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...

Breakfast and After School Clubs

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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,...

Nursery Admissions

... ASPIRE Learning Curriculum Weekly workshops Admissions Children are eligible to start Nursery following their third birthday. Admission takes place throughout the academic year. Funding information can be found here. You can apply to the school once your child is two and a half by completi...

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...

Support Plans and EHCPs

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

Year 3

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

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...

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...

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...

ASPIRE in Autumn 2 2019

... linked this to Anti-Bullying Week. We learnt how to listen to other people and play and work cooperatively both in class and in the playground. We talked about strategies to resolve simple arguments through negotiation. We re-visited how to recognise bullying both in person and on-line and discuss...

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...

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...

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...

Mental Health

...sources of help. Children's Mental Health Week 2021 - Express Yourself At Shoreditch Park we are ce...... are celebrating Children's Mental Health Week with some collaborative activities. The theme is Expr...... children during Children's Mental Health Week and beyond. The Children's Mental Health Week websit...

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 Mornings

... calendar such as Road Safety Week, Anti-Bullying Week and Children in Need. Teachers and support st......ad Safety Week, Anti-Bullying Week and Children in Need. Teachers and support staff in the room play...

Seuss Class (ARP)

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

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...

ASPIRE in Spring 2 2019

...is linked to National Careers Week so we spent time investigating different jobs and the skills you need to do these jobs. Every class had a visitor who came to tell them all about their career. The children participated in a Q&A with the visitor to find out more about achieving goals, facing ch...

ASPIRE

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

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...

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

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

Year 5 - Summer 2 Week 6 Home Learning

Year 3 - Home Learning - Ancient Egypt and Plants

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

Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Work

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

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

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

Year 4 - Highlights from Autumn 1 Week 2

We had a really fun and productive week in Year 4. Here are some picture highlights from the week

Year 3 - Summer 2 Week 2 Home Learning

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 4 - Highlights from Autumn 1 Week 3

It has been another great week in Year 4. Here are some picture highlights from the week

Year 5 - Anglo-Saxon Invasion in Britannia

This week in Year 5, we have been learning about the Anglo-Saxon invasion in Britannia. We have used dramatic techniques to order key events and explore key figures during the year AD 410

Year 4 - National Poetry Week

...Day into 'National Poetry Week' in Almond class and had so much fun! On Monday we watched some of our favourite CBBC stars read their favourite poems and also listened to Karl Nova's poem 'See Through My Eyes'. He showed us that using the imagination when writing poetry can take ...

Year 5 - Sir Trevor McDonald Pop Art

This week Year 5 took on an exceptional project in the form of Sir Trevor McDonald pop art! We took in some key elements of the great man's life which include Bafta awards and his trusty microphone then turned the images to create effective pop art in the style of Andy Warhol

Year 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 5 - 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 4 - Summer 2 Week 3 Home Learning

Year 2 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 3 - Summer 2 Week 5 Home Learning

Year 4 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 1 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 6 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 5 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

Year 3 - Summer 2 Week 4 Home Learning

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 5 - Summer 2 Week 5 Home Learning

Year 6 - Summer 2 Week 3 Home Learning

Year 4 - Summer 2 Week 6 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 3 - Summer 2 Week 6 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 1 - Planting Seeds

This week Y1 have been busy planting seeds and keeping a journal of the growth their plants make. Year 1 also had fun getting creative with their maths reasoning lesson on Monday. They had to work out different ways to make certain numbers and did a great job of doing so!

Year 6 - Stop-Frame Animation

Year 6 have been learning how to create stop-frame animation this half term. This week, they used their story boards to make models out of clay and record a short film - experimenting with shapes of clay. Watch this video for a short taster! Claymation Dena and Binta Abdullah, Alex & Jami Noah...

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 6 Trip - Imperial War Museum

Year 6 this week went on a trip to the Imperial War Museum to learn about the causes of World War 1 and to experience what life was like in World War 2. We explored trenches, dressed up as soldiers to experience the weight and inconvenience of their uniform and tried to comprehend the huge numbers...

