Intervention and Provision

At Shoreditch Park we run a range of interventions to support our pupils to develop new skills and address any gaps in their learning. The interventions change every year, based on the presenting needs of our pupils. Please see the intervention information document for more information about the...

Maths

Intent At Shoreditch Park Primary School, we teach mathematics passionately, instilling the importance of creative thought and fluency using number in all lessons. We intend to provide children with a foundation for understanding number, reasoning, thinking logically and problem solving with...

Library and Reading for Pleasure

Teaching children to read and write independently, as quickly as possible, is one of the core purposes of a primary school. These key skills not only hold the keys to the rest of the curriculum but also have a huge impact on children’s self-esteem and future life chances. Parental Reading Support...

Spanish

At Shoreditch Park Primary School we believe that learning a Modern Foreign Language contributes to children’s learning and development by increasing critical thinking skills, creativity and flexibility of mind in young children. Pupils at Shoreditch Park start learning Spanish in EYFS and continue...

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....

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...

Governors Key Documents

The documents below provide Governors' Information and Duties in line with the constitution of governing bodies of maintained schools statutory guidance. Please see the Committees page for further information such as terms of reference and minutes

Secondary Transfer

Applications for secondary schools are now closed. Secondary placements were shared on 1st March. Please contact Hackney Education if you have yet to receive your childs allocation. More information can be found here . For current year 5 children, information regarding open events and deadlines...

History and Geography Curriculum

History At Shoreditch Park Primary School, our intent is to produce a high-quality History education for all learners in order for them to gain the knowledge and cultural capital they need to succeed in life. We aim to inspire pupils’ curiosity to know more about the past and we are passionate that...

Uniform

Our Uniform Shoreditch Park blazer* Shoreditch Park book bag Shoreditch Park jumper Shoreditch Park tartan skirt* Shoreditch Park tie* Black shoes/trainers Grey or white tights/socks Grey pinafore Grey trousers and shorts Purple checked summer dress White shirt White polo shirt** For PE lessons and...

Nursery Admissions

Overview Admissions Nursery Highlights FAQ's Welcome to our outstanding early years provision. Our nursery offer includes: Fully funded places available for 3 & 4 year olds Breakfast & After School Club Experienced & Qualified Teachers Amazing outdoor and indoor spaces ASPIRE Learning...

School Tours

We warmly invite prospective parents and carers to visit Shoreditch Park Primary School and experience our learning community. Our school tours are led by a member of the Senior Leadership Team and provide an opportunity to: See the school in action during the school day Learn about our curriculum...

Counselling Service for Children

What is School Counselling? School Counselling offers a confidential space for children to come and explore their thoughts and feelings about worries they might have. These are often worries that make children feel sad, scared, angry or upset. These feelings can affect children’s confidence,...

Inclusion Team

The Inclusion Team holds regular pupil welfare meetings to review the support that is in place for pupils with SEND and other vulnerable groups. These meetings help to ensure that any issues which pupils might be facing are quickly addressed. Actions from pupil welfare meetings might include:...

Speech and Language Support

At Shoreditch Park Primary School we strive to ensure that all of our pupils are able to communicate confidently and effectively. We recognise the vital role that Speech and Language Therapists play in supporting children who have difficulties with language and communication. We have three speech...

SEND Support for Parents

Inclusion Team key dates for parents - 2025-2026 academic year Inclusion Team Parent Workshops Parent SEND Workshops Support plan meetings WAMHS workshops Workshop Resources Hackney SEND Parents Carer Forum (HSPCF) Hackney SEND Parents Carer Forum (HSPCF) has a range of useful information and local...

Free School Meals

... way as applying for free school meals. Eligibility It doesn’t matter where you live as long as your child goes to school in Hackney. To qualify, your child must be in school and you must be getting one of the following benefits: Income support Income based Job Seekers Allowance Income rElat...

Support Plans and EHCPs

What is an SEND support plan? At Shoreditch Park when we have concerns about a child's progress we will meet with their parents to create an SEN support plan. Support plans are reviewed at least termly and detail additional interventions and support that we have put in place in order enable a child...

Ethos & Values

Mission Statement Achievement, progress, challenge, inspiration and enjoyment are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to providing children with the very best education to ensure that each child reaches their maximum potential and develops a lasting love of learning and sense of...

English

At Shoreditch Park Primary school we teach English writing through ‘The Power of Reading’ which focuses on a range of high-quality texts to allow teachers to plan creative cycles of English with a focus upon a range of outcomes. Through the English curriculum, we help pupils develop the skills and...

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...

Destination Reader

To support children develop their reading skills in a smooth transition from RWI we follow Destination Reader across KS2. It begins in Year 3 and children follow it all the way up to Year 6. This year we even have some whizzes in Year 2 who will be completing RWI during the Spring term and moving...

RSHE

Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) Curriculum Learning about the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up will give children and young people the information, skills and positive values to have safe, fulfilling relationships and help them take responsibility for their own...

Extra Curricular Clubs

Autumn Term 2025 - Extra Curricular Clubs Please see below for our extra curricular activities this term. Please contact the office for any further information. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Club Year Group Club Year Group Club Year Group Club Year Group Club Year Group Gymnastics 1-6...

Contact Us

Contact Us Address: Shoreditch Park Primary School, 113 Bridport Place, London, N1 5JN Telephone: 02077397973 Email: admin@shoreditchpark.hackney.sch.uk Twitter: @Shoreditch_Park Key Contacts Headteacher: Penny Smith SENCo: Miss Deegan - EYFS, Ms Byrne - KS1 and KS2 General Enquiries: Your initial...

Computing

Intent Within an ever changing and technological world, Shoreditch Park Primary School understands and values the importance of teaching Computing from a young age. We acknowledge that future generations will rely heavily on their computational confidence and digital skills in order to support...

Breakfast and After School Clubs

Breakfast Club Our breakfast club operates from 7:45-8:30am, Monday to Friday. Breakfast includes several options such as a wholemeal bagel, wholemeal cereal or fruit. All options are in line with our Healthy Schools award. Children are given several activities to choose from including: arts and...

ASPIRE Mornings

At Shoreditch Park we believe that in order to expect positive and respectful communication, we need to model and provide opportunities for it within our school day. Our mornings are free flow and children independently come into their classes between 8.45 - 9.00. On their transition up the stairs...

ASPIRE in Summer 1 2019

In Summer term we have been learning all about health, but specifically mental health. This links to our ASPIRE character Inclusive Izeyah. We used resources from Place2Be and Mentally Healthy Schools to explore the idea that physical and mental health are equally important. The pupils thought of...

ASPIRE in Spring 2 2019

Spring 2 Focus - Achieving Aisha In Spring 2 we were learning about achievement and having high aspirations. This linked to National Careers Week so we spent time investigating different jobs and the skills you need to do these jobs. Every class had a visitor who came to tell them all about their...

Music

Curriculum Intent At Shoreditch Park Primary School, music teaching helps to develop creativity, imagination, good listening skills and collaboration whilst also giving our children the opportunity and ability to express themselves artistically and personally. Our music curriculum is based on the...

Ofsted and School Improvement

Ofsted The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (Ofsted) regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. We are delighted to inform you that following the Ofsted inspection of...

Art and D&T

Art and Design Curriculum Intent At Shoreditch Park Primary, we offer a creative curriculum which embraces the arts and broadens children’s horizons. Through art and design, we inspire and challenge all children to think innovatively and develop creative understanding. Children are encouraged to...

Year 1

Welcome to the Year 1 page! You can look at the learning and activities we are doing each half term and get any curriculum letters and information you need. You will also find our class timetable. The Year 1 team Year Group Lead: Ms Hannaford Year 1 HLTA: Ms McGregor Grey Class: Ms Hannaford...

Year 4

Year 4 Team Year group lead: Ms Byrne Almond class Mr Millar Morpurgo class Ms Has Parent Curriculum Meeting Timetables Homework in Year 4 Children are given math (IXL programme and Times Tables Rockstars) and reading homework assigned each Friday through Google Classroom. Math and reading homework...

Year 6

Year 6 Team Year Group Lead: Ms Green Year 6 Teacher: Ms Richards Zephaniah Class: Mr Dent (Teacher) Mrs Oyefusi-Adams (Support) Milligan Class: Ms Brittain (Teacher) Ms Osman (Support) School Uniform Grant at Age 11 Find out more Year 6 Residential Year 6 Transition Curriculum Timetables Secondary...

Year 3

Year 3 Team Year group lead: Ms Byrne King-Smith class Ms Silver Briggs class Mr Kwong Parent Curriculum Meeting Timetables Homework in Year 3 Children are given math (IXL programme) and reading homework assigned each Friday through Google Classroom. Math and reading homework is due each Thursday....

Data Protection

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is intended to strengthen rights of all European Union citizens over how organisations use personal data. This is to ensure that sensitive or private information remains safe. We’ve updated our privacy notices which tell you what we do with your...

School Council

A council is a group of people that meet regularly. They are elected representatives of a group, who come together to consult, deliberate, or make decisions. Shoreditch Park Primary School Council members help to represent children’s voices. They are a team of committed students who wish to help...

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...

ASPIRE Ambassadors

Every year pupils are given the opportunity to apply to be an Aspire Ambassador. In the application they reflect on why they would be a good choice for this role and they explain why Aspire is important to them! They are involved in pupil voice meetings, assemblies, trips and much more! They are...

Year 2

Welcome to the Year 2 page! You can look at the learning and activities we are doing each half term and get any curriculum letters and information you need. You will also find our class timetable. The Year 2 Team Year Group Lead: Ms Hannaford Year 2 HLTA: Ms Twiner Hoffman Class: Ms Carpenter...

ASPIRE in Spring 1 2019

Spring 1 Focus – Enquiring Ebony In Spring 1 we have been focussing on Enquiring Ebony. We are developing our thinking, reasoning and questioning skills within philosophy lessons. These lessons help students to concentrate, think ‘outside the box’ and share their thoughts and...

Oracy

At Shoreditch Park Primary, ASPIRE oracy plays a prominent role in teaching and learning. We understand that oracy skills are vital to success in school and in life, as they are closely linked to cultural capital. For many children, especially those growing up in poverty, opportunities to develop...

ASPIRE in Autumn 1 2019

In Autumn 1 we focussed on respect and pride. Pupils explored the idea of mutual respect within school and how we can be respectful members of our local and global communities. We made links to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and created rights respecting charters in every classroom....

ASPIRE in Autumn 2 2019

In Autumn 2 we focused on inclusivity through positive relationships and linked this to Anti-Bullying Week. We learnt how to listen to other people and play and work cooperatively both in class and in the playground. We talked about strategies to resolve simple arguments through negotiation. We...

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...

Vacancies

Current vacancies

Online Safety

At Shoreditch Park Primary School we are dedicated to keeping children safe online and ensuring that children become digitally literate citizens. Our yearly curriculum map supports, develops and nurtures the digital literacy of our children throughout the school and is dedicated to supporting...

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...

Safeguarding

Safeguarding Team The safeguarding team is in charge of keeping children safe at home and at school. They are called Designated Safeguarding Leads. Filtering and Monitoring Team Coffee Morning Contact Numbers For social care support for disabled children Phone: 020 8356 6789 OR 020 8356 4865 Duty...

Seuss Class (ARP)

Timetable Homework in Seuss class Children are provided with homework books to reinforce and recap the learning completed in class each week. They also have access to IXL and Times Tables Rock Stars , which can be used regularly at home to support their learning. Reading homework will be assigned...

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

Science

Science Intent and Impact At Shoreditch Park Primary, we provide an inclusive science curriculum that encourages our children to understand, explore and question the natural and humanly constructed world around them. In the EYFS, science is a key part of the specific area ‘Understanding of the...

School Meals and Packed Lunches

School Meals and Menu In partnership with Fuel for Learning At Shoreditch Park Primary, we understand the importance of nutritious food in supporting children’s well-being and learning. In partnership with Fuel for Learning, we provide freshly prepared, healthy meals that are inclusive,...

Rights Respecting School

We are proud to be a Rights Respecting Gold Award school. This means that the school has fully embedded children’s rights throughout the school in its policies, practice and ethos. Rights Respecting is ingrained within our ASPIRE ethos of Respect and Inclusion. Children learn about their rights...

Read Write Inc

Intent At Shoreditch Park Primary, we know that every child deserves success right from the start. We know that the sooner children learn to read, the greater their life successes. This is why we put reading at the heart of what we do. We teach children to read accurately and fluently with good...

Pupil Premium

The Pupil Premium grant is additional funding from the government designed to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils and close the gap between them and their peers. The Funding is allocated to schools for children from Reception to Year 11 who have registered for Free School Meals in the last...

PTA

At Shoreditch Park we are passionate about working together to ensure our children and wider school community get the best possible experiences in life. The PTA aims to work together to: Run events where people can get to know each other and enjoy themselves Raise funds for resources that the...

Promoting British Values

The DfE states that schools should promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. The Government set out its definition of British values in the 2011 Prevent Strategy, and was...

Policies

All policies at Shoreditch Park have been created with the Right of the Child in mind. All policies reflect the articles and rights set out in the Convention of the Rights of the Child. If, as a parent of a pupil attending this school, you require a paper copy of the information on this website, we...

Performance Tables

EYFS 59 pupils School Hackney National Good Level of Development 71% 74% 67% Good Level of Development (PPG) 58% 70% - Good Level of Development (Non-PPG) 82% 77% - Communication and language 85% 81% 80% Literacy 75% 77% 70% Mathematics 83% 81% 77% Phonic Screening Check Year 1: 89% Year 2: 80%...

