Curriculum Overviews

A curriculum overview gives you an idea of which topic your child will be studying at which point during the school year. Year Group Overviews Subject Overviews

PSHE - Jigsaw

...parts, body changes in girls and menstruation Year 5 - Puberty for boys and girls, and conception Year 6 - Puberty for boys and girls and understanding conception to birth of a baby Further information about how the school approaches the teaching of Relationships and Sex Education through the J...

Clubs

... 15 Multi Sports Year 5 - 6 20 Carnival Club Year 4 - 6 15 ...... 12 Knitting Year 5 - 6 15 Extended Day Care Fees: Extended Day C...

Literacy

...3 & 4 – change every week (1 at level, 1 free choice) Year 5 & 6 - change independently as and when they finish their book Writing In order to teach writing, spelling and grammar, we follow the National Curriculum. Writing is taught through quality texts and stimuli linked to the cross cur...

Year 5

...me limit. PE Days Children in Year 5 have PE every Tuesday. They must bring their PE kit to school, including trainers or plimsoles, in a bag labelled with their name. Book bags Please ensure your child brings in their book bags every day. They must also have their reading record inside their book b...

Year 5 - 2 Step Word Problems

...d chose the correct operation....

Year 5 - Literacy Outdoor Learning

...h ensuring the den was sturdy....

Year 5 - Maths Outdoor Learning

...g connections between numbers....

Year 5 & 6 - PE Trips

Well done to the year 5/6 for trying their best at rugby and dodgeball

Year 5 - RE Day: Buddhism

..., 13-10-2022, the children in Year 5 had fun and exciting lessons, learning all about the Buddhist faith. They discussed the main beliefs, the importance of The Four Noble Truths, looked at the Eightfold Path and teachings of Buddha....

Year 5 - Factors and Multiples

...investigated for factor pairs....

Year 5 - WOW Day: Tanzania

... inspired by their culture....

Year 5 - Spanish - Mi ciudad

...his half term our students in Year 5 are learning to describe cities using a range of adjectives and naming their different buildings. These are some pictures of 5C students. Games are always a great way to get students talking in Spanish!...

Year 5 - Persuasive Arguments

...l has been reading - Varmints....

Year 5 - Persuasive Argument

...deas on how everyone can help....

Year 5 - Mapping Skills Day

To start our new geography topic, we refreshed our memories and learnt some new things about maps and how to use them. To end the day, we created our own maps of the playground and we made sure we had a clear and easy to read key as well!

Year 5 - RE Day - Islam in the Middle Ages

... of this era and the crusades....

Year 5 - WOW Day: Ancient Greece

We created vases inspired by ancient Greeks using recyclable items. First, we created the base and structure of the vase which was then followed by decorating the vase. This was a great way to end our topic on Ancient Greece where we learnt about how and where they had an influence on modern society

Year 4, 5 & 6 Christmas Carol Performance 2022

Year 5 - Square Numbers

Year 5 - First Week

...er? We spent the first day of Year 5 learning our new routines, finding our new seats and starting s......experience more new things in Year 5....

Year 5 - Literacy Roleplay

...learning in Year 4 to our new Year 5 teachers. To start off, we discussed and roleplayed the story of The Three Little Pigs but we put a twist on it and told the story from the perspective of the wolf!...

Year 5 - Yoga - Week 5

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

Year 5 - Maths: Reflection

To end our topic of position and direction, we learnt about reflection. Some of us got confused when reflecting whole shapes but it became much easier when we just reflected each point of a polygon. Next lesson, we’ll be thinking about reflection with coordinates

Year 5 - Yoga - Week 3

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

Year 5 - Literacy: Presentations

We have been researching lots about the artist we are focusing on during this half term's art topic, Antony Gormley. So we spent the morning creating posters using everything that we have learnt and presented them to the class afterwards

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 5 - Computing: Levels, Instructions and Titles

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

Year 5 - Literacy: Features of a Poem

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

Year 5 - Maths: Measurement

...ured using kilograms or grams!...

Year 5 - 5C Reading Outside

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

Year 5 - Practising Handwriting

...ited to achieve a pen license....

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 5 - Summer Big Draw

"The eyes are the window to the soul", a saying that we used to inspire our surrealist art. We drew an eye and filled it with all the things that are important to us, similar to René Magritte's "The False Mirror"

Year 5 & 6 Trip to Southend Adventure Island

An unforgettable day for everyone. We had songs in the coach journey, a trip to the beach AND a fun day out at adventure island!

Year 5 - Art WOW Day

...we called "Field for the Year 5 Isles". We even had a Year 5 exhibition to show off all ou...... 5 Isles". We even had a Year 5 exhibition to show off all our hard work. Afterwards, we evalua...

Year 5 - Science: Soluble or Insoluble?

Do you know what soluble and insoluble means? We learnt about what they are today. We used our new learning to carry out a fair test to see what substances are soluble and what substances are insoluble. We used salt, sugar, flour, hot chocolate powder and black pepper. Which ones do you think are...

Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Fact File

Today we created a fact file all about the Himalayas as part of our ‘Hook into a Book’. We looked at pictures of the mountains and discussed Mount Everest. We are very excited to begin our new book ‘King of cloud forest’ by Michael Morpurgo

Year 5 - Numbers to 1000000

Today in maths, we reviewed our understanding of place value and learnt about numbers up to 1000000. We practiced by reading place value charts and making our own representations

Year 5 - Hackney School of Food

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

Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 1 2023

...nd Nora for that extra effort....

Year 5: Science - Magnetism and Decanting

If you lost a bunch of paperclips in sand, how could you get it back? What if you spilt a bunch of oil onto your glass of water, how could you get that out? Today in science, we talked about two methods of separating materials: magnetism and decanting. We carried out 2 different experiments to test...

Year 5 Sky colour role play

... look at the fantastic acting....

Year 5 - Science - Life Cycle Wheels

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

Year 5 - Maths: Angles in real life

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

Year 5 – Spanish: Eurovision

The international song contest is an engaging and competitive way to get students thinking about how languages relate to one another, as well as a great opportunity to consolidate geographical and of course, language knowledge. Students have enjoyed listening to some of the songs, and giving and...

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...

Year 5 - Literacy: Instructional text

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5S: sharing assembly - Windrush

Class 5S performed their lovely sharing assembly to their peers. They produced, acted and directed a play based on Floella Benjamin and her experiences during Windrush (history topic). It was absolutely amazing!

Year 5 - Art: Evaluation (Outdoor Lesson)

As an introduction to our new topic, we looked at some art from the 1960s and even investigated Andy Warhol’s art. We talked about what similarities and differences we noticed about a style of art called pop art. As a class, we evaluated a piece of art together. We discussed the colours,...

Year 5 – Spanish/Music joint project

...nd 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 , texture and tempo . A very fortunate small ...

Year 5 - Chicks

The chicks have arrived! We are so lucky to have a set of beautiful chicks and they spent their first day out of the shell in the bustling 5C classroom. We even made time to let them out for a wonder and a cuddle!

Year 5 - Literacy: Art

To help us really understand the experiences of the main character Marisol, in the book Sky Color by Peter H Reynolds, we created our own art inspired by pictures from the book!

Year 5 – Los planetas

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

Math - Adding decimals with different decimal places

...t enjoying the lovely weather....

Year 5 - Computing Week 2

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

Residential Day 1

Year 5 - Literacy: Biography research (Computing)

For our literacy topic, we are learning to write biographies. As we are reading Floella Benjamin's Coming to England, we decided to write about her. We did research using a range of sources, such as fact files and the internet

Year 5 - Geography WOW Day: Turkey

To end our topic of learning about Turkey, we created some art inspired by Turkish ceramics and appreciated Turkish food with a celebration at the end of the day. We learnt that blue is a prominent colour in Turkish culture and we evaluated the food that we ate and thought about what we liked about...

Year 5 - Computing: Friction and Functions

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Year 5 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day

What are the 8 points of a compass? What are thematic maps? What about a topographical map? On this Mapping Skills Day, we learnt that maps can tell us a lot of information, including how much rainfall a place may get. We ended the day by making our own maps out of salt dough

Year 5 - DT: Moving Dragons

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

Year 5 - Maths: Fractions of Quantity

... some new things!...

Year 5 - RE Day: Sikhism

Did you know that Sikhism started from a person called Guru Nanak who wanted to make a better religion that treats everyone fairly? We learnt this and lots more today. Have a look at our learning!

