of the house...

Year 2 - History: WOW Day

To end our Great Fire of London topic, we made our own Tudor houses and burned them! It was a little sad because we put in a lot of hard work but this helped us learn a bit about how the people of 1666 felt when they lost their homes!

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...

Rainbow Class - Planting Fun & Plants Life Cycle (Science)

As part of the science and sustainability learning, our pupils did enjoyed learning about about how plants grow. We explored the life cycle of a plant and learned the correct order: seed → root → shoot → plant → flower → new seeds. Using visual pictures and sequencing...

Rainbow Class: Maths (Shapes)

As part of our Maths learning, pupils explored a variety of 2D shapes through engaging shape-identification worksheets and matching activities. Pupils practised recognising, naming, and colouring different shapes using a colour code, including circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, pentagons, and...

The Nest - Volcano Science Experiment

The children in Nurture were really excited to try a volcano experiment they had seen online. We explored the experiment together, and the children loved watching the volcano erupt! It was a fun, hands-on way to encourage their curiosity, excitement and interest in exploring how things work

Happy DLD Awareness Day!

Today, Rainbow Class proudly took part in Developmental Language Disorder Awareness Day. Throughout the day, children enthusiastically took part in a range of engaging activities, including language games, matching pictures and words , creative colourful posters. It was inspiring to see pupils...

Lego visitors

Representatives from LEGO recently visited us, working with our Y4/5 and our Y3 classes. Children enjoyed a hands-on experience that encouraged creativity, imagination and problem-solving. Through play, pupils explored the many exciting opportunities LEGO offers, developing teamwork, communication...

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...

Lego Club - Farm & Countryside

In the Lego Club, children were engaged working in small groups by making their farms and countryside using lego

Year 2 - Story telling workshop

We were lucky enough to take part in a fun workshop where we listened to a story. We even got to take part in telling the story through role-play

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 4 Hornbills at The Urswick Secondary school

Firstly, a huge thank you to The Urswick School for inviting our year 4 hornbill class for a wonderful art lesson. The children learnt about a specific artist and discussed his work and drew ideas and inspiration from his works. Then, the children used a range of different resources to create their...

Rainbow Room - Art from 1970s

As part of our Arts Curriculum, pupils engaged in creating fantastic artwork by exploring and experimenting with a range of art materials. They demonstrated creativity, curiosity, and confidence as they used different techniques and resources to produce imaginative pieces. Pupils have learned about...

Rainbow Class - Spring 1 Term 2026

WOW! We have been so busy during Spring 1 Term with lots of fantastic learning and our work is now presented on the display boards

Rainbow Room - Teddy Bear Maths

1, 2, 3 — let’s count! Our pupils enjoyed a maths learning experience where they explored numbers through hands-on activities. Using concrete objects such as teddy bears, the pupils developed their counting skills and deepened their understanding of number representation. They practised adding...

Year 3 - DT

Year 3 demonstrated creativity and engineering skills as they constructed their own catapults using lolly sticks. They used their Design and Technology learning on linkages and levers to explain how the mechanical element created movement. A fun combination of problem‑solving, teamwork, and...

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 5 - Wow Day - Spring 2026

It was truly a Wow Day to remember! Year 5 spent the day exploring mechanisms—recapping what they are, how they work, and why they’re used. To finish, they designed and built their own mechanical systems. Using their knowledge, they created pulley systems with the goal of cleaning the...

Rainbow Room - WOW DAY

It was a fantastic WOW Day! Pupils showed great creativity as they used light food‐dye colours mixed with water to paint their own geometric shapes, by carefully creating bright and colorful patterns on each piece. They experimented with how the colours blended and enjoyed making their artwork...

Rainbow Room - Maths (Measure)

Using Numicon Cubes, pupils measured a range of objects by placing the cubes next to them and comparing their sizes. This hands‐on approach helped pupils see which items were taller, shorter, longer, or smaller. They pupils recorded their measurements on their worksheets by using Numicon Cubes to...

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 2 - Maths: Division sharing

To help us understand how to divide by sharing, we worked with our partners share out numbers equally on our whiteboards

Year 4 Nightingales visit Urswick

Today, the Nightingales visited Urswick Secondary School to take part in a fantastic art session led by one of the school’s art teachers. The students explored their creativity by creating artwork inspired by William Morris and had a wonderful time experimenting with patterns and designs,...

Year 3 - Ministry of Stories

...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 characters, settings, and plot ideas before ...

Nurture Group - Our Busy and Baking Adventures

Here are some of the highlights of what we’ve been up to- We worked together, waited our turn, supported one another, and celebrated each small success

Year 3 - Volcanoes Wow Day

Year 3 had an exciting WOW Day all about volcanoes! The children loved experimenting with watercolours to create vibrant volcano artwork, using straws to blow the paint and make dramatic lava‑splash effects. They also had great fun building their own mini volcano models and watching them erupt with...

Rainbow Class - Using Coins

As part of mathematics learning, pupils took part in practical activities to explore the use and value of coins, helping to develop their understanding of money. Pupils used concrete resources, including coins and numericons, to support counting skills and reinforce number recognition from 1 to 20....

Rainbow Room - Builders

The pupils had great fun and showed high levels of enjoyment while creating towers of different sizes. They explored measurement vocabulary such as small, big, short, and tall while working collaboratively in small groups to build their own colorful towers

UCL Eco Schools Workshop

Year 2 - Great Fire of London Trip

We were lucky enough to do a workshop with some amazing story tellers from Temple Bar. We got to handle objects, draw using a quill, dress up and even go on a walk to see the locations of the great fire

Year 4 Maths - Fractions and Decimals

"Today we had so much fun enjoying our learning. We now understand how to work with hundredths as fractions and decimals. Some parts were challenging but we love challenges in Hornbills class."

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

The highlight of this spring 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...

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

Year 4 sound investigation - March 2024

Year 4 had fun making string telephones to investigate how sound travels to our ears. Watch the videos to hear use explain how it works

Family Phonics Workshop - Autumn 1 & 2

A big thank you to all the parents that attended the family phonics workshop in Autumn term! We focused on phase 2 phonics, looking at pronunciation of sounds and how words can be segmented and blended. We joined in with a range of phonics games and had fun reading CVC words using our phase 2...

Year 6 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day

Lesson 1: For our first lesson this Mapping Day we first recapped all that we have learned before, including the 8 points in a compass to how to read a map. We then looked at globes and how to read globes. On our maps, we identified the 7 continents, lines of latitude such as the Tropics of...

Year 6 – DT: Evaluate

In this lesson, we evaluated our prototypes! We first discussed what is evaluation and why we should evaluate. We then discussed the tools and materials we used, problems we encountered, what went well and more! We then completed an evaluating sheet with our group after discussing each question and...

Year 6 – Science: Natural History Museum

...evidence of change over time Worked with specimens to find out why these changes occur Explored how Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection is the mechanism behind these changes. Discovered a real-life example of evolution, happening today, based on research from the Museum scientists ...

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...

Venessa Taylor Author Visit

KS2 had the amazing opportunity to meet 'Baller Boys' author Venessa Taylor. She ran an exciting workshop with each year group which involved fun activities, hearing her read a chapter of the book and answer the children's questions. Some lucky children even got signed copies of the...

Sav Akyuz Author Visit

KS1 had the amazing opportunity to meet 'Bear Moves' author Sav Akyuz. He ran a fun, interactive workshop with Year 1 and 2 children full of energy and laughs. After giving a brief introduction to his work as a writer, and illustrator, he created an imaginary character with the help of the...

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

Reception: Duckling Class - Wild Wild West Drama Workshop

On Tuesday, we were so lucky to have a drama workshop! We were in the Wild Wild West! We had to act as different animals found in the Wild Wild West such as horses and dogs. When the Sheriff came, we had to pretend to be statues! 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

Family Phonics Workshop Spring 2024

...t attended the Family Phonics Workshop in spring term. Your support is very much appreciated. So far we've covered phase 2, 3 and 4 phonics and have engaged in lots of fun activities to help our pupils with their reading. We can't wait to see you in the Summer term where we will look at phas...

Science Exposé

During our science exposé workshop, Daubeney parents came in to share with us their fascinating careers, working in a science related (STEAM) sector. Children from different year groups enjoyed learning about and exploring careers from different fields. In the end, we all learnt that Science is in...

Year 2 - Literacy: Explore the characters

We have done lots of fun work recently exploring the characters in our story. We made posters for role on the wall, allowing us to think of adjectives to describe the characters inner and outer personality, as well as making our own character puppets

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 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 - Great Fire of London WOW Day

Today we had lots of fun bringing together all of our learning from the last half term. We worked in groups to make Tudor Houses, thinking carefully about the colours of the walls and the patterns of the timber beams. We also decorated windows and added thatch to the top! In the afternoon, we set...

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...

Year 4 - Spring 1 Wow Day

Year 4 had a very exciting Wow Day. We started by sketching our ideas then presenting our ideas to a panel of Dragons (Mr Dharma and Ms Gustave)! After that, we worked in groups to build our games, selecting from a range of tools and materials. We included an electrical component. Then we got to...

Year 5 - science: how does gravity work?

Year 5 used computers to research about gravity and how it impacts the environment around us. Using the information they discovered, they produced posters containing facts and amazing designs

Year 5 and Year 6 - First Two Spanish Lessons

Busy first couple of Spanish lessons for children at Daubeney! Yr5 and Yr6 explored different memory techniques for retaining information, while learning new words, and explored the mile-long list of cognates that English and Spanish share. And you, could you work out the meaning on any of the...