PE

Curriculum Intent At Shoreditch Park Primary School we aim to provide a PE curriculum that is engaging, enjoyable and appropriately challenging to children which allows them to learn the necessary skills to participate in a wide range of sports. In EYFS and KS1 the focus is to really develop the...

ASPIRE

Intent ASPIRE is an aspirational curriculum and school vision that empowers children to flourish in their academic, personal and social learning. Within our broad and balanced ASPIRE and PSHE curriculum, we are able to nurture and support the spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development...

RE

Curriculum Intent At Shoreditch Park Primary we aim to provide an enquiry based RE curriculum, where pupils can develop an understanding and appreciation for beliefs, cultural practices and values. RE helps pupils to understand the place of religion and belief in the local, national and global...

EYFS Prospectus

Sharratt Class (ARP)

Timetable Homework in Sharratt class Children will receive an Enquiring Ebony homework project linked to their topic of learning. This project should be completed gradually throughout the term and returned to school on the designated date, which will be communicated by teachers. If you would like...

Cost of Living Support

We know that times are extremely difficult for many of our families at the moment. If you’re struggling with your finances, please get in touch to let us know, as there may be things we can suggest which will help. Local Help and Support We recommend taking a look at Hackney’s 'Help with the rising...

Shoreditch Park Family Cycle Training

Book into an exclusive cycle training session with your child, every Saturday. The sessions are run by Cycle Confident who are endorsed by Hackney council (please note this is held on the school grounds but not managed by the school). This is a 2-hour cycle training session to take place in the...

Playground Upgrade Project

Absence and Attendance

Our aim is to work in partnership with children, teachers, parents and other agencies to raise achievement. The key part of our role is to improve the children’s levels of achievement through continued regular attendance and excellent punctuality. We actively encourage dialogue between ourselves...

Parent Engagement Calendar

Autumn 1 Previous Term

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Year 4 - Trip to Hoxton Church

Year 4 classes Morpurgo and Almond, visited St Anne’s Hoxton Church as part of their RE learning about Christianity. The children explored the church, learning about its features and significance. They also had an engaging talk with the vicar, who answered their questions and shared insights....

Power of Reading - Wolves

We were focusing on the book wolves by Emily Gravett in which a rabbit checks out a book at their local library all about their old adversary…Wolves. The book unveils facts about wolves, including information on some of the animals they like to eat, including…Rabbits!

Power of Reading - Leon and The Place Between

We were focusing on the book Leon and the place between by Graham Baker-Smith in which Leon takes his siblings, who are sceptical about magic, to the circus. Whilst at the circus he gets chosen by the enigmatic Abdul-Kazam to participate in a magic trick and suddenly finds himself in the place...

Roald Dahl Day 2019

This year we watched this video: We then wrote our own descriptive settings of the Chocolate Factory. We couldn't help but get ravenous for chocolate as we wrote them! Have a look at our work which is now on display!

Power of Reading - Cruel Crime

Year 5 - Anglo-Saxon Art & Culture Trip

Year 5 went on an Anglo-Saxon Art & Culture trip to the V&A Museum. The children considered what Anglo-Saxon objects tell us about people living in Britain over a thousand years ago. They also explored the design of luxury goods, trade routes and the change from Pagan to Christian society

Year 3 - Apollo5 Workshop

Year 3 had the great opportunity of taking part in a workshop delivered by members of Apollo5. This workshop has helped the children gain confidence in their singing voices. The children start their afternoons with 10 minutes of singing. The children are excited to sing and enjoy it so much. It is...

ARP - Seuss Class Trip to the Apple Store

...lowed by a visit to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park playground....

Year 4 - Black History Month 2019

To celebrate Black History Month, Year 4 participated in a workshop at Sutton house that explored prominent black figures throughout history. Some pupils were lucky enough to dress in period clothing

Year 2 - Black History Month 2019

To celebrate Black History Month, Year 2 visited Sutton House where they took part in some fascinating workshops. The children discovered that throughout history, people have not always been treated equally. They learned about the incredible stories and achievements of people from black and ethnic...

Year 3 - Science in the Autumn Term

This half term our topic is Rocks! Over the past few weeks we have been learning about metamorphic, igneous and sedimentary rock. We have been researching, sorting and using play dough to make different types of rocks. Have a look at our learning below!

Reception - Trip to Little Angels Theatre

Virtual Open Events

...days - 11am to 12pm Eloise Erwin EYFS Lead Tuesdays - 10am to 11am...

Year 6 - IntoUniversity: Art History

Milligan started at IntoUniversity today on their course ‘Art History’. We focused on five artists, Utagawa Hiroshige, Artemisia Gentileschi, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Tamara de Lempicks. Today we did researched artists, recreated work from different cultures and created a fact file on...

Nursery - Animal Workshop

This term, our topic has been Animals, and we were excited to welcome a special ZooLab workshop. The children had the opportunity to meet a variety of fascinating creatures, including a snake, frog, and even a tarantula. With gentle guidance, they were able to carefully stroke and, in some cases,...

Reception trip to the Farm - Spring 1

Reception enjoyed an exciting visit to Spitalfields City Farm this half term. Despite the rainy weather, the children arrived full of enthusiasm and ready for adventure! This term in Reception, we have been learning all about animals and their habitats as part of our topic work, alongside exploring...

Violin Concert - February 2019

Rauf's Poem

The River's a bird He swoops and soars The path below shows him A little boat's oars. The River's a shelter A towel, a cave The residents who walk inside Will feel a dry rave. The River's a scarecrow Guarding the field He acts cruel to the crows With an invisible shield. The...

Reception - Forest School Sessions

Our Reception children continue to enjoy their Forest School sessions each week. As the weather warms, the children have loved engaging with the pond. They learned how to pond dip safely and how to clear out the old leaves and duckweed so that they could see the tiny pond animals. They found shiny...

ASPIRE in Autumn 2 2018

...ng books such as My Fantastic Elastic Brain, The Dot and Beautiful Oops. These books explore the concept mistakes are a key learning tool that hElp you to make progress. We will be learning about what it means to have a growth mind-set and how a change in our words can hElp us become independent, ca...

ASPIRE in Autumn 1 2018

...Every body Did That’ by Ellen Javernick. This opened up conversations about the consequences of our actions....

Reception - Holi

Last week, children in Reception learned about the Hindu festival of Holi, the festival of colour. The children enjoyed taking part in a range of activities exploring colour, including creative art and sensory experiences inspired by the celebrations. We hope all of our families who celebrated had...

Reception - Exploring and Learning: Around the World

This half term, the children have enjoyed exploring different countries and landscapes through our Around the World topic. Using a range of core texts and engaging activities, they have learned about a variety of religious and cultural celebrations, including Easter, Eid and Passover. The children...

Year 2 - Hoffman Class Trip to Museum of London - Fire! Fire!

On 2 September 1666, an event started that would change the face of London. The Great Fire broke out from a baker's house in Pudding Lane. By the time it was over four days later, much of the medieval city lay in smoking ruins. Year 2 explored this further at the Museum of London. We looked at...

ARP - Sharratt Class at the Museum of Childhood

Sharratt class had a fantastic day at the Museum of Childhood quiet day on 15th November. We travelled to Bethnal Green by bus. When we got there we looked around the museum, played with the robot and then went on the rocking horse. Then we had a craft workshop where we made a model of a bedroom....

Year 2 - Jeffers Class Trip to Museum of London - London's Burning

This term, Year 2 are learning about the Great Fire of London. We were lucky enough to be able to visit the Museum of London and see and feel an exciting combination of real and replica objects relating to the Great Fire, and learn all about life, homes and firefighting in 1666. Children also...

Year 4 - Home Learning

Year 4 have adapted excellently to the google classroom and are showing us all that they are resilient and adaptable learners . Here is an example of some of the excellent work that has been completed so far

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...

Reception - Teddy Bear Hospital Workshop

Reception enjoyed a brilliant Teddy Bear Hospital workshop, delivered by volunteers from Barts Hospital. Each child brought in their own teddy from home and learned about hospital procedures in a fun, friendly and hands-on way. The children practised using real medical equipment, explored how...

Year 6 - Paired Reading in Destination Reader

Here are some excellent examples of paired reading in Destination Reader

Nursery - Nutcracker Dance Workshop

Our Nursery children were transported into a magical winter world during an enchanting Nutcracker dance workshop! The children listened beautifully to the music, learned simple choreography, and used expressive movements to bring the characters to life. From tiptoeing like sugar plum fairies to...

Incoming Reception 2020/21

Browne Class Transition Booklet Donaldson Class Transition Booklet Welcome to Reception Enquiry Ebony’s Homework All About Me Message from NHS City and Hackney CCG We want to reassure parents that all GP surgeries in City and Hackney are open, safe and available for all of our patients....

Year 1 - First Week Back (Summer 2 Week 1)

Year 1 has been very busy during our first week back this term. We have been finding fractions of shapes and quantities in maths, writing letters to Rapunzel in POR, learning about Ibn Battuta in topic and observing root systems in science. Here are some of the amazing examples of our work

Year 3 - Home Learning - Ancient Egypt and Plants

This week we have been starting many of our new topics and we wanted to show you some of our work! We have made Egyptain death mask linking to our topic Ancient Egypt as well as started learning about our science topic Plants!

Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Work

Our new science topic for this half term will be 'Animal Antics'. To prepare for this, Year 1 were asked to create their own model of a minibeast using a range of materials. The children have been very busy researching interesting facts about their minibeasts and a minibeast hotel has even...

Year 6 - Excellent Examples of Work

...0 word story - Jalvin About Electricity - Oscar T Big Revenge - Oscar T ChElsie - Planning for......- Taking Flight End of Unit Electricity Alex JaquEline - Street Child Lesson 3 Nicole A - Set...

Year 5 - Home Learning - Week 5

Adam N - The Last Wild illustration Angel S - Change the Simile to a Metaphor Anis - Fox Friday Create it task Shayden Leggett - Converting Improper Fractions to Mixed Numbers

Groove Into the Woods: A Video Storybook

For children aged 3-7 Welcome to the deep, dark woods - full of all sorts of magic and creatures up to no good... Join three friends on their quest to save their grownups from some horrible trolls. Singing, dancing and adventure await you on this mysterious journey. Designed for children aged 3 - 7...

Year 4 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 18th May 2020

Year 4 continues to show us all that they are resilient and adaptable learners . Here is an example of some of the excellent work that has been completed from the past week

Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Projects

Year 1 has been working very hard over the Easter break on their Enquiring Ebony projects and created models of their local area and performed the poem 'When the World Got Turned Upside Down' by Margaret Savage. Have a look at how they got on

Year 2 - Opera Workshop

This week Year 2 were lucky enough to have a music workshop all about opera! We have looked at many genres of music this year, but opera was new to many of the children. The children listened to a performance by a professional opera singer called Katie. Then they took part in a vocal warm up. They...

Year 2 - National Careers Week Visit from Millie

During National Careers week, year two enjoyed a visit from Millie who recently launched her company, Stage Sisters. Millie works with her best friend and designs stage sets. She inspired us with her career history of dance, stilt walking and acting! Millie persevered through challenges and...

Year 1 - Deacon Class Enjoy Their Reading Morning in the New Library

Deacon class had a blast showing their parents and carers around our new library this morning! They explored the different genres available on the shelves and read books from some of their favourite authors. Have a look at how they got on

ARP - Seuss Class Celebrate Pancake Day

Today Seuss class celebrated pancake day and the start of our new topic: FOOD! We followed instructions to make pancakes and added sweet and fruity toppings. A special thanks to Cinar who brought in some home made pancakes for everyone to sample. Tomorrow we will write about how we made them and...

Year 3 - National Story Week

This week we have been reading a story called "A Planet full of Plastic". We completed a range of activities linking to the story and learnt so much about how we can help our planet by reducing the amount of plastic we use. We made our own plastic pen pots by upcycling our old plastic...

Turning Single-Use Plastic Bottles in into a Vibrant Pencil Pot

Do you know how much plastic ends up in our oceans every year? Do you know what happens to animals when they eat plastic? Do you know ways in which you can reuse single use plastic in order to help protect our environment? Shoreditch Park Primary School children do! This week we have been reading A...

Year 3 - Our trip to The Old Royal Naval College (Part 1)

Today (4th February 2020) we visited The Old Royal Naval College Greenwich! We took part in a workshop called "Myths and Masks". This trip was linked to our topic Ancient Greece. We looked for key Greek Gods in the Painted Hall and then made masks of our favourite Greek Gods and...

Reception - Outdoor Learning - Autumn 2025

Reception children have been taking part in weekly Forest School sessions, held in the wonderful natural environment of our own school garden! The children experience Forest school on a rotation each term and all children take part in a weekly outdoor session to develop their 'Understanding of the...

Year 2 - Big Bang History Lesson: Titanic

Our Big Bang history lesson on the Titanic sparked full engagement from Year 2 this week.The children acted as historians as they asked and answered questions about some artefacts from the Islington Library Service. Key questions included: What is this? Is it from the past, present or future? How...

Year 3 - Henry VIII Role Play

...the influential monarch Queen Elizabeth I. The children acted out key aspects of her life such as how she was with her family and her journey to the throne. They worked as a team, projected their voices and had lots of fun!...

ARP - Seuss Class Trip to the Science Museum

On 25th November Seuss class went to the Science Museum. We travelled by bus and tube. When we got there we saw lots of transport from the past, including an old motor car which looked a lot like the one in the story 'Mr Gumpy's motor car'. We are going to include some of these vehicles...