Year 6 Production Preview - Act 3 Scene 1

Year 6 are continuing working hard for their production next Friday. Here is a sneak peak of Act 3 Scene 1! Make sure you keep your diary free for the production next week, Friday 8th July, 4:30-5:30

Year 6 Computing - Stop Frame Animation

Year 6 today used their computing and design skills to create stop frame animation Christmas videos. We had to create a story board, design our props and used an iPad to carefully record a Christmas message. Keep a look out over the next week as the videos come onto the website!

Year 6 - World War 2

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

Year 6 - The Empire Windrush Freeze Frames

Year 6 continued their week of exploration in Drama workshops. Here are some of the fabulous freeze frames they created about saying goodbye to loved ones on 'The Empire Windrush'

Year 6 - The Blitz

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

Year 6 - Shakespeare Rocks Preview

Next week (Thursday 29th) year 6 will perform Shakespeare Rocks - a musical based on the life of William Shakespeare. Here's a sneak peak of the song Montagues and Capulets

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 6 - Secondary School Preparation

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

Year 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 - 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 - Natural History Museum

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

Year 6 - Launch Week

Year 6 children enjoyed working alongside 'The Rig' to explore sound that was made from up-cycled materials

Year 6 - Kayaking

Year 6 today started kayaking lessons - something that both classes will do over the next six weeks. Zephaniah today learnt how to get into and control their kayaks... something more than a few of them failed to do resulting in very wet clothes. Keep checking our progress as we progress towards...

Year 6 - Kayaking

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

Year 3 - Power of Reading: Narratives

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

Year 4 - Renewable and Non-renewable Power Sources

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

Year 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 1 - Sorting Materials

This term Year 1 are learning all about materials. This week we have been learning about brick, rock, glass and water. We began our lesson by grouping materials by their properties. We then went around the school on a material hunt. Have a look at how we got on

Year 5 - Home Learning

Year 3 - 'The Pebble in my Pocket'

This week we have started exploring our new POR text, 'The Pebble in my Pocket'. The children really enjoyed looking for their own pebble and completing observational drawings of the pebbles. We have also created our own free verse poems

Year 2 - National Careers Week Visit from Millie

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

Year 3 - National Story Week

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

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

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

Year 6 - Coding Using HTML and CSS

Year 6 have this week started projects using coding languages of HTML and CSS to start to understand how we code to create websites. Using the coding site trinket , we learnt how to create basic pages using headers, new paragraphs, underlining, italics and bold writing. Can any Year 6s share code...

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...

Art Week in Year 2

This week we have been focussing on art, specifically digital art. We took photos of each other using different shots like long shot, mid shot and close up. We then edited the photos using apps on the iPads. It was so much fun being photographers for the week!

Eco-Active Workshop: Week 2

Action plan and Making paper. How to make recycled paper

Year 2 - The Great Fire of London

...e have learned as part of Art Week to paint our houses and create doors and windows. After we completed our 1666 houses we wrote our very own instructions so that other people can make me too! Once we had written our first draft for the instructions, we had an opportunity to edit our work to correct...

Year 2 - Art Week

Art week was a huge success in Year 2! The theme was soft sculpture so we made frog cushions. First we cut out the frog template. Then we used a running stitch to sew the parts of the frog together. After that we stuffed the frog. Finally we sewed the remaining part of the frog together carefully....

Art Week - Textiles

This half-term, our Art week focus was Textiles. The children made Soft-Sculpture Cushions by joining materials using glue and sewing techniques such as: running/back/cross/chain and overcast stitch. In addition to this, Years 5 and 6 explored tie-dyeing Calico to add detail to their Soft-Sculpture...

Year 3 - Science in the Autumn Term

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

Year 1 - Setting Description

This week we have been learning how to describe a setting from our current book 'Biscuit Bear'. We recreated the setting of the 'Golden Bun' using story boxes and then used them as inspiration to create a range of interesting vocabulary. Have a look at how we got on

Year 6 - IntoUniversity: Art History

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

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...