Year 5 - Safer Internet Day 2023

Today is Safer Internet Day! Do you know how to stay safe on the internet? What would you do if you found a page that told you you had won £1000? We discussed what we would do in these situations and made posters about it!

Year 5 - Literacy: Dragon Trump Cards

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

Year 5 - 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 5 - Literacy: Curiosity Collage

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

Year 5 - Spanish - Spring Term 2

...ort their reading....

Year 5 - Science: Planets

Do you know an easy way to remember the order of the planets? Do you know what spherical bodies are? These are things we learnt about today in Science!

Year 5 - Science: Geocentric vs. Heliocentric

Do you know what geocentric or heliocentric means? Today, we investigated the different theories of our solar system and we learnt that different people in the past had different opinions on what space looked like! Have a listen to some of our questions to different significant people in history

Year 5 - World Book Day 2023

...aracter? Can you spot them in Year 5? Can you spot any characters you know?...

Year 5 - Literacy: Conscience Alley

Should Harry Potter stay with the Dursley's or go with Hagrid to Hogwarts? What do you think? Would you trust going to a new school with someone you've just met? We debated this by doing a conscience alley and had some amazing arguments!

Year 5 - Maths: Perimeter

... of the chosen 2D shape....

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!

Year 5 - RE Day: What can we learn from the past?

Do you know about the difficult past for Jewish people? We learnt about the struggles, prejudice and tragedies they have experienced throughout history and discussed why it is important to learn about the past

Year 5 - Computing: Game Design

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

Year 5 - Literacy: Art-ish

Sun-ish, tree-ish, butterfly-ish, fish-ish. What do you do when your drawing looks ALMOST like the thing you meant to draw? We made art inspired by the book "Ish" to show us that even if it isn't perfect, we can all do art!

Year 5 - Antony Gormley Treasure Hunt

Today we learned about Antony Gormley and his famous sculptures by hunting for information! What facts do you know about Antony Gormley?

Year 5 - Maths Outdoor Learning

...ff our long division topic in Year 5, we took our learning outdoors and thought about how we could divide large numbers. We spent the morning drawing out our learning on the playground in chalk!...

Year 5 - Harry Potter Slumber Party

To celebrate finishing our whole class reader, we watched Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. We dressed in our pyjamas and brought our teddy bears and blankets to make it extra cosy

Year 5 - Literacy Roleplay

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

Year 5 - Mapping Skills Day

What did we remember about maps from the Autumn term? We put this to the test during our second Mapping Skills Day of the year! We looked at features of maps and types of maps. We even drew our own map of Iceland and created a 3D replica based on a topographic map of Iceland

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

Year 5 - Reading: Art

...aughter 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!...

Aspiring Authors in Year 5

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

Year 5 - Computing: SMART

...upport when we are online? In Year 5 today, we learnt about SMART, which helps us stay safe on the internet. We discussed our thoughts and took notes on Purple Mash....

Year 5 WOW Day - Ancient Greeks

To celebrate the end of our History topic on Ancient Greeks, we created, designed and painted our own Greek inspired vases using salt dough. Have a look at our fun day!

KS2 Singing Assembly - 25th January 2022

Year 5 - Science: Separating Materials

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

Year 5 - Chinese New Year

... it is the Year of the Tiger? Year 5s have been learning to write important greetings in Chinese that is traditionally said to others during the New Year to show respect!...

Year 5 - Computing: Plagiarism

Do you know what plagiarism is? We learnt about it and how we have to reference the information we copy or borrow from different sources!

Year 5 - Science: Filtering and Sieving

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

Year 5 - Safer Internet Day

... aren't comfortable with? Year 5s have been discussing this today as it is Safer Internet Day and now have the knowledge and skills to tackle these challenging situations!...

Year 5 - 5SM Christmas Play

...ved it.......irely child led and the other Year 5 children loved it....

Year 5 - Christmas Jumper Day and Rudolph Run

...re you excited for Christmas? Year 5 are! Have a look at our eventful day!...

Year 5 - WOW Day - Iceland and Volcanoes

To end our topic of Iceland and volcanoes, we made volcanoes. We constructed, painted and erupted them today! What do you know about volcanoes?

Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: PSHE

...esponsibilities do we have as Year 5 children? We explored these during our Outdoor Learning session. We also talked about refugees and the struggles they go through when they go to a new country....

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 Mapping Skills Day

To start our Geography topic off, we refreshed our memories of geographical skills we learnt in previous years and built onto our own knowledge by learning some new skills. We looked at 8 point compasses, 4 figure coordinates, aerial photographs and even thematic maps! To end our day we went on an...

Year 5 Literacy - Little Red Riding Hood

...y, Tuesday 7th September, the Year 5 children acted out Little Red Riding Hood to immerse themselves in the story before they write the story again from the wolf’s perspective....

Year 5 Outdoor Learning

...b up Mt Kilimanjaro....

Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: Learning About Place Value

...r outdoor learning this week, Year 5 went to Daubeney Fields to learn about place value. We used different natural resources such as leaves, sticks, stones along with string to make place value charts. We then used these resources to make number representations all the way up to 100,000. After this,...

Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: Life Cycles

Our science topic of this half term is Animals and their habitats and during it we have been learning about the life cycles of different types of animals and insects. During our outdoor learning session, we learnt about a frogs life cycle, what type of animal they are and what they eat. We also...

Year 5 - RE Day - Buddhism

What did the Buddha teach about living a better life? Today we explored the religion of Buddhism and learnt about how Buddhists view life through understanding the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Do you appreciate what you have or seek out things that you don't have?

Year 5 - RE Day: What Happened to Islam in the Middle Ages?

We learnt all about the Five Pillars of Islam and even discussed what Islam was like during the middle ages. Did you know that they went through a Golden Age, where learning and inventions were thriving in the capital of Baghdad, whilst most of the rest of the world was going through the Dark Ages?...

Year 5 - Outdoor Learning: Literacy

After reading "The Boy Who Answered the Call of Kilimanjaro" yesterday, we roleplayed the story during our Outdoor Learning session. We found props and performance locations in the outdoors to help us truly imagine what it is like to be out in Tanzania

Year 5 - Maths Outside

Today we took our statistics learning outside! We created a tally chart by noting down all of the different types of vehicles that passed us. We saw way more vehicles than we predicted we would find!

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 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 - Outside Classroom Day

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Maths with Year 5

... same time’ - Ashanti...

Year 5 - Literacy: Advertisements

...g The Extraordinary Gardener in Year 5 and we created advertisements based on the book....

Year 5 - Volcano Safety Poster

...e if you live near a volcano? Year 5s have been learning about volcanoes and thought about how they could ensure people are safe if they live near one. Have a look at our posters!...

Year 5 - Adding Fractions

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

Year 5 - Role Play: Dragon Slayer

...med them for our class!!...

Year 5 - Maths: Drawing Lines and Angles

Today in maths, we put our knowledge of angles into use and drew angles using a protractor and ruler

Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance

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

Year 5 - 5SM's Sharing Assembly - May 2022

Year 5 - 5MC at IntoUniversity

On Monday we went to IntoUniversity!! We recapped our knowledge of university and participated in many activities that showed us what university life could be like! Then we recapped what we learned about Space and created different space homes based on the atmosphere of different planets. "I liked...

Year 5 - 5C at IntoUniversity

Do you know what university is about? We have been learning about what life will be like at university by experiencing university course would be like. We learnt about space and created different space homes based on the atmosphere of different planets

Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance

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

Year 5 - Design Research

...nes are similar and different....

Year 5 - Literacy: Roleplay

...y? We discussed them today in Year 5 and then used our new skills to roleplay the book "Ish" by Peter H. Reynolds, a lovely book about a child who learns to love their unique style of creating art....

Year 5 - Maths: Rounding Decimals

Do you find decimals difficult? We've learnt a super easy way to make sure we can always round decimals to the nearest tenths and whole number. We'll be putting our learning into action in tomorrow's lesson!

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 5: Maths - Decimal sequence

...eney Fields....

Year 5 - Ducklings Come to Visit

...ear 3 and have now arrived in Year 5. We have been loving playing with them and watching them grow and play!...

Year 5 - Maths: Coordinates

Today, we started off our topic of position and direction by recapping our previous learning of describing position and drawing on a grid

Year 5 - Yoga

In our first yoga lesson, we got used to being on the yoga mat, hearing sounds and enjoying relaxing yoga. We can't wait for our next session!

Year 5 - Environmental Sculptures

Today we went to Daubeney Fields to create our own sculptures based on the artist Andy Goldsworthy. We used our natural surroundings as tools and resources such as branches, twigs, leaves, feathers and mud!

