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...

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...

Read Write Inc

... learning to read as long as we know what sound the child is trying to say. This is not something to worry about. Many children have a few sounds that they can hear clearly but find it difficult to say, particularly the l-sound, r-sound, w-sound, th-sound, s-sound, sh-sound and j-sound. Often they s...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Governors Committees

...areas include, Leadership and Management; Safeguarding, Behaviour and Attitudes; Personal Development; Special Educational Needs and Disability; Pupil Premium and Quality of Education; and Early Years Foundation Stage. The governors are often found visiting the school, joining in with assemblies, me...

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...

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...

Cost of Living Support

...l Some community spaces open their doors to provide a safe and warm space for a few hours. Many also offer hot drinks and wifi. Find a warm bank on: Warm Welcome Warm Spaces Warm Mondays – in the church hall at Our Lady and St Joseph’s Church Kingsland, N1 4AG. Warm space for people to go if ...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Autism Resource Provision

...f the current ARP classrooms. Many of our pupils with an ARP place spend a considerable amount of time in their mainstream classes, please see the relevant year groups under the main school heading. We are able to offer tours of the ARP by prior arrangement, we tend to group these to ensure minimum...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Vacancies

Current vacancies

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...

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....

Absence and Attendance

...ent with Claire Keady (Pastoral Manager and Attendance Lead) Letters Why it is important for children to attend school regularly? Attendance and punctuality are important for Shoreditch Park Primary School as we believe this plays a key role in raising overall pupil attainment. Good attendance a...

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...

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 - Poems About the Dark

Children in Year 2 have been reading The Dark by Lemony Snickett. To explore this learning further, we read poems about the dark and created a performance poetry piece for our families

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 - 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...

Year 2 - Reading Morning

Don't forget to join us in Years 1, 2 and 3 every Friday for Reading Morning. We love having as many parents as possible in our classrooms to promote a love of reading

Year 6 - Science: Bird Feeders

In Science today, Year 6 made bird feeders as a way to see how many birds we have and, if they are popular enough, what the most frequent bird to feed in our school is. We used Suet, seeds and oats to create a bird food mix, then used plastic cups and string to hold up bird feed. We are going to...

Year 6 Midsummer Nights Dream Rehearsals

Year 6 today did their rehearsals for midsummer nights dream in its entirety on stage. The children have learnt all their lines and we are anticipating a sensational performance on Friday evening. Don't forget that the performance will start promptly at 430 at Whitmore THIS FRIDAY!

Year 5 - Nelson Mandela Exhibition

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

Year 4 - Black History Month

...st like real life hero Nelson Mandela....

Year 4 - British Museum

Year 4 went on another trip this week to the British Museum. We went to explore the different artifacts on display there and went on a quest to discover as much information as we could about them. We found stories from Greek myths drawn on the jars just like the picture books we use today, one was...

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 4 - Roman Numerals

Year 4 matching Roman Numerals to numbers linked to the Year 4 Maths curriculum and their Topic 'The Romans'

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

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 4 - Valerie Bloom 'River' Performance

In Year 4 we have just finished our poetry unit, have a look at our Valerie Bloom 'River' performances and have a read of some of our poems!

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 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 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 5 - Poems Through the use of Drama and Performance

Year 5 have spent the last three weeks focusing on poetry. We explored poems through the use of drama and performance. We ensured our poems contained figurative language. After our first draft, we peer assessed each other's poems and then published a final draft in a class book of poetry

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 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 6 - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Year 6 gave a spectacular performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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 - 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 - 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 - World War 1

Year 6 today learnt about the causes of World War 1 and the complex alliances involved in the outbreak of war. We did freeze frames showing the reasons behind the war, particularly highlighting the alliances between Russia, Germany, Britain and France

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 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 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 25th January 2021

...tarted 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 shapes into groups. In scie...

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 2 - Winter Performance 2023

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...

Parent Election - Summer 2023

...ey.sch.uk or Georgia Caton, School Business Manager at the school....

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....

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...

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!