Year 1 - 1TK Class Assembly: Little Red Riding Hood

1TK have worked really hard on their class assembly this week. Our assembly was about Little Red Riding Hood. We created a short trailer for our assembly using iMovie. We acted out the scenes and then put it into the trailer. We had lots of fun singing 'Stay on the Path'. We hope you...

Year 2 Poetry

This half term year 2 are exploring poetry in Literacy. We have looked at poems by Michael Rosen and watched videos of him reciting some of them. We read through some of his work, chose our favourite poem and then performed to the class

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...

Gardening Afterschool Club

The gardening club began by introducing the important rules to children when it comes to using the school garden, for instance listening to each other, working in teams, being safe when using tools, taking respectful care of plants, fruits and vegetables etc so this was well followed by all the...

Year 3 - Maths September 2023

The children in Year 3 Kingfisher and Toucan Class had an exciting Maths lesson today. The children worked in groups and pairs and had a peer tutor to guide them

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

Year 5: cross curricular - Human geography in Tanzania

Year 5 spent their afternoon researching human geography in Tanzania. They used Chromebooks to search for settlement patterns, main trade, economy and tourism. All the information was collated, and in their groups, they presented their findings to the class. It was a fun opportunity for kids to...

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 - WOW Day Autumn 1 2023

Year 2 had so much fun on WOW day for Autumn 1! We recapped all of our learning about the world, and worked as a team to create our own climate scenes. We chose from either a tropical or polar climate, and thought about the plants you'd find there as well as the animals. We used lots of recycled...

Reception - Duckling Class - Week 2

...e had a fantastic Road Safety Workshop where a visitor came in to talk to us about how to safely cross the road. We had so much fun and learnt so much! We had a visit from Nova, our federation dog! This is the first time we have met Nova, and look forward to seeing her again next week! We also have ...

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 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...

Year 2 - Road Safety Workshop

Today year 2 had a special visitor in class to talk to us about road safety. We thought about different types of vehicles you would find on the road, where to find a safe place to cross the road, and what we should do when crossing

Year 3 - Anti Bullying Week 2023

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

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...

Year 4 - Science Experiment

Today Year 4 did an experiment to help us understand how the digestive system works. We were able to identify the parts and the functions of the digestive system and had lots of fun learning all about how our food becomes waste

Year 3 – Spanish: Autumn Term Singing

Over the past four months students in Year 3 have worked hard practising key structures to be able to greet people, ask and answer questions about their names, age and wellbeing. Singing provides rhyme and repetition, and allows children to make connections between letters and sounds. There is a...

Year 1 - Shine star Shine!

Year 1 performed brilliantly for our nativity show. They have been working hard to remember their lines, made wonderful costumes and hats and sang beautifully!

Year 5 - Sacred text workshop at the British Library

On their R.E. day, Year 5 students attended a workshop on sacred texts at the British Library. Furthermore, they got to witness various holy books, unique clothing, and objects associated with a certain faith

Year 2 - Literacy: Extra Yarn

To start off our Summer 2 literacy work, we read the book 'Extra Yarn' as part of our whole school book fortnight. We spent time exploring the narrative by working together to retell the story using the main points. We then imagined what it would be like to be one of the characters, and...

Year 2 - Compare Numbers

We worked with a partner to compare numbers using the greater than and less than symbols. We were able to identify the number, represent it using dienes and then select the correct symbol to compare them

Year 6 - Hawks & Eagles: Science - Circuit and Voltage Experiment

...g on the voltage it is given. Working scientifically, we carried out our investigation, focussing on the brightness of the bulb as our controlled variables, we used different voltages and expanding the circuit to see how it affects the brightness of the bulb, we also added an extra bulb to see if it...

Year 4 - Wow Day

We designed our own games working in teams and then presented our ideas to the Dragons whom we wanted to invest in our projects

Year 4 - Hornbills - Working with circuits and electricity.

They wanted to investigate whether a piece of foil can replace the wires in a circuit

Year 4 - RE Day

During RE day, Hornbill class learnt about the life of Saint Francis. We were inspired by his poem 'Canticle of the Sun' and worked collaborative to write our own class poem 'The World, My World'. Listen to us perform our poem

Year 2 trip to the Science Museum

We had so much fun on a trip to the Science Museum recently. We explored a range of aeroplanes and thought about how they had changed over the years. We discussed the materials they were/are made from and looked at miniature versions that were used in the design process. We then had a great time...

Year 5 - Mental Health Workshop

We took part in a mental health workshop where we learnt about what mental health was. We discussed how to have good mental health as well as how to handle situations that can cause us to have bad mental health

Rainbow Room - Heart Tree

The children in the Rainbow Room have excitedly designed their very own Valentine's Heart Tree, engaging in a creative activity that involved using a variety of textured papers. They explored different types of paper, including both hard and soft textures, to give their artwork an added sensory...

Rainbow Room - Valentine's Day Phonics

The children in the Rainbow Room were actively engaged in a fun Valentine's Day Phonics activity, where they focused on learning the sounds of letters in various words featured on Valentine’s Word Hearts. They worked on matching these words with corresponding word puzzles, helping them to...

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 - Mental Health Workshop

The children in Kingfisher class had an exciting workshop today talking all about children’s mental health

DT Wow Day - Spring 2025

Over spring, we have been super busy working through our DT topic. Each year group had a specific task and have worked hard to plan a product and then create the product/prototype

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...

Rainbow Room: Surprise Day

As part of our wonderful learning journey, we were pleasantly surprised with a special treat! We were given colouring sheets and stickers as a reward for our incredible determination and effort in our learning. It was such a fun and exciting way to celebrate our hard work!

Rainbow Room - Blocks Play

Ayyad and Benjamin were having an absolute fun as they transformed the room into a colourful and exciting mess, using blocks to build towers of all shapes and sizes. Each tower was uniquely crafted with different colored blocks, making every creation stand out even more. It was a joy to witness...

Year 4 Hornbills' Trip to Ministry of Stories

Hornbill Class had an amazing time at the Ministry of Stories. We worked with an author and an illustrator to create the opening of a story as a class. We then had the opportunity to get creative and add our own ideas to finish the story. Our story was published for us to take home. We were so...

Year 3 Toucan - Great Gases

We attended a science workshop about Great Gases, where we explored the properties and effects of liquid nitrogen, observed how electricity moves, and examined the way heat rises

Year 5 - British Science Week Workshop

We learnt about the states of matter through fun experiments during British Science Week! We had fun learning using dry ice! We even attempted to make our own ice cream!

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 5 - Computing Workshop

Today, Mr Power from Sebright taught us about coding by using these mini computers called microbits! We learnt how to set them up and made our microbits show our name and even sing us a song!

Tenerife adventures III

Early start to head to school where we had the chance to visit the school’s facilities and learn about how schools work in Spain. One of the Year 5 groups we are working with celebrated their sharing assembly so we watched them performing Le Petit Prince story in Spanish. After exploring the Canary...

Year 2 - Money

To finish our money topic, we explored finding amounts of change. We worked with a partner to pretend to buy classroom items. The shopkeeper told the buyer how much it would cost, the buyer used appropriate coins to pay for it, and then the shopkeeper had to work out how much to give back

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 - 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!

A Musical Collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra

We were delighted to welcome musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra for an inspiring visit. During their time with us, our Year 6 students worked together to create a unique piece of music inspired by Mars from Gustav Holst’s The Planets. This visit is part of our ongoing partnership...

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 - Maths Partitioning

For this maths lesson, we took our learning outside. We worked in partners to partition a number into its tens and ones. We then wrote out number sentences down on our whiteboards and thought about other ways we could partition the number

Year 2 - World of the Story

As part of our immersion into the story of The Magic Bojabi Tree, we investigated the setting of the book. We thought about where the mountains were located in relation to the trees, and identified where lion's rock would be, given that it was a long journey from the bojabi tree. We mapped it...

Year 5 - Maths: Subtraction

We practiced subtraction today in maths and even completed some word problems! Look at our amazing work!!

Creative Hub - Autumn Displays 2024

The children all through Daubeney have been getting very creative this half-term to show off what they have been learning. Displays in school are a great way for the children to show what they have been working on this half-term, in a fun and creative way. It is a great 'snapshot' of our...

Year 2 - Geography WOW Day: Climate

For the end of our Geography topic, we had lots of fun making a climate scene. We chose either a polar or a tropical climate and thought carefully about which animals and plants you would find there. We worked collaboratively to make beautiful dioramas and could explain where our climate could be...

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

Year 1 - Parrot Class: RE Day - Christmas

During RE day we discussed why Christians celebrate Christmas. We acted out the Christmas story using props and costumes. We also created a lovely advent wreath and discussed what each candle on the wreath represents. Take a look at our lovely work!

Rainbow Room - Attention Bucket with Maths

As part of the Attention Bucket, the children had the opportunity to engage in a creative activity where they used 2D shapes to design and create their own shape stamps. Children worked together to figure out how to combine and position different shapes so this helped them practice spatial...

Year 3 - Multiplication and Division - Spring 2025

The children in Year 3 worked exceptionally well today consolidating their learning and methods to solve multiplication and division problems

Year 6 - Day 2 of Into Uni: Eagles Class

Today we had another brilliant day, we created portraits using watercolours and collage. We explored how the time you have to create an image changes the detail and content - what you think is important enough to include. We also continued to learn all about our three famous individuals - Jean-...