Year 5 - Computing: 3D Modelling Introduction

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

Year 5 - 5C at IntoUniversity

What do you know about university? We learnt a lot of things about university yesterday when we went to IntoUniversity! We discussed areas of university like clubs and societies, accommodation and location of universities! We are so inspired about universities now!

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheets

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

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheet Area and Perimeter

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

Year 5 - Greta and the Giants Roleplay

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

Year 5 - Reading Art

This half term our whole class reading book is "The Time-Travelling Cat and the Tudor Treasure". In our reading sessions we predicted what we thought the book would be about and made some art inspired by the title of the book, time travel. We created our own ideas of time machines!

Year 5 - Computing: Spreadsheet Counters

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

Year 5 - RE Day: Sikhism

... about everything they learnt....

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 - World Book Day 2022

What a fun filled day of dress up and book related activities! We all came in as some of our favourite book characters (whether good or evil) and created a book cover and blurb about them. We spent the afternoon designing our bookmarks that we will use to remind us that reading is fun!

Year 5 - Science: Heliocentric Models

...eliocentric model." - Jaskiran...

Year 5 - Red Nose Day 2022

Have a look at our funny outfits? Which one made you laugh the most?

Year 5 - King Henry VIII

What do you know about King Henry VIII? Today we learned all his life and his impact on British history! "I liked learning about King Henry VIII because there was so many things that I didn’t know about him - such as him having 6 wives!" - Di’Sean

Year 5 - RE Day: Judaism

Today we learnt about Judaism and answered the question: What can we learn from the past? We looked at the Passover and the Holocaust and reflected on how we have learnt from those stories. We ended our day with making our own Purim masks

Year 5 - Trip to Science Museum

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Fitness and Mental Health Assembly

...This week is Fitness Week and Year 5 and Year 6 had a special assembly lead by Mr Swarbrick and Mr Shamji. My Swarbrick and Mr Shamji discussed the importance of fitness and how it supports our mental health. What types of fitness do you do?...

Year 4 and Year 5 Workshop - Giving

As part of our Giving Week, Year 4 and 5 met with Olivia (Mental Health 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...

Year 5 - History: Charles I

To end the lovely sunny day yesterday, we decided to spend our research lesson outdoors and created a poster about different aspects of Charles I’s life. At the end of the lesson, we presented our findings to the rest of the class!

Year 5 - Outdoor Reading

Yesterday was such a lovely day that we decided to spend some time reading outside. It was sunny, peaceful and relaxing!

Year 5 - Art: 1960's Inspired Collages

...es which turned out brilliant.......es resembling the 1960's; Year 5 had to select images, cut and then piece together their very ow...

Mapping Day 2023

...tart the new geography topic, Year 5 had an entire day learning about maps relating to their local a...... area . It was important that Year 5 understood the key features of a map as well as, acknowledging ...

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...

Tenerife adventures III

...hools 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 Islands landscapes, culture, food and music through a quiz, we headed outside where we learnt how to dance a...

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 3)

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

Year 5 - Science: Models of the Solar System

We learnt about how and why the model of the solar system has changed over time from the Ancient Egyptians’ God Ra, to the Ancient Greeks’ Geocentric model, to Nicolaus Copernicus’ Heliocentric model

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!

Year 5 - Maths: Percentages as decimals

We have gotten pretty good at understanding what percentages are and in this lesson, we spent our time learning about how decimals have equivalent percentages

Year 5 - Science: Day and Night

How do we have day and night? What purpose does the sun play in giving us daylight? Why is it dark at night? We investigated this in this lesson!

Tenerife adventures II

On Monday we spent the day in our partner school, CEIP César Manrique. We played games with another year 5 group in the morning and we went to visit the town hall where the mayor of Puerto de la Cruz greeted us in the afternoon! It made us feel very welcomed and fortunate. We then spent the...

Year 5 - IntoUniversity: What is a University?

We visited Hackney Downs IntoUniversity who taught us about what a university is! We learnt about who goes to university, what you can study there as well as the different locations you’ll find universities! We can’t wait to go back to learn more in the Summer term!

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!

Maths Team Trip to Museum of Brands

We enjoyed a lovely day out to the Museum of Brands in West London, where we learnt about market research and unique selling points. We then designed and priced our own chocolate bars!

Year 5 - 3D Shapes - May 2025

We recapped the 3D shapes and their properties then drew our own 3D shapes on isometric paper

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!

Year 5 - Hackney School of Food - May 2025

We visited Hackney School of Food and made Jerk Chicken, Rice and Peas!

Year 5 - History: Experiences of the Windrush

We learnt about what life was like in the Caribbean then discussed the journey. Finally, some of their experiences when people of the Windrush generation arrived in the UK. We freeze framed our interpretations and discussed their thoughts and feelings

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 2)

Are Jaffa Cakes a biscuit or a cake? We learnt about how the law can relate to things that we love, like Jaffa Cakes!

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!

Year 5 - Reading at Daubeney Fields

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

Year 5 - Science: Water Resistance

We learnt about water resistance by carrying out an experiment where we tested out dropping chunks of plasticine into water to see what shape was the most streamlined and had the least water resistance

Year 5 - Literacy: Scene descriptions

To immerse ourselves more into the book Midnight Fair, we spent the lesson discussing our thoughts and ideas on different scenes from the book and recording them in our groups

Year 5 DT: Moving Dragons

In this lesson, we learnt about levers and what input and outputs are. We created our own moving dragons using card and split pins!

Year 5 - Maths Challenge

...who took part!...

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

Year 5 - Numbers Day

To celebrate numbers day, we dressed up as numbers and also did some fun activities during our maths lesson!

Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance

We learnt about air resistance by making parachutes to test how the size of the parachute changes the speed of falling

Year 5 - Trip to Suleymaniye Mosque

...pray and how to treat a Quran....

Year 5 - Big Draw (Spring)

Do you know who Pablo Picasso is? We learnt about him and discussed the similarities of his surrealist portraits. We then created our own portraits inspired by Picasso!

Year 5 - DT: WOW Day

After recapping what we learnt this half term in DT, we spend the rest of the day creating our own wells that involved a pulley system

Year 5 - Literacy Power of Play immersion lesson

Today we used drama to re tell the beginning of the story 'The Black Hole'. We practised moving and manipulating our bodies into shapes and characters before making freeze frames of the story, focusing on the mood and emotions of the character

Year 5 - Geography: Mapping Skills Day

Today is Mapping Skills Day! We utilised our wonderful library to immerse ourselves into our topic - learning all about Turkey through maps and atlases. After that, we learnt about thematic maps and what the purpose of them is. In our third lesson, we created our own map of Turkey and included...

Year 5 - Literacy: Power of Play (Harry Potter)

Should Harry go to Hogwarts? To help us write a balanced argument formal letter, we took part in some drama activities that got us thinking about why Harry should or shouldn’t go to Hogwarts

Year 5 - School Tasking (Session 1)

We are learning about the law! We had a group of visitors from LSE come to teach us about the law through fun activities in the style of Taskmaster!

Year 5 - World Book Day 2025

Have a look at what we dressed up as this World Book Day! Do you recognise the characters we are dressed up as?

Year 5 - Cardinal Pole Visit

We visited the secondary school Cardinal Pole and took part in an experiment using a bunsen burner and different metals!

Year 5 - Maths: Regular and Irregular Polygons

We learnt about regular and irregular polygons by creating flash cards and testing ourselves with them! We even played games with them with our partners

Year 5 - Literacy: A Series of Unfortunate Events Power of Play

Year 5: Science - Stages of Human Development

We began by reflecting on our prior knowledge of life stages and life cycles in both animals and humans, considering the changes that occur as they grow. The children then created a timeline of the human life stages, identifying typical ages and exploring the physical, emotional and mental changes,...

Year 5 - Mapping Day 2026

Today was Mapping Day, and our learning focused on developing our knowledge of maps and how to use them confidently. We explored different types of maps, including thematic maps of Turkey, which link directly to our current geography topic. The children examined themes such as population, climate,...

Year 5 - Science - Spherical Bodies

...off their scientific thinking....

Cross Country & Dodgeball

...eamwork and school spirit....

Spanish - Teide’s National Park

Bringing classroom learning to life as we spent an unforgettable day at Teide’s National Park

Year 5 Wow Day - Turkey

...e geography of Turkey to life!...

Year 5: History - Windrush

...ongs....

Year 5 - Why was Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the Qur'an important to Muslims?