Year 3 - Science Museum Trip

Year 3 had the opportunity to visit ‘The Wonder lab’, an exhibition held by the science museum. The children were able to take part in the chemistry bar, see lightning strike, play with forces on giant slides and even travel through space under a canopy of stars. They really enjoyed the...

Year 6 - Ice Skating at Somerset House

Year 6 today went ice skating at a very festive Somerset house. Most of us, including teachers, were learning for the first time and - despite a few falls - we had an excellent time learning to skate

Year 4 - Renewable and Non-renewable Power Sources

In Year 4 we have begun to learn about electricity. This week we have been discussing renewable and non-renewable power sources. Have a listen to our presentations!

Year Groups

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Year 3 - Power of Reading: Narratives

Year 3 have been using the story of Jemmy Button to re tell and write their own narratives. This week they have been looking at using speech marks for direct speech. As part of this, they role played a conversation between Jemmy and his parents about going away with some visitors to the Island to...

Year 5 - Nelson Mandela Exhibition

Year 5 went on a trip to the Nelson Mandela exhibition where we got to learn about the life and story of the late great Nelson Mandela

Year 6 - Antartic Scene Settings

Year 6 have begun their new Topic and immersed themselves within the depths of Antarctica through the eyes of intrepid explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. The wrote descriptive scene settings about the character first arriving in the Antarctic!

Year 6 - 'A Midsummer Nights Dream' Freeze Frames

Year 6 are currently learning about Shakespeare, and in particular this week 'A Midsummer Nights Dream'. To help us learn about the play, the Year 6 children are recreating prominent scenes within the play by creating freeze frames. More to come soon - along with an exciting announcement of...

Year 5 Trip to Hackney Museum

This half term Year 5 have been learning about the History of their local area. We went on a trip to Hackney museum to find out more about the different people who have lived in Hackney, even as far back as the Saxons. We had the opportunity to look through the suitcases and try and predict who the...

Year 5 Trip to Hackney Museum

Tan Class enjoyed their trip to Hackney Museum. We really enjoyed learning about all the different people who have lived in Hackney in the past. We looked at clues in suitcases to try and guess who they belonged to. We even got to try some of the hats and clothes on!

Year 5 Trip to Hackney Forest School

Year 5 had a fantastic trip to Hackney Forest School. We made shelters, looked at mini beasts and got the chance to climb some trees. We all had a great time!

Year 5 Say Goodbye To The Chicks

Year 5 bid farewell to their chicks this week. They're moving to a new life in the rolling hills and pastures of Devon. They will be missed, but they've promised to Skype

Year 5 Descriptive Work

Year 5 have been studying the book Clockwork by Philip Pullman. The wrote descriptive paragraphs from the character Fritz's perspective as he arrived in the town of Glockenheim. We focused upon figurative language to describe the town as well as the characters sensory reactions

Year 5 - Tan Class Poetry

Year 5 - Spanish Lesson from Shoreditch Park Secondary School Students

Students from Shoreditch Park Secondary School came to school today to deliver a Spanish lesson to Year 5 children. Year 5 were extremely impressed with the children's vocabulary in secondary schools, which has inspired our pupils to keep practising

Year 5 - Performance Poetry

Year 5 have been focusing on poetry. This lesson we worked in groups to perform a poem. Our checklist for performing included tone, volume, expression, actions and teamwork. Click an image to watch the video

Year 5 - National Storytelling Week

Last week, for National Storytelling Week, Year 5 explored a book called window. We looked, in depth, at the characters and theme running through the book through asking questions and a hot seating activity. Towards the end of the week we described what was happening in the picture using a variety...

Year 6 - Exploring Properties of 3D Shapes

Year 6 have been exploring the properties of 3D shape and have been studying the relationship between the total amount of faces and vertices and how this compares to the total amount of edges for any 3D shape. We have made some fantastic challenge investigations for other children to try and solve...

Year 5 - Making A Reading Room

Year 5 have been working hard to design and make a reading room for their book corner. This week we made small models of the rooms we would like to make life size

Year 5 - Art Trip

This week some of the children in Year 5 had the opportunity to go and work with an artist in the morning. We had a look around the gallery and afterwards, had the chance to create our own pieces of art using chalk pastels, oil pastels and paint. We made clothing with patterns on

Year 4/5 - Bow Arts Reading Sheds

Year 4 and 5 have been part of an exciting new art project run by Bow Arts who helped install new 'Reading Sheds' with class author themes. They have really brought the classrooms to life and children are enjoying reading books in them

Year 4 visit St Luke's

Almond and Morpurgo had an exciting trip to St Luke's near Old Street, organised by the London Symphony Orchestra . We played the Indonesian gamelan which is made up of percussion instruments, it was important that we played together as a team, keeping in time with each other. We also got the...

Year 4 Topic - Argentina

Today Year 4 became documentary makers! We reported on the sights of Argentina, describing facts and trying to persuade as many tourists to come as possible! Check out our travel documentaries!

Year 4 Tate Trip

Year 4 had a fabulous time visiting The Tate Modern this week! We enjoyed wandering around the different galleries discovering and observing masterpieces painting by the likes of Pablo Picasso and Piet Modrian. We also had a wonderful time recreating some of the pieces we saw ourselves!

Year 4 Meet Elizabeth Rossiter

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Year 4 Britannia Trip

Year 4 had a great time at the UBS sports games at Britannia this week! We took part in lots of new sports we had never experienced before; Thai boxing, fencing, wheelchair basket ball, karate, cricket, rugby, dodgeball and more!

Year 4 Become Teachers

This week Year 4 became the teachers! They collaboratively marked pieces of writing and discussed what really constituted as an effective piece of persuasive writing

Year 4 - What Makes An Effective Team?

This week Year 4 have been focussing on what makes an effective team! We have looked at the ASPIRE team work code and collaboratively created posters for the classroom!

Year 4 - Studying Roman Artefacts

Year 4 are studying the Romans and were lucky enough to look at artefacts from the Roman times. They were able to look at a piece of Roman mosaic, a sponge on a stick which was used instead of toilet paper and a Roman torc which is a bracelet. Some of the children were even lucky enough to try on...

Year 6 - Electricity

Year 6 are studying electricity in science and this week we looked at creating circuits using buzzers and motors and how to draw them scientifically. Year 6 also worked out that using a peg and tin foil we could still create a circuit that worked

Year 6 - Graduation 2019

As we prepare to say goodbye to our wonderful Year 6's, we celebrated their time at Shoreditch Park this week with a beautiful graduation ceremony. Throughout the 90 minute celebration we sang songs, read poems and performed to a room of very proud parents and teachers. We move into our final...

Year 6 - Secondary School Preparation

Year 6 today started working with into university to prepare for their move into secondary school by working with into university to look at timetables, subjects and planning towards the future. Next half term we will be working closely with into university for 2 weeks to look at possible...

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 6 visit to Chessington World of Adventures

Year 6 today went to Chessington World of Adventures as a reward for their hard work throughout their time at Whitmore. We got wet on water rides, saw a variety animals and were completely scared (as the photo of Alicien and Fareed shows!) on rollercoasters. More pictures to follow soon!

Year 6 Sports Day 2016

Year 6 took part in their final sports day at Whitmore, a ferocious battle against both the sun and each other! The children participated in events such as Javelin, Shot-putt and 100m sprints. Results will be announced on Friday - may the best team win!

Year 6 Midsummer Nights Dream Performance

Year 6 continued rehearsing their Midsummer Nights Dream performance today with actor Tom Davey. In today's session, children looked at the lines of the fairies within the play and explored different emotions when reading lines. Not long until the performance and the children are doing...

Year 6 Kayaking

Year 6 today (26th May 2016) went Kayaking for the first time at the Laburnum Boat Club. All children did incredibly well in the team building exercises and were excellent representatives of Whitmore Primary. We are all really looking forward to our next session!

Year 6 Investigate Electricity

Yea 6 today started investigating the properties of electricity in groups by creating circuits and exploring the properties of different conducive circuits such as tin foil. By the end of an investigative afternoon, all Year 6 children were able to create a circuit with a cell, lamp and a piece of...

Year 6 - World War 2

Over the last term, we have been learning about World War 2 through the books Rose Blanche and Maus. More recently we have been learning about the Holocaust and have this week been lucky enough to have Karen Van Coevorden from the Holocaust Memorial Trust and Hedi Argent, who came to England as a...

Year 6 - The United Nations Convention on The Rights of the Child

Year 6 children have been learning about The United Nations Convention on The Rights of the Child and creating videos using a green screen to share their message about why they think that these rights are important. The backgrounds and scripts were created entirely by the children!

Year 6 - The Blitz

Year 6 this week in topic have been learning about The Blitz and have researched about what the blitz was and who it affected. Can you find out about the blitz using kidrex.org ? Here are some questions Year 6 have for you: What was the Blitz? Which areas were bombed? What happened to children...

Year 6 - Stop-Frame Animation

... Fareed Jade & Baptista Elivan, Freddie, Ilyes & Ismail...

Year 6 - STEM Day

Some lucky Year 6 children today took part in a STEM day in central London. Children had to work together with other schools to build a miniature masterpiece. We looked at the importance of technology in the world and used our engineering skills and team work abilities to create a structure. To...

Year 6 - Science: Blood

Today, Zephaniah Class focused their learning on blood. They learnt about the importance of the different parts of blood and the jobs they do in the body. We discussed in length Blood donation, what that means and why we need to have this to help one another. To finish the lesson we made 'Blood...

Year 6 - Hollywood Bowl

Year 6 today celebrated the end of year with a trip to Hollywood Bowl, Surrey Quays. We had an amazing time - one of the children even managed to get three strikes! Our final trip tomorrow to kayaking will be our last together as a year group

Year 6 - Schools Across the Ocean project

This year, Year 6 took part in the British Council Schools Across the Ocean project, collaborating with partner schools in Brazil as part of a global initiative supporting COP 2026. Through the project, pupils explored the interconnectedness of ocean ecosystems and developed a deeper understanding...

Year 6 - Saying Their Birthday In Spanish

This term Year 6 have been learning to say when their birthdays are in Spanish. Fantastic speaking skills, well done Year 6

Year 6 - SATs Week Celebrations

Year 6 this afternoon celebrated completing their SATs week with rounders on the park and ice cream - the whole school would like to get every single child a huge CONGRATULATIONS on completing their tests and working incredibly hard in preparation

Year 6 - Royal Opera House

Year 6 today went to the Royal Opera House to see a stunning performance of Hansel and Gretel. We were lucky enough to sit in the stalls and hear the sensational orchestra play throughout a 2 hour show. Unfortunately we couldn’t take any pictures (Mr Scott even got in trouble!) but it was a...

Year 6 - Rose Blanche Storyboards

Year 6, linked their Power of Reading focus book Rose Blanche to many elements of their Topic, this week they were beginning to wrap it all by learning about VE Day. They made some exceptional story boards to summarise the events

Year 6 - Propaganda

As part of the Year 6 assembly for Autumn 1 the children decided to make their own propaganda film based on the Dig for Victory campaign. The children researched different propaganda films of the time then constructed a list of scenes to film. They wrote a script for the voice over and hired a...

Year 6 - Natural History Museum

Year 6 went to the Natural History Museum this week to learn about evolution, fossils and how teeth differ in a range of animals. We explored the museum all day - looking at the huge whale skeleton, the dinosaur exhibition and exhibitions about insects

Year 6 - Maths Reasoning Work

Year 6 today worked on reasoning work as collaborative groups. We had to problem solve how to plan a school trip using both relevant and irrelevant information and data. Working as organisers, recorders, coordinators and planners we worked together to calculate data and write a letter to explain...

Year 6 - Mastery in Maths

Year 6 have been developing mastery within their knowledge of calculation specifically focussing upon their written methods. They Were solving missing number problems and creating their own steps for learning

Year 6 - Magic V's

Year 6 today completed a reasoning challenge - Magic V's. In this challenge we explored the relationships between numbers and how we could create v's which add up to the same amount. To do this we had to work collaboratively and play with number to seek out patterns. Try it, what can you...

Year 6 - Kayaking

Year 6 today started a six week course In Kayaking at the Laburnum boat club, Haggerston. The weather was absolutely beautiful and the children tried out their kayaking skills for the first time. An unlucky few fell in but for the most part, they're naturals!

Year 6 - IntoUniversity

Year 6 today started working with IntoUniversity to prepare for their move into secondary school by working with into university to look at timetables, subjects and planning towards the future. Next half term we will be working closely with into university for 2 weeks to look at possible...

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 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

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

Settling in to Reception

We are excited to now have welcomed all the children into Reception. They have settled in beautifully and we are looking forward to a great year!

Reception - Donaldson Outdoor Story Morning

We were so excited to welcome our parents and carers into school for our first Parent Story Morning! We had a great turn out and the children were able to share their favourite stories, authors and their passion for reading! We look forward to many more in the future

Reception - Browne Class Outdoor Story Morning

We were so excited to welcome our parents and carers into school for our first Parent Story Morning in quite a while! We had a great turn out and the children were able to share their favourite stories, authors and their passion for reading! We look forward to many more in the future

Reception - Browne Class Trip to Spitalfields City Farm

Browne class had a wonderful trip to Spitalfields City Farm. The children enjoyed looking at a range of farm animals and learnt about how they are looked after. We even got to see a bug hotel! The animals were very friendly and some children had the opportunity to stroke them

Reception - Donaldson Class Visit to Spitalfields Farm

This week, Donaldson class visited Spitalfields Farm as part of their Animals topic. They had a wonderful time meeting the different animals and even stroking them! The children learned about the different animals living on the farm and how they are cared for

Year 1 - Story Time Session at Shoreditch Library

The children were absolutely thrilled with the story time session at Shoreditch Library. They were completely engaged and thoroughly enjoyed listening to the exciting new book that was read to them. They also had the opportunity to explore the library's impressive collection of books. We want...

