Mental Health
Mental Health Support At Shoreditch Park we are committed to the early identification of any mental health issues that a young person may be dealing with. This can include low self-esteem, attachment disorders and difficulties regulating emotions. We offer a range of interventions in school that...
Autism Resource Provision
Welcome to Shoreditch Park School's Autism Resource Provision (ARP). This page provides information about the curriculum and the procedures in place for the ARP. Pictures and information for parents of current pupils can be found by visiting the Seuss or Sharratt class pages. Meet the Team Rochelle...
Rights Respecting Steering Group
Steering group is a pupil voice group, which focuses on children's rights. As a gold level Rights Respecting school , this group has a very important role to play. They meet at least once a half term to discuss and decide how to raise awareness around children's rights. When steering group feel...
Green Team
The Green Team are a group of pupils who are committed to making our school more environmentally friendly. They follow the eco-schools scheme of learning. Eco-Schools is a global programme engaging millions of children across 67 countries, making it the largest educational programme in the world....
Edenred
Please follow the user guide below to redeem your vouchers. If there are any problems, please contact Edenred using the following contact details: freeschoolmeals@edenred.com or call 0333 400 5932
Governors Committees
Full Governing Body The full Governing Body meets termly to discuss whole school strategy and developments. As per The Governance Handbook there are 3 core functions to the board: Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction Holding executive leaders to account for the educational...
Meet the Governors
Shoreditch Park Governing Body is made up of volunteers who are committed to ensuring that high standards are achieved and maintained throughout the school. The body is made up of parents, members of staff, community representatives and local authority representatives. Their responsibilities...
School Streets
A School Street is a scheme where the road(s) outside a school is closed to most vehicles during school opening and closing times, helping children walk or cycle to school safely. Shoreditch Park Primary School received a School Street in September 2020 as part of Hackney Council's effort to...
Year 4 - Highlights from Autumn 1 Week 3
It has been another great week in Year 4. Here are some picture highlights from the week
Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 1st February 2021
This week in Year 5, we have continued looking at our book, Alex Rider: Stormbreaker! This week we have been focusing on gadgets! We have looked at the gadgets featured in Stormbreaker and have also had the opportunity to look at some other gadgets and create our own. Specifically, a teacher...
Year 3 - Science: Plants
This week we started our new Science unit, Plants. We have been exploring the different parts of plants and what are their uses. Our activity was to draw a plant and label its features. We had lots of fun doing this activity!
Year 3 - Geography: Earthquakes
Year 3 have done an amazing job at researching all about earthquakes for their geography unit. They have conducted some research and created their own artwork representing the aftermath of an earthquake
Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Half Term Project - Poetry
In Year 1 the Enquiring Ebony Half term project was focused on poetry. Children have made their own wonderful and creative poetry collages using a range of resources available at home
Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 8th February 2021
This week in Year 5, we have finished our explanation texts and have created our own inventions with multiple different features that we have designed throughout the week. We have continued looking at Earth & Space in our science lesson and slums in our topic lessons. We have completed...
Year 4 - Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf
In Year 4 this week, we finished our exciting book 'Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf'. The children created excellent storyboards to retell the story and added lots of fantastic drawings with colour. It was a great way to talk through the best parts of the book and give our opinions about the storyline....
Year 2 - The Dark by Lemony Snicket
Year 2 has loved exploring Lemony Snicket's text, The Dark. First, we recreated the illustrations, changing the mood from frightened to cheerful. We then wrote letters of advice to Laszlo advising how he could overcome his fear of the dark. We had some brilliant ideas and really hope we were able...
Year 4 - Notes of Advice and Science Experiment
This week in Year 4, we created notes of advice about an animal that the gods from our story 'Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf' had not created. The children came up with excellent ideas and were able to show their fantastic drawings of already existing animals or hybrids. Also this week, we started our...
Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 22nd February 2021
This week in Year 5, we have started looking at our new book, David Almond's Skellig, we have written setting descriptions based on the shed from the book which have been fantastic and full of descriptive language. We have also started our new forces topic in science and our new biomes topic in our...