On RE Day, we learned about why Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and the Qur’an are important to Muslims. We looked at who the Prophet was, some key facts about his life, and why he is a special role model. We also learned about how the Qur’an was revealed and why Muslims use it to guide their...

Year 5: Wow Day - Windrush

...e Windrush generation to life....

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

...gh theatre....

Year 5 & 6 Residential Trip - July 2026 - Day 1

Year 5 & 6 Residential Trip - July 2026 - Day 2

In the Mix '26 - Day 2 Today started off sunny and bright despite the bleary eyes due to lack of sleep. Are they usually up at 4am?! 😩 It turned into a very hot one but everyone coped very well, I think 'where are your water bottles?' might turn into the slogan of the trip. Lots of brave children...

Year 5 & 6 Residential Trip - July 2026 - Day 3

Well good news, everyone slept much better last night! Which meant that at least we were better prepared for another hot day. Everyone did super well today again, pushing those limits and achieving things they might not be sure they could. We're very proud of everyone and how well they are...

Year 5 & 6 Residential Trip - July 2026 - Day 4

Year 5 & 6 Residential Trip - July 2026 - Day 5

Year 5 - Wow Day - Spring 2026

... 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 ocean. T...

Year 5 - Preparing for Tenerife

Children from across the Federation came together at Lauriston Primary for a special meeting ahead of their upcoming visit to Tenerife. It was a wonderful opportunity for pupils to meet each other, build new friendships, and collaborate on designing the logo that will represent this unforgettable...

ArtBytes Celebration Event 2025

...rtBytes again next year!...

Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive

... of them as we are. Thank you Year 5 & 6s for a laughter filled week! 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖 PINK SPARKLY HEART...

Year 5 and Year 6 - Movie screening 2025

...gh music and storytelling....

Year 5 and 6 - Boys first federation match

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

Year 5 - Mapping Day

...way to bring learning to life!...

Year 5 - Arsenal Community Outreach - Week 1 2025

...als to improve they community....

YR 5/6 Girl's Federation Football - Hackney Marshes

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

Year 5 - DT: Understanding mechanisms

We learnt more about mechanical systems and how the process of input and output makes things move. We tested our knowledge of levers, pulleys and gears so far and then made moving puppets

Year 5 - Wow Day - Tanzania and Mountains

...ion with real-world knowledge....

Year 5 & 6 Cross Country League

...ell 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 5 - Spanish - Online Games

...ough competitive online games....

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

...e children accomplishment....

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

Year 5 and Year 6 - Spanish: Word on Beat

...unds — all while having fun....

Year 5 - Literacy: Midnight Fair Power of Play

During this power of play lesson, we imagined what it would be like to be at the fair. What did the fair look like? How could we describe the world of the book. After, we created a story map of the story from our discussions

Year 5 - Energy Sparks Workshop

...y efficient? This is what the Year 5s learn about during their workshop run by Energy Sparks....

Year 5 - Computing: Blog Publishing

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

Year 5 - Math: To plot data on a graph

...ng experience for students in Year 5. Their smiles truly convey how much they were enjoying themselves throughout activity time, as you can see....

Year 5 Wow Day: DT

... will remember for a lifetime....

Year 5: Science - Air Resistance

...lowed down....

Robin class - World Book Day 2024

Can you guess who we've dressed up as?

Year 5: Science - Geocentric and Heliocentric theory

...her planets revolve around it....

Spanish - Dia del libro – World Book Day

World Book Day was first created in 1995 by UNESCO and originally aimed at promoting reading, publishing and copyright. Since then however, it has grown bigger than anyone could ever have hoped for, with over 100 countries now taking part in World Book Day Celebrations that encompass everything...

Year 5: Wow Day - Turkey (Spring 2)

...g experiences.......mics. Using what they learnt, Year 5 replicated Turkish ceramics using ideas inspired from previous ...

Year 5 – Spanish: Confidence and Fluency Speaking

... pronouncing words in Spanish....

Year 5 - science: how does gravity work?

...ing facts and amazing designs....

Year 5 - Windrush: Understanding Windrush Generation Experiences

...gration to the United Kingdom....

Science Exposé

...rs were helping us create them." Year 5 - Uzair - "I liked the bakery area because we learnt about fermentation and how the dough rises!"...

Year 5 - Robin: Sharing Assembly

This was the amazing sharing assembly of Robin class. Please watch and enjoy!

Year 5: Art - Textiles

...ks and it turned out amazing ....

Year 5 – Mexican textiles

As we start a new Content and Language Integrated project at Daubeney, children today had the opportunity to revisit their historical, geographical and cultural knowledge of Mexico through a range of different sources. Students were introduced to los rebozos, and a range of different textiles –...

Year 5 and Year 6 - Spanish: Eurocopa 2024

...essons this week, children in Year 5 and Year 6 have revisited topics such as numbers, colours, days of the week and European countries, as well as simple verb forms using EUROS as a stimulus....

Year 5: Science - Sir David Attenborough

...groups....

Year 5 - Science: Careers related to forces and motion

...how to present to their peers....

Year 5 - DT: Pulleys and gears

...and cogs for their activities....

Year 4: Transition day to Year 5!

..., we spent a day with our new Year 5 teachers! We learnt a bit about them, told them about us and created our class charter! After that, we went to King’s Hall for our swimming lesson....

Year 4/5 Win Sport Inspire

Well done for Yr 4/5 for winning Sport Inspire

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...

Year 5 - RE Day: Women in Religion

For our last RE Day of the year, we thought about how women are valued and treated in different religions. Although history has shown us that women weren't treated equally, religions usually teach to treat everyone equally

Spanish - First week

... greetings, while students in Year 5 have had the opportunity to improve their memory skills to help vocabulary retention through games, and learning about cognates - words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation. As Mapping Skills day was celebrated today across s...

Year 5 - Science: Air Resistance

...ourselves and tested them!1...

Year 5 - Math - To calculate 10, 100, 1000 , 10000 and 100000 more or less

...blems relating to place value....

Year 5 - Levi's passion for reading

Levi loves reading so much that he created his own story to share with the class. A brilliant beginning to a story...Are you excited to see how the story unfolds?

Year 5: cross curricular - Human geography in Tanzania

... get experience in presenting....

Year 5 – Spanish and Music joint project

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

Year 5 - Geography Autumn Term 2023

...eography....

Year 5 - Sea Life Trip

...ut the wonders of marine life....

Year 5 - WOW day Autumn 1 2023

...nt required for their journey....... to climb Mount Kilimanjaro ? Year 5 learnt the challenges mountain climbers face such as potential ...

Year 5 - Science: Soluble and Insoluble

...then recorded on their sheets....

Year 5 History – Gods and Goddess Fact Cards

...�� ‘Who Let the Gods Out’....

Year 5 - Ancient Greeks Wow Day - Autumn 2 2023

...implementing their own twists.......d the topic in great fashion, Year 5 created masks which represented Greek myths whilst implementing...

Year 5 - Sacred text workshop at the British Library

...tain faith....

Year 5 - Describing music in Spanish

Year 5 and 6: End of Year Seaside Trip 2024

Today was brilliant! To celebrate the end of the year, we took a coach to Southend and had fun on the beach. After that, we dove into Adventure Island where we spent the rest of the afternoon screaming and laughing on all the rides!

Year 5 - DT: Gears - Spring 2025

We made gears! We used corrugated card, cardboard and pins to create this. We learnt that one wheel moves the other in the opposite direction

Year 5 - History: Gods and Goddesses

In this lesson, we explore the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece. We already knew the names and powers of some because of the book we are reading called “Who Let the Gods Out”. Some of us were already experts. To show our learning, we designed trading cards for each of our favourite...

Year 5 - Science: Separating mixtures

In this lesson, we learnt about 4 different processes of separating mixtures: evaporating, decanting, filtering and sieving. We made our predictions on the evaporation experiment then conducted a carousel activity of the other 3 processes

Year 5 - We love our new library!

We love our new library and we love spending time exploring the books in here!

Year 5 - History: Democracy

Do you know the origins of democracy? We learnt about this in the lesson and we even role played Dikasteria. We held a court that had a jury who helped to decide the fate of the accused

Year 5 – Spanish: La música y los instrumentos musicales

...language learning....

Year 5 - Literacy: Greek Drama

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

Year 5 - Literacy: Greek Myth Story Maps

What Greek myths do you know? We read some Greek Myths and created story maps of them! Have a look!