Art Week in Year 6 - Malorie Blackman Pop Art

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 6 - Book Covers Inspired by Malorie Blackman

Year 2 - Power of Reading

This half term we have been reading Grace and Family by Mary Hoffman. We learned about The Gambia, the country in Africa that Grace goes to visit, and wrote a diary entry in role as Grace. We wrote a letter to wish Grace good luck on her trip and posted it in our classroom postbox!

Year 5 - Design and Technology Week 2020

This week in Year 5, we have been working really hard on our assessments in writing, reading and maths and Dahl class have worked especially hard when creating, rehearsing and performing their class assembly that incorporated our topic work and performance poetry. This week has also been our design...

Year 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 3 - Performance Poetry

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

Year 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...

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

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...

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

Year 2 - PE

In PE this term we have been learning how to throw, kick and catch a ball whilst running. We have been practising our spatial awareness skills and underarm throwing and have made great progress with our sportsmanship and teamwork skills

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...

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 5 - Music Mission Company Enrichment

Year 5 took part in an onsite music enrichment with the Music Mission company. The day consisted of exciting teacher performances and a workshop. It was a fun and educational way for children to learn about drumming from many cultures. With so many children inspired - we look forward to offering...

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 3's Poetry Performances

Year 3 are learning poems from the Allan Ahlberg book 'Please Mrs Butler'. This was our first time performing the poems for an audience. We can't wait to have another go so stay tuned to see how we improve over the next few weeks! Click any of the images to watch the video

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 - Visit Hackney Musuem

...t." Alima, " Many people came to live in Hackney because they had wars and problems in their own countries." Yagmur, " I loved wearing different clothes from the past as it made me think about what it might have been like to live in the past." Mariam, &q...

Spanish Speaking Countries

During our Launch Week our students were learning about the flags of Spanish speaking countries....how many countries are there?

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...

Power of Reading: Iron Man

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Power of Reading: Traction Man

Proposed Britannia Development

... the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, details of which can be found at here . How does Crossrail 2 fit into all of this? The Council has responded to the Crossrail 2 consultation, strongly defending the park and leisure centre site against plans from Crossrail 2, which propos...

RAF Centenary Flypast

We managed to get an amazing view of the RAF centenary flypast. We watched from the roof and saw all the planes, old and new, fly over school on their way to Buckingham Palace. It was very exciting!

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...

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...

KS1 Book Corners Project

Artist Sandy Goddard has today begun work with Years 1 and 2 to transform their reading corners. This week it's the turn of Hoffman Class in Year 2 who started work in earnest creating giant trees using cardboard and paper mache to sculpt. Watch this space for regular updates on their progress...

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 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 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...

Traction Man

... Adam F, Grey Class Traction Man and Scrubbing Brush are lying on the deep blue see. The Evil Sciss......cribing a scene from Traction Man By Ege, Deacon Class Traction Man is crawling on the muddy groun......y Ege, Deacon Class Traction Man is crawling on the muddy ground. He is wearing a red bandana. Wow!...

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!

Valerie Bloom - Performance

A mixed class of Year 5 and 6 children looked at the poet Valerie Bloom, they broke down one of her poems and tried to perform it in her native Jamaican accent!

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...

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!

KS1 - Electricity

...ome mind-blowing experiments! Many children had to be volunteers and had to do some really tricky and exciting experiments - look at the photos!...

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

...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 setting,...

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...

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!​

A Conversation With John Bercow MP

On Monday we spoke to John Bercow MP who is the Speaker of the House of Commons. He spoke to us with Skype from the House of Commons where he chairs the debates and makes sure the Prime Minister answers MP’s questions. He told us lots about his job and how he got to be where he is. He was...

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...

ASPIRE - National Careers Week

In March we took part in National Careers Week. Every class had a visitor who told us all about their job and what skills they needed to get this job. We linked this to Achieving Aisha and having high aspirations. The children participated in a Q&A with the visitor to find out more about...

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...

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!