Art Week in Year 6 - Malorie Blackman Pop Art

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 2 - Art Week

...his Week children enjoyed Art Week with a focus on Black History. In the photos below, children are creating patterns which were used in the Lewis Latimer inspired light bulb art. Children looked at a range of Ndebele art for pattern and colour inspiration....

Reception - Donaldson Class Visit to Spitalfields Farm

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

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

Year 1 - Reading the Mini Grey text Biscuit Bear

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

Gardening Adventures

This week our gardeners had the opportunity to harvest the fruit and vegetables. They found squash, tomatoes and grapes! The children took note of how items in the garden look whilst growing before they are ready to be eaten

Donaldson class go to Forest School

Donaldson class had their first Forest School lesson today! The children were very excited to explore the area and participate in a variety of wonderful activities. They created nests for birds, fishing rods for the pond and stick men from one of their favourite stories. All of the children are...

Year 2 - Visit to St Paul's Cathedral

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

Year 1 - The story of the Secret Sky Garden

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

The Necklace of Raindrops

Year 2 have enjoyed reading our recent focus text 'The Necklace of Raindrops' by Joan Aiken. During this unit of learning, we discussed the story's introduction and how it is written to hook the reader. We began by thinking about the mood of the story's introduction, and the characters in it, then...

Reception - Lunar New Year

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

Year 3 Briggs - Hackney School of Food

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

'Astro Girl' in Reception

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

Reception 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!

Seuss Class - Black History Month

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

Year 2 - Great Fire of London Workshop

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

Year 1 - Carousel - Week Beginning 20th September 2022

Year 1 Visit the Library

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

Enquiry Ebony Family Science Project

...eparation for British Science Week 2022, Shoreditch Park Primary children researched a scientist as part of the half-term Enquiry Ebony Family Project....

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 2 - Design and Technology Week

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,...

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 Daily Update - Monday 2nd November 2026

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Nursery - Exploring and Learning: Animals

In Rosen Class this term, we’ve been exploring the topic of Animals. This week, our learning was inspired by the much-loved story The Very Hungry Caterpillar . Through the story, the children discovered the life cycle of a butterfly, explored ways to care for the environment, and began to...

Reception - Holi

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

Reception - 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 - 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...

Debate Club - Final Competition at Mission 44

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

Year 6 University Week

Year 6 have really enjoyed working with Into University for the past week. They've had a chance to take part in an exciting range of activities; they've completed science experiments, acted like journalists and interviewed some famous figures in STEM and they've had the chance to visit...

Year 2 - Exploring Different Emotions

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

Science in Year 1

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

Year 2 - Power of Reading

Over the last few weeks we have done a number of practical lessons to inspire our writing. Here are some photos from the lesson when we planted a bean seed to support out Jack and the Beanstalk writing, and from the lesson when we made ball gowns to inspire our Cinderella writing

ASPIRE - Autumn 2 - Inclusivity and Self Awareness

...f term was also Anti-Bullying Week. The theme was United Against Bullying. The children learned about group behaviour in bullying and how we can unite against bullying in our school....

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 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 4 - Tetractys Poems

The Year 4 family have had another wonderful week on google classroom and have produced some excellent work. The children are continuing to show great enthusiasm in their learning. In Power of Reading, we are continuing with poems but this week the focus was Tetractys poems. Here are some excellent...

Year 3 - Maths Exploration: Volume and Capacity

This week we have been learning about volume and capacity. We have been looking at the capacity of different items in our house and comparing them! We have also been looking at litres and millimetres as a form of unit of measurement. We had a lot of fun this week in our maths lessons!

Year 5 - Poetry Artwork

This week in Year 5, we have been looking at poetry in our Power of Reading lesson. This began with us looking at some poems and their features, and has culminated in us creating our own poems, as well as our own expressive artwork based on what we have sounds we could hear. It has been fantastic...

Year 4 - Can you guess the subject of these Kenning Poems?

