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...

Enquiring Ebony Homework

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Year 2

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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...

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...

Year 3

...urriculum 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. Spelling Homework is assigned each Monday and children are tested on the spellings the followin...

Read Write Inc

...ren learn to read. More About Read Write Inc Reception Home Reading Children in Reception begin th......o share each week from the class book corner. Year 1 and 2 Home Reading Children in years 1 and 2 ...

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...

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...

Maths

...heir work. Calculation Policies Homework At Shoreditch Park, all children between Years 1 and 6 use the maths online learning tool IXL . This website is an excellent resource which empowers children to independently progress in their learning in a fun, rewarding manner. Children will practice thei...

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...

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...

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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...

Safeguarding

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Year 5

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Year 4

...riculum 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 is due each Thursday. Spelling Homework is assigned each Monday and children are tested ...

Year 1

... (Teacher) Ms Ruby (Support) Homework in Year 1 You will receive a weekly email containing your child’s Homework for the week. This will include both maths Homework through IXL and reading Homework through RWI phonics links. Children will receive new books every Friday. They will bring Home two p...

Year 3 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 5 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 6 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 1 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 4 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 3 - Summer 2 Week 5 Home Learning

Year 4 - Summer 2 Week 3 Home Learning

Year 6 - Summer 2 Week 3 Home Learning

Year 1 - Summer 2 Week 3 Home Learning

Year 5 - Summer 2 Week 2 and 3 Home Learning

Year 3 - Summer 2 Week 3 Home Learning

Year 6 - Summer 2 Week 1 Home Learning

Year 4 - Summer 2 Week 2 Home Learning

Year 1 - Summer 2 Week 2 Home Learning

This week Year 1 have been busy looking at fact families and the inverse in maths and they have been exploring the book Anna Hibiscus through talk, illustration and writing

Year 3 - Summer 2 Week 2 Home Learning

Year 5 - Summer 2 Week 1 Home Learning

Year 5 - Half Term Enquiring Ebony Homework - Art, Science and History

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!

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Year 2 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

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 - Summer 2 Week 6 Home Learning

Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Half Term Project - Poetry

In Year 1 the Enquiring Ebony Half term project was focused on poetry. Children have made their own wonderful and creative poetry collages using a range of resources available at home

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

ARP Trip to the Library - World Book Day

The ARP pupils had a blast at Shoreditch library today! We gathered around the library book corner to enjoy a reading of the text 'Quick Quack Quentin' by Kes Gray. We then became book illustrators and illustrated our own books. To end our library session we explored the texts available in the...

Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Homework and Science Lessons

To prepare for their science lessons this half term, Year 1 were asked to make a plant using mixed media. Enquiring Ebony had set a challenge to research interesting facts about their plant. We then began our first science lesson for the half term by learning all about garden plants. We completed...

Year 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 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...

Incoming Reception 2020/21

...ion 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. Getting you child vaccinated on time is really important in keeping all children ...

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 1 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 25th January 2021

This week in year 1, we started our new text 'Traction Man' by MinI Grey. Children were given the opportunity to make predictions, explore the text and complete a retell of the story. In maths we were learning to identify and sort shapes. We went on a 3D shape hunt around our homes and sorted 2D...

Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 25th January 2021

This week in Year 5, we have started a new book, Alex Rider: Stormbreaker! We have had the opportunity to listen to the first few chapters and imagine that we are Alex Rider himself and have written a list of instructions for our first top-secret mission. We have also been looking at fractions in...

Year 1 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 18th January 2021

Year 1 have had a very productive week. In POR, we have been focusing on poetry and have taken part in performances of poetry and have learnt to use descriptive language and rhyming words in our writing. In science this week, we have been looking at food chains and polar habitats

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 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 6 - Excellent Examples of Work

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ASPIRE - Autumn Term: Enquiring Ebony Homework

Below are just a few examples of the fantastic Enquiring Ebony homework that has been received in the Autumn term. Below you can see the Topics of Weather (Y3), Great Fire of London (Y2) and Dinosaurs (Y1)

Year 5 - Summer 2 Week 6 Home Learning

Year 5 - Summer 2 Week 5 Home Learning

Year 4 - Summer 2 Week 6 Home Learning

Year 4 - Half Term Enquiring Ebony Homework

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 2 - Summer 2 Home Learning

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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...

