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...

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...

Music

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

Maths

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

Library and Reading for Pleasure

...urther support reading at home. With links to digital books, author discussions apps and much more. Look out for it in you child's class email. Library Photos Class Book Corners We love reading at Shoreditch Park Primary School and linked With our Power of Reading Project we like to make sure that...

History and Geography Curriculum

... our children to become educated citizens of the world. With support of fieldwork and our pupil voice groups, we empower our children to be decision makers and global citizens who constantly consider their (and others’) impact on the planet....

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...

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...

Ethos & Values

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

Enquiring Ebony Homework

Each half term classes are given Enquiring Ebony homework linked to their Topic or Science focus. Children are tasked with making creative projects that encourage curiosity and foster inquisitive thinking. Look at some recent examples of finished projects! Enquiring Ebony Homework Challenges -...

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...

Online Safety

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

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...

Destination Reader

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

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...

Computing

...aging Safe Internet Use......g (debugging) and manipulating systems. Within our computing lessons we learn about digital literacy......ing Stars' Switched on Computing . Impact Within Computing we encourage a creative and collaborative...

Breakfast and After School Clubs

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

Autism Resource Provision

Welcome to Shoreditch Park School's Autism Resource Provision (ARP). This page provides information about the curriculum and the procedures in place for the ARP. Pictures and information for parents of current pupils can be found by visiting the Seuss or Sharratt class pages. Meet the Team Rochelle...

ASPIRE Mornings

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

Counselling Service for Children

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

Ofsted and School Improvement

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

Parent Workshops

Shoreditch Park Primary School holds regular coffee mornings and workshops around various aspects of the national curriculum that parents and carers are invited to attend throughout the school year. Inclusion Team key dates for parents - 2025-2026 academic year Parent and Carers of children with...

ASPIRE in Spring 2 2019

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

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...

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...

Science

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

School Meals and Packed Lunches

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

Governors Committees

Full Governing Body The full Governing Body meets termly to discuss whole school strategy and developments. As per The Governance Handbook there are 3 core functions to the board: Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction Holding executive leaders to account for the educational...

RSHE

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

School Tours

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

Rights Respecting School

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

Read Write Inc

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

SEND Support for Parents

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

RE

... we benefit from a very diverse faith school community. Within RE lessons, pupils encounter an authentic voice of faith and belief. We encourage pupils to share their own unique and personal religious experiences. This is particularly beneficial when pupils teach their classmates about a particular ...

Pupil Premium

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

PTA

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

Governors Key Documents

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

Promoting British Values

...message. Individual Liberty Within school, pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for young pupils to make choices safely, through provision of a safe environment and empowering educa...

Policies

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

Performance Tables

...56% 54% 54% Without dis-applied pupils (7) 80% 85% 83% 73% Whole Cohort Greater Depth 32% 36% 21% 15% National Comparison 73% 72% 73% 59% Attainment over time EYFS Expected Standard ...

Rights Respecting Steering Group

Steering group is a pupil voice group, which focuses on children's rights. As a gold level Rights Respecting school , this group has a very important role to play. They meet at least once a half term to discuss and decide how to raise awareness around children's rights. When steering group feel...

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...

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...

Inclusion Team

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

ASPIRE

...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 in young children and promote fundamental British values in young lives. We support children to develop the knowledg...

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...

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...

Oracy

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

ASPIRE in Spring 1 2019

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

Art and D&T

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

ASPIRE in Autumn 1 2019

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

School Council

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

Mental Health

Mental Health Support At Shoreditch Park we are committed to the early identification of any mental health issues that a young person may be dealing with. This can include low self-esteem, attachment disorders and difficulties regulating emotions. We offer a range of interventions in school that...

Data Protection

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

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 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 - 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 6 Sculptures

Year 6 have been working with visiting artist, Sandy Goddard, to create sculptures of London landmarks for their book corners. They used card, newspaper and paint to create these stunning sculptures. Before starting they also got a chance to work investigate the shapes of building by creating...