Year 5 – Partner school in Spain. Christmas cards

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

Year 5 - RE: Autumn 2 2024

This half term’s RE day was dedicated to Christmas! We learnt about how Christmas is celebrated around the world as well as the different Christmas stories that are told to Christian children everywhere! We ended the day by making Christingle candles using actual oranges!

Year 5 - Trip to the British Museum

We have been learning loads about Greek Myths (Literacy) and Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses (History) this half term. At the British Museum, there are so many artefacts related to those topics. We spent the day exploring the museum and furthering our learning

Year 5 - History: WOW Day

To end our Ancient Greek topic, we spent the morning answering the overarching question “What influence did the Ancient Greeks have on our modern day society?” After that, we created our own Ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses inspired masks as well as Ancient Olympic like olive wreath

Year 5 - Literacy: Power of Play

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

Year 5 - Science: Friction - Spring 2025

To learn about friction, we carried out an experiment where we tested the distance that toy cars went on different surfaces

Year 5 - History: Hierarchy in Ancient Greece

Do you know what the four levels of society there are? We learnt about that this lesson by discussing with our groups and creating a information poster for it

Year 5 - Science: Soluble or Insoluble

Do you know what soluble or insoluble means? Today, the children in year five learnt the meaning of these two words. We learnt about what it means for a substance to dissolve and we even did an experiment to test out what we know

Year 5 - Our second week in Year 5

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

Year 5 - Literacy: Punctuation Posters

Do you know what the different punctuation marks mean? We spent the lesson recapping them and creating posters that will go up on our display board to help us with our learning

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 5 - Trip to Bank of England Museum

Today we spent our morning at the museum! We learnt lots of money related facts and we even got to see some real money! This helped see our recent maths learning of place value and rounding in action!

Year 5 - Geography: Human Geography

We learnt that human geography means things to do with people. We spent the lesson researching what the economy, trade, culture and food is like in Tanzania! We then created a presentation to show what we have learnt

Year 5 - Geography: Jane Goodall

Do you know who Jane Goodall is? We learnt that she is a zoologist who dedicated her life to learning about chimpanzees in Tanzania. We learnt lots of things about her and we put our new-found knowledge into practice by creating a comic of the key events of her life!

Year 5 - Geography: Physical Landmarks of Tanzania

From lakes to mountains, Tanzania has a wide variety of physical landmarks. We learnt what these were and how they are different to Human or Man Made landmarks. We then created a leaflet about the different landmarks you can find in Tanzania

Year 5 - Literacy: Adverts

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

Year 5 - Maths: Comparing calculations

We are pretty confident at using greater than, less than and equal to signs but how do we use them when we aren’t comparing numbers but whole calculations? This was the focus of this lesson!

Year 5 children train to be Peer mediators

Year 5 - Maths: Place Value

We have been learning about numbers up to 1 MILLION! In this lesson, we imagined that we were teaching Mr O’Flynn how to find a number on a number line

Year 5 - Maths: Rounding

In this lesson, we recapped rounding and discussed the steps to do it. We then put our knowledge into a real life situation by rounding the average salaries of jobs that we might be interested in

Year 5 - Maths: Subtraction

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

Year 5 - Reading for Pleasure

... of school!...

Year 5 - Geography: WOW Day

Do you know how you would prepare to climb Mount Kilimanjaro? We finished our Mountains topic by celebrating our learning. First, we answered the overarching question, then we made a to do list for people planning to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Finally, we designed and created our own backpacks and...

Year 5 - Literacy: Himalayas Research

Do you know where the Himalayas are? We will be creating adverts for the Himalayas so to get us ready, we spent the lesson researching the Himalayas. We wrote down lots of facts so that we can use them to persuade our audience

Year 5 - RE: Autumn 1 2024

What impact do beliefs have on actions? This is of big question of the year. This half term, we focused on “What inner forces affect how we think and behave?” We explored these topics and stories: temptation, Adam and Eve, Jonah and the Whale, and forces of good in the world

Year 4M IntoUniversity

...o University when they are in Year 5 and a whole week in Year 6....

Year 5 - British Science Week 2021: Solar System

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

Year 5 - Big Draw - June 2021

...to sketch. Well done everyone!...

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 - Imaginary Worlds and Words

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

Year 5 - Imperial War Museum

...losions were" - Raheim 5M...

Year 5 - Inspire Work Week

... three judges....

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 - Instructional Text

... game which they designed....

Year 5 - IntoUniversity

...reations. Well done Year 5!......it did not have an age limit! Year 5 took part in a range of activities and put a lot of effort into......their creations. Well done Year 5!...

Year 5 - IntoUniversity: Space

...oying Science....

Year 5 - Headlines

... can identify....

Year 5 - Junior Maths Team

...uary 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 modelling how we can convert hours to days and back again....

Year 5 - Junior Scientist

..........out the moon. This helped the Year 5 children understand the importance of sharing and publishing sc...

Year 5 - Leaflets

... any topic of your choice....

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

...nd 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 - Human Form Inspired by Anthony Gormley

...ey's work....

Year 5 - Graphic Novels Expo

...ld improve.......novel with our peers in other Year 5 classes. We gave each other effective feedback by saying wha...

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

...rican Village....

Year 5 - Favourite Book and Author

... book and why?...

Year 5 - Drama Workshop

...t. It was a very fun workshop!...

Year 5 - Eco Active Workshop

...ys of helping our environment....

Year 5 - ecoACTIVE Bugs

...en tohave an amazing workshop....

Year 5 - Equivalent Fractions

...Today (30th January 2019) the Year 5 children had a practical lesson to help them to find an equivalent fraction. The children used pizza fractions and blank fraction cut outs to show equivalent fractions. We played a game of 'Fair or NOT Fair' to identify whether the fractions were equivale...

Year 5 - Exploring Earth and Space

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

Year 5 - Fashion Show

...ucts would you buy?......ll done for all the hard work Year 5! What was your favourite part of the fashion show? What company...

Year 5 - Finding a Fraction of an Amount

...oday (11th February 2019) the Year 5 children had an exciting maths lesson using concrete and visual resources to help them find a fraction of an amount. The children watched a video prepared by the teachers, then used the concrete materials to help them solve the calculations. After, they used whit...

Year 5 - Graphic Novels

This morning (11-12-2018) the year 5 children had a fun session where they were asked to complete the speech in a graphic novel. The children were given a comic strip, they read through it and then decided the best speech to use in the comic. Our next step will be to plan a graphic novel and create...

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

...fire occurred....

Year 5 - Fitness

...althy diet is being eaten.......ed by our sports coaches. The Year 5 children will use the good weather this term to promote a healt...

Year 5 - Fly Butterflies, Fly High!

The children in 5M said their last goodbye to the butterflies, which they cared for from the caterpillar stage, through to the pupa stage then watched them come out as beautiful butterflies

Year 5 - Fractions

...ebruary 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 worked in pai...

Year 5 - Fractions With Like Denominators

...Today (1st November 2017) the Year 5 children enjoyed their group work lesson, where they learnt to ...... example of great learning in Year 5!...

Year 5 - Graphic Novels

... for our comic....

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

Our whole school focus book this term, 'Where's Elephant' is an amazing book about an elephant who falls victim to deforestation. The children in year 5 were excited to draw the before and after effects of deforestation. They captured the colour and size of the jungle and then showed the same...

Year 5 - Literacy and Art

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

Year 5 - Drama and Literacy

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

Year 5 - Publishing Diaries

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

Year 5 - Poems in the Hop-garden

...nt techniques....

Year 5 - Poetry Workshop

...o create a free-style rap....

Year 5 - Poets

... by the children for them....

Year 5 - Professional Authors

... amazing work.......blish the very first story in Year 5. This term, the children have been reading a story and used the...

Year 5 - Published!

... achievements....

Year 5 - Publishing Balanced Arguments

...lanations of their points....

Year 5 - Publishing Our Biographies

The year 5 pupils were focused while they published their biographies. They used their drafts in their books, along with notes they made and began to publish the biography. On Thursday the children will do their 'Hot Task', where they will write a biography on a different person using notes...

Year 5 - Percentages

...rning further....

Year 5 - RE Day

...he Four Noble Truths....

Year 5 - RE Day: Christian Values

...rables and their meanings....

Year 5 - RE Day: Sikhism

The children in year 5 had their RE day today (10th January 2019) and studied the beliefs and values of the Sikh faith and community. They took part in a range of activities; designed a Gurdwara, create a poster for Vaisakhi, learnt about the Golden temple and studied the importance and...

Year 5 - Reasoning

...working steps....