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 in Autumn 2 2016

...nked to the individual Nelson Mandela. Year 5 - Year 5 will be looking at achievement with a strong focus on Rights Respecting and in particular Article 29, the right to an education. Year 5 will be discussing achievement within this right and what this looks like globally. Year 5 will also explor...

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...

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!

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...

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!

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

...udience 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!...

Year 1 - 'Life in a Kenyan Village' Non-Chronological Reports

This week year 1 have been writing non-chronological reports on 'Life in a Kenyan Village'. To prepare for this, we have been collecting research from many different sources (video, booklets and images). After we redrafted our reports, we took them outside to our garden to report 'live...

Year 1 - 'Until I Saw the Sea' Performances

This half term we are exploring poetry. Today we looked at a poem called 'Until I saw the sea' which had a lot of figurative language . We explored it together as a class and realised it describes the sea as you would describe humans such as 'breathing in and out'. Have a look at...

Year 3 - UK Geography

Children have been learning all about United Kingdom's geography. We used atlases and learnt how to read the keys on a map in order to find the capital cities, largest towns and towns for the UK's human geography. We also learnt how to interpret a topographical map, and used the keys to...

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 - 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 - 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 Artists and Poetry

Year 2 have had an exciting week this week! 2 artists, Amanda and Billy, came in to see us. We have been making an aspiration tree with them. To do this we did portraits using pencils and charcoal of our partners, then collaged leaves to make the tree. It will all be up in the KS1 corridor soon,...

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 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 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 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 3 - Human and Physical Geography

Children in Year 3 have been studying geography. They have learnt about the seven continents and five oceans. In this lesson, they were learning about Human and Physical geography. They were using Google Earth to research the physical and human features of Egypt

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

...me 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 world! Fancy doing some baking at home? Just ask year 3 for their instructions and top ...

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 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 - Roman Numerals up to 50

Children have been learning to read and interpret different number systems used in history. This week they learnt how to read, interpret and write Roman Numerals up to 50. As part of their final lesson they applied their learning to a real life context; they were reading Roman Numerals on buildings...

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 - Measurement

This week Year 2 have been looking at measurement! We have measured in many different ways and on Thursday looked at capacity. We used lots of different measuring jugs and containers to try and get accurate measurements. We had to compare these with our partners. We found out that there are 1000ml...

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 Power of Reading - Story Boxes

...ur Power of Reading book 'Man on the Moon'. The children were really creative and came up with fantastic ways to display craters, shooting stars and so much more. Here are some photos of some of their fabulous boxes....

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 - Museum of London Visit

Year 1 went to the Museum of London this week and we explored clothes through time. We got to see examples of the animals that Stone Age people made their clothes from and the fancy clothes worn in the Victorian Era. We also looked inside a Roman house and found out how they used to cook without...

Year 1 - Performance with Apollo 5 at the Gresham Centre

Year 1 amazed us all in their performance with vocal group Apollo 5 on Thursday! The children have been working hard on a number of songs over the past year and had the opportunity to showcase their talents at the beautiful Gresham centre

Year 1 - Poetry

Today year 1 have been focusing on figurative language. We read the poem 'Until I saw the Sea' by Lilian Moore and discussed her use of figurative language throughout the poem. We then went off in groups and thought about the best ways to convey this figurative language through movement and...

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

...ve 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 describe the...

Year 1 Poetry Performance

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 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 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 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 Trip to St Mary's Secret Garden

Year 1 went on a trip this week to St Mary's Secret Garden in Hoxton. In Topic we are learning about plants and insects so we had lots of fun discovering different insects and plants at the garden.We discovered lots of different vegetables growing in the garden and found many mini-beasts...

Year 1 Trip to the Museum of London

Year 1 had a fantastic time at The Museum of London this week. This term we have been learning about the history of London. The children have compared London during periods of time. They have been learning how London has changed since the Roman and Medieval times. The children were able to secure...

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 1... It's Christmas!

Year 1 had a wonderful time this week preparing for Christmas. We made snowman paper chains, gift boxes and had an amazing party! Happy Holidays from Year 1

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...

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,...