Kingfisher - Design and Technology

The children worked well today to create a moving linkage using a lever. They made flags that moved when a lever was pulled. The children enjoyed their Design and Technology session and are looking forward to their next session

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 5 - Maths: Multiplying 2 - digit numbers

To begin our topic of multiplication and division, we learnt about multiplying 2-digit numbers. As this was completely new to us, we worked in partners and practiced the method on large grid paper

Excellence in Music Award 2025

The Daubeney Music Department and our star pupil, Noah, have just received a prestigious award from the Mayor of Hackney, Caroline Woodley. On Tuesday night, Mr. Logan, Mr. Brian, and Noah attended a ceremony at the Hackney Empire to accept our certificate and a bursary worth £2,700. So, how did we...

Year 5 - Energy Sparks Workshop

Is our school energy efficient? This is what the Year 5s learn about during their workshop run by Energy Sparks

World Mental Health Day - 10th October 2019

...McHugh and our Family Support Worker, Nadia Collier. The parents and children then had an opportunity to participate in some fun activities....

Year 3 Recreate 'Alone in a Crowd'

After finding out about the artist Julian Opie, Year 3 created their own piece of art inspired by his work. It was interesting to see how one piece of art inspired so many different styles. It seems that the children are really developing their own unique artistic voice!

School Council Visit the Houses of Parliament

School Council visited the Houses of Parliament on 16th October 2019. They were taken on a tour, where they got to see and learn about the history and what happens in the Houses of Parliament. They got to watch MP’s debate in the House of Commons, Theresa May was there too. The School Council...

Welcome

A big welcome to the Daubeney Primary School website. I am the Executive Head Teacher of the Federation of Daubeney, Sebright and Lauriston Schools and Children Centres. These are very exciting schools to be a part of and we hope you enjoy learning about us in these pages and finding out about all...

School Councillors visit Credit Suisse

On Thursday 28th, the Year 5 and 6 School Councillors went to Credit Suisse, Canary Wharf, and took part in a video conference with James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy, East Harlem, NYC. The students shared collages of their favourite parts of their respective cities, and talked about what they...

Science Club - Circuits

Science club had lots of fun today learning about different types of circuits! The children tried to get a motor, a buzzer and a switch to work all at the same time using a parallel circuit

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...

Talking About Emotions Workshop

...Talking about Emotions’ Workshop. Parents had the opportunity to hear from our CAMHs Worker and family support who discussed the importance of mental health and how they can support their children. The children were invited to participate in activities with their parents. The parents and child...

Talking Mental Health Annimation

Mental health problems affect about 1 in 10 children and young people. this includes depression, anxiety and conduct disorder, and are often a direct response to what is happening in their lives. 70% of children and young people who experience a mental health problem have not had appropriate...

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...

WE Day 2019

As part of our Safer communities initiative the learning mentors took a group of year 6 children to the SSE arena in Wembley for the WE Day event. There were 12,000 people in attendance at WE Day to celebrate all young people who are socially active, locally and globally and want to see change....

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...

Red Class - Fire Station Visit

...on the day....

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 Day - Author Visits

To celebrate World Book Day, Daubeney were visited by authors Tolulope Ogunmefun, Karen McCombie and Andrew Weale. The children enjoyed a very entertaining performance of Tolulope's book 'The Frog and His Dancing Shoes', an interactive workshop with Andrew Weale and an inspirational talk about how...

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 Jack and the Beanstalk Assembly

1L worked so hard for their class assembly today! They retold the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, and had fun singing songs

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 - 1P Work Week 2018

... lots 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 - 1T's Class Assembly: Growth Mindset

We had our class assembly on Thursday 7th February. We spoke about our SEAL topic for the term and we presented our cross curricular work. We enjoyed performing our songs for our friends and family. Thank you everyone for coming!

Year 1 - Big Draw: Paintings of Ambrosius Bosschaert

For Big Draw in Year 1 we looked at the still life paintings of Ambrosius Bosschaert. We used these as inspiration to make our own collaborative art work. We made flowers out of tissue paper, card and pipe cleaners, thinking carefully about the colours and design

Red Class - Journey to Africa

Red Class have been on a journey to Africa! We have enjoyed reading the story Handa’s Surprise and acting out the story. We have also been looking at African art and prints in textiles. We then created a patterned scarf for Handa using shapes. Red class also loved writing postcards pretending...

Red Class - African Art

We have been very busy creating some African art. We've been mixing colours to make orange and blending water colours such yellow and red to create a sunset effect. We have also been using our cutting skills to create a silhouette picture. Take a look at our lovely work. Which animals can you spot?

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!

Reception - Minibeasts Workshop

Reception have taken part in a great minibeast workshop! Miss Lillian from the ZooLab brought us great fun and surprises. The children got the opportunity to meet minibeasts from around the world. We met Fire the Millipede from Africa, Mr slimey the African land snail. We even met a cockroach from...

Phonics in Nursery

The children in Nursery love phonics! As you can see from the videos and photos, they have been working hard to identify and write initial sounds and name objects and pictures with the same sound. Some children can also read CVC words by segmenting and blending. In the video a child used his phonic...

Professor Brainwave visits Daubeney

...in deciding how to do it. The Workshops were fun, which encouraged children to join in, making it a FUN and memorable Mathematical experience for all! Simon (Professor Brainwave) had a fantastic rapport with the children....

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 - Launchpad for Language Parent Workshop

...e story prompts!...

Reception - Launchpad for Language Parent Workshop

Parents came and found out, how to support their children to learn new words. They even got to take home a free sock puppet

Reception - LaunchPad for Language Sock Puppet Workshop

...Pad for Language, sock puppet Workshop 28th November 2017 Some comments from our parents: Thank you so much for the Workshop, I really enjoyed it. If you have more Workshops that would be great. So much fun! Thanks. Thanks for a brilliant Alan the Alien puppet m...

Reception - Make Your Own Sock Puppet Workshop

Parents and children made an Alien Sock Puppet together. Parents learnt about what we will be doing in Reception this year to help with developing language and communication. The children and parent created wonderful puppets. Have a look

Reception - Red Class: Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Red class really enjoyed reading the story 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. We have been using props and resources to retell and explore the story further. We loved using different voices to retell the story. We used a deep loud voice for daddy bear, a squeaky voice for mummy bear and a...

Reception visit the V&A Museum of Childhood

Reception visited V&A Museum of Childhood 18th May 2016. Reception really enjoyed looking at different toy mechanisms around the Museum, many of our children dressed up, enjoyed the activities around the museum. Reception also took part in a puppet workshop. they learnt about different types of...

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

... a lovely 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!...

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 Easter Parade

We had a great time at the Easter Parade. The children hats were amazing. Thank you to all the parents who work with their children to make this such a fun event

Reception - Yellow Class Meet 'The Rainbow Fish'

Yellow have gone a journey through the sea and met 'The Rainbow Fish'. We have been learning all about what it is to be a good friend and treat others kindly. The children wrote about this as art of a literacy focus. Yellow Class have enjoyed taking part in creative activities drawing and...

Reception - Yellow Class Spring Sharing Assembly

Very pleased with all the children in Yellow Class for their hard work and effort to make their assembly a success. Mrs Addai is very proud of you all

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: Winter

We have had a great start to the year in Yellow Class we have a new role play area and it is a veterinary surgery. The children love it and are pretending to look after and treat animals. We have also been learning all about 'Winter'. The children learnt how to cut out snowflakes to put on...

Reception Hub Velo visit

Reception had a special 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...

Year 1 - Hilda Offen

Year 1 had an exciting visit from the author Hilda Offen . The children were eager to look at her books and were even more surprised when they found out she wrote and illustrated her own books. Hilda very kindly passed around storyboards and books of her work. The children got to experience being...

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...

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...

Year 3 - Solving Addition Problems using Partitioning

In Year 3 this morning (21st January 2019) we have been solving addition problems using partitioning. We proved that although we were working on the same problems using the same method, we were able to use different resources to check our work

Year 3 - Federation Maths Challenge 2017

A team of 5 pupils from each of the Year 3 classes took part in the event. They working through a variety of problem solving and reasoning activities collaboratively. They took part in relay races, cross-number puzzles and worked systematically through a variety of investigations. Daubeney did very...

Year 3 - Making Recycled Hats

Year 3 had lots of fun making hats from recycled material. They had a special visit from Eco Active Team to encourage the children to recycle. They were taught what things they can recycle in school and at home. They were put to a challenge to make recycled hats in 5mins. This was hardwork but Year...

Year 3 - Meditation

Have you ever felt tired, exhausted, stressed or worried? Well meditation helps you to calm your body and relax your mind. It allows you to reflect on your self and focus on your breathing and surroundings. It is proven that meditation helps you stay calm, improve your behaviour and focus during...

Year 3 - Mental Health Day

Year 3 have been exploring their emotions through art. They enjoyed looking at works of art from Picasso's Blue and Rose Period, noting their emotional responses to each piece of art and why they might feel that way. They commented that the art from his Blue Period was sombre and gloomy, which...

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 - Prehistoric Houses

After learning about the Stone Age through to the Iron Age, Year 3 dutifully collected rocks, sticks and other materials to independently make a variety of prehistoric houses. I was impressed by their creativity, critical thinking skills and teamwork. Well done Year 3!

Year 3 - Smarties Fractions

Today Year 3 used Smarties to work out the fraction of quantities. They counted all the Smarties from the tube to work out what the denominator was. They then counted how many Smarties there were of each colour and wrote their final answer in fraction form. Here are what a few children said about...