School Council Update - Spring 1 2023

Hello we are the school council and in this update we will be talking about pupil voice groups and what they have done this half term. Hello! I'm here to talk about the Rights Respecting Steering Group. This half term, they have led an assembly on different things to do with your mental health. Our...

World Book Day 2023

Shoreditch Park celebrated World Book Day in style! It was wonderful to see the children dressed up in their favourite book character costumes, and the love of reading was evident throughout the day. As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we have collected money to donate to Book Aid...

ARP - Seuss Class - New Obstacle Course

In Seuss class we enjoyed playing on the new obstacle course in Shoreditch Park. We had fun playing and building our resilience by challenging ourselves to overcome our fear of heights. We are superstars!

ARP - Seuss Class - Suleymaniye Mosque

On Monday the 20th Seuss class went on a trip to the Suleymaniye Mosque. We have been learning about religions and holy places during RS on Mondays and Seuss class enjoyed exploring a place of worship. Mr Savas, an admin lead at the Mosque, showed us around the Mosque and answered all of our...

Year 1 - Design & Technology

Design and technology (DT) in year 1 is all about helping children to develop their creativity and problem-solving skills through designing and making their own products. DT encourages children to explore and experiment with materials, tools and techniques to create models, structures and objects....

Year 1 - The story of the Secret Sky Garden

During the year 1 oracy session this week, the children retold the story of the Secret Sky Garden. The activity involved placing a cube on their vocabulary mat each time they used one of the core words. The core words are important vocabulary words that the children are encouraged to use in their...

Year 2 - Spitalfields City Farm

Year 2 visited Spitalfields City Farm for a guided tour to learn all about life on a farm as a city farm animal. The children got to interact with the animals by stroking and feeding them. The leaders of the farm shared amazing facts about the lives of each animal and answered our many questions....

Science in Year 1

Year 1's have been really enjoying their science lessons this term. They have really immersed themselves in the different experiments we have performed and have worked collaboratively to showcase their new understanding of different animal groups. This week, we had lots of fun learning about...

Reception - Learning About Eid

In Reception, we have learned about Eid and the different ways people celebrate it. We thoroughly enjoyed taking part in Eid celebrations

Year 1 - Hackney Museum Trip

Year 1 had a wonderful time on their trip to the Hackney Museum as part of their People and their Communities topic. During the trip, the children had the opportunity to learn about the changes in Hackney over time and explore the stories of different people who have moved there. They were...

Year 1 - Learning to Multiply

Year 1 has been learning to multiply! We began by teaching the children how to make equal groups, then worked on adding equal groups through repeated addition. We also explored solving multiplication problems by using arrays in a partner game. The children loved using this method, and it really...

The Secret Sky Garden

Through an excellent oracy education, children learn not only how to talk but also how to learn through talk. In the classroom, children have the opportunity to develop and enhance their understanding through structured and planned talk activities. This enables them to acquire the skill to...

Year 2 - Visit to St Paul's Cathedral

Year 2 had a wonderful opportunity this week to visit St Paul's Cathedral to enrich their 'Our Wonderful World' topic. St Paul's is a remarkable place that stimulates the minds of children of all ages. The trip provided an interactive history session that allowed pupils to delve...

Parent Election - Summer 2023

Two vacancies for the role of parent governor on our governing board are available from September 2023. The role of the governing board The school’s governing board is responsible for providing confident and strategic leadership, and creating robust accountability, oversight and assurance for the...

Hackney Reading Champions

On Wednesday 21st June, our Hackney Reading Champions attended an end of year celebration at Hackney Town Hall, where they received certificates from Cllr Anntoinette Bramble for achieving the Gold Award

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 1 - Reading the Mini Grey text Biscuit Bear

Year One has enjoyed reading the Mini Grey text "Biscuit Bear" over the past few weeks. We had a great time making our very own Biscuit Bear cookies and decorating them with icing sugar and delicious sprinkles. Additionally, we wrote a retell of the story using some of the key parts. One...

Gardening Adventures

This week we have been digging up our pumpkins just in time for Halloween. Despite being frighteningly small, we're they’ll go well in a nice autumnal soup

Reception - Lunar New Year

This week in Reception, we have learned about the Lunar New Year and the different ways people celebrate it. We thoroughly enjoyed getting ready to welcome the year of the Rabbit!

Year 3 - Briggs Class Trip to the Science Museum

This half term, Briggs class went to the Wonderlab section of the Science Museum. We had so much fun exploring all the immersive activities and developing our Scientific skills. Some of our favourite sections were the dark room, the friction slide and the gravity testing ball game

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...

KS1 Reading Morning - May 2022

The KS1 reading morning was a huge success, and it was wonderful to welcome parents back into classes to share a love of reading. At Shoreditch Park Primary, we value reading for pleasure as it helps children develop their fluency, vocabulary and develops their understanding of the world. Reading...

PTA - Thank You

The PTA would like to say a big thank you to those who donated cakes, bought cakes and volunteered! It was lovely to see the children’s excited faces! We managed to raise an amazing amount of £292.54 and we couldn’t have done it without the support from the parents and carers. Hope everyone has a...

Seuss Class - Black History Month

During October Seuss class (ARP) have been celebrating Black History Month. Pupils learnt about Hackney carnival by dancing to Socca Music and making carnival masks. Children in Seuss class love crafts and are very creative. Their masks are now proudly displayed in the classroom. During our weekly...

Year 2 - National Poetry Day

To celebrate National Poetry Day, we were lucky enough to have a workshop with poet Steve Tasane. Steve read some of his fantastic poems to us. We loved how interactive his poems were and enjoyed joining in. At the end of the workshop, some of us stood to share our own poems with Steve and the rest...

National Poetry Day 2022

National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration on the first Thursday of October that encourages everyone to make, experience and share poetry with family and friends. Each year we come together because voices, words and stories help to bridge understanding in our community. This year we...

Inclusive School Award

Shoreditch Park have achieved the Inclusive School Award with Flagship status for the second time. "Upon entering Shoreditch Park Primary School, their vision, values, and commitment to promoting an inclusive environment is evidenced through displays of ASPIRE characters and their characteristics....

Year 2 - Great Fire of London Workshop

This week Year 2 had a special visitor from the Museum of London who came to deliver a fantastic Great Fire of London workshop! We learnt all about the events that led to the fire, and had fun acting out the flames as well as the people who tried to extinguish them

Year 1 - Carousel - Week Beginning 20th September 2022

Year 1 Visit the Library

Year 1 had a fantastic time this week visiting Shoreditch library. They explored its wonderful children's section, listened to a story and chose books to read themselves. It was lovely to see the children's engagement and love of reading shine through!

School Council - Working with Hackney Council

The School Council have been working with Hackney Council to design some information plaques that will go into Shoreditch Park once the new development has been completed. The first session was spent in the park learning about what will be in the new design of the park. Then the second session was...

Green Team - Let's Reduce Electricity!

Green Team made some fantastic labels for the lightswitches and teacher computers to encourage them to be turned off when not in use. They then distributed them to different classrooms

New Starters Reception and Nursery - September 2022

We are delighted to welcome new starters to Reception and Nursery in September. We would love to welcome you into school for a New Starters Open Evening on Tuesday 28th June between 5pm and 6pm. Please find some useful information below. We are looking forward to welcoming your child into our...

Year 5 - Raise Tower Bridge

Year 5 participated in a virtual coding workshop via Zoom meeting to learn about Tower Bridge and then apply STEM knowledge and skills to 'RAISE TOWER BRIDGE'. This is what a Year 5 child said: "During the Tower Bridge workshop, we used our STEM, in particular- programming skills, to animate Tower...

Year 2 - Jeffers Class Hackney Museum Workshop

In Jeffers Class we enjoyed a workshop with the Hackney Museum about African Communities living in Hackney. We learned about the lives of people who had moved to Hackney from different African countries, including a man that set up a fabric shop selling Kente cloth. We then painted different...

'Astro Girl' in Reception

Our topic in Reception this half term is 'People Who Help Us'. This week, our core text is 'Astro Girl' by Ken Wilson- Max. The children will be learning to love the story all week. Here are some of the activities the children will be doing! Practicing scissor skills: making space...

Reception - Donaldson Class trip to Shoreditch Fire Station

As part of our current topic 'People who help us', we visited Shoreditch Fire Station to see firefighters in action! We had a great time trying on real firefighter uniforms, watching a fire pole demonstration and learning about the emergency systems

Year 1 - Deacon Class Trip to Hackney Museum

A highlight of Spring 2 was our trip to Hackney Museum. Deacon class had an amazing time exploring different suitcases which belonged to people who live in Hackney. We were able to learn about different and diverse communities of people who migrated to the UK and lived in Hackney

Year 2 Library Visit

We love reading in Year 2 and have recently enjoyed a fantastic visit to Hoxton Library. After an exciting storytime with the librarian, we browsed the shelves to find a book to read with a friend or grown up. Before we went back to school, we were allowed to choose a world book day book to take...

World Book Day 2022

Shoreditch Park celebrated the 25th anniversary of World Book Day - with the message for all children ‘you are a reader‘! Today gave us an opportunity to remind ourselves how important reading is with lots of exciting, celebratory ways to promote reading for pleasure on World Book Day, and all-year...

Reception - Browne Class Farm Trip

The children were SUPERSTARS today on our trip to Spitalfields City Farm. It was the first time we had got a bus together and they did so well. We had a lovely time looking at all of the farm animals and finished the trip with a picnic in the farm's yurt!

Reception - Browne Class Trip to Shoreditch Fire Station

As part of our current topic 'People who help us', we visited Shoreditch Fire Station to see firefighters in action! We had a great time trying on real firefighter uniforms, watching a fire pole demonstration and learning about fire safety

Reception - Donaldson Class Trip to the Farm

Today Donaldson Class visited Spitalfield's City Farm as part of their topic on animals. All of the children had so much fun meeting the different animals and learning about how they are looked after. The animals were feeling particularly friendly and the children were even lucky enough to...

Reception - Start of the New Lunar Year

Ni Hao! Reception are getting ready to celebrate the start of the new Lunar Year!

Year 2 - Exploring Different Emotions

In Year 2, we understand having a healthy mind is just as important as having a healthy body! This week we were lucky enough to have a drama company visit us to help us explore different emotions through an interactive workshop. In small groups, we created a scene through a Freeze Frame (a still...

Design and Technology (D&T) Week - Autumn 2021

In the Autumn term, Shoreditch Park Primary held a design and technology week. Year 1-6 children examined and explored the process of manipulating the medium of air dry clay. The children incorporated creativity and history as they developed their own ideas and created a sculptural,...

Year 2 - Read and Tell

Each Friday in Year 2 we have the opportunity to do Read and Tell, where we can bring in a book that we love, to show and describe to our friends! Here we are, reading some of our favourite pages and showing off beautiful illustrations

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...

PTA Coffee Morning 2023

The PTA held their first coffee morning of the academic year. It was great to have so many reception parents join the discussion on proposed plans for this year. The focus was the upcoming events and KS1 playground. The Annual General Meeting will be held on the 7th of November at 9am at the...

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

Exploring and Learning in Reception - Autumn 1

Our first half term in Reception has been an exciting start to the children’s learning journey in the Early Years Foundation Stage. The children have settled beautifully into their new environment, building friendships, developing routines, and beginning to explore all areas of learning through...

Winter Festival

What an incredible time we all had at Winterfest! Father Christmas took time out of his busy pre-Christmas schedule to visit all the children at Shoreditch Park. The wonderful news is that all Shoreditch Park children are officially on the nice list. Father Christmas brought two of his reindeer for...

Nursery - Topic: Ourselves

Year 2 – Natural History Museum

Year 2 children enjoyed an exciting pond dipping trip to the Natural History Museum. During the visit, they collected pond animals from the museum's wildlife pond and took part in activities designed to develop their observational and classification skills. The children also observed feeding...

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...

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...

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 - Khalsa Jatha Gurdwara

The Year 4 children had a wonderful time at the Khalsa Jatha Gurdwara. They learned more about the Sikh faith, they were shown the religious holy book and had a vegetarian meal (Langar). It was amazing to see how beautiful and respected their holy place of worship is. They were shown how Sikhs...

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

Year 5 - Hackney School of Food

Year 5 had a fantastic school trip to the Hackney School of Food, where they learned new skills and worked together to make delicious Moroccan kofta. They learned how to be safe in the kitchen, chop and dice vegetables, and the science behind making food taste great. They carefully chopped...

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 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 - 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 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 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...

Reception - Forest School - Autumn 1 2025

The children have had a fantastic time exploring the garden as the season changes. They learned about Autumn and all the different seeds that can be found now in the garden and the park. The children found and felt the shiny, hard conkers and collected tiny alder cones to use to make ink for next...

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)

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...

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 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...

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

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!

Nursery - Bonfire Night 2025

We had a wonderful time this term celebrating Bonfire Night with a variety of fun, creative and fine motor activities. We made fireworks using tissue paper and cardboard tubes, which we then used to dance along to different types of music. As the tempo increased, we jumped up like fireworks and...

Reception Parent Morning - Developing Fine Motor Skills

This week saw the first of our parent mornings focussing on developing fine motor skills. The children and parents had a lot of fun working together at the different activities. We are looking forward to many more sessions like this!

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 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 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!

Pupil Voice

The pupil voice team met with Ms Caton and Ms MacCourt to finalise the school lunch menu. We discussed elements that had to be included such as food standards, and initiatives that previous pupil voice groups had implemented such as Planet friendly Mondays. They discussed ways in which the pupil...