The Year 4 family have transitioned seamlessly to the switch back to Google Classroom. The commitment and quality of work on display so far has been inspiring. In literacy we have been creating our own poems. Here are some fine examples. Can you guess what the subject of each poem is?

Year 6 - Graduation 2019

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

Year 5 - Poetry Skills

This week in Year 5, we have been working again to perfect our poetry skills, this week building on the skills we learned last week to write poetry about different aspects of nature. We have written a range of different styles of poems now that incorporate a range of different structures and...

Year 5 - Vikings

This week in Year 5, we have been learning all about the vikings, and King Ethelred's ineffective strategies of fighting them off by trying to pay them silver! We have been reciting and performing some viking poetry this week based on the poems. Mr Holland's maths class also started looking...

Year 5 - The Viewer by Sean Tan

This week in Year 5, we have been continuing to read The Viewer by Sean Tan. We have been gathering several descriptive phrases and sentences based on the book, building on from our setting description last week and using a range of figurative language techniques, including using similes,...

Year 1 - Beegu

There was a crash landing in the Year 1 playground on Monday. Year 1 decided to go outside and investigate! This introduced our new text 'BEEGU'. At the end of the week we designed our own 'missing' poster to find Beegu. We used descriptive vocabulary to describe what kind of alien...

Year 5 - Black History Month 2020

This week in Year 5, we have had a chance to reflect on all of the fantastic work we have done over Black History Month. Including some pop-art inspired multi-coloured portraits of inspirational journalist, Sir Trevor McDonald (who we also studied) and our Ndebele-style paintings of lightbulbs...

Art Week - Autumn 1 2020 - Black History Month

As part of our Black History Month celebrations, we recognised Black British figures and celebrated them through art. The art style that we used is called Pop Art, the movement began in the 1950s. We hope that you like our depictions. You can see more on our Twitter feed

Year 1 - 2D Shapes

Last week, Year 1 learnt all about 2D shapes and have been identifying and describing the properties of 2D shapes. Year 1 were able to apply this knowledge and went on a shape hunt around the school and their classroom

Year 5 - The Boy In The Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar

This week in Year 5, we have been learning about embedding relative clauses into our sentences whilst reading our new book, The Boy In The Girl's Bathroom by Louis Sachar. We have been putting our grammar skills to good use by writing diary entries from the point of view of the main character

Year 4 - Free Verse Poems

We finished our poetry module in Year 4 this week by creating our very own free verse poems. We spent the week securing our knowledge on poetic devices and reading poems from Michael Rosen, Valerie Bloom, Karl Nova and even our own class teacher, among many others! We then channelled all of this...

Year 3 - Baking Challenge

In Year 3 we love a challenge, especially when it helps us to learn new skills! This week we were challenged to make a Victoria Sponge cake! We tried very hard and they turned out incredible! They tasted amazing too!

Year 6 - Goodbye for Now

Today we say 'Goodbye for Now' to our wonderful Year 6's who will be starting an exciting new chapter in their secondary schools from September. We could not be prouder of the young adults that they are becoming and everything they have achieved during their time at Shoreditch Park. We had a...

Year 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 6 - DT Week 2021

During DT week in Year 6, the children were tasked with creating a product and brand for a new smoothie product which had to be healthy and nutritious. Over the week we created digital adverts and logos on iPads, an advertising campaign, designs for bottle labels and presented our product to our...

Year 2 - Design and Technology Week 2021

This week, we celebrated Design and Technology week via Food Technology. In Year 2, we were challenged to make a healthy snack. We started the week by taste-testing various fruits and vegetables before deciding what to use in our healthy snack. We then created a set of instructions to ensure our...

Year 6 - Into University Engineering Focus Week

In Year 6 we were lucky enough to have a virtual focus week with Into University where we interviewed real life students and designed our own robots

Year 2 - Learning How to be Confident Gardeners

Children in Year 2 are learning how to be confident gardeners. This week they planted bean seeds in both soil and cotton wool to see which will grow. Children are learning what plants need to survive and how to care for the classroom plants. Children will make scientific observations and record...