Year 1 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 25th January 2021
This week in year 1, we started our new text 'Traction Man' by MinI Grey. Children were given the opportunity to make predictions, explore the text and complete a retell of the story. In maths we were learning to identify and sort shapes. We went on a 3D shape hunt around our homes and sorted 2D...
Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 25th January 2021
This week in Year 5, we have started a new book, Alex Rider: Stormbreaker! We have had the opportunity to listen to the first few chapters and imagine that we are Alex Rider himself and have written a list of instructions for our first top-secret mission. We have also been looking at fractions in...
Year 3 - Baking Challenge
In Year 3 we love a challenge, especially when it helps us to learn new skills! This week we were challenged to make a Victoria Sponge cake! We tried very hard and they turned out incredible! They tasted amazing too!
Year 4 - Tetractys Poems
Year 4 have had an extremely busy and exciting first week back. One of our superstars Naima was chosen to appear on television show 'Good Morning Britain' to give her opinion on the prospect of summer schools taking place. She was able to showcase her superior oracy skills to a national audience...
Seuss Class - We Are Extraordinary Gardeners!
Seuss class have enjoyed making cress heads. We carried out an experiment in science - testing variables - different conditions for growing plants. We made predictions and recorded our observations
Year 4 - IntoUniversity Workshop
Year 4 had a thrilling time last week. We were fortunate enough to participate in an 'IntoUniversity workshop' via Zoom. The children learnt all about what careers are and how to develop their skills inside and outside of school
Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Homework and Science Lessons
To prepare for their science lessons this half term, Year 1 were asked to make a plant using mixed media. Enquiring Ebony had set a challenge to research interesting facts about their plant. We then began our first science lesson for the half term by learning all about garden plants. We completed...
Year 6 - Paired Reading in Destination Reader
Here are some excellent examples of paired reading in Destination Reader
Year 6 - Goodbye for Now
Today we say 'Goodbye for Now' to our wonderful Year 6's who will be starting an exciting new chapter in their secondary schools from September. We could not be prouder of the young adults that they are becoming and everything they have achieved during their time at Shoreditch Park. We had a...
Year 3 - Spelling Bee
Year 3 have been learning the Year 3 and 4 common exception words in preparation for our end of year spelling bee. We all enjoyed taking part! Well done to our two spelling bee champions!
Year 6 - Science: Experiment with Different Forces
In science we experimented with different forces, here we are testing objects with different surface areas and how air resistance acts on them
Year 6 - Sports Day 2021
Year 6 had a great time at their last sports day!
Year 6 - DT Week 2021
During DT week in Year 6, the children were tasked with creating a product and brand for a new smoothie product which had to be healthy and nutritious. Over the week we created digital adverts and logos on iPads, an advertising campaign, designs for bottle labels and presented our product to our...
Year 2 - Design and Technology Week 2021
This week, we celebrated Design and Technology week via Food Technology. In Year 2, we were challenged to make a healthy snack. We started the week by taste-testing various fruits and vegetables before deciding what to use in our healthy snack. We then created a set of instructions to ensure our...
Year 6 - Into University Engineering Focus Week
In Year 6 we were lucky enough to have a virtual focus week with Into University where we interviewed real life students and designed our own robots
Year 4 - Free Verse Poems
We finished our poetry module in Year 4 this week by creating our very own free verse poems. We spent the week securing our knowledge on poetic devices and reading poems from Michael Rosen, Valerie Bloom, Karl Nova and even our own class teacher, among many others! We then channelled all of this...
Year 6 - Anderson Shelter
As part of the History unit on World War II, the children were given the Enquiring Ebony task to research and create their own model of an Anderson Shelter
Reception - Starting in September 2021
We are delighted to welcome new starters to Reception in September. We have some useful information for parents / carers and children... Forms Please complete the following forms before 18th June 2021 : Pupil Registration Photo Consent Social Media Consent Free School Meals Eloise Erwin Early Years...