Year 1 trip to the Natural History Museum

Year 1 children enjoyed an exciting trip to the Natural History Museum to further explore their dinosaur topic. First, we caught the bus to Monument and then took the underground all the way to South Kensington. The station was very busy, but we were so excited to get to the museum. Upon arrival,...

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

...nsent Free School Meals Eloise Erwin Early Years Lead WElcome to Reception Uniform List All our uniform can be purchased from Khalsa Schoolwear in Bethnal Green. Please visit their website for more details or to order online. Nursery and Reception Girls Boys ...

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 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 3 Briggs - Hackney School of Food

This week, Year 3 had the opportunity to take a lesson on food education at Hackney School of Food. The children were able to learn about where food is grown and how to cook their own seasonal dishes (bread and a vegetable soup) from highly skilled food educators. This links well with our Healthy...

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 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...

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 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 3 Briggs - Ministry of Stories

Year 3 had the opportunity to go to The Ministry of Stories in Hoxton. The children were able to develop their confidence,imagination and potential through the power of writing. The children completed their own comic strips and were able to take home their own pieces of work

Year 5 - London Zoo

We had the incredible opportunity to visit the amazing London Zoo to enrich our understanding of our Animals Including Humans topic in Science. It was a beautiful autumnal day and we had the zoo virtually to ourselves, allowing us to observe and study all manner of rich and varied wildlife,...

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 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....

Mathstatic Activities - 2nd February 2024

On Friday 2 nd February 2024, our pupils enjoyed a ‘mathstastic’ series of activities as part of the NSPCC’S Number Day. The nationwide event encourages schools to raise money for the children’s charity while also celebrating the importance of maths and numeracy skills. All...

Aspire in Spring 1 - Express Yourself!

Reading Morning - 2024

Thank you to all the parents and carers who attended another successful reading morning this morning. Reading remains a priority at Shoreditch Park, as we know the positive impact reading has on the children. Not only does reading support academic success, but it also enhances children's social...

Reception - Curriculum

Welcome to our Reception Navigate the page using the buttons below. Meet the Team Timetable Curriculum Highlights ​​​​​​​ Teaching and Learning in Reception Starting Reception Starting Reception is a big step for children and their families, from those first days of settling in, making new friends...

Year 4 - Show and Tell

This week Year 4 began their Friday Show and Tell sessions where pupils brought in objects special to them to share with the class. We had live music, books on the human body and poetry! We are all looking forward to seeing what wonderful objects would be brought in next week

Spring Celebration - 19th April 2024

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 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 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 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...

Debate Club - Final Competition at Mission 44

This week, the SPPS debate club held their final end-of-term competition at Mission 44, a charity founded by Sir Lewis Hamilton. Our pupils kicked off with 2-minute presentations showcasing their public speaking skills, followed by a main debate on the motion, 'all decisions about young people...

Year 4 - Software Developers

This week Year 4 have continued with their project to become software developers and work towards creating their own educational game. First they unpicked the game 'Addition Race' and worked out the algorithm that must have gone into creating it. You can play this game here and see if the...

Year 3's Ancient Egyptian Scrolls

Year 3 have been busy working with visiting artist Sandy to make Ancient Egyptian scrolls. They researched areas of Ancient Egyptian life including, food, clothes and the afterlife using non-fiction books then used this research to help them design their scroll. After chalking out their design they...

Year 4 - Science: Electricity

Year 4 are learning about electricity in Science at the moment. On Monday the children were experimenting with complete and incomplete circuits and had to explain why the light bulb did not light up when the circuit was incomplete

Celebrating Inclusivity in Summer 1 2017

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Letter Writing By Hannah, Grey Class The Little Cottage Goldilocks Gardens in the Forest Dear Goldilocks, Thank you for your letter. I really wanted to eat your yummy porridge. It made me sad. Secondly thank you for telling your Dad to fix my chair. I love that chair. Finally I would love to come...

Genre of the Term

Each term we pick a different genre of music to celebrate. Autumn: R&B Summer: Funk Spring: Reggae

Gardening at Shoreditch Park

Well done to all of our gardeners this year, a new wild flower meadow, a great crop and a recognition of all of the children's hard work by the London Children's Flower society. The judges awarded our school Gold standard in their summer competition. Congratulations!

Festival of Triangles

Yesterday the whole school took part in the 'Festival of Triangles' - a family celebration of maths based around the triangle. Children from reception to Year 6 took part in creating a sierpinski structure and making tetrahedrons from straws to construct the huge structure. We loved using...

Donaldson Class - Spitalfields Farm Visit

This week Donaldson Class took a trip to Spitalfields Farm. It was a beautiful sunny day and we had a wonderful time. The children got to feed, pet and learn about lots of different animals. Our class favourite was the donkey- he was very friendly (and a bit noisy!) Donaldson class were very...

Deacon Class Visit Spitalfields City Farm

This week Deacon Class went to Spitalfields City Farm. We saw and fed many different farm animals such as goats, pigs and chickens. We discussed what each animal likes to eat and if they are a mammal or a bird. We picked vegetables from the garden to feed to the cow and grass to feed to the sheep!

Deacon Class - Music

This term we have been learning all about the beat and rhythm of music. We have listened and appraised different types of songs, warmed up our vocal chords through vocal games and even learnt the lyrics to a song called 'Round and Round'. As Deacon class were so confident in singing this...

Deacon Class - 'The Man on the Moon' by Simon Bartram

Deacon Class had their class assembly this week! They told the audience the story of 'The Man on the Moon' by Simon Bartram. The children did a wonderful job of learning their lines, speaking clearly, re-telling a story and performing songs!

Dance Show Rehearsals

The children across KS1 and KS2 who have been having dance lessons for the last few months had the rehearsal yesterday at Haggerston School. They were great! Tonight is the big show, wish them luck! A special thank you to Nia who has helped support the dance teacher and who has been an absolute...

Dance Club at Haggeston School

Dance club did a great job at Haggeston last night! the performance was amazing! Well done to everyone involved you're absaloute superstars!

Consultation on the Britannia Leisure Centre site

The Council is considering whether it would be possible to build a new leisure centre to replace Britannia – which is coming to the end of its life – and a new secondary school to help meet the demand for school places for local children. This would be funded in part by the sale of...

City Year Has Talent

Well done to Shawna in year 4 who performed at the City Years Got Talent competition which took place in The Islington Assembly Hall this week. She looked absolutely beautiful and her performance was magnificient! What a superstar!

Choir at Christmas

This week the KS2 choir were very busy! First they sang Christmas carols at Old Street tube station to help raise money for the charity Health Poverty Action . A whopping £616.76 was raised by Shoreditch Park Choir and the other choirs that sang at Old Street tube station. On Tuesday the...

Cats Protection Non-Uniform Day and Cake Sale

On Wednesday 23rd March there will be a cat themed (big and small cats) non-uniform day and also cake sale after school to raise money for Cats Protection! We are also very lucky to have an educational speaker coming in to teach us a bit more about cats and the charity! Please dress up and bring in...

Grey Class visit Spitalfield Farm

Last week Grey class went on an exciting trip to Spitalfield farm as we are studying animals as our science topic. We learnt about what animals eat and got to feed them! It was a really fun day out

Cake Decorating Workshop

The cake decorating workshop has been a success this half term with parent's and carers really starting to develop their cake making skills. Please do contact Rhoda's Cakes directly if you would like to sign up for the workshop next half term

Big Barbican Workshop

On Wednesday 8th February 20 children from across KS2 took part in a Big Barbican Workshop at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The whole day interdisciplinary workshop was a fantastic opportunity for the pupils to showcase their excellent collaboration skills and inclusiveness. In mixed...

BADU/Refugee Week

As part of Refugee Week Shoreditch Park Primary School are supporting Badu and the soul garden's project in Bulgaria. They will be visiting Bulgaria in August and volunteering at an orphanage. During refugee week children had the opportunity to donate to this. This money went towards essential...

ASPIRE Tea Party - Pride

This week we held the Aspire Tea party for the children who were recognised last half term for their progress in 'Pride'. They had taken pride in their learning, their culture and their class mates. They had also shown pride in developing their oracy skills. At the Tea Party we had some...

ASPIRE Tea Party - Inclusive

This week we had a tea party celebration for the children who received exemplary certificates in the Aspire assembly last half term. These children have been showing that they are inclusive by respecting the rights of others in their class and learning all about the UN Charter on the Rights of the...

ASPIRE in Autumn 2 2016

Whole school ASPIRE focus – Achieving Aisha Whole school learning objectives 1 I can review my targets. 3 I can set learning targets. 4 What skills and knowledge do I need in order to succeed in the wider world? 5 How will I need to work with others in the local community to succeed? 7 What...

ASPIRE Enquiry Assembly - Summer 2018

We finished off our year by celebrating our ASPIRE achievements! Children were awarded certificates for their achievements within the Enquiry strand of ASPIRE. There were also exemplary certificates and prizes for some pupils who have shown a huge amount of dedication to developing their learning...

ASPIRE Celebration Assembly - Spring 1 2018

In Spring 1 we were learning all about Self Awareness. We were particularly focusing on Self Aware Communication. We were thinking about the words we use, the way we communicate through body language and the impact that we have on others when we communicate. We read the story' Have you filled a...

ASPIRE Celebration Assembly - Self Awareness

This half term we had our Aspire Celebration Assembly linked to Self Awareness. We were celebrating all the progress we have made towards developing our Self Aware Learning Skills. Each child received a certificate linked to growth mindset, embracing, mistakes and being self aware about their...

ASPIRE Celebration Assembly - Respect

This half term we have been focusing on 'Respect' within our ASPIRE curriculum. To celebrate all the progress we have made this half term, we held an assembly and every class gave a presentation on their progress in Respect. Pupils talked about respecting their learning and having mutual...

ASPIRE Celebration Assembly - Autumn 2 2017

This half term we have been focusing on Achieving Aisha. We celebrated all of our achievements and the development of our achievement dispositions in assembly this week. Every year group prepared a presentation on how they have achieved this half term. Our Ambassadors introduced our songs and gave...

ASPIRE Artwork

Children from Year 1, 2 and 3 have been working with visiting artists Billy and Amanda to create artwork around the theme of ASPIRE. Year 1 and 2 have created an ASPIRE tree with inspirational words on the trunk. On the leaves they have added self-portraits of themselves. Year 3 created large...

ASPIRE - Tea Party

This half term we had a celebration Tea Party for the children who received exemplary certificates for effort and progress in the strand of 'Achieving Aisha'. We had snacks, dancing and a few party games. The children shared their achievements from the Autumn term and we talked about our...

Aspire - Respectful Rodrick Tea Party

Last term in our Respectful Rodrick celebration assembly, two children from each class were chosen for the exemplary award. Pupils were chosen for showing outstanding progress in their Respect dispositions. This week these children celebrated at a 'Tea Party' with Ms Smith and Ms Walters....

Good Luck Year 6

Well done and good luck to the Year 6 children, they have never been so ready for their SATs!

Gruffalo Crumble

Ms Cleverton's English group have finished reading the Gruffalo but not before following an instructional text to make Gruffalo Crumble. It was delicious!

ASPIRE - Pride

This half term we have been celebrating the Aspire strand 'Pride'. The children have been taking pride in their communication and looking at what makes them proud as a unique individual. We have also been focussing on being proud of others in our class and family. This week we celebrated...

Nursery - Curriculum

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Samba Dancing

On Wednesday evening, in front of a hall full of spectators,13 incredible children took to the dance floor to showcase their samba dance moves at Haggerston Secondary School. As they took to the stage, the hall was gripped with anticipation and they did not disappoint. The crowd was blown away by...

Roald Dahl Day 2016

This year at Shoreditch Park Primary School we celebrated Roald Dahl Day by using our imaginations and recreating some of George's Marvellous medicines. Here are some examples of the activities we did and some of the revolting and magical recipes created!

Rights Respecting School: Learning about our rights

The Steering Group have been busy collecting data over the last two weeks. As part of their role, they wanted to assess the impact of the RRSA lessons and assemblies. After interviewing pupils from Year 1 to Year 6, it was evident that pupils across the school were able to recall some of their...

Rights Respecting School Competition

Steering group need you! Steering group have created a display for the reception area but they want you to draw a picture representing one of the rights below. We have added some ideas for the pictures you might like to draw, please use these or come up with your own. Winning entries will go up on...

Refugee Week 2018: Year 4 Cake Decorating

To kick off Refugee Week , Year 4 have been challenged with cake decorating as one of the '20 simple act's. Have a look at our decorative skills. If there’s one thing with the power to unite the world, it’s probably cake. You might have have a recipe for something sweet and...

Refugee Week 2018

This year, to celebrate Refugee Week's 20th anniversary, we are attempting to complete the '20 simple acts' the Refugee Week team has challenged us to complete. Stay updated to see our progress throughout the week

Refugee Week 2016

Refugee Week takes place every year across the world in the week around World Refugee Day on the 20 June. In the UK, Refugee Week is a nationwide programme of arts, cultural and educational events that celebrate the contribution of refugees to the UK, and encourages a better understanding between...

Reception - Meet the Team

Welcome to our Reception Navigate the page using the buttons below. Meet the Team Timetable Curriculum Highlights Policy ​​​​​​​ Meet the Team Deputy Head for Inclusion/EYFS: Ms Deegan EYFS Phase Lead: Ms Francis Ms Lait EYFS Lead (on leave) Browne class: Ms Francis (Class Teacher & Interim...