Year 3 - Weather Presenters

3G have spent the afternoon being weather presenters. They were learning about the difference between weather and climate.The children had to research their facts using fact cards and atlases. They worked with a partner sharing information

Year 3 - Chocolate Crazy, Learning Had

Wow! What a choco-tastic day of learning with MASTER Chocolatier Derek Smith the Year 3's have enjoyed. Where does the cocoa tree come from? Who invented the chocolate bar? What does a cocoa pod look and smell like? These were just some of the amazing facts we explored prior to creating our own...

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 3 - Work Week 2017

...es with each other....

Year 3 Maths Workshop

Year 3 took part in Maths workshop led by Mr Naidoo. The children were challenged through a series of activities to test their mathematical knowledge. They first of all began with a test of their times table where they had a set time to answer as many times table questions as they can. They later...

Year 3 visit the Cutty Sark

As part of Year 3’s topic on Pirates, they went on aboard the legendary sailing ship, at the Cutty Sark Greenwich. The Cutty Sark is the world’s sole surviving tea clipper, the fastest ship of her time. They were taken back in time during 1869, where the Captain told them about the life...

Year 4 - 4C Trip to The Jones Family Project

4C went on a trip to The Jones Family Project where we had a great time experiencing how a restaurant is run. We had a chance to see how Literacy and Numeracy are used in the work place and even got to have a taste of what the chef's are really made of

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 - 4K Sharing Assembly: Living Things and their Habitats

4K proudly performed their class assembly to parents and the whole school. Their class assembly was based on the science topic of Living Things and their Habitats. Well done to all the pupils who worked hard and performed with confidence! What a team!

Year 3 - Fabric Painting

To continue our celebration of Black History Month, Year 3 took inspiration from African prints to create their own fabric painting. They chose lively, vibrant colours to create their works of art. What fantastic artists we have in Year 3!

Year 3 - 3P The Surprising Stone Age

3P have worked really hard on their class assembly. This term they have been learning all about life in the Stone Age

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 2 - Freshwater Theatre Company

Year 2 had a fantastic visit from Freshwater Theatre Company. This was as part of our 'Great Fire of London' topic. We got the chance to find out how people lived during 1666 and the different types of jobs that they did. This workshop helped us to develop our understanding of what life was...

Year 1 - Work Week Fun

...lls we would need for the job....

Year 1 - World Maths Day

For World Maths Day we took part in a range of Maths activities. We had fun exploring shape and numbers, whilst working collaboratively with our peers. We were able to discuss what we had done and explain our thinking

Year 1 Groovin'

Have a look at 1H making beautiful music supported by Year 3 superstars; Jenny on keyboard and Hayden on bass. Team work makes the dream work!

Year 2 - 2C Easter Bonnet Parade

Happy Easter! For our Easter Bonnet Parade, we decorated cards using felt tips, glitter and bow with rabbits and Easter eggs! We had a lot of fun designing them and we chose the song Firework by Katy Perry to dance to during the parade! Take a look at our photos! Which bonnet catches your eye?

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 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 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 - 2K World Maths Day 2019

Today (12th March 2019) was World Maths Day!! It was a fun day as 2K enjoyed taking part in different Maths activities. They enjoyed working in groups; whereby each child contributed ideas that helped their team solve the equation. Some teams used concrete as others challenged themselves with...

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 3 - 3P Shares their Learning

3P had a wonderful time during our sharing assembly. The audience were amazed to see how well the Year 3 children performed on stage. Their main message was that success comes from hard work and determination, never giving up. They also shared with us some stories of famous people who failed at...

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 - Opera in 2G

2G have had a very exciting morning as they have had a visit from two opera singers. They were able to listen to the beautiful voices of the two very talented ladies, and also take part in a workshop. The children were really focused by what was a unique experience for them

Year 2 - Science: Plants

We had a great start to our Science lesson by learning about plants. We discussed what we already know about plants and to our surprise we realised that we actually know quite a lot! We worked as a group to complete a KWL chart about what we KNOW, what we WANT to learn and later would fill in what...

Year 2 - St Paul's Cathedral

As part of our Great fire of London topic, we visited St Paul’s Cathedral. We got to see what the Cathedral looked like before it was burnt down in 1666. Inside this amazing building we searched for different artefacts and saw statues that were burnt in the fire. We also lied down in the...

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

As part of Science Week, class 2F took part in an amazing workshop! We got to learn about some fantastic science words like 'molecules' and 'atoms'! We also got to make some scientific slime!

Year 2 Work Week - Dress Up

Children dressed up as their preferred profession

Year 2K Peer Tutored by 5M

The children in 2K were excited today to visit the children in year 5M, who peer tutored them. They worked brilliantly at developing their next steps and the Year 5 children helped the Year 2 children to focus on writing at a higher level. It was wonderful to see the peer tutoring being done across...

Parents' Day 2017

Parents’ Day will be on Monday 20th March 2017 from 11am – 7pm. The school will be closed for children but it would be advisable for them to attend the appointment with their parents. All parents will be allocated a 10 minute slot in which time the teacher will discuss their...

ORDER, ORDER! The House will hear...

Last Friday, Daubeney's finest school council members were given the marvellous opportunity to attend a visit to The Houses of Parliament in company of Miss Bree, Mr. West and City Year's own Mr. N. The trip allowed for the group to venture into the heart of London, specifically the area of...

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...

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...

1Ps Class Assembly - 18th January 2017

Thank you to everyone who came to see our assembly today. We worked very hard learning lots of songs and our lines. Unfortunately, we only managed to capture a snippet but we hope you like it!

1Ps Class Assembly - Autumn 2018

Thank you to everyone who came to our assembly, we worked very hard learning our words, songs and remembering what order we were in!

400 years of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare

On the 23 April many countries across the world celebrated the International Day of the Book, organized by the UNESCO to promote reading and to honour the authors Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare who died on this date. This year, we commemorate 400 years since their death and we...

4G - Now Press Play Workshop

4G LOVED their Now Press Play electricity workshop. We learned about insulators and conductors and sustainable energy sources

4G Visit Wahaca in Westfield

...s and restaurant managers....

4G's Work Week Mannequin Challenge

Can you guess what jobs everyone does?!

4P Awful Egyptians Assembly

4P have worked tremendously hard to prepare for this assembly. They made sure they practised all their lines well before the assembly. Helen said: "This was one of the best assemblies I have ever done" Mohamed said " I loved playing Pharaoh, it was amazing!" Hayden said...

5C - IntoUniversity Workshop

The children in 5C were excited today to attend their IntoUniversity workshop, where they spent a lot of time discussing what a university is what courses are offered there. The children also looked at clubs and societies and possible places they could stay if they attended a university out of...

1P - Landscapes

In 1P we created some artwork based on Georgia O'Keeffe's landscapes. We used paint to sponge a background then ripped card and tissue paper to create the texture and layers of mountains, hills and rivers. You can come to our school exhibition to see our artwork on the following dates: 4th...

5M - Inspire Work Week Project

...using 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 - The Big Draw

5M started their BIG DRAW project today when they studied the art work from an artist called' Sonia Delaunay'. Her work includes normal art, abstract art and art using a focused shape. Today we used a dominant shape to create our own masterpiece

5M - The Big Draw

Today, Year 5 worked hard to create our Vincent Van Gogh landscape inspired artwork. We created our bespoke art pieces using oil pastel and sheer imagination. Even Mr Matvad joined in to create his own drawing

5M Fashion Show

...ing their product for Inspire Work week....

5O - IntoUniversity

Year 50 had a wonderful time at IntoUniversity, where they learnt about courses offered at university, places to stay, clubs and societies that are available to join. next term they will return to the workshop for a whole day, where they will study a subject in more detail

6DM - Art Workshop

We had a visitor from an art gallery who taught us all about a French artist named Monet. All of his paintings were based on nature and truly inspiring. He used four colours to make a range of different colours. Also, we learnt that he was an impressionist artist and painted using small brush...

6S - Re-Creating London Skyline

In year 6 we have started a new book called 'The London Eye Mystery'. To immerse ourselves in the story, we have re-created the London skyline using our artistic skills. Have a look at some of the magnificent pieces of artwork we created. Mr Swarbrick even had a go

1P - Work Week

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

1FA - Maths Week

For Maths Week we had a fun assembly where we learned about shapes. We also had a great workshop where we worked together as a team to solve puzzles and problems. It was fun!

BBC Big Breakfast - 48 Hours Before the Election

Daubeney is, once again very proud, to be working with BBC Breakfast and Radio 5 Live on the exciting feature - 48 Hours Before the Election. Mr Logan, Mr Dharma and Mr Ainsworth were proud to be representing the education sector during the programmes. We encourage all parents to ensure they watch...

1FA - 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson

Our had out class assembly and it was amazing! We performed "The Gruffalo" by Julia Donaldson. Everyone worked really hard to put together a memorable performance. We made ourselves proud and had a great time! Well done, 1FA! You are awesome!

Year 4 Trip to the Ministry of Stories

Year 4 participated in a story making workshop at the Ministry of Stories, designed to inspire a love of writing. Each pupil had the opportunity to draft and write, creating characters, setting and plot. They then evaluated and edited, assessing the effectiveness of their writing. At the end of the...

1A Visit Sainsbury's in Camden

1A went on a trip to Sainsbury's in Camden. We were learning about different skills needed in different jobs and had an opportunity to practice some skills in a real work environment. We had a go on the checkout, did a treasure hunt in the aisles and filled jam doughnuts in the bakery. We had...

1B's trip to Sainsbury's

...l world....