Year 2 - Learning How to be Confident Gardeners
Children in Year 2 are learning how to be confident gardeners. This week they planted bean seeds in both soil and cotton wool to see which will grow. Children are learning what plants need to survive and how to care for the classroom plants. Children will make scientific observations and record...
Year 3 - Maths: Statistics
Year 3 have been learning all about statistics this week in their maths lessons. They really enjoyed collecting their own data using a tally chart and presenting the information they had collected on a bar chart
Spring Gardening
Our gardeners have been progressing with various leek harvesting, trimming, runner bean seed harvesting and planting, pea sowing and support stick construction
Our half term in Year 3!
We have had an amazing time in Year 3! Here are some of our highlights, we hope you enjoy them!
Art Week in Year 5
This week we have been focusing on art, specifically digital art. We started the week by evaluating and analysing creative works using the language of art and discussed 'how does the artwork make you feel and why do you think that might be?' Through discussion, we were able to make a connection...
ASPIRE Summer 1 2021 - Pride
In Summer 1 we have been focussing on the disposition of Pride in relation to ourselves as unique individuals, our learning and diversity. We read the books 'We all Belong' and 'The Proudest Blue' and explored all the wonderful things that make us unique. We learned about...
Year 5 - Poetry Skills
This week in Year 5, we have been working again to perfect our poetry skills, this week building on the skills we learned last week to write poetry about different aspects of nature. We have written a range of different styles of poems now that incorporate a range of different structures and...
Year 3 - Performance Poetry
Performance poetry has been one of our highlights this week in Year 3 , with children using actions, tone and intonation successfully. It has been amazing to see all the children applying their learning and understanding of poetic devices when they wrote their own version of Please Mrs Butler
Year 5 - Anglo-Saxon Invasion in Britannia
This week in Year 5, we have been learning about the Anglo-Saxon invasion in Britannia. We have used dramatic techniques to order key events and explore key figures during the year AD 410
Year 2 - Power of Reading
Over the last few weeks we have done a number of practical lessons to inspire our writing. Here are some photos from the lesson when we planted a bean seed to support out Jack and the Beanstalk writing, and from the lesson when we made ball gowns to inspire our Cinderella writing
Year 2 - Shapes
This half term we have been learning about 2D and 3D shapes. We have been identifying their properties, comparing them and grouping them into categories
Year 2 - Power of Reading
This half term we have been reading Grace and Family by Mary Hoffman. We learned about The Gambia, the country in Africa that Grace goes to visit, and wrote a diary entry in role as Grace. We wrote a letter to wish Grace good luck on her trip and posted it in our classroom postbox!
Year 3 - Black History Month
Our focus for this month was the incredible Mary Seacole. In our first Black History month lesson we were focusing on historical research. We researched who Mary Seacole was, where was she from and why she is still significant today. See our amazing work below!
Year 1 - 2D Shapes
Last week, Year 1 learnt all about 2D shapes and have been identifying and describing the properties of 2D shapes. Year 1 were able to apply this knowledge and went on a shape hunt around the school and their classroom
Year 5 - The Boy In The Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar
This week in Year 5, we have been learning about embedding relative clauses into our sentences whilst reading our new book, The Boy In The Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar. We have been putting our grammar skills to good use by writing diary entries from the point of view of the main character
Afternoons in Year 1
Year 1 has really enjoyed our afternoon lessons this half term. We have been learning all about dinosaurs from the past in our Topic lessons. We have been using secondary sources to find out information about these prehistoric creatures and then exploring through carousel based activities. In...
Year 3 - Rock Detectives
Year 3 have all been rock detectives this term! We have been learning all about the formation of metamorphic rocks, igneous rocks and sedimentary rocks in our science lessons. We all took part in a fun science experiment, where we created our own volcanic eruption using baking powder, vinegar and...