Proposed Britannia Development

The London Borough of Hackney are currently considering building a school on the Britannia Leisure Centre site & the development may or may not include Whitmore Primary School. Presentation for Parents Letter to Parents Introduction The Council has commissioned a feasibility study to look at a...

Primary Spanish Award Ceremony

Ms Chawla and Ms Sanchez collect the Bronze Award at the Award Ceremony held at the Tomlison Centre on July 7th 2017

Pasta Car Challenge

On Friday, 27th May 2016, Whitmore hosted Vikram Yadh from Affordable Science to conduct the “Pasta Car Challenge”. Every class in the school, from Nursery to Year 6 (with the exception of Year 3, who were on a trip), undertook the challenge to design a wheeled vehicle from dried pasta...

Parents and Community Room

Shoreditch Park Primary School has a new Parent and Community Room. This is a multi-functional space where outside agencies and parents / carers can meet. The workshops happening for parents / carers throughout next half term of timetabled below. We look forward to seeing you there!...

Parents

Welcome to Shoreditch Park Primary School’s Parent Guide At Shoreditch Park Primary School, we understand the importance of communication between parents, carers and staff within the school. We are committed to following our ASPIRE principals and believe that good communication between...

Open Mornings 2015

Foundation Stage Come to our open morning and experience our outstanding Foundation Stage and meet the team. We have limited places available in our Nursery for September 2015 . Make our Reception your first choice for 2016 by attending the open mornings. Wednesday 16th September 2015 and Wednesday...

Number Day 2019

Today we took part in the NSPCC's number day to raise money for the charity. Every year group came dressed up in number related costumes and took part in a range of games and activities in our lessons to support this important charity. So far we have raised over £200 - we will update you...

Guitar Club - Can You Guess the Song?

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National Storytelling Week 2017 - Josh Seigal

To help celebrate national storytelling week we had Josh Seigal, a poet, visit us. He performed some of his poems in assembly and we were able to join in with the chorus. He was really funny and we giggled a lot. He also worked more closely with Years 1, 3 and 5 and helped spark our poetry...

National Storytelling Week 2017 - Grey Class

In our workshop with poet Josh Seigal we created our own monsters and used descriptive vocabulary to describe them. Then we made a class poem about all our monsters using smilies to describe. Here is us performing our poem with Josh!

Musical Futures VIP Day

On Tuesday 26th April Whitmore will be opening its doors to some very important guests which may include several MPs and a representative from the Department for Education! They will be coming to see the Musical Futures Pilot project (which has been taught by Morpurgo, Almond and Tan this year) and...

Music in Autumn 2016

Here's what our classes have been learning in Music in Autumn 2016. Here Almond Class are learning to listen to a tune played on the glockenspiels and then copy it back as accurately as they can! Here is Dahl Class having their first go at composing within their newly formed bands!? Can you...

Morpurgo Class Assembly - 30th November 2016

This week Morpurgo class entertained with an eclectic assembly including rapping Roman emperors, live archaeology and spooky storytelling. If you weren't able to be there don't worry as you can catch all the highlights here now!

London Children's Flower Society Gold Medal Award

Congratulations to all our gardeners at Shoreditch Park! As well as our gold medal award from the London Children’s Flower Society, the school also won the 1st Time Trophy. Over 130 London schools took part in the scheme and we were one of 20 schools invited to the Guildhall to pick up the...

Level 1 Achieved!

Level 1 achieved! Steering group is delighted to say that we are now officially a Rights Respecting School. UNICEF were incredibly impressed with the school; they said the school had a clear shared vision, which empowers pupils, making them active learners who feel safe and supported. In short, the...

KS2 Science Museum - Forces

Today we welcomed Edoardo and Phil the Frog from the science museum to teach us about forces and how they work in every day life. We looked at the laws of motion and looked at really great experiments which showed how forces work. This is the first of three events we have working with the science...

KS2 Music Notation

This week KS2 have been learning about music notation. We focused on crotchets (fly) and quavers (spider). Have a look at the websites below to find out more and test your knowledge. Rhythm Trainer Rhythm and metre Can you clap this rhythm?

KS1 National Storytelling Week

To launch National Storytelling Week we had a special assembly where we celebrated the joy of stories and reading and children in KS1 shared some of their writing from this half term. Children in Year 1 have been studying poetry and then wrote their own inspired by the ones they had been reading....

KS1 - London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican

On Monday 20th March all of KS1 went to the Barbican Centre for an amazing music concert! We travelled from school on the 76 bus and had a packed lunch at the Barbican. We watched the fantastic London Symphony Orchestra who played along to a story called 'Stan and Mabel'. We had learnt the...

KS1 - Electricity

This week KS1 had the most amazing assembly - it was all about ELECTRICITY! A scientist called Dan taught us lots of interesting information about the discovery of electricity and then did some mind-blowing experiments! Many children had to be volunteers and had to do some really tricky and...

JDF Shoreditch Easter Show

We had our JDF Shoreditch Easter show on Sunday (25th March 2018). Both classes from Shoreditch Park Primary performed - we had a great time!

Hispanic Day 2017

On Wednesday 5th July, Shoreditch Park Primary School celebrated Hispanic Day. We learnt about the Hispanic culture, traditions and food and we practised using and applying our Spanish language skills. In the morning we had the opportunity to watch a Mexican Mariachi Band! We learnt more about the...

Aspire - Respectful Rodrick

Each half term we focus on one pillar of Aspire. The Autumn 1 focus was Respectful Rodrick. We had a celebration assembly at the end of half term to reflect on our achievements within this strand. Children were awarded a certificate for showing respect either to themselves, others or their...

ASPIRE - Inclusive Izeyah

This term our focus has been Inclusive Izeyah. We have been particularly focusing on being inclusive by respecting the rights of every child. We have been learning about articles of the UNCRC. This is a charter that lists the rights of all children. In our assembly we celebrated all the progress we...

Sewing Projects

This term we are focusing on textiles in art. Classes across the school have made a start on their sewing projects. Children have been learning various stitches such as running stitch and back stitch as well as drawing their designs to use as templates. Check back soon to see the finished projects

ASPIRE - Autumn 2 2017

This half term we have been focusing on Achieving Aisha! The children have been learning all about having determination and resilience in their learning! We explored strategies of helping ourselves to achieve goals - such as using our working walls and looking back to previous learning. We...

Anti-Bullying Week 2018

The focus for Anti-Bullying Week 2018 was 'Choose Respect'. Pupils at Shoreditch Park Primary were thinking of ways that we can make our school a safe and happy environment for all pupils. We had an interactive assembly from Roxanne at Big Foot Arts Education. She explored different kinds...

After School Club - Bagel Pizzas

This week we made Bagel Pizzas! Afterwards the older children wrote instructions and the younger children drew pictures. Have a look at our cooking photos, maybe you could try making bagel pizzas with an adult at home! Miss Biney provided lots of healthy ingredients: sweet corn, tomatoes, red...

2D Shape Song

This week Ms Jameel's maths group wrote their very own song to help them remember how many sides each 2D shape has! Here they are performing it, see if you can learn the words and join in!​

Councillor Bramble Visit

On the 20th November Councillor Bramble visited Shoreditch Park Primary School. Councillor Bramble is Deputy Mayor of Hackney and works closely with Child Services for Hackney. Representatives from our Green Team, School Council, Rights Respecting Steering Group and Aspire Ambassadors met Cllr...

Science - Using Electricity

In Shoreditch Park this week we have been lucky enough to have Dan, a scientist from the Royal Institiute of Science visit us in school to show us a number of experiements showing how we manage to use electricity every day - despite it being so dangerous! We witnessed some of the earliest demos...

Sewing Projects

This term all classes have been learning to sew. Everyone has shown great resilience and enthusiasm for learning a new skill. They have worked extremely hard to produce some fantastic final products. Here are some examples from around the school

Year 4 - Roman Britain

On Thursday afternoon year 4 donned wireless headphones and travelled back to Roman Britain for the Big Bang start of their history topic. They watched gladiators fight lions in Colchester amphitheatre, battled the Iceni and Boudica and experienced living in a Roman villa as a Roman child!

Year 2 Learn to Tell the Time

This week Year 2 have been learning how to tell the time! We have been learning how to do this in 5 minute intervals. We know we can count around the clock in 5s to help us. We have also been solving time problems; like how many hours later or earlier, and how long it took people to get places....

Year 3 - Geography: Compass Points and Grid References

Children were learning about compass point and four figure grid references. They learnt to identify cities, landscapes and points of interest on a map by reading the eastings and northings. They progressed to drawing their very own map of Egypt with points of interest! Excellent map reading skills!

Year 3 - European Day of Languages

Year 3 pupils celebrated European Day of Languages by successfully finding several European countries where different languages are spoken

Year 3 - Briggs Class Poetry Assembly

In their assembly for spring, Briggs class performed some of their favourite poems from the book 'Please Mrs Butler' by Alan Ahlberg as well as some poems they have written themselves

Year 3 - 'The Ice Palace' by Robert Swindells

This term we have been studying 'The Ice Palace' by Robert Swindells. The book tells the story of a young, boy's pursuit to find his captured brother from the evil, child abductor Starjik. Pupils started off by studying how the author created a setting description using various devices...

Year 3 - Power of Reading: Jemmy Button Oracy Discussion

Year 3 were having a class debate whether or not Jemmy should go to the visitors' civilised world to experience their culture and learn their language. Each child either 'built on' the previous child's point or 'challenged' their idea with a counterargument. This discussion...

Year 3 - Plants Printmaking Project

This term Year 3 have been focusing print making using leaves as inspiration. In order to make detailed prints we first made rubbings of leaves and made observational sketches of leaves to look closely at the lines and shapes. We looked at paintings and drawings of leaves by other artists including...

Year 2 Trip to Clissold Park

This week Year 2 went to Clissold Park to learn all about Habitats! We started off by getting the 141 bus to the park and walked through to the education building. We played a game to guess the different habitats of animals and then went on a hunt to look in micro-habitats! We found centipedes,...

Year 2 students introducing themselves in Spanish

Parents please practice the following song with your kids, ask then to teach you the tune, they know it: ¿ Cómo te llamas? ¿ Cómo te llamas? ¿ Cómo te llamas? ¿ Cómo te llamas? Me me llamo (and their name) Example: Me me llamo señorita...

Year 2 Sports Day 2016

This week was sports day and Year 2 were amazing at working in a team and cheering each other on! We completed many different activities such as egg and spoon, running, fancy dress race and balancing a bean bag! Well done Year 2 for an excellent afternoon!

Year 2 Science - "Growing Up"

Year 2 have had a great third week back. We have been learning all about growing up in Science. We stared off by thinking about what babies need and what they want. We followed on by discussing how we have changed since we were babies. When we were babies we could not walk, but now we can. When we...

Year 2 Meet Connor The Fireman

Year 2 have continued to learn about inspiring individuals with a visit from Connor the fireman. He told us about his job and we couldn't believe how brave he was. He also taught us about fire safety in the home and ways we can ensure there are no fire hazards in our homes. We were so inspired...

Year 2 Maths - Rounding Numbers

We have started the new year in Year 2 by rounding numbers in our maths lessons! We have followed the rule '1,2,3,4 round down to the ten before. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 round up on the numberline!' We used numberlines to help us and worked with our partners to check if we have rounded correctly....

Year 2 Learning About Poetry

This week Year 2 started to learn about poetry. We listened to a poem called 'Voice of Water' and felt water to think of adjectives to describe it. We thought of words such as drip drop, whoosh, cold, icy, splash! These are onomatopoeic words and we will use them to write our own water...

Year 2 Gymnastics Skills

Year 2 are practising their gymnastics skills in PE at the moment! We have been working on balancing and turning. In our lesson we had to use vocabulary such as balance, steady, turn, half-turn and jump. We used our bodies to balance in many different ways. We always warm up and cool down in PE as...

Year 3 - How Sedimentary Rocks Are Formed

Year 3 class have been using role play and performance to orally re-tell how sedimentary rocks are formed based on the book pebble in my pocket. Our performances will help us write explanation texts because it is giving us ideas and information. If we can say it we can write it!

Year 2 Breakfast Reading Cafe

This week Year 2 have been so lucky to start their Reading Breakfast Cafe! Lots of parents came along to read with their children and everyone really appreciated it! Please come along next week to read with your child, it is lovely to have you in class with us!

Year 2 - World Book Day 2018

Year 2 have a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day. The children dressed up as characters from their favourite books and we spent time celebrating our love of reading! We also had a World Book Day assembly with Ms Smiles. Well done to all the effort that was made with costumes!

Year 2 - World Book Day

Year 2 have had a busy week! We celebrated World Book Day with the rest of the school and dressed up in some amazing costumes. Jeffers Class had their assembly and did an amazing job of projecting their voices and singing 'You've got a friend in me'. Thank you to parents for coming...

Year 2 - Topic and Science Enquiring Ebony Homework

Pupils have been creating amazing projects for their Enquiring Ebony Homework. These homework tasks are linked to our learning in Topic and Science. If you need any resources to complete your Enquiring Ebony Homework then your teacher will be happy to help!

Year 2 - Titanic

Throughout the Spring term, Year 2 have been learning about the Titanic. As well as visiting the National Maritime Museum for a workshop all about the passengers on board the Titanic, the children have been sequencing the events in the order of which they happened when the Titanic sank to the...

Year 2 - The Rhythm of Life by Michael Rosen

This week Year 2 have started to learn about poetry. We looked at a poem called 'The Rhythm of Life' by Michael Rosen. When we performed this we used instruments and actions to keep in time and explore the words

Year 2 - The Rhythm of Life

Year 2 performed a Michael Rosen poem called 'The Rhythm of Life' and used instruments to hear and feel the rhythm!