Year 3 - Maths: Statistics

Year 3 have been learning all about statistics this week in their maths lessons. They really enjoyed collecting their own data using a tally chart and presenting the information they had collected on a bar chart

Art Week in Year 5

This week we have been focusing on art, specifically digital art. We started the week by evaluating and analysing creative works using the language of art and discussed 'how does the artwork make you feel and why do you think that might be?' Through discussion, we were able to make a connection...

Year 4 - IntoUniversity Workshop

Year 4 had a thrilling time last week. We were fortunate enough to participate in an 'IntoUniversity workshop' via Zoom. The children learnt all about what careers are and how to develop their skills inside and outside of school

Year 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 - Discussion Texts

Year 3 - Science: Plants

This week we started our new Science unit, Plants. We have been exploring the different parts of plants and what are their uses. Our activity was to draw a plant and label its features. We had lots of fun doing this activity!

Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 8th February 2021

This week in Year 5, we have finished our explanation texts and have created our own inventions with multiple different features that we have designed throughout the week. We have continued looking at Earth & Space in our science lesson and slums in our topic lessons. We have completed...

Year 4 - Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf

In Year 4 this week, we finished our exciting book 'Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf'. The children created excellent storyboards to retell the story and added lots of fantastic drawings with colour. It was a great way to talk through the best parts of the book and give our opinions about the storyline....

Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 1st February 2021

This week in Year 5, we have continued looking at our book, Alex Rider: Stormbreaker! This week we have been focusing on gadgets! We have looked at the gadgets featured in Stormbreaker and have also had the opportunity to look at some other gadgets and create our own. Specifically, a teacher...

Year 4 - Notes of Advice and Science Experiment

This week in Year 4, we created notes of advice about an animal that the gods from our story 'Mouse, Bird, Snake, Wolf' had not created. The children came up with excellent ideas and were able to show their fantastic drawings of already existing animals or hybrids. Also this week, we started our...

Year 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 6 - IntoUniversity

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

Year 5 - Mexican Dancing

Year 5 had a fun time learning a Mexican dance during launch week

Year 6 - Electricity

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

Visit to Hackney Town Hall

...l might be Mayor one day!...

Year 1 - Capacity

Year 1 have been learning all about capacity and volume this week. The children used estimation and investigation skills to find the capacity of different containers. They also measured and recorded volume in ml

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 - Breakfast With A Book

Year 1 enjoyed Breakfast With A Book this week. It is an invaluable time for children to enjoy reading with friends or an adult. The children discuss what they have read and recommend books to each other. Please join us on Wednesday mornings this half term from 8.45am

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 - '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 Book Day 2017

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

Work Week 2016

Nursery Reception Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

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...

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...

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 Choir Sings 'El Condor Pasa'

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

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...

Spanish Speaking Countries

...s are there?...

Shoreditch Park Primary Launch - Balloon Release

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

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...

Rights Respecting School: Learning about our rights

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

Year 1 - Data

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

Year 1 - Grey Class Music

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

Refugee Week 2018

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

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 Maths Workshop

Year 1 took part in a fantastic maths workshop this week. We learnt all about making patterns with shapes and what a right angle looks like! We had lots of fun playing practical maths games with our classmates

Year 1 - World Book Day

In Year 1 this week we had lots of fun dressing up as our favourite book characters for World Book Day! We have been reading the story of Lila and the Secret of Rain in Power of Reading and decided to create a story box of Lila’s village in Kenya as a special World Book Day treat. We tried to...

Year 1 - Touch

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

Year 1 - Topic

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

Year 1 - The Museum of Childhood

Year 1 went on a trip to The Museum of Childhood this week. We participated in a puppet workshop where we discovered all about different kinds of puppets, how they worked and what materials they were made from. We even made our very own shadow puppets!

Year 1 - Story Of The Week

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

Year 1 - Spanish Week

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

Year 1 - Science Trip to Clissold Park

Year 1 have been studying plants all half term in Science Lessons. This week we went on a trip to Clissold Park.The children looked at deciduous and coniferous trees and spotted the roots of trees. They then went on a nature hunt, collecting small samples of wild plants and identifying different...