Year 5 - Religious Education Day

...oday (28th February 2019) the Year 5 children studied the beliefs of the Jewish faith. We learnt about their values, beliefs, festivals and the history the of Jewish people in Ancient Egypt and during the Holocaust....

Year 5 - Role Play: 'Welcome' by Barroux

The children in 5M were excited today (1st November 2018) when we read the story 'Welcome' by Barroux, a great book discussing issues of migration and kindness. The children got the opportunity to role play scenes from the story and then we put all the scenes together to make the story come...

Year 5 - Role Play: Understanding a Story

...hinking....

Year 5 - Planting Bean Plants

...ur Hop garden....

Year 5 - Our Very Own Kandinsky

...n 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 p...

Year 5 - Literacy Unit

...ood and geographical features....

Year 5 - Money, money, money!

...nd calculating the change....

Year 5 - London Buddhist Centre

The children were delighted to visit the London Buddhist centre and had the opportunity to explore the beliefs and teachings of Buddhist. They we excited to see the two shrine rooms and were amazed at the decor and artefacts

Year 5 - Making Chocolate Cornflake Cakes

... fridge to set Enjoy! :)...

Year 5 - Measure and Mass

Today (10th December 2018) the children used scales to measure the actual weight of everyday items around the classroom. They had to first estimate the weight, then measure their items. The children measured some interesting items

Year 5 - Measurement in Maths

Today (12-12-2018) the children in year 5 had an amazing maths lesson where they made slime. The children had to use various measuring equipment, measure actual ingredients and then after mixing it all together produced SLIME. The children enjoyed the lesson and asked, "Could we do this...

Year 5 - Meet the Worms

5M had a wonderful time today with Eco Active looking at composting and how to recycle our left over food. Worms play an important part in our food and compost making and the children were delighted to meet the worms who are responsible for breaking down our foods and turning them into soil we can...

Year 5 - Mexican Carnival

... a great time....

Year 5 - Morning Fitness

... -dodge-ball. The children in Year 5M have been enjoying their second PE sessions every Tuesday mornings, where they play invasion games to help promote a healthy start to the day....

Year 5 - Our Planets

...reate a wonderful display....

Year 5 - Morning Meditation

This morning (24th April 2019) 5Mc started their day with a calm and relaxing session using meditating. The children were relaxed and ready to start their music session feeling awake and refreshed. Even Mr O'flynn joined in the meditating session and felt calm and relaxed

Year 5 - Natural History Museum

...iving Things Including Humans....

Year 5 - Newspapers

...ovember 2018) the children in Year 5 had a chance to explore and read a variety of newspaper articles. This term, for our long burst genre, we will be looking at news-papers and creating our own articles. Encourage your child to read the news at home....

Year 5 - North America Topic

...l information....

Year 5 - Number and Place Value

...vering more on this topic....

Year 5 - Online Safety

...y safe online....

Year 5 - Online SPAG

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

Year 5 - Drama Workshop

...s which were funny and moving!...

Year 5 - Division with Money

...ms....

Year 5 - Royal Academy of Engineering

...n we were given cupcakes!!...

School Council Elections

...eeches Monday 3rd October - Year 5 speeches Tuesday 4th October - Year 6 speeches Elections will take place in the room next to the learning space on Monday 10th October. New school council will be announced on Wednesday 12th October with their first meeting held on Monday 17th October....

Easter Bonnet Parade 2017 - Year 5 and 6

...er Bonnet Parade....

KS2 Sports Day 2015

Key Stage 2 took part in their annual sports day

KS2 Sports Day 2016

Key Stage 2 made their way to the Copper Box Area for their annual sports day. These are the highlights

Maths Times Table Challenge

Children from Year 3 to Year 6 participated in a times table challenge. The children were extremely excited and enthusiastic to take part and pit their speed and accuracy skills against their peers. The children received team points, certificates and mathematical games and puzzles as reward for...

Publishing Year 5 - Newspaper Reports

The children in year 5 were focused today (27-11-2018) in their literacy sessions, where they began to publish their newspaper reports on plastic pollution. The children will get an opportunity to write another report, as a HOT TASK on Thursday on deforestation

Religious Education Day in Year 5

...ovember 2017, the children in Year 5 explored Buddhism. They discussed the significant beliefs and values from the faith and the teachings of Buddha. the children enjoyed learning about the religion and created their own front page for their topic books....

School Councillors visit Credit Suisse

...to them....

Developing Writing in Year 2 and Year 5

...welcome the Year 2 writers to Year 5 where they were supported to develop and extend their learning.......eir learning. The children in Year 5 helped the Year 2 writers to extend their sentences using relat...

Year 2/5 - Developing Literacy Skills Using Brackets

It was a very special morning today, Friday 8th December 2017, for two special young stars from 2K, who came to 5M to enhance their learning. In the session, our two young stars developed their literacy skills by using brackets, to add more details about their subject. In maths they answered Next...

Year 2K Peer Tutored by 5M

...ping 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 key stage 1 and key stage 2....

Year 3 and 5 - Magic Maths

This morning (19th October 2018) 5M were pleasantly surprised when a young mathematician from 3G paid them a visit. The young maths master showed the class a range of math tricks, math magic and number patterns using his times tables knowledge and calculator skills. The entire class in 5M were...

Year 4 - IntoUniversity Workshop

...g.......rward to being permanently in Year 5, where they will get a chance to go to the 'Into University...

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 - 3D Nets

...the 3D shapes....

Discussing Sustainable Modes of Transport in Spanish

...transports lead by Ms Cherid, Year 5 and some Spanish champions had a travel survey and discussed the transports they prefer using and why in Spanish. Pupils also shared the way they travel to school and their reasons....

Daubeney Live 2016

...an eye out for those virtuoso Year 5 musicians as they are getting better all the time. There is no limit to what they can achieve. Check out this video of Bridge Academy wowing the audience....

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!

5M African Drumming Session

As part of our Black History Month, the children in 5M were excited to take part in a drumming session, where they learnt about rhythm, pattern and tone

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...

5M - Inspire Work Week Project

The children in 5M were excited to create their own fashion T-shirts, 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...

5M - Meet the Tribe

...t the Native American Culture....

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

...create his own drawing....

5M and 2K - Peer Tutors

...en were so 'CUTE'.......t to do their learning in the Year 5 class. Mr Matvad thought that the Year 2 children were so '...

Daubeney Carnival 2017

Each year group presented a dance from a different culture or tradition before joining together for a whole-school big dance!

5M Decorating Their Christmas Hoop

...un and our hoop looks AMAZING!...

5M Fashion Show

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

5M Reading With 4S

The children in 5M welcomed the exciting young writers from 4S and had a chance to read their stories. The main focus of the session was to evaluate how well the year 4S children were writing and help them to improve by giving positive criticism

5O - IntoUniversity

...tudy a subject in more detail....

Chain Reaction Workshop

...fun and interesting.” - Year 5 pupil “I liked the way that [Chain Reaction] inspired children not to use anger to hurt other people and they should take five seconds and let the anger fade away from them.” - Year 6 pupil “I learnt a lot because it was related to real life a...

Christmas Number 1

...p go animation music video by Year 5 student Kai Sherwin will be released on the 14 th of December at this year’s school carol concert. Also the school band will be performing our single live at this same event. Daubeney Primary School is proud to support Great Ormond Street Hospital Children...

Collage by Atticus and Khanya 5M

...e of song writing....

Year 5 - 3D Shapes

...s....

Year 5 - 5M Design Their Own Ancient Greek Vase

...February 2018....

Year 5 - Distance Time Graph

...ta....

Year 5 - Celebrating Diversity

...in our school....

Year 5 - Biographies

...raphy about and why?"...

Year 5 - Biography

...ormation....

Year 5 - Book Corner

The children in 5M were extremely proud of their book corner today (3rd April 2019) when they re-packed the booked corner ensuring their learning space is a space that not only looks good, but has a welcoming feel to read books for pleasure. 5M would like to welcome anyone to come along and read in...

Year 5 - Brain Workshop

...thinks and notices images....

Year 5 - British Science Week 2019

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

Year 5 - Carnival Headbands

...ss curricular topic this term....

Year 5 - Celebrating World Maths Day

...9;...

Year 5 - Balanced Argument

...as the starting point for the Year 5 long burst genre, Balanced Arguments. The children began with a ‘COLD TASK’, writing a balanced argument with limited input. The idea of the cold task is to assess prior knowledge and then teachers will plan accordingly in order to best support the ch...