1D Visit Sainsbury's in Stratford

On Wednesday 1D went on a lovely trip to Sainsbury's in Stratford. We were learning about different skills needed in different jobs and had an opportunity to practice some skills in a real work environment. We had a go on the checkout, did a treasure hunt in the aisles, had a tour of the stock...

Art Exhibition 2017

Thank you to everyone who supported our art exhibition. The children really enjoyed seeing their artwork framed and named and it looked especially beautiful!

BBC Radio London - Parents Helping With Homework Discussion

Our Head of School, Mr Logan joined Vanessa Feltz on BBC Radio London on 9th March 2018 for a chat about how parents can best help their children with homework

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...

Most improved music curriculum!

While fireworks were exploding overhead, a very proud Mr. Clarke, Miss Douglas and Mr. O‘Flynn went to the Hackney Empire to attend the Hackney Music Service Annual Gala. Mr O’Flynn was tipped off that there might be an award for Daubeney and sure enough Daubeney received a special acknowledgement...

Live Jazz at Daubeney

On Monday we had a visiting professional trumpet player who gave us a master class in jazz blues. Both Luca and Isaac have been learning to play trumpet with Miss Buchanan and the rhythm section have been practising hard with Mr O Flynn. We were very proud to show off our work with a more...

Make a Noise

What an amazing, fun packed fortnight Daubeney had ‘Making a Noise’ about bullying. Children from Nursery to Year 6 participated in concerts,assemblies, workshops, activities in class and ended with a BIG ‘Make a Noise’ non uniform day. Take a look at some of the wonderful...

Make a Noise

What an amazing, fun packed fortnight Daubeney had ‘Making a Noise’ about bullying. Children from Nursery to Year 6 participated in concerts, assemblies, workshops, activities in class and ended with a BIG ‘Make a Noise’ non uniform day. Take a look at some of the wonderful...

Maths Family Workshop KS1

...very positive. Parent Maths Workshop...

Maths Parent Workshop

...hlights from our Maths Parent Workshop....

Maths Parent Workshop - Autumn 2 2018

... those who attended. Parent Workshop Presentation...

Mini Masterworks Exhibition

The Mini Masterworks Exhibition was a wonderful event. The children were very proud of their pictures and the staff were very proud of the children. A big thank you to everyone who supported us!

Mother's Day Celebrations In Nursery

Everyone in nursery loves their mummies and so they wanted to do something extra special for Mother's Day to thank them for everything they do. They worked hard to make cards, carefully writing their names inside. They have been dutifully practising writing their names all term, and you can see...

Literacy Parent Workshop - March 2019

Miss Fergus invited some Year 1 and 2 parents to come to a workshop with their children to learn some fun ways to practice spelling at home. The Junior Literacy team were also there to support and the team played spelling and word games with the Year 1 and 2 children. The Junior Literacy Team even...

November Parent Workshop

We had another fantastic turn out for our second literacy parent workshop of the Autumn term. KS1 parents had the opportunity to learn some fun ways to support their children with writing at home. We had a go at using visual image to inspire children’s imagination and creativity. The parents and...

Nursery - Cars

Daubeney Nursery had the opportunity to visit two cars, Mrs Hussein's car and Mrs Afsars car. The children had the opportunity to explore the different parts of a car we talked about how the parts work and whys its important to have the lights, mirrors, windscreen wipers and seatbelts

Nursery - Christmas Jumper Day

Nursery had so much fun on Christmas Jumper Day. The children were excited to come in to school dressed in their special jumpers. This was extra special too as the contributions made are all for a very good cause, to help support the amazing work at Great Ormond Street Hospital

Nursery - Christmas Lunch

We had Christmas lunch at Nursery. Full time children enjoyed eating their turkey and roasted vegetables for their main and ice cream for dessert. ‘’It was yummy!’’, said Naomi. They also had to work really hard to open their Christmas crackers! They were delighted to find...

Nursery - Dental Hygiene Workshop

We have had a dental hygiene workshop in Nursery. Nursery met Al the dinosaur who modelled how to brush teeth carefully. The children sorted some food that could potentially be bad for our teeth. So now Nursery know how to keep our teeth clean and healthy

Nursery - Gingerbread Men

The Nursery children enjoyed making Gingerbread men. They looked at the recipe, talked about the ingredients and then worked together to mix, roll and cut them out. After much anticipation they were cooked in the oven and the children then decorated them using different coloured icing. Luckily our...

Nursery - The Big Draw

As part of our Big Draw project the nursery children created a piece of art inspired by the work of Lubaina Himid. They worked together to paint, cut and stick lots of coloured shapes and fruits onto a canvas. The finished piece looks spectacular!

Nursery - Work Week

... a look at what we did during Work Week....

Literacy September Parent Workshop

We had a great turn out for our first literacy parent workshop of the term. KS1 parents had the opportunity to learn some fun ways to support their children with reading at home. Their children also attended and it was great to see parents and children enjoying reading together by discussing the...

Literacy Parent Workshop - January 2019

The parents and children thoroughly enjoyed our January workshop which was led by Phil McDermott, the amazing story teller. They were enthralled listening to Phil tell an entertaining story then they had the opportunity to work in pairs to create their own stories. The parents learnt about the...

Bikers Breakfast

Daubeney hosted a Bikers Breakfast on 14th March 2019 where we gave a free breakfast to all children that rode to school on a bike. We also had mechanics from ‘Dr. Bike’ come in to check everyone’s bikes and ensure they are in good working order

Eco Team Workshop

Daubeney's Eco-team met a landscape architect today to discuss a special project for the hop garden! They discussed what they liked about it and how it can be improved. The children came up with a range of creative ideas which we can put into action soon. 'We enjoyed being outside in the...

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...

Blue Class Sharing Assembly

Blue Class had their very first assembly on Thursday! They worked incredibly hard, scripting their own lines and being super brave! We loved sharing all our many talents with key stage 1 and look forward to showing lots more!

Boys Can Sing!

It was a pleasure to have our boys take part in the third annual 'Boys Can Sing' event at City Academy. As per usual our students made us very proud, and they had the chance to sing with winner of the 'Voice' 2014 Jermaine Jackman. All credit to Mr O'Flynn for his on-going hard...

Centre of the Cell

Centre of the Cell is a science education centre based at Queen Mary, University of London. It is the first science education centre in the world to be located within working biomedical research laboratories. Year 6 were amazed to be part of an high-tech interactive experience on cell biology

Chain Reaction Workshop

Years 4 - 6 were delighted to be part of a rapturous workshop delivered by Chain Reaction – an orgaisation that specializes in working with children to develop vital tools and techniques to achieve successful conflict resolution - whilst keeping it fun and involved in ‘real life’....

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...

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...

Daubeney on BBC Breakfast - Terrific Scientific Launch

Daubeney is very proud to be working with the BBC on this very exciting opportunity to develop scientists of the future with a cutting edge programme such as Terrific Scientific . We encourage all parents to ensure they watch the programme with their children and enjoy the potential and...

EcoACTIVE Awards

Eco-Team went to the Science Museum for the EcoACTIVE Awards. We had a really exciting day and our project scrapbook won £100 pounds to help our school become more Eco-friendly! Thank you to all who supported the team with all their hard work so far this year!

Literacy Parent Workshop

...lights of our Literacy Parent Workshop....

Egypt Workshop

As part of their Ancient History Learning around Ancient Civilisations, Year 6 were treated to a theatrical performance by the Freshwater Theatre Company where pupils relived the times of the infamous pharaohs and had the opportunity to dress up as characters from ancient Egypt

Fireworks!

To celebrate bonfire night nursery have painted some beautiful pictures. We have been talking about how fireworks explode into different colours in the sky and have been learning to recognise and name colours. Here's what some of the children had to say about bonfire night... Gabriella said...

Guardian Visits Daubeney

Year 6 were delighted to have been visited by two inspiring members of the Guardian newspaper team and learning about the exciting world of Journalism and the Media. The workshop involved children thinking about what it means to be a journalist and what is involved in getting a newspaper ready each...

Guitar and Ukulele

We have had a lot of success teaching ukulele to our Reception class. They have been working from a book called Ukulele Magic and can play a song called "Thumb Brush Strum."

Handwriting in Year 3

Year 3 pupils have been working incredibly hard to perfect their handwriting this term and, as you can see, their hard work has paid off! Many of them have beautifully neat handwriting and as a result they have earned their pen licence. I'm confident that many others with earn theirs in the new...

KS1 - SATs Advice Parental Meeting

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KS1 Parent Maths Workshop - 29th September 2017

...who attended our Parent Maths Workshop. We hope that you benefitted from finding out more about how maths is taught at Daubeney and that you feel better equipped to support your child at home. As always, should you have any further questions please don’t hesitate to contact Mr Ainsworth and pl...

KS1 Science Parents' Workshop

Today (4th October 2018) we had a fantastic parent workshop talking all about how we can do more science at home! The children got hands on with some every day objects such as fairy liquid, milk and eggs but found that these every day objects can be turned into scientific extravaganzas with the...

Year 4 - BIG Draw

Year 4 looked at Pablo Picasso's art work and tried to recreate some of his famous pieces using a range of materials to create a 2D/3D graphic relief. We had a lot of fun being hands on and getting messy

Year 4 - Eco-Active Workshop

As part of an Eco-Active workshop, Year 4 went on a trip around the local area to 'map their neighbourhood' and survey litter. The children were very excited to pick up litter and learn more about recycling

Year 4 - Cross Curricular Learning: Sketching 'The Great Wave of Kanagawa' by Hokusai

Today (14th October 2019) the children in Year 4 used their Art skills, Topic skills and Literacy skills to sketch 'The Great Wave of Kanagawa' by Hokusai. The children learnt about the famous artist and then looked at some of his famous work, especially the Great Wave and re-created his...