Spring Gardening

Our gardeners have been progressing with various leek harvesting, trimming, runner bean seed harvesting and planting, pea sowing and support stick construction

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 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 6 Midsummer Nights Dream Performance

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

Year 6 Investigate Electricity

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

Year 6 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 - Antartic Scene Settings

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

Year 6 - Bike Around The Borough

Year 6 are today taking part in Bike Around The Borough with up to 1,000 children in Hackney. Throughout the day we are cycling 20 miles, from Shoreditch Park, to Clissold Park and then all around Hackney. What a great day!

Year 6 - Forest School Team Building

Year 6 today attended a forest school team building session in Hackney. We undertook activities to build dens with tarp and had to use our cooperative schools to work together towards a goal. We built bases, rafts and competed to try and build different things. A fantastic day!

Year 6 - Graduation 2019

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

Year 6 - 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 - Magic V's

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

Year 6 - 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...

Year 6 - Mastery in Maths

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

Year 6 - Partner Reading

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

Year 6 - 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 - Science: Environment

In science, Milligan today had an interactive lesson with our environment. While continuing to learn about classifying animals we took our search to the school grounds to search for vertebrates such as amphibians and invertebrates such as arthtopods. We explored the school grounds finding animals...

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 - STEM Day

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

Year 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 5 - Poetry Skills

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

Year 4 - 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 6 - Lego Wedo 2.0 Coding

Our enthusiastic Year 6 continued their coding learning this afternoon with the fantastic Lego Wedo 2.0 coding - building models and then programming them to move! We will be continuing to make models of increasing difficulty over the half term, keep coming back to check in with how we are doing!

Year 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 - National Careers Week Visit from Millie

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

Year 1 - 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!

Incoming Reception 2020/21

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

Year 6 - Science: Experiment with Different Forces

In science we experimented with different forces, here we are testing objects with different surface areas and how air resistance acts on them

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 2 - Art Week

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

ASPIRE - Autumn 1: Self Awareness and Achievement

...and staying safe and healthy. Within Aspire lessons we created space to discuss our experiences during school closure and our feelings about returning to school. We built resilience by thinking about how to prepare our bodies and minds for learning and how to have a positive attitude towards learnin...

Year 3 - Science Museum Trip

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

ARP - Sharratt Class at the Museum of Childhood

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

Year 6 - Gymnastics Lesson with Badu Sports

Today Year 6 had a great gymnastics lesson with Badu Sports. They learnt a complex series of moves and poses such as arches, pikes and tucks which they performed on the floor and on apparatus. Amazing demonstration of control and strength!

Year 3 - Apollo5 Workshop

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

Code Breaking with Year 6

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...

ASPIRE - Autumn 2 - Inclusivity and Self Awareness

In Autumn 2 our focus was Inclusive Izeyah and Self Aware Samuel. In KS2 we were focusing on resilience. The children know that resilience is a skill that can be developed to help us cope with challenging times or circumstances. We have all shown resilience in our community and school during the...

ARP - Seuss Class Trip to the Apple Store

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

Year 6 - Residential 2019 - Day 1

[menu name="year6-residential-2019"] Year 6 today are making their way to Kingswood in Kent for three days of challenges and problem solving designed to test their resilience and build their team work skills. Keep up to date with everything that's happening here and on our Twitter...

Virtual Open Events

...pen Session Early Years Tour With the help of some of our youngest pupils, we have created this short video to offer an insight into Shoreditch Park Primary School. Speak to a Member of Staff You are also able to request a 10 minute phone call With either the Headteacher, the Deputy Headteacher o...

Rauf's Poem

...ld He acts cruel to the crows With an invisible shield. The River's a knight On his horse He challenges dragons To a fighting course. The River's a filmer Making movie art His project genres Are always a head-start....

