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...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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,...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Pupil Voice

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...

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...

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...

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...

Free School Meals

Free School Meals Primary school children The Mayor of London has introduced universal free school meals for the 2023/2024 academic year for all primary school children regardless of income. However, we still need you to apply for free meals if you are receiving tax credits or benefits. This will...

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...

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...

Year 1 - Deacon Class trip to Shoreditch Park

Deacon class had an amazing time exploring Shoreditch park. We discussed what we noticed and observed with our partners and hunted for different materials

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...

Year 5 - Writing Setting Descriptions Based Upon 'The Varmints'

This week Year 5 began their return to school writing setting descriptions based upon our new text 'The Varmints'. We spent the week discussing the text and building vocabulary banks in order to be able to write with exceptional descriptive devices. Have a read of some of our incredible...

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 2 - Summer 2 Home Learning

The Year 2 Half Term Homework Challenge was linked to their new topic, ‘The Apprentice Gardener'. Children planted many seeds including lettuce, turnip, chive and bean seeds. Children are now keeping a diary throughout their gardening challenge to monitor the growth of their plants

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

During our Power of Reading lesson, the children explored 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!

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

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!

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...

ASPIRE in Autumn 1 2018

Autumn 1 Focus - Respectful Rodrick In Autumn 1 we focussed on respect. 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...

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...

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...

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....

Eco-Active Workshop: Week 3

ON THE 12/10/18, GREEN TEAM MADE THEIR OWN POSTERS WITH THEIR RECYCLED PAPER THEY MADE THE WEEK BEFORE . They wrote to persuade more children to recycle more. Also, they wrote what people should recycle. THEY ALSO WROTE IT TO PUT AROUND THEIR CLASSROOMS! After that, they wrote on a piece of...

Eco-Active Workshop: Week 2

Action plan and Making paper. How to make recycled paper

ASPIRE Ambassadors 2020-21

We are delighted to introduce you to our new Aspire Ambassadors for this academic year! Our Ambassadors are Year 5 pupils who are dedicated to developing Aspire across the school. They are involved in pupil voice meetings, Mentally Healthy Schools, Aspire displays, charity fundraising events and...

Year 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 5 - Hoxton Street Monster Supplies

We have attended the Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, and found our way into the Ministry of Stories. We had the opportunity to practice our creative writing through comic books. We made our own characters, named them and started making our own stories with them

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...

Year 3 - Performance Poetry

Performance poetry has been one of our highlights this week in Year 3 , with children using actions, tone and intonation successfully. It has been amazing to see all the children applying their learning and understanding of poetic devices when they wrote their own version of Please Mrs Butler

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...

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 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 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 - Our Local Area

Year 3 have started learning about local areas by discussing what important aspects of human and physical geography they should have. They learnt about the essential services, leisure, green spaces and shops. They have created a map of their ideal local area before we head out to Hoxton Street to...

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...

Milligan Class Making Computer Games

Children in Milligan class have been programming games using Scratch on computers. In groups, the programmers in Milligan are learning to code and create software for others to use. Try playing our most recent game! This game requires Flash and may not work on tablet or mobile devices Load in new...

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...

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...

Eco-Active Workshop: Week 1

Eco Active Workshops are amazing! This week we looked at: observing the environment (Litter) and making seed bombs. *For these seed bombs we used Fuller’s Earth as our compost Next week we will be meeting with Calvin the Gardener and deciding where and when to plant the seed bombs in our...

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...

Author/illustrator Bruce Ingham Visits Shoreditch Park

This week we had a visit from author/illustrator Bruce Ingham. He talked with Years 1 - 5 about how he became an author/illustrator and the process he goes through when with his creative partner Allan Ahlberg. Years 2 and 3 then had additional workshops where they were given to practice their own...

Aspire Ambassadors 2017-18

Congratulations to our new Aspire Ambassadors for 2017-18! Our Ambassadors will be the pupil voice for ASPIRE this year. If you have any ASPIRE ideas or something you would like to share, please speak to the Ambassador in your class

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 - 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 - 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 - Partner Reading

In Destination Reader lesson children are encouraged to discuss ideas with their partner respectfully whilst applying one of the key skills; predicting, summarising, clarifying, making connections, evaluating, asking questions and inferring. Here are some examples of year 6 children doing this in...

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 4 Drumming

Year 4 have been learning to play the drums. First we practiced using our bodies and then we used real drum sticks. We pretended the chair was different parts of a drum kit; the snare drum, hi-hat and bass drum. We were able to keep the pulse in a group!

Year 4 - Roman Britain

...ter amphitheatre, battled the Iceni and Boudica and experienced living in a Roman villa as a Roman child!...

Year 3 - Ice Palace by Robert Swindells

...rformance 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 their voIces and know their cues. Well done Brigg...

Year 3 - 'The Ice Palace' by Robert Swindells

...e 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 such as ambi...

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 - 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...

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 1 - Grey Class Poetry Performance

In POR this week Grey class practiced reading poetry for performance. We used actions and changed our voices to make it exciting and engaging. Have a look!

Year 1 - eBooks

This term Year 1 had a blast creating eBooks based on the story 'Little Red Riding Hood'. We had lots of fun creating our own illustrations on an application on the iPads. We then used PowerPoint on the computer to add in our text. We got to practice our typing skills on a keyboard and...

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 - Breakfast With a Book

Year 1 had our first breakfast with a book this week. Lots of parents joined to read to and with the children and enjoy some fruit and juice. Be sure to come along next week and join he fun!

Year 1 - 'Here's a Little Poem'

Year 1 are currently reading 'Here's a Little Poem'. This week we have been learning to recite and perform poetry using our voices and actions. In this clip Deacon Class are performing 'A Circle of Sun' by Rebecca Kai Dotlich.​

World Children's Day 2018

On the 20th November it was World Children's Day. To acknowledge this important day, we were visited by a representative from Unicef. He told us all about World Children's Day and what this means for children all over the world. The pupils discussed the rights of every child and took part...

Visit to Hackney Town Hall

This Week members of the School Council, Rights Respecting Group and Aspire Ambassadors went to visit Hackney Town Hall. We met Councilor Rathbone, the Speaker and the Mayor! We had a tour of the Speaker chambers and the gallery of past Mayors and speakers. The children asked lots of thoughtful...

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 Six Star Wonders

This week some children in Year 5 started their very own band... The Six Star Wonders!!! They had their first rehearsal on Friday and in that time managed to pull together their very own version of the song Riptide by Vance Joy, Keep your eyes open for more music from The Six Star Wonders, the new...

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...

Speaker of Hackney Visit

This week The Aspire Ambassadors, Green Team and School Council led a visit from the Speaker of Hackney. The students prepared a presentation to explain all about our ASPIRE curriculum and why it is important to us. The Green Team and Steering Group shared the work they have been doing around air...

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...

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,...