Year 4 - Sustainability

Year 4 had an interesting Eco-Active workshop where they studied the local area as part of the 'Map your neighbourhood' project. They also learnt about who is responsible for different areas and how we can look after them

Maths Family Workshop

This workshop had a focus of using stories to teach mathematics and helping children develop mastery. The parents had the opportunity to learn strategies to help with the mastery of concept: everything from basic counting to doing algebra. The book we focused on was "One is a snail, ten is a...

Maths Family Workshop - 20th March 2019

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 1 - Phonics Screening Check Workshop

Thank you to all the parent who attended our Phonics screening check workshop. Please see information below of what we discussed. You should also take a look at our useful phonics websites

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 1 - 1L Perform The Gruffalo

In Literacy 1L have been reading 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...

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 6 - Monet Workshop

Year 6 had the amazing opportunity to take part in a four-hour workshop where we focused on the work of Claude Monet. We learned that he was inspired by nature and enjoyed experimenting with light and colour. We had to create colour wheels using only the primary colours and white. We then used...

Year 6 - Romeo and Juliet Workshop

As part of our Literacy learning, children in Year 6 studied Shakespeare's infamous play, Romeo and Juliet. To enrich their learning, Year 6 had the pleasure of a drama session, led by veteran soldiers, who brought Romeo and Juliet to a highly engaging level

Year 6 - Work Week 2019: Enterprise 6S

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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 Spanish Champions Visit The Urswick School

Our Year 6 Spanish champions visited a Spanish Year 7 class at The Urswick School on Tuesday. It was a fantastic opportunity for them to know what Spanish is like in KS3, to see Spanish textbooks and to work with Year 7 children, helping each other and sharing their experiences and impressions

Year 6 Work on Team Building

As the sun graced us with its presence we decided to head outside and practice our teamwork skills. We had to build a tower using nothing but tape and paper. The winning team's tower was nearly as tall as Mr Ricardo

Year 6 Work Week

...ring brilliant pitches....

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...

Year 1T - Retells 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson

In 1T we are learning one of our favourite stories, The Gruffalo. Firstly, we chose a character we wanted to play in our performance. We have our reasons why we would be good for the part. Then, we worked collaboratively to rehearse each part of the story, taking care to remember not only our...

Year 6 - End of Year Production

Year 6 have been working hard on creating an exciting end of year production. They have been developing their talents of acting, signing and dancing. Also, they have been working creatively to make back drops and props for the production

Year 1 - Mapping Day

Year 1 had a great time learning all about maps! We learnt about direction and using a map of the school grounds, guided our partners around the school using 'forward/up', 'backwards/down', 'left' and 'right'. Finally, we created amazing 3D maps of the KS1...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 3

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] Day 3 and things are not slowing down. And wait for it... IT DIDN’T RAIN! The sun even poked its head through the clouds for a few glorious seconds. What a time to be alive. The children finished yesterday with fried chicken and chips and...

Year 3 - 3T Explore Emotions

Everyone experiences an enormous variety of emotions-from excitement to fear to rage-and sometimes all of them in one day! It's perfectly normal. Today in 3T we explored different emotions, identifying their purpose and speaking about situations in which we have felt a particular way. We then...

Year 6 - Ice Skating

It’s getting closer to the final days at Daubeney for Year 6 and to celebrate they went out ice skating. It was a nice break from the heat in the cool ice rink. Lots of fun, laugh and good times. That would also work as a good summary for their time in Daubeney

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 5 at UBS

Today (10th July 2019) five children from Year 5 entered the last stage of the STEAM competition at UBS Bank and came third. The children had to design a robotic car and an obstacle course to allow the car to be challenged. They used many of their skills to successfully complete the challenge. The...

Year 2 - Carnival

Did you know that "Bee's Knees" and "Cat's Pajamas" were terms used in the 1920s that meant something was the best? After all the practice and and hard work we put into our dance, we were definitely the Bee's Knees and Cat's Pajamas! Our theme was the 1920s so we...

Daubeney Receive MBQMA Award

The Majorie Boxall Quality Mark was awarded to us in April 2019. We are very proud to receive this award as it recognises the hard work of pupils and staff. It demonstrates how dedicated Daubeney is to Nurture and supporting children's well being

Year 3 - Mapping Skills Day

Year 3 immersed themselves into the world of maps. Firstly, they helped some pirates to find their missing treasure by building and then using their knowledge of grid references and coordinates. They then worked together to identify symbols that are used on maps, leading to an interesting...

It Takes a Village...

This half-term we having been holding a series of events every Wednesday (5pm-7pm) under the banner of, ‘It Takes a Village...’. We have been blessed to have had the opportunity to host some world class speakers such as: Gary Younge, Patricia Lamour MBE, ‘Lt. Stitchie’,...

Year 6 - WOW Day

This really was a day that made you say, “WOW!” We started the day off with a delicious taste tour of the UK. We had Scottish shortbread, Welsh cake, Irish Boxty and English scones. We had to rate what we tasted and describe the taste and texture. Then we picked a landmark and had to...

Year 2 - 2P's Class Assembly - September 2019

We had a lot of fun sharing our assembly today. We worked as a team to create it and discussed what it should be about. We decided on the very important subject of mindfulness and breathing!

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

Year 4 - 4M IntoUniversity Workshop

The children in 4M were challenged today with various activities provided by the IntoUniversity team, who came into school today to carry out a range of activities. The children had to use various skills like; teamwork, listening, creativity and building skills to complete the various activities

Year 4 - 4M Selfie Workshop

...M had an amazing Selfie Photo Workshop today (27th September 2019). The children took some awesome photographs using professional equipment....

Year 6 - 6S Photography Workshop

Strike a pose! 6S really enjoyed having the opportunity to take part in a professional photography workshop. They even had the chance to operate the camera themselves! The children are really excited to see the results

Year 6 - Mapping Day

For mapping day Year 6 were able to put their mapping skills to the test by taking a trip out to the Olympic Park in Stratford. Before that, they had to use a map and a scale to work out what the distance was from Homerton to Stratford. They also had to find certain points on the map once they...

Year 1 - 1L's Class Assembly - October 2019

1L worked so hard for their class assembly today! They retold the story of Little Red Riding Hood and even shared some of their Spanish learning with everyone. We had lots of fun performing together!

Year 3 Turn Banksy

Year 3 were inspired by the political and cultural messages of the graffiti artist Banksy's work. They found out that Banksy uses stencils to create his art so that he can get away quickly. This is because he is actually anonymous-nobody knows who he is! Year 3 made their own Banksy-style...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 2

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] Day 2 down and it was another absolute belter. What a day! We thought the rain may dampen the children’s spirits but residential continued as planned. The children are adapting to independent life and have had to learn to get themselves ready for...

Reception - Yellow Class Flower Shop

Yellow Class have there very own flower shop. The children worked with Ms Emily to paint beautiful flowers and a rainbow to display in our flower shop. Mrs Addai got us some real artificial flowers and accessories that we can use to role play with and pretend to buy things. We have been learning...

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!

Girls Club - 21st May 2019

Today (21st May 2019) at girls club we started off by playing a game called fizz buzz. Then we played a Lego building game in teams where everybody had to work together to build the Lego model. We ended the session by reflecting on the importance of teamwork. Another fun session in the bag!!!

'It Takes a Village' Holiday Activities

As part of Daubeney's 'It Takes a Village' project, we would like to celebrate fathers and male role models and the positive impact they have on our children. As such, we are running two competitions for the children over the half term and would like your support in encouraging the...

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...

Spring Big Draw Exhibition

We had our exhibition to show the art work we did for our Spring Big Draw. Thank you to everyone who came along and shared our achievement with us. A big thank you to the staff who supported and the Junior Art Team who helped out and spoke so articulately about the art and who inspired it!

Reception - Growth and Transformation

The children in Yellow Class have been planting cress and mustard seeds. We have also focus on the sunflower and learnt all about the different parts of the plant. The children painted them and can name the parts. We have displayed their fabulous work

Year 5 - 5M Britania Sports Day 2019

Another trophy for our young stars! Today (6th June 2019) was another fantastic day for the young sports stars in Year 5M who took part in the annual Britania Sports Day in Hoxton, where we competed against 12 other schools from the borough. The children in Year 5M were fully engaged and were...

Daubeney Spelling Bee 2019

The Daubeney Spelling Bee has come and gone and it was spectacular! It was close but Joey in 3G, Racheal in 4K, Taylor in 5M and Mohamed in 6S won 1st place for their year. All the winners including 2nd and 3rd place are going to compete in a federation spelling bee against Sebright and Lauriston....

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 3 - 3T's Costa Rica Presentation

As part of Hispanic Week, 3T researched the Spanish speaking country of Costa Rica. Demonstrating their impressive capacity for teamwork, they focused on different areas, such as the animals, food and geography of Costa Rica, and created very informative posters. They then presented their findings...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 1

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] Wow! What a start! As first days go this is right up there with the best of them. It was a very excitable coach journey and the children couldn’t wait to get to Youlbury and try out all the activities. We arrived in plenty of time and as usual...

Eco Team Meet The Senior Team

Today the Eco team met with Mr Logan, Mr Dharma, Ms Gustave, Ms Cenac and Ms Bibi to discuss all the great work they have been doing over the year. They also discussed future plans for the school and what they'd like to see happen. The children inspired the adults with their enthusiasm and...