Year 5 - Chalk Art

...thony Gormley....

Year 5 - Chatsworth Road Palace

The children in year 5 had a very special trip today (4-12-2018) to Chatsworth Road Palace to watch a drama show with their own toys as the main characters. The children were asked to bring in a toy and it was sued on stage as part of the characters. It was really fun to see their toys acting

Year 5 - Conscious Alley Role Play

... open the box?...

Year 5 - Cooking Week

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

Year 5 - Creating Navajo Patterns

...ol as part of our display....

Year 5 - Cross Curricular: Crime and Punishment

...iffered to our modern ones!...

Year 5 - Daubeney Poetry Competition Entries

...mpetition. Good look everyone!...

Year 5 - Beast Quest!

... Matvad in 5M....

Year 5 - Balance Arguments

...Today (15th January 2019) the Year 5 pupils were engaged in an activity where they had to compile points for and against. Our topic of discussion was ' should we allow a zoo to operate'. The children came up with some interesting arguments, points and opinions about the topic. We then extend...

Year 5 - 5M Developing Mathematical Skills Using IXL

The children enjoyed their session today when they used online learning tool to develop their mathematical skills. The children logged on to IXL and practised the objectives that we visited in Autumn Term. Children are encouraged to keep practising their maths skills at home using IXL

Year 5 - 5M True Artists

...nd the school....

Year 5 - 5M Fire Safety

...d fire safety....

Year 5 - 5M Friendship Week Posters

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

Year 5 - 5M Full STEAM Ahead

...ted resources....

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 - 5M IntoUniversity: Engineering and Design

5M had an amazing learning time at our whole day session at IntoUniversity. The children had a whole day focused on engineering and designing activities and participated in many hands on activities

Year 5 - 5M Sustainability Pledge

This week (Spring Term 1 Week 6) the children learnt all about the dangers of plastic pollution. The class made a pledge to help put a stop to plastic polluting our oceans

Year 5 - 5M Word Tree

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

Year 5 - Author Karen McCombie Visits for World Book Day

...ing their World Book week....

Year 5 - 5MC Big Draw Vincent Van Gogh

...ember – Years 5 and 6...

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 - Adverts

...iteracy units....

Year 5 - African Dance Workshop

...ck 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 - Aladdin

Year 5 - Ancient Greeks at The British Museum

...f new things' - Alenna, 5O...

Year 5 - Annie

Year 5 - Roman Numerals

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

Year 5 - Science and Maths

...s....

Year 5 - Science Team Meeting

Today we had another look at female scientists. In groups, we choose a scientist, researched her and presented the information to the rest of the team!

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...

Year 5 - Crazy Day Disco

...to bust some moves!...

Year 5 - 5M Forensic Science Workshop

...ate the missing dog....

Year 5 - The Big Draw 2019

...res....

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

Today 5MC took 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...

KS2 Sports Day 2019

Another wonderful Daubeney KS2 Sports Day was enjoyed by all that participated and watched last Thursday at Mabley Green. A big thank you to all the staff who supported and encouraged our children on the day, especially Mr Simon and Mr Simeon our PE teachers. As always, a big thank you to you our...

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...

Year 5 - 5M Britania Sports Day 2019

...for the young sports stars in Year 5M who took part in the annual Britania Sports Day in Hoxton, whe...... the borough. The children in Year 5M were fully engaged and were committed to giving their best, an...

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 5 Residential 2019 - Day 4

[menu name="year5-residential-2019"] It’s day 4 and you’d have thought the tiredness would have set in by now... well it has with the teachers. The children are just as energised as ever. They finished last night with wider games and the usual hot chocolate before bed. This...

Year 5 Residential 2019 - Day 5

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

Capital Kids Cricket Festival

...th July 2019) the children in Year 5 had a wonderful time at the CKC cricket festival, where they celebrated 30 years of dedicated service to coaching and mentoring young future stars. The children participated in a variety of different activities and cricket games and as a bonus each child received...

Year 5 - End of Year Picnic

...th July 2019) the children in Year 5 enjoyed a lovely day out in Victoria Park. They had a picnic and played games in the park while enjoying the good Summer weather....

Year 5 at UBS

...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 car had to be...

Daubeney Spelling Bee 2019

...ng bee records this year – In Year 5, Yellow Team won 1st, 2nd and 3rd place! Also, 6S grabbed ALL the prizes in Year 6! Well done to all the contestants that took part. Will you be taking part in next year’s competition? Keep working on those spellings! - By Kai Foo-Sherwin 6F, Junior Literacy ...

Year 5 - Central Synagogue

... pupils on Jewish beliefs....

Year 5 - WOW Day

...merica using card and colours....

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...

Summer Project 2018

... Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6...

Carnival 2018

... dancing to Bear Necessities, Year 5 dancing to Thriller and even the Reception children gave a great performance to the song Fame. Thank you to all the parents who were able to come and show their support, dancing and clapping along to each performance. We are looking forward to next years carnival...

Year 5 - Catapults

...tive....

Daubeney Carnival 2019

Year 5 - Adverts

...ach others porridge....

Year 5 - Anglo Saxon Helmets

...For the past couple of weeks, Year 5 have been learning about the Anglo Saxons! This week Year 5 wer......t the Anglo Saxons! This week Year 5 were asked on Google Classroom to create their own Anglo Saxon ...

Year 5 - Literacy with Art Focus

... of course had lots of fun!...

Year 5 - Geography: Tanzania

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

Year 5 - WOW Day

Today we learned specifically about the Maasai tribe of Tanzania. We then designed and created our own Maasai inspired jewellery. We had a really fun afternoon, have a look!

Year 5 - RE Day

Today we were learning about Islam! Specifically, we were learning about Islam during the Middle Ages - this was called the Golden Age of Islam. We learned about the many inventions that were created at this time which includes cameras, perfume and medicines. What do you know about Islam?...

Year 5 - Life Cycles

...es do you know?...

Year 5 - Publishing Poetry

Today, we published the poetry we had been writing which was all about what were appreciate in our lives! This was limited to a whole school book we studied called Look Up!

Year 5 - 5MC Christmas Song

Prefect Applications for 2020-21

... - 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 objectives To demon...

Year 5 - Christmas Song

...e same for parents and carers!...

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 5 - British Science Week 2021: Outdoor Learning

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

Prime Numbers with Year 5

Today we learned about prime numbers! We learned that prime numbers only have 2 factors and that numbers with more than 2 factors are composite numbers!

History Dress Up Day 2021

...r 4: Anglo Saxons and Vikings Year 5: British Monarchs Year 6: Ancient Kingdom of Benin Why not leave a comment to share your joy and learning?...

Year 5 - Science: Properties and Changes of Materials

... and had lots of fun doing it!...

Year 5 - Wow Day - 27th May 2021

...e to make the volcanoes erupt!...

Year 5 - Setting the Scene

...igs in your version?......f the innocent wolf! Today Year 5 drew a scene from their version of the Three Little Pigs. Wh...

A Series of Unfortunate Events

Chapter 13 has been added. This is the last chapter is the book. I hope you enjoyed it. If you want to continue with the series, the next book is called The Reptile Room! Who is your favourite character and why? What do you predict will happen next?! Does anything about this story frustrate you?...

Year 5 - Learning About University

...modation, clubs and societies....

Year 5 - Comic Gallery

...ay we showcased our comics in Year 5 gallery and discussed what we liked about each others work. What is your favourite ancient Greek myth?...

Year 5 - Art: Watercolour Paint

... to create your artwork?...

Year 5 Christmas Show 2019 - Peter Pan

Year 6 - 6S Send Fan Mail to Year 5

...r 5!...... performance! Well done again Year 5!...

Year 5 - Greek Clay Pots

...atterns!...

Year 5 - Wow Day

...r Greek pots and painted them....

Year 5 & 6 - Dodgeball Competition

...ill continue....

Year 5 Opens Shop

...ling in the Year 5 mall?......nge and even using a bank! Year 5, what was your favourite experience when shopping and selling i......n shopping and selling in the Year 5 mall?...

Baller Boys Author Visit

...ally liked all the different characters.’ – Year 5 ‘We enjoyed listening to part of the story. We can’t wait to read the book!’ – Year 4 ‘The children really enjoyed the workshop. It was very interactive and they could put themselves in the characters’ shoes. The characters are very ...

Year 5 Wow Day: Design and Technology

...d succeed with flying colours!...

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 1

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] Wow! What a start! What do you get when you’ve got 70 super excited, amazing pupils rearing to take over Youlbury Scout Centre? You get the Daubeney residential team! It was a very excitable coach journey with us arriving in plenty of time for...

