Phonics & Early Reading

At Blossom Federation we have devised our own phonics programme based upon the principles of Letters and Sounds. We use a range of resources and strategies to tailor the phonics provision to meet the needs of our pupils. It aims to build children's speaking and listening skills in their own right...

Science and Sustainability

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

Religious Education

... the school and borough. Religious Education in the Early Years Understanding the world involves guiding children to make sense of their physical world and their community. The frequency and range of children’s personal experiences increases their knowledge and sense of the world around them – f...

Starting Reception in September

...ek....... Design Our Vision The Early Years at Daubeney will provide an environment that is safe, happy, war...... costs £6.50 per hour. The Early Years have their own dedicated Daubeney staff members and all acti...

School Council

...d and provided every class from Years 2-6 Idea Boxes. This enables the School Council to get ideas, concerns and feedback from their peers. The boxes are emptied every fortnightly and issues, concerns and suggestions are discussed in their meetings. Journalist Committee – the Journalist Committee ...

Reception

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

PSHE - Jigsaw

...r the whole Primary School from Years F1 and 2 through to Year 6. It brings together PSHE Education,......e Jigsaw Approach for the Early Years Foundation Stage The Jigsaw Approach for Years 1 - 6 Relati......Stage The Jigsaw Approach for Years 1 - 6 Relationships, Sex and Health Education An important pa...

Music

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

Performance, Results and Reporting

...tion based on: End of Early Years Foundation Stage data Outcomes of the Y1 Phonics Check Key Stage 1 Teacher Assessment Y4 Multiplication Times Tables Check Key Stage 2 Teacher Assessment and Tests The Performance Data Narrative document presents the school's performance over the past few...

Nursery Open Evenings

Is your child 3-4 years old? Are you looking for a Nursery space? Come and visit us, meet the teachers, play in our wonderful nursery and collect an application form. We have AM, PM and Full Time spaces available. Need to know more? Take a look at what we're learning in Nursery and see some of our...

Nursery

...s is undertaken through the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. The Early Years Foundation Stag......ation Stage curriculum. The Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum is organised to take care of and...

Inclusion

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

Home Learning

...ring class time. Lower School Years R, 1 and 2 children should have 1 hour per week of home learning......g - Lower School Key Stage 2 Years 3 and 4 children should have 1.5 hours of home learning per week......dent research in other areas. Years 5 and 6 children should have 30 minutes per day with an emphasis...

Free School Meals

Our Catering Team works very hard to prepare a delicious and varied diet. As School Meals are universally free in London thanks to the Mayor of London, we expect all children to have a hot meal during the day. Pupil premium and free school meals If your child is eligible for ‘free school meals’ and...

Early Years Foundation Stage

...lum EYFS Video Tour...

Daubeney Children & Family Hub

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

Contact

...i: EYFS and Y1; Miss Gustave: Years 2-4; Miss Kepha: Years 5-6. You can also speak to the Head Teach......stave: Years 2-4; Miss Kepha: Years 5-6. You can also speak to the Head Teacher Mr Logan or Executiv...

Clubs

...Notice Leave Form 26-27 Early Years Wraparound Care - Breakfast Club Registration Form 26-27 Ear......Registration Form 26-27 Early Years Wraparound Care - Breakfast Club Changes Update Form 26-27 E......anges Update Form 26-27 Early Years Wraparound Care - Breakfast Club Notice Leave Form 26-27 Ear...

Literacy

...s wherever possible. In Early Years we follow the Early Years Curriculum to ensure continuity and pr......rly Years we follow the Early Years Curriculum to ensure continuity and progression from the Foundat......ated into literacy and guided writing sessions. Children in Years 2 - 6 are given spelling to practi...

Admissions

... form entry primary school in Years 5 & 6 although it retains three classes of Year 2 children. Daubeney has a nursery which has sixty part time places. At Daubeney we follow the local authority admissions procedure. All admissions, except those to Nursery, are managed by Hackney Education. More...

About our Curriculum

...the requirements of the Early Years Foundation Stage and National Curriculum, we provide broad, bala...... guided writing sessions. Children in Years 2 - 6 are given spelling to practice at home for a weekl......roup to the next. In History, children in Years 2-6 take on two historical topics; one ancient and o...

Computing

... devices. Computing in KS2 In Years 2-6, weekly computing lessons follow Purple Mash guidance, covering programming, digital content creation and internet research skills. Use of Chromebooks, iPads, Microbits and other programmable devices is sequenced for progression of skills through year groups. ...