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 - 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 - 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 - Christmas Play Rehearsals

Year 2 have been rehearsing for the Christmas Play this week. We are getting really confident with the songs and have moved on to the acting and movement! The children were excited to start rehearsing on the stage this week. They are excited for you all to watch them perform in the first week of...

Year 2 - ASPIRE Enquiring Ebony Assembly

Year 2 invited parents and carers to attend their ASPIRE assembly all about Enquiring Ebony. They presented their Enquiring Ebony homework projects all about the Titanic along with new facts they had learned. Pupils then explained that they had been taking part in philosophy lessons and gave some...

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 - 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....

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...

The City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park

...hieved exceptional success in Homerton and for 3 years running has been in the top 7 schools in the country. Holly Arles was one of the founding members of The City Academy, Hackney and as Vice Principal in charge of standards of teaching and behaviour, she played a central role in the set-up and co...

Suzuki Violin

On Thursday we were very lucky to have a visit from Kate, Aga and some of their friends and students from Suzuki Music. They treated us to a brilliant performance, some of the children who played the violin for us were as young as 5! They taught us all about The Suzuki method and explained the kind...

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!...

Year 2 - Refugee Week: 20 Simple Acts

This week we have been learning all about refugees and completing some of the 20 simple acts as part of refugee week. Simple act 4 was 'sing a song'. We learnt a song that was created by refugees with 'Music in Detention'. This song is called home. It is all about the things that...

KS1 National Storytelling Week

... every night and signing your Home Reading record so that next assembly you could win a reading prize! Well done to all of KS1....

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...

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 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 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

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 1 - Home Learning - Week 5

Year 1 has been very busy this week. Have a look at some of our science, maths and literacy work

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 3 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 11th May 2020

Year 3 have been working hard this week, look at their great work! Character Description Liyah Maths Work

Year 5 - Home Learning

Year 1 - Home Learning

Year 1 has been getting quite creative with their home learning. Last week we were learning how to write a set of instructions. We created our own instructions on how to make a witch's potion. Some of us even had a go at making our own potion. Have a look at how we got on

Year 4 - Home Learning

Year 5 Easter Enquiring Ebony Homework

Year 2 - Our Home Learning

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...

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...

ARP - Seuss Class Trip to the Apple Store

We took part in a workshop at the Apple Store. First we used a light show app that made a fireworks type scene. The we used an art program called ‘Procreate’ to make our own pictures. Finally we experimented with a photograph app. Each child got a magnetic badge to take home. After the...

Year 2 - Topic and Science Enquiring Ebony Homework

...cts for their Enquiring Ebony Homework. These Homework tasks are linked to our learning in Topic and......complete your Enquiring Ebony Homework then your teacher will be happy to help!...

Practice Maths at Home with Year 4

Practice Maths at home with Year 4, Year 4 will teach you how to add, subtract, multiply and divide!

Maths Homework

Maths homework is given weekly using the website IXL . Each child (Years 1 -6) is given a unique log in so that they can access IXL both at home and at school. IXL is a fantastic tool to support your child in learning their maths; when children get questions wrong the program supports your child by...

Year 5 - The Rig

Year 5 explored all the home-made instruments at the Rig. We especially liked banging the drums

Year 4 visit The Ministry of Stories

This week year 4 had a fantastic time at The Ministry of Stories learning how to create comic strips! We worked with a real illustrator who taught us some cool sketching tips! We can't wait to finish our comic books at home!

Year 4 - Enquiring Ebony Homework: Volcanoes

...hard on their Enquiring Ebony Homework this half term. They have been learning about volcanoes in Argentina. Have a look at their volcano creations!...

Year 3 Topic for Writing - Ancient Egypt

For our topic curriculum we have been learning about Ancient Egypt. We have learnt about the similarities and differences between two periods of time - Iron Age Britain and Ancient Egypt. We compared life, agriculture and settlements. For this lesson, the children wrote a letter back home to Iron...

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 - 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 2 Meet Trumpet Player Darren

Year 2 were so lucky this week because a fantastic trumpet player called Darren came into to play his instrument to us! He was very talented and not only that, he left some of us have a go on his own home-made trumpet. He showed us how he has to blow down the tube to get different noises and 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....

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,...