ASPIRE in Autumn 1 2018

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

Practice Maths at Home with Year 4

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

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 - Tetractys Poems

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

Year 5 - 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 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 3 - Henry VIII Role Play

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

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

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

Year 4 - 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 3 Virtual Trip to the British Museum

Today, we took part in a virtual trip to the British Museum! We met with an archaeologist who showed us different artefacts from Prehistoric Britain. We also took part in a quiz all about the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic eras where we got 9 out of 10! During the trip, we were also...

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 5 - Hackney School of Food

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

Nursery - Bonfire Night 2025

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

Reception - 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...

Exploring and Learning in Reception - Autumn 1

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

Nursery - Nutcracker Dance Workshop

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

Year 2 - Outdoor Learning at Hampstead Heath

Year 2 enjoyed a wonderful day of outdoor learning at Hampstead Heath, engaging in pond dipping and minibeast hunting as part of their science curriculum. Equipped with nets, magnifying glasses, and an abundance of curiosity, the children uncovered a variety of fascinating creatures from wriggling...

Year 6 - Schools Across the Ocean project

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

Nursery - Animal Workshop

...rog, and even a tarantula. With gentle guidance, they were able to carefully stroke and, in some cases, hold the animals—an experience that sparked lots of questions and curiosity. Along the way, the children discovered interesting facts about where these creatures live, what they eat, and ...

Year 4 - Trip to Hoxton Church

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

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 - Browne Class Nature Walk

This morning Browne Class left school for their first ever trip! We went on a nature walk through Shoreditch Park. We collected lots of leaves and used a 'autumn leaf information sheet' to find out which trees they came from. We learned the names of lots of trees in our local area. It was...

Year 5 - Music Mission Company Enrichment

... drumming from many cultures. With so many children inspired - we look forward to offering drumming ......s even got to play the drums. Within the workshop, there was a mini history lesson about the history...

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...

Year 2 - National Poetry Day

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

National Poetry Day 2022

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

Inclusive School Award

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

School Council - Working with Hackney Council

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

Rights Respecting Steering Group - Governor Link Visit

Members of the RRSG met with one of the school governors to discuss their impact on the school

New Starters Reception and Nursery - September 2022

...rtive and seamless as possible. With this in mind, we would like to share our transition plan With you. What? When? Where? Who? New Parents/ Carers open evening Tuesday 28th June 5pm- 6pm Main school hall Parents/ carers and children welcome ...

Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Projects Summer Term 1

Year 1 have created wonderful enquiring ebony projects based on our current topic 'Animals and their habitats'. They have created a poster with facts all on their favourite animal

Year 1 - Story Time Session at Shoreditch Library

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

Year 2 Library Visit

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

World Book Day 2022

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

Year 1 - Deacon Class trip to Shoreditch Park

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

Reception - Browne Class Farm Trip

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

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...

Year 5 - Spanish Lesson from Shoreditch Park Secondary School Students

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

Year 2 - Jeffers Class Hackney Museum Workshop

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

'Astro Girl' in Reception

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

School Council Update - Spring 1 2023

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

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 - Great Fire workshop

During the Year 2's online workshop hosted by the Museum of London, the staff on the live stream discussed the events surrounding the Great Fire of London. They shared fascinating insights into how the fire started and how it eventually came to an end. Additionally, they highlighted various...

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...

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 - Hoxton Street Monster Supplies

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Parent Election - Summer 2023

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

Year 2 - Hampstead Heath Trip

Year 2 visited Hampstead Heath Education Centre to have a fun and inspiring outdoor learning experience. We connected with nature and ignited our curiosity through pond dipping, bug hunting and exploring habitats. It was a fantastic opportunity to share what we have learned about habitats in our...

School Council - Looking at the information plaques

Last year's school council went to visit the plaques they created with Hackney Council last year. We found all 5 plaques in Shoreditch Park and were very pleased with them

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....

Year 1 - Design & Technology

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

Year 1 - Community

In year one, children have been learning about their local community and communities around the world. They have been exploring the importance of community spaces, such as the doctor surgery and the local vet. As part of this learning, the children took a local area walk to identify and observe...