Federation Spelling Bee

Daubeney hosted the first ever Federation Spelling Bee with Sebright and Lauriston today (14th June) and we came out on top! We won the overall best speller for Year 4, 5 and 6! Well done to Racheal in 4K, Taylor in 5M and Mohamed in 6S and to all the contestants that represented Daubeney – they...

Year 5 - 5M Forensic Science Workshop

Today the Year 5 children enjoyed a special Forensic science workshop where they had to become detectives. The children used clues, fingerprints, footprints and objects left at the crime scene to identify the suspects and locate the missing dog

Federation Mathematics Competition

Today we held our Federation Mathematics Competition at Daubeney with our sister schools Lauriston and Sebright. Our pupils participated with such a high level of determination, resilience and team work. Everyone was actively engaged from start to finish. Daubeney emerged the winners. Well done...

Year 5 - 5F Forensics Workshop

On Tuesday (18th July 2019), 5F used their scientific skills to carry out a forensics investigation. They aimed to solve the mystery of a stolen dog and had to analyse fingerprints, ink samples and shoe prints!

Year 5 - 5MC Forensic Workshop

...k part in an amazing Forensic Workshop. In the Workshop, 5MC had to identify who stole a pedigree dog from a dog show! To find the culprit 5MC had to use many forensic skills by looking at clues such as DNA, finger prints, ink chromatography, addresses and many more. 5MC, what was your favouri...

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 1 - Warhol Art

We learnt about Andy Warhol and looked at some of his work. We drew an image on half a piece of A5 and then folded it in half to ‘print’ the image on the other side

Year 6 - Making Easter Bonnets

Year 6 got to flex their creative muscles today and got to making their bonnets for tomorrow’s Easter Bonnet parade. The children really enjoyed working together to make some original, creative ideas and they can’t wait to show them off tomorrow!

Year 6 - Daubeney Alumni

On Monday 8 th October some past pupils from Daubeney, who are now Year 7s at Cardinal Pole, visited Year 6 to discuss life at secondary school. They talked about their timetable, uniform, homework and gave us advice on how to prepare for secondary school. We were told that the expectations in Year...

Year 4 - Hackney Museum: Travels with my Suitcase

Year 4 visited Hackney Museum where we had a workshop called 'Travels with my suitcase'. The children discovered how the local area has changed through the stories and suitcases of people who have travelled to Hackney from all over the world and throughout history. Year 4 children became...

Year 5 - Drama Workshop

Year 5 had an amazing drama workshop today. Some of this involved using simple objects to create performances which were funny and moving!

Year 5 - 5MC Big Draw Vincent Van Gogh

Today, Year 5 worked hard to create our Vincent Van Gogh landscape inspired artwork. We created our bespoke art pieces using oil pastel and sheer imagination. You can come to our school exhibition to see our artwork on the following dates: 4 th December – Nursery, Reception, Year 1 5 th December –...

Year 5 - 5MC IntoUniversity

Yesterday (26th February 2019) 5MC visited IntoUniversity to learn about university life. During the workshop, 5MC learned about degrees, accommodation, university locations and clubs and societies. Would you like to go to university? What degree would you study? Why?

Year 5 - African Dance Workshop

As part of our Black and African history month, Year 5 had a fun dance workshop this afternoon (17th Octover 2018) where they learnt many dancer skills and movements. The children put together a dance routine and demonstrated a high level of energy. It was so much fun!

Year 5 - Brain Workshop

The Year 5 children were treated to a special brain workshop today, carried out by a neurologist from the Birbeck University. The children enjoyed learning about the brain, the different parts and how our brains work. We were also treated to some interesting images to identify how our brain thinks...

Year 5 - Celebrating Diversity

The children in Year 5 used their creative skills today (29-10-2018) to design a poster celebrating diversity. The class, in their SEAL session, discussed the importance of diversity and generated ideas to create a poster to celebrate how diverse our world is. We hope to use all the work from the...

Year 5 - Chalk Art

The children in Year 5 had a wonderful time today using chalk to show their creativity. They used various techniques like rubbing, line work, colours, varied shading and images to design their own master piece. This was part of our Topic lesson this term, where our focusis on art and the work of...

Year 5 - Cross Curricular: Crime and Punishment

In Year 5, we are learning about crime and punishment. Today (8th March 2019), we played a board game to see how crime and punishment worked in Anglo Saxon times. It was very interesting to see how their punishments differed to our modern ones!

Year 5 - Drama Workshop

Year 5 learned about creativity in drama today. The students had to create magic worlds, draw them, make sounds for them and act them out. It was a very fun workshop!

Year 5 - 5M IntoUniversity

The children in 5M enjoyed a workshop today (6th March 2019) at the IntoUniversity office in Clapton. The pupils were introduced to the courses on offer at university, social clubs, living arrangements and degrees on offer. They took part in various activities which gave them a better insight into...

Year 5 - Eco Active Workshop

Year 5M were involved today (27th September 2018) in learning all about recycling and sustainability. The Eo Active team came into class to help the children learn about the importance of recycling and how we can recycle our food. Food waste is a major issue around Hackney and the children...

Year 5 - ecoACTIVE Bugs

Year 5M had an amazing activity today exploring the world of compost and the bugs responsible for helping to break down our food. They learnt aboutthe process and even got to hold worms, larvae, beetles, woodlouse and earwigs. A special thanks to ecoACTIVE team who came to Daubeney and allowed our...

Year 5 - Fashion Show

...thes 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 - Finding Percentages

In 5C we have been taking advantage of this great weather and having our lessons in the Hop garden! We focused on finding percentages of an amount which we felt so confident with that we used our reasoning skills and came up with different methods of working questions out!

Year 5 - Fire Safety

The children in Year 5 were given a workshop today from a member of the London Fire Brigade team (Educational Officer) where the children learnt about the importance of fire safety and what actions to take if a fire occurred

Year 5 - Fractions

Today (5th February 2019) the children in Year 5 added and subtracted fractions with unlike denominators. First, they had to identify the lowest common denominator, change the fractions to have like denominators then add the numerators. It was amazing to see the children understand the concept and...

Year 5 - Fractions With Like Denominators

Today (1st November 2017) the Year 5 children enjoyed their group work lesson, where they learnt to add fractions with like denominators. The children worked well in a group, supporting each other and extended their learning by adding mixed numbers. Today was another example of great learning in...

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 - 5M True Artists

The children in Year 5M are absolutely proud of their artistic flair, when they took a photo of our recent butterfly activity. They used a close up zooming technique to capture the true beauty of a Monarch butterfly. The piece of art will be used as a display around the school and will be handed to...

Year 5 - 5M Full STEAM Ahead

The children in Year 5M were delighted today (26th February 2019) to have a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics workshop. The children played many different games looking at various occupations and their meanings and designed a floating boat using only limited resources

Year 5 - Imaginary Worlds and Words

As part of celebrating World Book Day, the Year 5 pupils had a fun workshop today (8th March 2019) creating imaginary worlds and sounds

Year 4 - Wahaca

Year 4 were lucky enough to visit the famous Wahaca restaurant in Liverpool Street. They learned that maths and literacy are both very important in the workplace. First they used their maths skills to add up a customer's bill. Then they made some delicious guacamole and ate it with chips!...

Year 4 - Hispanic Day Flamenco Workshop

As part of Hispanic day, Year 4 were lucky enough to take part in a Flamenco workshop. Take a look at their skills!

Year 4 - IntoUniversity Careers Workshop

Year 4 took part in an IntoUniversity workshop about careers. IntoUniversity helped teach the children about skills needed for different jobs such as engineer and product designer. What would you like to be when you're older and what skills will you need? Let us know in the comment section...

Year 4 - IntoUniversity Workshop

Year 4P who are now the new Year 5M enjoyed a special workshop from the IntoUniversity team. The children were engaged in various activities, like creativity by designing their own trainer, being an archaeologist and having a go at being a road and town planner. The children are now looking forward...

Year 4 - Lego Workshop

Year 4 had an interesting Lego workshop organised by the City Year team. They had a wonderful time learning about coding and robotics and put all this knowledge into use. Take a look at what they got up to!

Year 4 - Maths: Graffiti Art

Year 4 had a fun maths lesson creating graffiti art. Each table had a different reasoning problem and the children worked in groups to find a solution using numbers and drawings

Year 4 - Meditation

Year 4 have been meditating in class as a way of relaxing and making ourselves feel better. 'Meditation makes me feel calm and it helps me to get all the stress out.' - Ren 4C 'Meditation makes me calm down and helps me focus on my work' - Sofien 4C

Year 4 - Science: How Our Bodies Work

Year 4 have been very busy in Science investigating our bodies and how they work. One of our Learning Questions was 'How can different liquids affect our teeth' and we were able to investigate that in class! If you want to find out more, ask our Year 4 students about how we conducted the...

Year 4 - Viking Invasions

4S were visited by a Viking as part of an exciting workshop. The children learnt many interesting facts about the Viking invasions. They also had their fortunes told from reading Viking runes. Please ask a 4S member what the Viking predicted their future would be!

Year 4 - Woodberry Wetlands

As part of our science topic, we were very lucky to take part in the workshops held by the Woodberry Wetlands centre. We got the opportunity to go and look for creatures in the wildlife and observe and classify what they were using the classification key. We also got to go pond dipping where we...