Year 2 - Art Week
This week children enjoyed Art Week with a focus on Black History. In the photos below, children are creating patterns which were used in the Lewis Latimer inspired light bulb art. Children looked at a range of Ndebele art for pattern and colour inspiration
Year 5 - Black History Month 2020
This week in Year 5, we have had a chance to reflect on all of the fantastic work we have done over Black History Month. Including some pop-art inspired multi-coloured portraits of inspirational journalist, Sir Trevor McDonald (who we also studied) and our Ndebele-style paintings of lightbulbs...
Year 6 - School Council Candidate Speeches
In Year 6 we had speeches for the School Council candidates
Year 6 - Reading for Pleasure in the Library
Year 6s reading for pleasure in the Library
Year 3 - 'The Pebble in my Pocket'
This week we have started exploring our new POR text, 'The Pebble in my Pocket'. The children really enjoyed looking for their own pebble and completing observational drawings of the pebbles. We have also created our own free verse poems
Year 5 - Sir Trevor McDonald Pop Art
This week Year 5 took on an exceptional project in the form of Sir Trevor McDonald pop art! We took in some key elements of the great man's life which include Bafta awards and his trusty microphone then turned the images to create effective pop art in the style of Andy Warhol
Year 5 - Learning
In PoR, we explored our core text: Varmints by Helen Ward. We used story mapping to organise the key events in the story. Subsequently, we learnt how to box up details to plan a retell by organising ideas into key paragraphs; including a range of vocabulary from the text; and adding a variation of...
Year 4 - National Poetry Week
We turned National Poetry Day into 'National Poetry Week' in Almond class and had so much fun! On Monday we watched some of our favourite CBBC stars read their favourite poems and also listened to Karl Nova's poem 'See Through My Eyes'. He showed us that using the imagination...
ARP - Topic: Natural Disasters - October 2020
First we watched videos and did some research about six natural disasters: flood, hurricane, volcano, earthquake, heatwave and tsunami. The we worked in pairs to build a house out of different materials: lego, playdoe, cream crackers and jenga blocks. We shook the tables to simulate an earthquake...
ARP - Gardening - September 2020
First we found out about the life cycle of a sunflower through our own internet research, pictures and videos. Then we identified some sunflowers in the garden. Once we found them we decided what stage of life each sunflower was in. Some were flowing, but some were dying and drooping. We looked in...
Art Week - Autumn 1 2020 - Black History Month
As part of our Black History Month celebrations, we recognised Black British figures and celebrated them through art. The art style that we used is called Pop Art, the movement began in the 1950s. We hope that you like our depictions. You can see more on our Twitter feed
ASPIRE - Autumn 1: Self Awareness and Achievement
In Autumn 1, our focus was Self Awareness and Achievement. We wanted to build self-awareness around the changes to our school routines due to Covid-19 and staying safe and healthy. Within Aspire lessons we created space to discuss our experiences during school closure and our feelings about...
Year 1 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 18th January 2021
Year 1 have had a very productive week. In POR, we have been focusing on poetry and have taken part in performances of poetry and have learnt to use descriptive language and rhyming words in our writing. In science this week, we have been looking at food chains and polar habitats
ASPIRE - Autumn 2 - Inclusivity and Self Awareness
In Autumn 2 our focus was Inclusive Izeyah and Self Aware Samuel. In KS2 we were focusing on resilience. The children know that resilience is a skill that can be developed to help us cope with challenging times or circumstances. We have all shown resilience in our community and school during the...
Year 4 - Highlights from Autumn 1 Week 2
We had a really fun and productive week in Year 4. Here are some picture highlights from the week
Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 11th January 2021
This week in Year 5, we have been working really hard to perfect our poetry. We have continued to look at the features of poems we have studied, we have written our own poems and have also had the chance to take part in a class debate and perform our poems in front of the rest of the year group. In...
Art Week in Year 2
This week we have been focussing on art, specifically digital art. We took photos of each other using different shots like long shot, mid shot and close up. We then edited the photos using apps on the iPads. It was so much fun being photographers for the week!