Year 2 - The Most Disgruntled Snowman

Year 2 were joined by the Year 1 choir to tell us the story of The Most Disgruntled Snowman

Year 2 - The Hodgeheg

This week Year 2 have been doing some acting! This is linked to our new book 'The Hodgeheg'. We acted out some hedgehogs trying to cross a busy road. There were cars whizzing up and down, busy pedestrians and lots of traffic noise. Our hedgehogs made it to the other side safely with the...

Year 2 - Super Gardeners

Three lucky children from Year 2 have been helping Calvin in the garden! Josephine, Deniz and Rebekah have been planting, watering and taking care of plants in the school garden. You can see them here eating some peas and planting tomatoes. They are becoming super gardeners!

Year 2 - Spanish Workshop

Year 2 enjoyed a Spanish have enjoyed a Spanish workshop with Senorita Sanchez! They learnt about the different countries Spanish is spoken in and made flags relating to these countries. Some children were challenged to name as many countries as they knew where people speak Spanish!

Year 2 - Self Aware Communication Skills

Year 2 have been developing their self aware communication skills this half term. The children have been self aware in the way they talk, listen and respond to each other. They have then been using our discussion sentence stems to feedback all their ideas to the class. They have made a huge amount...

Year 2 - Science: Growing Up

Year 2 had an exciting science lesson this week learning about babies. This is part of our Growing Up science topic. We already knew so much about babies as many of us have younger siblings at home. We learnt that you need to support a baby's head when bathing them because they aren't able...

Year 2 - Rainforests

Year 2 have really enjoyed learning all about Rainforests in their topic lessons this half term. The children have been finding our about the different layers of the rainforest as well as the animals that live in each layer. We have been looking at maps to locate where rain forests can be found and...

Year 3 - Geography: Istanbul

This term we are learning all about Istanbul. To kick start our topic we went to the computing room and had an immersive tour of the main sights of Istanbul using the software Airpano. They traveled through Istanbul using their cursors and explored all corners of the city. They used Airpano to...

Year 3 - Ice Palace by Robert Swindells

A big well done to Briggs class on their class performance of the story of the Ice Palace by Robert Swindells. Year 3 have studying the book in English this term and were excited to perform it to Key Stage 2 and parents. All the children worked hard to learn their lines, get into character, project...

Year 2 - National Maritime Museum Titanic Workshop

Year 2 are learning about the Titanic in line with their History and Geography topic. We were lucky enough to attend The National Maritime Museum where the children will attended a worshhop. The children spent an action-packed day as a passenger aboard the world’s most famous ship before it...

Year 3's Marvelous Medicine

For Roald Dahl Day, Year 3 read part of George's Marvelous Medicine and wrote a recipe so that George can make a very yucky medicine to make granny explode!

Year 4 - Refugee Week 2018: Find 5 Facts About Refugees

What percentage of the world’s refugees do you think live in the ‘developing world’? How much would you guess someone seeking asylum in the UK has to live off each week? Refugees are talked about a lot, but the basic facts are sometimes missing. We used the internet to find out 5...

Year 4 - Paper Challenge

This week Year 4 tried the paper challenge in ASPIRE! Ms Foster gave Almond class 1 minute to create something out of paper. They then had 2 minutes to work with their partner and create something together. Children collaborated well and made some imaginative creations by using each others ideas!...

Year 4 - Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

In PoR, Year 4 have been reading the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. The children collected words to describe Edward Tulane, a selfish toy rabbit who goes on a fantastic journey. This led to the children writing a narrative based on the fictional story. Have a look at some of their hard work

Year 4 - Mexican Dancing

We have been celebrating the launch of Shoreditch Park Primary School in an exciting way this week! Launch week for year 4 kicked off with an exhilerating Mexican dance workshop where we learnt a traditional Mexican dance! Year 4 showed the beginnings of some excellent dancers! Thank you to Xiomara...

Year 4 - Lego Workshop

Year 4 took part in a Lego workshop. Children built their ideas for a better world! Their ideas involved plungers to clean up the sea, parks for animals, shelters for people and some really, really tall towers!

Year 4 - Launch Week

Year 4 had a creative time this week creating original music with ingenious the instruments of 'The Rig', an assortment of musical instruments made from everything and anything, from tin baths to welly boots! It was great fun and very inspirational We may even try making our own!

Year 4 - Festival of Triangles Maths Lesson

Year 4 were being detectives in our festival of triangles maths lesson today. We had to work systematically to solve which triangle was guilty of committing the crime. We then had a go at coming up with our own questions for our partner to solve. We can confidently tell you the properties of...

Year 4 - Destination Reader Program

At Shoreditch Park Primary School we follow the Destination Reader Program. This supports children who are at a similar reading ability to focus on reading skills in order to develop proficient comprehension. Children also develop their social learning skills as it emphasises the importance of...

Year 4 - Camley Street Nature Reserve

Year 4 went on a wild adventure today! We went to Camley Street Nature Reserve to go on a nature hunt. When we arrived the sun disappeared and the clouds poured down on us! We huddled under a teepee for a cosy lunch, it felt like we were camping. Then when the rain calmed down we explored the...

Year 4 - Black History Month

Morpurgo class in Year 4 continued with their celebration of Black History Month with a workshop all about real life heros. They concluded that real life heros don't need to fly or have X-Ray vision to be super but rather have courage, inner strength, be supportive and respectful, just like...

Year 4 - Almond Class Poetry Assembly

Well done Almond class for a SUPERB class assembly on poetry!

Year 4 - Almond Class Achievement Lesson

Almond class were focusing on collaborative achievement in today's ASPIRE lesson. The task was to create a tower which could hold a shape on top of it. Each group only had a newspaper, sellotape and one pair of scissors between them. They were able to collaborate to build a tower. Well done on...

Year 3's Science Museum Trip

Year 3 are learning about light this half term so we went to the Science Museum to take part in a special exhibition with lots of interactive exhibits to help us learn more. We really liked learning more about mirrors, shadows and the colours that make up white light. We also had the opportunity to...

Year 3's Natural History Museum Trip

Year 3 went to the Natural History Museum this week to support their learning about rocks. We had the opportunity to see lots of fascinating rocks in real life and learn more about how rocks are formed. Our favourite parts were travelling on an escalator through the earth's core, finding out...

Year 3 - King Smith Poetry

The children in King Smith class have started their new topic on poetry. We started by looking at a well loved poem by Allan Alhburg called Please Mrs. Butler. The children in King Smith learn about the different features of poetry performance - intonation, tone, action, rhythm, refrain,...

Year 3 Plants Assembly

Year 3 performed their assembly this Thursday (19/05/2016) which was all about plants. Here are some videos of the songs they performed as well as some videos if you didn't manage to catch it

Year 3 Learn Where Our Food Comes From

Briggs class went to Hackney City Farm on Wednesday for a science workshop that supported our learning about plants. We learnt how different kinds of farms work and where our food comes from. We were able to match different crops to the products we see on the shelves and discuss the life cycles of...

Year 3 - Visit Hackney Musuem

Pupils have been studying about their local area in Topic. To support their learning, pupils visited a workshop about suit case diaries in the Hackney Museum. Pupils discovered how Hackney has changed through the stories and suitcases of people who travelled to Hackney from all over the world and...

Year 3 - Tower of London

Year 3 had a fantastic trip to the Tower of London. We really enjoyed learning more about the oldest parts of the building, including the old moat, Traitor's Gate and the White Tower, and the people who have lived and stayed in the buildings over the years. We saw the Crown Jewels, which were...

Year 3 - Spanish Week

During Spanish Week Year 3 learnt how to Salsa and Flamenco dance. All the children tried really hard during the workshop to learn the tricky steps. Their final dances were very impressive. Well done Year 3!

Year 3 - Solving Maths Problems Involving Money

Children in Year 3 where working together collaboratively to solve a maths reasoning problem involving money. They had to work as a team to find how much money Ben 10 had in his wallet if he had five different coins. They shared their ideas, listened to what others said, tried different approaches...

Year 3 - Refugees

Year 3 have been learning all about refugees using the 20 simple acts. They learnt about the journey a refugee may need to take if they are forced out of their homes. In order to completely understand the journey of a refugee we learnt about the stories of some refugees and used these to create a...

Year 3 - Printing

During Art lessons, Year 3 have learnt how to make prints using household items. For these prints children used parcel string and pieces of cardboard and coloured paint. They made patterns with the string by sticking it down onto the cardboard, they then painted the string with their chosen colour,...

Year 3 - Power of Reading: Synonyms

During our Power of Reading lesson we learnt how to use thesauruses to find synonyms. We learnt the steps to success to find words. We did this as part of our instructional writing topic were we need to use a range of imperative verbs to give clear instructions on how to build an iron man....

Year 3 - Models of Istanbul's Famous Sights

A child in Year 3 King Smith class has created an outstanding and amazing model of Istanbul's famous sights. These include the Bosphorus Bridge, Topkapi Palace, Hagia Sophia and the Galata Tower. He used basic materials such as cardboard, clay and paint. This work is inspiring and shows what a...

Year 3 - Maths: Fractions

In today's lesson children were learning how to find non-unit fractions of a quantity e.g. 2/5 of 30 by using unifix cubes and their understanding of division. All children made excellent progress and are now able to find fractions of an amount! How amazing!

Year 3 - Maths Addition Reasoning

Children in King Smith maths group were investigating addition by using Unifix cubes. Each coloured cube had a set value and children had to use a combination of cubes to make a tower of a set value. This has enabled them to think logically as well as to problem solve when they began to run out of...

Year 3 - Make Bread for a Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon

Briggs class took advantage of the kitchen in the roof classroom this week to bake some bread. We are reading Iron Man by Ted Hughes at the moment and on Friday we'll be writing recipes for the very hungry Space-bat-angel-dragon. Hopefully eating our dishes will stop him slurping up the whole...

Year 3 - King Smith: Three Little Birds by Bob Marley

Children in King Smith started their new topic in Music by learning Three Little Birds by Bob Marley. They have started to learn the lyrics and some basic notes on the glockenspiel to go along with the tune. Here is a quick video to show their first ever performance as King Smith band!

Year 2 - Pizza Express

On Wednesday, Year 2 enjoyed a trip to Pizza Express on Curtain Road. We left school promptly at 9am and made our way to the bus stop to catch the 271. When we arrived, we met a chef and a waitress who told us about their jobs. We then got first hand experiment rolling the dough. The chef showed us...

Year 2 - Narratives

Year 2 have continued to learn about narratives this week and have been looking at familiar narratives such a Little Red Riding Hood. We were able to identify the key parts in the narrative and discuss what made the narrative interesting to read. We also looked at how to set a scene in a narrative...

Shoreditch Park Celebrates the Royal Wedding

Year 1 - 'The Man on the Moon' by Simon Bartram

Year 1 have been studying 'The Man on the Moon' by Simon Bartram. After observing the illustrations in detail the children created a story box with their partner. They added details of the setting and the characters. The story boxes create many opportunities for purposeful talk about the...

Year 1 - Power of Reading: Story Maps

Today Year 1 practised our self aware communication during our PoR lesson. We are planning for our long write tomorrow, which is a narrative we created from the characters when author Jessica Spanyol was in. Today we focused on oral retelling and used our story maps to help retell our stories from...

Year 1 - Poetry All About Cobwebs, Jelly and Stormy Seas

Year 1 - Plant Detectives

Year 1 have been enjoying their Science lessons this term. We have been plant detectives! The children have been learning all about garden plants and wild plants. We have been using magnifiers to examine plants closely. We have also been exploring our local area to find what plants are growing in...

Year 1 - Observing Changes in Trees During Autumn

Year 1 have been just like Enquiring Ebony this week in science! We have been observing changes in trees during Autumn. We collected leaves of different shapes, sizes and colours and compared and discussed the leaves in groups. The children then sorted leaves into categories such as rough/smooth or...

Year 1 - Myths and Legends

This term Year 1 will be learning all about Myths and Legends. Well done to all the children who completed their Enquiring Ebony homework challenge! You created some amazing mythical creatures! This week we have been learning about some mythical creatures from stories such as Unicorns and Dragons....

Year 1 - Measuring

Today Year 1 experimented with different measuring equipment such as containers using ml, rulers using cm and scales using g. We made a magic potion and had to decide which equipment to use to measure which items. For example, a ruler to measure the length of the wiggly worm but a container to...

Year 1 - Maths: Addition

Today Year 1 had lots of fun exploring adding facts to 10. We worked with our partners to construct numicon towers to help us. We then wrote down the corresponding addition number sentences and compared our findings

Year 1 - Grey Class Play The Glockenspiel

Grey class have been learning how to play the glockenspiel. We take it in turns and have been learning 1 note at a time. This week it has been C. We are playing along to a song we learnt earlier in the year called 'Hey You'

Year 1 - Grey Class Music

This week Grey class have been practicing the glockenspiel to a song called 'Hey you'. We played the note 'C' and had to concentrate really hard to keep in time with the music

Year 1 - Deacon Class Proud Pinar Assembly

Deacon Class had their assembly this week. It was all about Proud Pinar! We have been focusing on being proud this term. The children shared all the different ways that they have been showing pride! This included being proud of their classroom, their learning and of each other! Deacon class did a...

Year 1 - Deacon Class Bookcases

Deacon Class made a bookcase for their book corner based on the book 'Beegu' by Alexis Deacon. It is a story journey bookcase and you can follow the story from the bottom to the top! Every child in the class contributed to the creation of the bookcase and we are delighted with the finished...