Year 1 - Grey Class Play The Glockenspiel

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

Year 1 - Power of Reading: Beegu

This week Year 1 started reading the book Beegu in Power of Reading Lessons. The children discovered some unusual things in the playground just before we started reading the book! It was almost as if Beegu had landed on our school roof! By using our findings and looking at the front cover of the...

Year 1 - Poems About the Sea

Today Year 1 wrote their own poems about the sea inspired by the poem 'Until I Saw the Sea' by Lilian Moore. We used descriptive vocabulary to describe the sea and onomatopoeia to create the mood for the poem. When we had edited our poems, we published them onto our own works of art we had...

Year 1 - Observing Changes in Trees During Autumn

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

Year 1 - Myths and Legends

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

Year 1 - Mythical Creatures

Year 1 will be learning about Myths and Legends this term. This week we had our first lesson exploring all sorts of mythical creatures! We will also be learning about the history of London and the legendary story of Dick Whittington

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 - Measurement

This week year 1 have been learning all about measuring capacity, length and mass. We have been out measuring distances around the school, measuring the weight of classroom objects and even made our own magic potions using different units of measurement! Have a look at how we got on!

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!

Refugee Week 2018: Year 4 Cake Decorating

...eone else....... a few hours out this Refugee Week to share a sugary moment. Maybe you’ll end up sharing a sto...

Refugee Week 2017

BADU Foundation Stage Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5

Year 1 Science - Touch

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

Aspire - Respectful Rodrick Tea Party

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

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...

BADU/Refugee Week

... from BADU!...

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 Tea Party - Pride

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

ASPIRE Tea Party - Inclusive

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

ASPIRE Celebration Assembly - Autumn 2 2017

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

ASPIRE Active

What is ASPIRE Active? At Shoreditch Park Primary School we are dedicated to ensuring each child achieves the best possible outcomes; academically, socially, emotionally and physically. ASPIRE ACTIVE is our initiative strive for our children to be physically fit and healthy. Why do we do ASPIRE...

ASPIRE - Pride

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

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

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

ASPIRE - National Careers Week

...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 achieving goals, fa...

Art Week - Summer 2

Art Club Launch

An exciting new playtime club has been launch – Art Club! Art club is open to anyone in KS2 to join during lunchtimes. This week we have been experimenting with rubbings and weavings. We have used natural materials to make patterns and weave into frames. Art club will continue in September....

ARP Visit Hackney City Farm

The children in ARP went on a trip to Hackney City Farm this week to link to our topic: Food

ARP - Cycling

Some pupils learned to cycle with Tan class this week

Anti-Bullying Week 2018

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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...

After School Club - Arts and Crafts

This week in Arts and Crafts Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 were very creative. They made different objects and things out of a variety of materials. Can you identify what they have made?

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!

Deacon Class - Music

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

Refugee Week 2016

...g between communities.......e 20 June. In the UK, Refugee Week is a nationwide programme of arts, cultural and educational event...

KS1 National Storytelling Week

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

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...

National Storytelling Week 2017 - Josh Seigal

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

National Storytelling Week 2017 - Grey Class

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

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!

Morpurgo - 'Shake It Off'

This week Morpurgo had a fantastic time playing along to 'Shake It Off', have a watch!

Learning Center - The Gruffalo

The KS2 children in the Learning Center have been learning all about The Gruffalo. In AET this week they went on a nature walk to find resources to make the Deep Dark Wood that the Gruffalo and all the other woodland creatures live in!

KS2 Music Notation

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

KS1 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...

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!

KS1 - London Philharmonic Orchestra

This week KS1 went on a trip altogether to the Royal Festival Hall on Southbank to watch an amazing concert! We took the 76 bus there and back and got to see lots of London landmarks on the way, such as the London Eye . The London Philharmonic Orchestra played songs from a book called Giddy Goat....