Year 3 - Maths Exploration: Volume and Capacity
This week we have been learning about volume and capacity. We have been looking at the capacity of different items in our house and comparing them! We have also been looking at litres and millimetres as a form of unit of measurement. We had a lot of fun this week in our maths lessons!
Year 5 - Poetry Artwork
This week in Year 5, we have been looking at poetry in our Power of Reading lesson. This began with us looking at some poems and their features, and has culminated in us creating our own poems, as well as our own expressive artwork based on what we have sounds we could hear. It has been fantastic...
Year 4 - Can you guess the subject of these Kenning Poems?
The Year 4 family have transitioned seamlessly to the switch back to Google Classroom. The commitment and quality of work on display so far has been inspiring. In literacy we have been creating our own poems. Here are some fine examples. Can you guess what the subject of each poem is?
Year 2 - Enquiring Ebony Homework - The Titanic
Over the Christmas holiday, Year 2 worked hard on their Enquiring Ebony projects. Children researched what happened to the ship and created their own models
ASPIRE Ambassadors 2020-21
We are delighted to introduce you to our new Aspire Ambassadors for this academic year! Our Ambassadors are Year 5 pupils who are dedicated to developing Aspire across the school. They are involved in pupil voice meetings, Mentally Healthy Schools, Aspire displays, charity fundraising events and...
Year 5 - Design and Technology Week 2020
This week in Year 5, we have been working really hard on our assessments in writing, reading and maths and Dahl class have worked especially hard when creating, rehearsing and performing their class assembly that incorporated our topic work and performance poetry. This week has also been our design...
Year 6 - Lego Wedo 2.0 Coding
Our enthusiastic Year 6 continued their coding learning this afternoon with the fantastic Lego Wedo 2.0 coding - building models and then programming them to move! We will be continuing to make models of increasing difficulty over the half term, keep coming back to check in with how we are doing!
Year 5 - Writing Setting Descriptions Based Upon 'The Varmints'
This week Year 5 began their return to school writing setting descriptions based upon our new text 'The Varmints'. We spent the week discussing the text and building vocabulary banks in order to be able to write with exceptional descriptive devices. Have a read of some of our incredible...
Year 5 - Vikings
This week in Year 5, we have been learning all about the vikings, and King Ethelred's ineffective strategies of fighting them off by trying to pay them silver! We have been reciting and performing some viking poetry this week based on the poems. Mr Holland's maths class also started looking...
Year 4 - Home Learning Work
The Year 4 family have adapted admirably to the enforced period of isolation. The children have quickly adjusted to their new routine and the switch from physical in class learning to the Google Classroom. The dedication and enthusiasm to their studies has been inspiring and this has made their...
Year 3 Virtual Trip to the British Museum
Today, we took part in a virtual trip to the British Museum! We met with an archaeologist who showed us different artefacts from Prehistoric Britain. We also took part in a quiz all about the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic eras where we got 9 out of 10! During the trip, we were also...
ASPIRE - Autumn Term: Enquiring Ebony Homework
Below are just a few examples of the fantastic Enquiring Ebony homework that has been received in the Autumn term. Below you can see the Topics of Weather (Y3), Great Fire of London (Y2) and Dinosaurs (Y1)
Year 5 - The Viewer by Sean Tan
This week in Year 5, we have been continuing to read The Viewer by Sean Tan. We have been gathering several descriptive phrases and sentences based on the book, building on from our setting description last week and using a range of figurative language techniques, including using similes,...
Year 1 - Beegu
There was a crash landing in the Year 1 playground on Monday. Year 1 decided to go outside and investigate! This introduced our new text 'BEEGU'. At the end of the week we designed our own 'missing' poster to find Beegu. We used descriptive vocabulary to describe what kind of alien...
Year 4 - Tetractys Poems
The Year 4 family have had another wonderful week on google classroom and have produced some excellent work. The children are continuing to show great enthusiasm in their learning. In Power of Reading, we are continuing with poems but this week the focus was Tetractys poems. Here are some excellent...