Year 1 - Data

This week Year 1 have been learning all about data. We have looked at the different ways data can be represented such as tally charts, pictograms and block diagrams. Today we worked with our partners to create our own questionnaire to ask the class. We recorded our results using a tally and then...

Year 1 - Breakfast With A Book

Year 1 have been enjoying Breakfast with a book this half term! It is a great opportunity for the children to enjoy a selection of books from the book corner and start their day with a story. They have been reading with adults as well as reading stories to each other! Thank you to the parents and...

Year 1 - Art in Autumn 2016

In Autumn 1 the children were learning all about sketching. They discovered famous sketch artists and compared different styles of sketching. We then focused on mark making with a variety of tools including pencil, pastels and charcoal. A variety of sketching techniques were used such as cross...

World Book Day 2019

Children (and staff) went to excellent efforts dressing up as their favourite book character for World Book Day. A great day was had by all. Children enjoyed a whole school assembly where prizes were rewarded for the best dressed. Don't forget to spend your World Book Day token in bookshops...

Year 1 - Spanish Week

This week we have been celebrating Spanish week at Whitmore. Year 1 particularly enjoyed their Flamenco workshop. They sang in spanish and were taught a flamenco dance which included arm movements as well as stamping and clapping rhythms. They enjoyed it so much that they continued to dance at...

World Book Day 2017

This week we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as our favourite book characters. We saw characters like Handa from Handa's Surprise, Willy Wonka from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr Fox. We had a great day finding out about what we love to read and why!

World Book Day - Book Fair

World Book Day was a great success this year and it was lovely to see the whole school dressed up as their favourite book characters. There was a real buzz around school and children were bursting with creativity and passion when discussing books and stories in class. The book fair got off to a...

Welcome

Achievement, progress, challenge, inspiration and enjoyment are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to providing children with the very best education to ensure that each child reaches their maximum potential and develops a lasting love of learning and sense of curiosity in the world...

Visible Learning Impact Programme

Shoreditch Park has participated in a 2 year Visible Learning Impact Programme. This has transformed our approach to how we approach learning in the classroom and resulted in remarkable outcomes for our children. See our Impact Report attached. Well done to everyone at SPPS! Penny Smith Headteacher

Violin and Guitar Concert

On Friday 16th March, Shoreditch Park Primary had a music concert to celebrate children who partake in weekly violin and guitar tuition. The youngest musicians to perform were five year old children! It was a fantastic occasion; parents, the PTA and the whole school were memorised by all the...

Trips in London

There are many free trips around Hackney and London you can take your child to support them to develop their understanding of a topic they have learnt or will learn. Have a look!

Traction Man

Script Writing By Adam F, Grey Class Traction Man and Scrubbing Brush are lying on the deep blue see. The Evil Scissor Shark is trying to attack them into little pieces. TM: What a lovely day! I’m so proud of my good job. (Lying on the beach). SB: Look out Scissor Shark is coming closer and...

The Snail and the Whale

Recount writing By Adam F, Grey Class At the harbour I saw a ginger cat. At the harbour I smelt fishy smells. I could smell stinky seaweed. In the Antarctic there were penguins splashing. The penguins were playing with ice. I went to the Tropics and I saw a volcano popping. I could smell stinky...

The Princess and the White Bear King

Persuasive Writing By Preciosa, Jeffers Class Choose me to be the Grand Princess! To begin, I am writing because I am going to be a fantastic princess. My name is Preciosa and I am going to be a good princess because I am respectful, helpful and funny. You should choose me because I would share,...

The Hodgeheg

Book Review By Nicole, Jeffers Class What is the book about? The book is about a hedgehog who wants to cross the busy road but he doesn’t get to the park! So he thinks how he can cross the road safely. Who are the main characters? The main characters are Peony, Pansy, Petunia, Max, Ma, Pa and...

The City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park

A new academy opening in September 2017 invites you to a prospective parent question and answer session with Principal Holly Arles. Tuesday 15 th November, 9am and Wednesday 16 th November, 4pm at Shoreditch Park Primary School Refreshments will be provided. To sign up or if you have any questions...

The Choir Sings 'El Condor Pasa'

...is week choir enjoyed singing El Condor Pasa by Simon and GarfunkEl which the whole school have also been learning in singing assembly! This is our first attempt and we can't wait to practise it again next week!...

Summer Reading Challenge 2017

The Reading Agency and Hackney Libraries are running activities for children aged 4 to 11 years old to take part in the Summer Reading Challenge 2017. Animal Agents, illustrated by Tony Ross, will introduce readers to a variety of clever creatures, specially trained to use their skills and natural...

Shoreditch Park Primary Launch - Balloon Release

To celebrate our official launch everyone gathered in Shoreditch Park to release a balloon. Look how far they flew!

Year 1 - Singing Assembly

Year 1 put on an amazing singing assembly for year 2 this week. Over the past few months we have been working with the lovely vocalists Ann, Emily and Greg from the VCM foundation. We put on a performance to show all we have learned and even got year 2 to join in too! Take a look at some of our...

Year 1 - Story Of The Week

We have been reading 'Traction Man' in Power of Reading. Today we made story boxes and worked in groups of 3 to choose one key part of the story to model. We have had a lot of fun making our story boxes and showed good team work. Tomorrow we are going to focus on using description to...

Year 2 - Museum of Transport

This week Year 2 went on an exciting trip to the Museum of Transport in Covent Garden. We got the 76 bus all the way there; it was a cold day so we were very wrapped up! When we arrived we had a chance to look around the museum and complete a transport hunt! We had to follow a trail and get stamps...

Year 1 Trip to the Museum of London

Year 1 had a great time at the Museum Of London today. We have been learning about clothes throughout different time periods in our topic lessons. At the museum we have seen clothing from the Roman period all the way to modern day. Have a look at the photos below, we had a lot of fun!

Year 2 - Inspiring Individuals

This term Year 2 have been learning all about Inspiring Individuals. We looked specifically at Neil Armstrong and Emmeline Pankhurst. We also discussed that Inspiring Individuals aren't always famous people. They are all around us. We visited Shoreditch Fire Station to interview the...

Year 2 - Healthy Eating Workshop

Year 2 took part in a workshop this week about healthy eating. First of all we explored the smell of different herbs and talked about what food they taste good with. Then the children had the opportunity to plant seeds to grow at home. The children were given coriander, mint and rosemary seeds. We...

Year 2 - Hampstead Heath Trip

This week Year 2 went to Hampstead Heath on a fantastic trip! It was a very hot day so we had to wear our sun hats and drinks lots of water! We got the 271 bus all the way there. When we arrived we had a picnic and then spent the rest of the day completing tasks linked to our topics of habitats and...

Year 2 - Great Fire of London Workshop

Year 2 have been learning about The Great Fire of London in History lessons. This week they had a workshop from the Museum of London. A storyteller came to school and conducted an exciting interactive workshop. This helped the children to imagine what it must have been like in London at this time!...

Year 2 - Great Fire of London

Year 2 are learning about the Great Fire of London. Jeffers Class were lucky enough to be able to visit the Museum of London and see and feel an exciting combination of real and replica objects relating to the Great Fire, and learn all about life, homes and firefighting in 1666. Children...

Year 2 - Exploring Habitats

This week Year 2 started to explore habitats around the school during science lessons. We looked for things that were living, once lived or have never lived in different habitats. We looked in the playground and the school garden. You can see they found snails who were alive, feathers from birds...

Year 2 - Enquiring Ebony

This half term Year 2 were set an Enquiring Ebony homework task. They were asked to create a 3D model of a transport vehicle. This could have been a car, train, rocket, ship or any other kind of transport. These are some examples of some of the amazing homework we have received so far!

Year 2 - Dog's Trust

Yesterday Year 2 were so lucky because the Dogs Trust came to visit us! Our topic is Inspiring Individuals and we heard all about how dogs can be inspiring too. The dog was called Tigger and he was able to help humans in many different ways by being a guide dog. Look at us learning about Tigger!

Year 2 - Composing on The Glockenspiels

Year 2 have been working hard on using the glockenspiels to play along to music and compose some of our own pieces. Watch us do some copying of different notes on our instruments!

Year 2 - Breakfast With A Book

Year 2 are having 'Breakfast With A Book' every Wednesday of this half term at 8.45am until 9am. Parents and carers are welcome to join us and share our love of reading!

Year 2 - ASPIRE: Inclusive Izeyah

Year 2 have been focusing on how to be inclusive over this half term. Inclusive Izeyah has given us lots of ideas on how to to be kind to others and make sure everyone is included. We read the book 'The Cloud' and then worked together to create huge doodle pictures! We had to make sure we...

Year 2 - Achieving Aisha

This half term we are focusing on Achieving Aisha. We began by discussing what we already know about Achieving Aisha and what she represents. We then played the game ‘What would Aisha say’. We read a statement and tried to respond to the statement from the perspective of Aisha. As a...

Year 2 - 'The Rhythm of Life' by Michael Rosen

This half term Year 2 are studying a book called 'Poems to Perform' by Julia Donaldson. We read a poem called 'The Rhythm of Life' by Michael Rosen. We really enjoyed this poem and managed to identify repetition, rhythm and rhyme in it. We recited this poem and added actions. Next...

Year 1's Aspire Assembly

Deacon Class had their class assembly this week! They told their audience about the Aspire code and what they do to be like the Aspire characters. They did a fantastic job of learning their lines and singing songs about being self aware and respectful!

Year 1 Trip to St Annes Church in Hoxton

This week Year 1 took a trip to St Annes Church in Hoxton. We had the pleasure of meeting Father Christopher, who talked to us about the church and answered some of our questions. We got to take a tour of the church and even got a chance to ring the church bells! We recognised some of the symbols...

Year 1 - Textiles

This Term Year 1 have been studying Textiles in Art. We explored different textiles and looked at examples of textile art by professional artists such as Jennifer Collier. We then sketched a London skyline and used this as a guide to create a textile collage. The children decided which textiles...

Year 1 trip to Shoreditch Adventure Park

In Topic this term Year 1 are learning about 'The World and The Seasons'. As part of our learning we went on a trip to Shoreditch Adventure Park to explore our surroundings and find clues in our environment that tell us that it is Winter and that Spring is coming. We completed our winter...

Year 1 Trip to Kidzmania

Year 1 went on a trip this week to Kidzmania as a special end of year treat! The children had so much fun playing, exploring and laughing. Year 1's favourite part was the slide and the bouncy castle. It was a great way to celebrate all the success and hard work that has taken place this year

Year 1 Topic: Ourselves and Our Local Area

Our Big Bang lesson really did start with a bang as we explored all things London. We got excited about our upcoming topic and recreated local amenities using building blocks, explored a small world much like ours and painted key London landmarks. We can't wait to find out more about London and...

Year 1 Topic - The World and the Seasons

Year 1 started a new topic this week called 'The World and the Seasons'. We will be learning all about the seasons and famous explorers who discovered many amazing wonders.This week the children participated in activities that represented each season, as well as investigation tasks using an...

Year 1 Sports Day 2016

Year 1 had a wonderful time at Sports Day on Monday! They particularly enjoyed the beanbag race and javelin. They behaved just like Inclusive Izeyah by encouraging each other and congratulating the winners of each race. We will be getting active again next Monday on our trip to Kidsmania! Don't...

Year 1 Skype London Zoo

In Year 1 we are learning all about animals and what they eat. We were so excited to be able to Skype Anna at London Zoo this week. She was telling us all about mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds, and how we might identify them. We also played a game about what animals eat. We learned...

Year 1 Science - Touch

Year 1 have been exploring their sense of touch this week in science. We used our feet to feel cotton wool, leaves, sand, water and crumples paper. We had to think of words to describe how they felt like soft, rough, spiky, slippery and cold. It was a lot of fun!

Year 1 Power of Reading - The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems

Year 1 have been studying 'The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems' in Power of Reading. They have been learning to recite and perform poetry from the book as well as their own poems. In this clip the class are reciting parts of 'Until I saw the sea' by Lilian Moore....

Year 1 POR - Beegu

Year 1 made a surprising discovery today. An unknown yellow alien had crashed it's spaceship in our playground! It must be feeling so lost and alone. Year 1 are going to help him find his way back home

Year 1 Literacy - Beegu

There was an alien landing on the roof of Shoreditch Park Primary School! The year 1 children went upstairs to find debris and alien footprints on the roof! They couldn't believe what had just happened and had to investigate. Magnifying glasses at the ready! The children discovered that an...

Year 1 - World Book Day 2018

We had a great time celebrating World Book Day! Have a look at who we dressed as and see if you can guess our favourite characters!

Year 1 - World Book Day 2017

Year 1 had a wonderful time celebrating World Book Day. We dressed up as characters from our favourite books and discussed why we loved those books! We love reading in Year 1! Remember to recommend your favourite book to a friend!

Year 1 - Touch

This term Year 1 are learning all about our senses! This week we focused on the sense of touch. We used different parts of our bodies to touch a range of materials. We then chose vocabulary to match how the different materials felt. We discussed which parts of our bodies were more sensitive to...

Year 1 - Topic

Year 1 started their topic lessons off with a bang this term! We will be learning all about explorers from the past such as Marco Polo and Captain Scott. In our 'Big Bang' lesson we had lots of fun locating flags from different countries around the world, recreating silk paintings that had...

Reception Daily Update - Monday 2nd November 2026

Today’s focus: Literacy Today we started our new Topic ‘People who help us’ - we read our focus story ‘Emergency’ by Margaret Mayo and discussed all the different people that help to keep us safe. Our EYFS focus: Understanding the World; Physical Development; Personal,...