KS1 - Electricity

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

Grey Class visit Spitalfield Farm

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

Grey Class Assembly - Animals

Grey class had their assembly this week which was all about 'Animals'. Here are some photos and a video of their animal song

Go Green Week

...und in the classroom....

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...

Donaldson Class - Spring has Sprung

This week, Donaldson Class have been doing some planting with our school gardener, Calvin! The children took part in some circle games, acting out the life of a seed, before planting some lettuce leaves. We can't wait to taste them after Easter! The children were full of enquiry, just like...

Donaldson Class - Spitalfields Farm Visit

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

Year 1 Power of Reading - Story Boxes

This week Year 1 have been making story boxes for our 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 Skype London Zoo

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

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

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

Year 4 - Paper Challenge

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

Year 4 - Mexican Dancing

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

Year 4 - Line Method of Multiplication

This week in Year 4 we're learning an informal multiplication method to prepare for their new formal methods next week! This method was called line method

Year 4 - Launch Week

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

Year 4 - Exploring Watercolour Painting

This week Year 4 have continued their exploration of watercolour painting by using their newly acquired skills in colour washing and colour pattern to create landscape paintings to illustrate their re-writing of their Power of Reading text, Storm. Keep an eye on this page for completed short...

Year 4 - ASPIRE Coding

Last week was coding week and Year 4 spent ASPIRE mornings writing messages in different types of code - we even had a go at speaking in Morse code!

Year 4 - Solving Fraction Based Problems

This week in problem solving Year 4 were given a range of fraction based problems to investigate!

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's Natural History Museum Trip

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

Year 3 Trip - Olympic Park

This week Year 3 went on a trip to the Olympic Park. It was a beautiful sunny day and we got to sketch in the British garden, have a picnic, take a photo by the Olympic rings and play on an amazing adventure park. It was a lot of fun and we all enjoyed our last trip together

Year 3 Go Into the Forest

In Power of Reading Year 3 are looking at Into the Forest by Anthony Browne. In this lesson, we met some mysterious fairy tale characters in the woods and had conversations with them. This supported us as we learnt to write conversations using direct speech later in the week

Year 3 - The Musicans' Company

This week Year 3 enjoyed a very special visit from Ann and Joe from The Musicans' Company. Joe taught the children about his instrument, the tuba, and played lots of songs for us. Some of the songs we recognised and some were new to us! You can find out more on their website; www.wcom.org.uk

Year 3 - Spanish Week

...ll done Year 3!...

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 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 4 - Software Developers

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

Year 4 - Voyage Diary Entries

This week in Topic Year 4 became Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. An explorer who discovered the Iguazu Falls! We went on a voyage together and wrote in our diary throughout our quest. Have a look at some of our diary entries!

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 5 - Art Trip

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

Year 5 Say Goodbye To The Chicks

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

Year 5 - Refugee Week Assembly 2019

Year 5 have been focusing on poetry linked to refugee week. Some children wrote their own poetry and some children performed a poem that a poet had written. Our oracy focus was use of body language and gestures to portray meaning. We really enjoyed the assembly!

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 - National Storytelling Week

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

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!​

Year 5 - Meditation Tree

Year 5 have been learning all about calming down strategies in ASPIRE lessons. This week we tried meditating

Year 5 - Making A Reading Room

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

Year 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 - What Makes An Effective Team?

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

Year 4 Trip - V&A Museum

This week Year 4 went to the beautiful V&A Museum . We learnt all about how the Greeks influenced different periods time like the Victorians, The Tudors and Georgians! Ask year 4 if they can point out any Greek architecture around the school!

Year 4 Tate Trip

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

Year 4 Spanish Week 2016

Year 4 had a fantastic time during Spanish week! We learnt how to do Flamenco and Salsa dancing! Professional dancers came in and taught us their moves. We can't wait to show them off at the next school disco!

Year 4 Meet Elizabeth Rossiter

This week year 4 were extremely lucky to have a visit from Elizabeth Rossiter. Pianist Elizabeth Rossiter enjoys a busy career, primarily as a song accompanist, and has given concerts in all the major recital venues in this country. She has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC2, Channel 4 and...