Hackney Star Life Time Achievement Award

On Thursday 12th March, our very own Miss Mary attended the Hackney Stars Award event at the Hackney Town Hall. Ms Mary was nominated as one of the nominees for the Hackney Stars Life Time Achievement Award. There were five nominees, but there was only going to be one winner – our Miss Mary....

The Junior Art Team

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

Year 6 - Visit from Bola Abisogun OBE FRICS

Year 6 were lucky enough to have a visit from Bola Abigosun where he explained to the children what a surveyor does. The children were inspired to hear about someone from Kingsmead Estate who went onto finish university with a first class honours degree and receive an award from Prince Charles. The...

Daubeney Awarded Top Award of PSQM Outreach for Science

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

Capital Kids Cricket Festival

Today (8th 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...

Art Team Easter Competition

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

Year 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 2 - Ultimate Times Table Challenge!

...eally well done to all of the Years 2s who took part in the competition!...

Year 6 - 6F Time Capsule

6F were amazed at how Daubeney was in 2002! Many of the children from then had shared their experiences and daily activities by filling a time capsule with many newspapers, drawings and even a Harry Potter stationery set! The 17 year old capsule was found by the builders buried under the ground in...

Be Internet Legends Online Safety Assembly

... strong, kind and brave....

After School Club - Creative (Years 3-6) - 23rd January 2023

After School Club - Creative (Years 3-6) - 9th January 2023

Spanish - Día de Muertos

Students across school have had the opportunity to explore the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead. During this festivity, which roots began over 3000 years ago, the dead ones are honoured. It is not a sombre and sad time, but a time for celebration and remembrance. Day of the Dead is...

Year 4 Autumn 2 Wow Day

Year 4 had lots of fun for our History Wow Day. We went back 5000 years to the Ancient Egyptian times and learnt how to write in hieroglyphics. We wrote messages to our friends and designed our own cartouches. After that, we made our own 3D mummies and sarcophaguses! Watch the videos to learn more...

Year 4 Trip to the Science Museum

Year 4 had a fantastic time in the Power Up gaming exhibition at the Science Museum. We had the opportunity to have a hands-on gaming experience, featuring the very best video games and consoles. We learnt lots of interesting facts about computer games from the past 50 years which links to our DT...

Spanish - Phonics

To ensure children can pronounce and read words and sentences accurately and confidently in Spanish, a consistent approach is used from early years. Our phonics approach is based on the context of what vocabulary children are learning depending on the year group or stage. Children start learning...

Year 2 - RE Day 2024

For this half term's RE day we learnt all about Easter and what it means to Christians. We spoke about what Christians believe happened many years ago, and traditions they take part in to celebrate

Year 6 – Spanish Transition session

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

Year 2 trip to the Science Museum

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

Year 6 Residential - Survive and Thrive

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

Carnival 2018

This year, our carnival was in the theme of musicals. The staff and children had lots of fun dancing to different songs. We had Year 1 dressed as bears 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...

Year 3 - Roman Roads

Did you know that the Romans laid many roads in Britain? They were very straight and very long! The Romans were master builders and some of the roads that they built thousands of years ago still exist today! We had a go at building Roman style roads ourselves. Take a look!

1P - Landscapes

...ear 1 5th December – Years 2, 3 and 4 6th December – Years 5 and 6......and 4 6th December – Years 5 and 6...

400 years of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare

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

Blue Class Assembly

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

Chain Reaction Workshop

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Creative Arts - Art and Design Technology

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

ORDER, ORDER! The House will hear...

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

Transforming our School Gates

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Year 3 - George's Marvellous Medicine

...d find out what happens next. Years 3 are still in the middle of reading the story. So, if you would like to find out what happens to Grandma, pick up a book of ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’....

Year 3 - Museum of London

Yesterday (29th January 2019) Year 3 visited the Museum of London. We were there to see how the people of London lived during The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and Roman times. The children were really interested by the artefacts that have been discovered over the years

Year 3 - Rebuilding Stonehenge

Today Year 3 found out about those mysterious piles of enormous stones in the south of England that have been around for thousands of years- Stonehenge. They discovered that it was built in stages, which they carefully replicated when they created the structure out of plasticine. We left the...

Year 3 Author Visit

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

Year 5 - 5MC Big Draw Vincent Van Gogh

...ception, Year 1 5 th December – Years 2, 3 and 4 6 th December – Years 5 and 6...... Years 2, 3 and 4 6 th December – Years 5 and 6...

Year 3 Trip to the London Mithraeum

Year 3 enjoyed an exciting trip to the London Mithraeum, where they brought their learning about the Romans to life. The children explored Roman artefacts and learned what they were used for in everyday life nearly 2,000 years ago. They were especially fascinated by the remains of a real Roman...