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 3

[menu name="year5-6-residential-2020"] Day 3 and things are not slowing down. The sun even poked its head through the clouds for a few glorious seconds. The children finished an exhilarating day of activities today with fried chicken, wedges and waffles with ice-cream for dinner. Oh,...

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...

Year 5 and 6 Residential 2020 - Day 5

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

Year 5 - Finding the Area and Perimeter

...start with the correct one!...

Year Groups

... Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Nurture Group...

Year 5 - Scientific Experiment

...st....

Year 5 - The Tansformation Has Begun!

The children in 5M are so excited as our caterpillars have started their transformation and are entering the chrysalis stage. Soon the pupa will go through metamorphosis and our beautiful butterflies will appear. We can’t wait to see this process happen right in front of our very eyes

Year 5 - The Caterpillars Are Growing

The year 5 children are super excited to see their baby caterpillars growing and becoming ready for their next stage. Soon, they will enter the chrysalis stage where they will begin the amazing process of metamorphosis. Once they have changed into butterflies, we will update you and we hope to...

Year 5 - The Caterpillars Are HERE!

The children in 5M are super excited as their caterpillars have arrived. Almost everyone in class commented," They so CUTE". We will be monitoring the growth of the caterpillar and carefully watch as it becomes a pupa and enters its chrysalis. We have a special net to keep the pupa in...

Year 5 - The Environment and Food Waste

...ducated about food composting....

Year 5 - The Friction Test

...science (23rd April 2019) the Year 5 children tested the different effects of friction, using four different surfaces. The children build a ramp and with a toy car measured the distance the car travelled on different surfaces, testing the effects of friction....

Year 5 - The Night Sky

... hall for all children to see....

Year 5 - The Power of Erosion

The children in year 5 had an exciting lesson today (26-09-2018) when they studied the power of erosion. they also looked at the different ways of erosion and identified how rocks and other formation are created

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

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

Year 5 - The BIG Draw

...e....

Year 5 - Time Problems

...ome questions....

Year 5 - Trip to British Museum

...lso an amazing experience....

Year 5 - We are FREE

We are FREE Thursday we celebrated National Poetry day and our theme was FREEDOM. So the children in 5M decided it was the perfect opportunity to release our butterflies, who had grown so huge, into the wild to allow them to taste their FREEDOM. Fly little butterfly Roam the skies Enjoy life...

Year 5 - We Designed Our Own Zoo!

As part of our literacy topic, 'balanced arguments', we discussed the impact of a zoo and debated whether we should or should not have a zoo. We decided today (16th January 2019) to design our own zoo to allow animals to live in a safe environment which is similar to their natural habitat....

Year 5 - We Made Our Own Catapult

...ms as the term progresses....

Year 5 - We Made Our Own Planets

...stic learning.......nce board. Please come to the Year 5 classes if you would like to see our fantastic learning....

Year 5 - The Boy Who Cried Wolf

Today (26th April 2019) the children in year completed their published story based on the Aesop tale, 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf'. The children used the ideas from the story and write their own version from the view of the main character - the boy. The pupils, in addition to the story added in...

Year 5 - The Big Draw

...5.......esentation of the children in Year 5....

Year 5 - Work Week 2018

...pert judges. Well done Year 5!......l of expert judges. Well done Year 5!...

Year 5 - Solving Word Problems Using Fractions

...ovember 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 that they were secured in...

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. Ea...

Year 5 - Self Assessment: Fractions, Decimal, Percentages

... (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 within t...

Year 5 - Seperating Mixture Experiment

The children in year 5 today (1st April 2019) were very busy this afternoon in their science lesson. the task was to use various mixtures; sand and iron, sand and plastic, flour and lentils, sand and water and with resources they had to separate the mixtures using their scientific knowledge

Year 5 - Short Stories

...ed....

Year 5 - Sliding

The year 5 children enjoyed a fun filled activity today. They used the mats and their body movements to help them slide across the floor

Year 5 - Solving Word Problems

...Today (17th January 2019) the Year 5 children worked in pairs and groups to solve a variety of mathe......olve the calculations. The Year 5 children are now encouraged to use their IXL maths program to c...

Year 5 - Special Crime Investigators

The year 5 children had a lovely afternoon session today, when they were actual forensic investigators. they had to use the clues left at the crime scene, do various forensic test to identify the guilty person

Year 5 - The Bar Model

...nd solve the calculations....

Year 5 - Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (SPAG)

...s?...

Year 5 - STEAM Competition

...l 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 through to the finals. Most ...

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 - Story Time: 'Pandoras Box'

...s morning (9th November 2018) Year 5M enjoyed a lovely story to start the day. We listened and watched the story of 'Pandoras Box'. the children enjoyed the story and found the myth to be very interesting....

Year 5 - Study Star Number Challenge

...th your child....

Year 5 - Team Teaching, Team Learning

...n learning together as a team!...

Year 5 - Telling The Time

...h March 2019) the children in Year 5 were using clocks to help them tell the time. Then they used bl...... on their clock faces. The Year 5 pupils have been encouraged to practice telling time and using ...

Year 5 - Whole School Focus: Art

...n art gallery....

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 5M - Young Teachers

...em with their next steps. The Year 5 children helped the Year 1 children to extend their knowledge about money, and modelled to them ordering different amounts. We are so proud of our young teachers who are always willing to help develop children's learning....

Year 5 Visit to Our Lady's Secondary School

...to now." - Andrea 5O...

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 Residential 2018 - Day 4

It’s day 4 and you’d have thought the tiredness would have set in by now... well it has with the teachers. The children are just as energised as ever. They finished last night with wider games which incorporated orienteering with a quiz. Of course, Mr Swarbrick’s group emerged...

Year 5 Residential 2018 - Day 5

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

Year 5 SEAL - Hopes and Dreams

...happiness can be achieved....

Year 5 SEAL - Jobs and Careers

...nt to society and why....

Year 5 visit the Science Museum

...itely added to the WOW factor!......, technology and engineering. Year 5 enjoyed all that the film had to teach us and felt inspired and...

Year 5 Visit to the Science Museum

...day?...

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 Were Dancing

...e for our summer carnival....

Year 5 Work Week

...fashion show!' Crystal, 5G...

Year 5's Air Resistance Experiments

.... The results were amazing!...

Year 5's Trip to the Adventure Playground

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 5: The Wizard of Oz

We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz

Year 5M - Adventure Playground

...y time....

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 Residential 2017 - Day 4

...e enjoyed getting to know the Year 5s. They have so much character and I'm looking forward to teaching them next year. One more sleep! See you all tomorrow! - Miss Fergus, 29th June 2017...

Year 5 - World Book Day

5M had a wonderful day dressing up as our favourite book characters, even our teacher came as ZORRO. We enjoyed reading stories and creating our own stories, where we rediscovered our love for books

Year 5 Are Learning Spanish

... short sentences in class....

Year 5 - World Book Day 2018

...visible man in our photos....

Year 5 - World Book Day 2019

The children had so much fun today (8th March 2019) dressing up as their favourite book characters. There were many amazing costumes and the children celebrated the day by reading some of their favourite books and talking to their peers about books that they recommended

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 - Young Engineers

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

Year 5 - Young Scientist

...l was on top of the water.......age your child if they are in Year 5 to explain to you why the water and the oil did not mix, and wh...

Year 5 and Year 4 Peer Assessment

...rgets. It was nice to see the Year 5 children helping and supporting the Year 4 children. We hope to do more cross year group peer support in the near future....

Year 5 Christmas Show 2016 - Alice In Wonderland

Year 5 Residential 2017 - Day 3

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

Year 5 Discuss Current Affairs

...ch out for our future leaders!...

Year 5 Maths Masters

...6, Mr Naidoo cam to visit the Year 5 classes to look at how we can round any given number to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Mr Naidoo showed us how to spot patterns and howe can use the rules to help us round. The class were excited to learn new skills and become MASTER OF MATHS....

Year 5 Maths Workshop

...s to solve real life problems!...

Year 5 Meet Mr Saunders

...ring your experiences with us!...

Year 5 Planting Trees on Mabley Green

...olved and Happy Green Fingers!...

Year 5 Residential 2017 - Day 1

Thank you all for being on time this morning and supporting us with a fabulous start to our exciting adventure. We got here in great time and great spirits! The are absolutely amazing and supporting each other during room set up and the activities! Too many magic moments to mention here! We're...

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...

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...