Year 4 Maths Challenge

Here are Year 4 working hard to solve challenge of the week!

Year 4 Guitar Prints

This week Morpurgo had a fantastic time creating guitar prints for our art project. First we began by studying the acoustic guitar and sketching it you a range of materials; pencil, charcoal and pen. The following day we looked at texture and then experimented with different effects. We then carved...

Year 4 Britannia Trip

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

Year 4 Become Teachers

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

Year 3 - Mummify Oranges

Year 3 started off learning about Ancient Egypt this week by turning some oranges into mummies! Just like real Ancient Egyptian embalmers we started off by taking out all of the gooey insides. Then, we filled up our oranges with salt, just like the embalmers dried out bodies with natron. Finally,...

Year 3 - Learning to Read Music

This week Year 3 began learning to read music! See if you can use these music notes to workout which notes are played in the song!

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 2 - Art: Printing

Year 2 have been exploring Printing in their Art lessons this week. We began by choosing fruit and vegetables that we thought would create interesting textures on the page. We sketched these fruit and vegetables, highlighting the details that we predicted would make an interesting print. We...

Year 2 - Healthy Eating Workshop

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

Year 2 - Hampstead Heath Trip

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

Year 2 - Hackney Schools Music and Dance Festival

This week Jeffers class were lucky enough to participate in the Hackney Schools Music and Dance Festival. We prepared by learning lots of songs from around the world. On the day we sang these songs with other schools from Hackney. We sang in the the round, with call and response and also with...

Year 2 - Habitats

Year 2 have started their new topic this week - Habitats! They had a Big Bang lesson to introduce the topic in which they explored different habitats, which animals lived there and what they needed to survive. They looked at information books and had to complete their own research. We can't...

Year 2 - Great Fire of London Workshop

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

Year 2 - Exploring Habitats

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

Year 2 - 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 - Art Week 2018

Year 2 have thoroughly enjoyed art week! We were studying textiles and learning how to sew. We created a cushion themed around our topic - The Great Fire of London. We used fabric, glue, thread, stuffing and needles. The children used a running stitch to sew their cushion. Look at the results!

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 2 - Algorithms

This week Year 2 have been learning all about algorithms in computing. Algorithms are a set of instructions. We started by giving these to each other by directing our friends from one planet to another. We pretended we were in space! We then started to do this on an app called Scratch. Next we will...

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 1's Aspire Assembly

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

Year 1 Trip to 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 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 St Annes Church in Hoxton

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

Year 1 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 - Shoreditch Adventure Park

Year 1 went on a trip to Shoreditch Adventure Park this week. First we explored our local area and what amenities we have near us by walking around Shoreditch Park. Then we went on a nature hunt in the playground. We were looking for clues for Autumn. We found lot's of orange, red and brown...

Year 2 - Launch Week

Year 2 had the best time at The Rig playing the musical instruments! It was so interesting to make music with objects that we would not usually use as instruments, the sounds we made were really different!

Year 2 - Multiple Partitoning

In Year 2 this week we have been learning about multiple partitoning. We chose a number, partitioned it into tens and unit, then used the dienes to check for other ways we could split the number into parts. This was a tricky challenge but we started to find lots of different addition number...

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 2 Learn to Tell the Time

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

Year 3 - Geography: Istanbul

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

Year 3 - 'The Ice Palace' by Robert Swindells

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

Year 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 Sports Day 2016

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

Year 2 Science - "Growing Up"

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

Year 2 Meet 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 Learning About Poetry

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

Year 2 Breakfast Reading Cafe

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

Year 2 - Museum of Transport

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

Year 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 - World Book Day

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

Year 2 - The Rhythm of Life by Michael Rosen

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

Year 2 - The Hodgeheg

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

Year 2 - Science: Growing Up

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

Year 2 - 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...

Year 2 - Rainforests

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

Year 2 - Narratives

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

Reception Daily Update - Tuesday 3rd November 2026

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