Year 5 - 5F Trip to IntoUniversity

Today (28th February 2019), 5F participated in a workshop at IntoUniversity. The children were engaged in activities to learn more about university life. Well done to everyone, especially Amira and Ronnie, who received congratulatory postcards for their effort!

Year 4 - Work Week

...mazing experience....

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 - Working Collaboratively Through Role Play

After a restful holiday, Year 4 are back and rearing to go! We had a great time stimulating our imagination and working collaboratively through our role playing lessons in Literacy. 'I enjoyed role-playing the mum in the story because I learnt how to use more adjective in my sentences and I...

Year 4 Trip to Masala Zone

4K went on a trip to Masala Zone in Islington were we thoroughly enjoyed tasting dishes from the Indian cuisine as well as learning about the different jobs in a workplace. We learnt the importance of maths in the workplace by calculating a customer's bill. We then made delicious healthy...

Year 4 Visit Wahaca in Liverpool Street

Year 4 were lucky enough to visit the famous Wahaca restaurant in Liverpool Street. They learned that maths and literacy are both very important in the workplace. First they used their maths skills to add up a customer's bill. Then they made some delicious guacamole and ate it with chips!...

Year 4 Workshop at Hackney Museum - Travels With My Suitcase

Year 4 had a wonderful time at the Hackney museum. They attended an exciting workshop called 'Travels With My Suitcase'. This workshop was all about the history of Hackney going all the way back to the Anglo Saxon era. "I really enjoyed the trip, we got to touch real artefacts from the...

Year 4's Maths Tricks

In Year 4 we have been using our 'tricks' to help us work out challenging problems! Have a look at some of the examples where the children used their knowledge of patterns to extend their learning. "For 375 + 200. My trick is that if I know 3+2=5, then I also know that 300+200=500....

Year 4, 5 and 6 Visit Parasol Gallery

Some Year 4, 5 and 6's went on a trip to the Parasol Gallery and were able to enjoy some contemporary art. They looked at the current exhibition, worked with a storyteller and then started to create their own artwork

Year 5 - Human Form Inspired by Anthony Gormley

The children in Year 5 used ideas from Antony Gormley to design and create their own human form. They used wooden squares and rectangles to form the human outline. The children had fun making different forms and shapes of the human body - just like Antony Gormley's work

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 6 - Black History Month 2016

Year 6 took part in an African drumming workshop as part of Black History Month

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 1

What a fantastic first day. It was a very excitable coach journey and the children couldn’t wait to get to Yulebury and try out all the activities. A mere 30 minutes after arrival the games began! We had children streaming down the Zip Wire at crazy speeds! Facing their fears on the dreaded...

Year 5 - Whole School Focus: Art

The children in Year 5 were truly inspired by the work of Kadinsky, and used his style and themes to create their own art pieces. They used lines, shapes, colours, thickness and even different designs to create their own master pieces which will be displayed in our very own art gallery

Year 5 - Work Week 2018

...ar 5 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 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 - Young Authors Publishing Session

5M today (Tuesday 2nd October 2018) were extremely focused and engaged in their publishing session. Excited, they all prepared their pages with pictures from the story in order to publish their own version of the story. The children cannot wait for the whole story to be published and ready for our...

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 5 Residential 2017 - Day 2

Another riveting day at our residential adventure! What better way to start the day than with cereal, beans, hash browns, scrambled egg and toast? A hearty breakfast, after an interesting first night and a 6am morning workout and yoga, to prepare for another fun packed day of activities including...

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 2

Today was an absolute scorcher! It reached the dizzying highs of 28 degrees in Youlbury (thank you for Miss Fergus for noticing my spelling mistake in the last post). The children are adapting to independent life and have had to learn to get themselves ready for bed, keep their living areas tidy...

Year 5 - Time Problems

The children in Year 5 today (18th October 2018) worked together in pairs to solve time problems based on a TV guide and its timings. Ask the children at home to create a time table for their daily routines and make up some questions

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 3

Day 3 and things are not slowing down. The children finished yesterday with pasta bake and hot cocoa. The tiredness had set in and it was a very quiet night in the cabin. After an energising sleep, the children were woken up to the smell of fresh pastries baking in the oven. They had enough choice...

Year 5 Work Week

...hical clothing company. 'Work week showed me how to Work well under pressure. I learnt about Working with others and how to manage my money' Suleman, 5M 'It was really fun and interesting. Before, we didn't know that people that make clothes could be eco-friendly so that was quit...

Year 5/6 Residential - Oxford

29th June Thank you parents for all your lovely messages; we've had a great time sharing these, especially the nicknames! The children are doing absolutely great. However, after a gruelling day today, they are very tired. We've decided to have an early night after a much-needed hot...

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

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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 - Art: Malevich

The children in Year 6 were truly inspired by the work of Malevich, and used lines, shapes, colours, thickness and even different designs to create their own Malevich inspired master pieces

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 - The BIG Draw

Today (13th March 2019) the Year 5 pupils were excited to start and complete their Big Draw project. We looked at an artist, Andy Warhol, and studied his printing designs. The children chose the theme of food and fruits to use as their stimulus and along with their creative skills painted some...

Year 5 - Inspired by Anthony Gormley

The children in year 5 have been studying the work of Anthony Gormley and the use of squared objects and designs. He also enjoys using the human form to create art pieces. The children had fun today creating and designing their own art piece based on the human form

Year 5 - Professional Authors

The children in Year 5 were totally focused today when they began to publish the very first story in Year 5. This term, the children have been reading a story and used the ideas from the story to create their own narrative with an interesting ending. All published work will be available on parents...

Year 5 - IntoUniversity 2017

The children in 5M were excited today to attend their IntoUniversity workshop, where they spent a lot of time discussing what a university is what courses are offered there. The children also looked at clubs and societies and possible places they could stay if they attended a university out of...

Year 5 - Junior Maths Team

The junior maths team were in action today (5th February 2019) working across the Year 5 classes. Some children from 5M were working alongside groups in 5Mc, supporting and teaching the pupils methods to convert seconds, minutes and hours. They helped the children to extend their learning by...

Year 5 - Lego Time

The children in year 5 were pleasantly surprised today to be part of a Lego workshop organised by City Year for them. They enjoyed building, designing various Lego structures and included using a pulley drive to make the car move. Mr Fahy was super excited and jumped in to play with the Lego

Year 5 - LEXIA Superstars

The children in Year 5 have been developing their learning today (3rd April 2019) using a programme called Lexia, which enables pupils to build on their knowledge and skills in reading and writing. The pupils have been working to improve their sentence structures and vocabulary

Year 5 - Light and Dark Tones

In art, the year 5 children were using light and dark tones to create an effect in their art work. They used various methods to obtain light and dark tones, for example rubbing, smudging and using a tissue to spread the shade of black

Year 5 - Our Very Own Kandinsky

On Thursday, 23 March 2017 the Year 5 children truly enjoyed their Cross Curricular maths lesson, where they experimented with shapes, angles, lines, art and religious studies. The children looked at different religious symbols and works of art which uses shapes. A child from 5M created a wonderful...

Year 5 - Percentages

The children in Year 5 today (13-11-2018) worked extremely well, developing their learning to find different percentages of amounts. We first found 10% then used this to find other amounts, like 5%, 20% and 25%. Encourage your child at home to practice finding different percentages of amounts and...

Year 5 - Poetry Workshop

The Year 5 children were excited today (22nd March 2019) when Bad Lay- Dee, a professional music artist came to class to help the children write a free style rap poem. The children first created a word bank of words then used them to create a free-style rap

Year 5 - Published!

The children in Year 5M were extremely excited today (4th October 2018) when they published their first piece of work - a narrative story, which focused on our unit 'Stories from other cultures'. The children adapted the story and write their own version including descriptive settings and...

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 - Reasoning

The children in Year 5 worked hard today (11th October 2018) to use their reasoning skills in order to solve one and two step word problems. They used their efficient methods and showed all the working steps

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 - Royal Academy of Engineering

The Year 5 children were amazed at the workshop yesterday, where they saw how robots can be designed in order to create music. It was a very interesting session, the children were curious to see how robots work and can be programmed. Mr Fahy and Mr Martykan loved the END TREATS when we were given...

Year 5 - Self and Peer Assessment

Today (1st February 2019) the Year 5 used their learning in our Balanced Argument unit and assessed their work. They first started with self-assessment, where they identified their strengths and what they did well in the unit. Each pupil then paired up with a friend to peer-assess their learning....

Year 5 - Self Assessment: Fractions, Decimal, Percentages

Today (15th February 2019) all the Year 5 pupils revisited their learning in our Fraction, Decimal and Percentage (FDP) unit. The children identified where and when they were successful and what they needed to do in order to further develop their learning. They carefully looked at each objective...

Year 5 - Solving Word Problems

Today (17th January 2019) the Year 5 children worked in pairs and groups to solve a variety of mathematical word problems. They used their efficient methods and skills to help them solve the calculations. The Year 5 children are now encouraged to use their IXL maths program to continue practising...

Year 5 - Solving Word Problems Using Fractions

Today, Thursday 9th November 2017, the children in Year 5 applied their skills and knowledge to solve word problems involving fractions. they used the steps to success and followed each step to help them solve larger fraction calculations. They worked in pairs, supporting each other and ensured...

Year 5 - STEAM Competition

A massive well done to all teams who participated from Year 5 today in a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) competition. The students showed amazing teamwork skills. Congratulations to all teams - one team from 5M came 3rd while the team from 5F came first and made it...

Year 6 - Division

The pupils in Year 6 today worked really well to solve division problems using both of our methods. We practiced the short efficient method and used long division