Year 5 Maths Reasoning

Year 5 spent their maths lesson on Friday completing place value problems. They work with their partner and resources to investigate place value. They then had to explain what they had done and why it must be true

Year 4 - Festival of Triangles Maths Lesson

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

Year 5 - Poetry Workshop with Josh Seigal

ASPIRE Enquiry Assembly - Summer 2018

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

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...

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...

Cake Decorating Workshop

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

BADU/Refugee Week

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

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 KS1 Trip to SEALIFE London Aquarium

As a reward for exemplary respect in Autumn 1, 1 child was chosen in Year 1 and 2 to go on a trip with Ms Foster. This trip was SEALIFE London Aquarium. The children loved it! Here is what they said: Yusuf: my favourite part was seeing the penguins because they were so close to me! Aasiyah: my...

ASPIRE in Autumn 2 2016

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

ASPIRE Celebration Assembly - Spring 1 2018

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

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...

ASPIRE Celebration Assembly - Respect

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

ASPIRE Artwork

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

ASPIRE Active

...udes a warm up and cool down! With this fun programme children can complete lots of different routines that increase heart rate and physical fitness. For further information: www.5-a-day.tv...

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....

Aspire - Respectful Rodrick

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

ASPIRE - 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 - Autumn 2 2017

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

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...

Food Revolution Day

For Whitmore's Food Revolution Day Key Stage 1 got busy in the garden with Calvin, each child was able to plant their very own plant. The whole school also entered into a competition, where everyone designed their own healthy smoothie recipe. The winning entry will get the opportunity to create...

ARP - Cycling

Some pupils learned to cycle with Tan class this week

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!

Rights Respecting School Competition

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

Refugee Week 2018: Year 4 Cake Decorating

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

Proposed Britannia Development

...on surrounding homes/estates With more housing being built, will local facilities become overcrowded? Any scheme that goes ahead will need to consider the impact on the local area. This is an important part of planning applications, which include a section called the ‘environmental impact as...

Pasta Car Challenge

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

Parents and Community Room

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

Parents

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

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...

Music in Autumn 2016

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

Gardening With Mr Calvin

Today we were very lucky to learn about our new garden patch in the EYFS playground. We are growing a range of vegetables from tomatoes to runner beans. We really enjoyed learning about how to look after our vegetable patch. Thank you Mr Calvin!

Morpurgo Class Assembly - 30th November 2016

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

London Zoo Penguins Visit Dahl Class

Year 5 enjoyed learning about animal life cycles in their skype session with London Zoo. It was really interesting to learn about the different eggs from different types of animals. We even saw a few penguins swim past!

Level 1 Achieved!

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

KS2 Science Museum - Forces

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

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...

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....

Hispanic Day 2017

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

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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

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....

Anti-Bullying Week 2018

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

Samba Dancing

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

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...

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...

'Rights for children' - Hackney Today

PUPILS at Shoreditch Park primary marked Universal Children’s Day with a visit from the Deputy Mayor of Hackney. Cllr Anntoinette Bramble watched a presentation on the UN convention on children’s rights and how this is promoted at the school

Year 4 - Learning Factors

We've been learning about factors in Year 4. We used our division skills to find factors of large numbers like 100 or 180! We worked with our partners to solve problems. Have a look at what we've learnt

Councillor Bramble Visit

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

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...

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...

Year 5 - Music Workshop with Joss Edwards

Year 5 enjoyed a music workshop with Joss Edwards, who is a sound designer and composer. We watched how he makes different sounds and even got the chance to record our own drum beat using instruments

Year 2 students introducing themselves in Spanish

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

Year 3 - Maths: Creating Toys Out Unifix Cubes

Today in our maths investigation we created some toys out of Unifix cubes that had a specific value. Each cube had a different value. We added the cubes to make a total of 99. Once we finished our toys we tried to make a new one with different cubes but with the same total value of 99. We collected...

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 - Geography: Compass Points and Grid References

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

Year 3 - Counting to 20 in Spanish

Children were learning how to count to 20 in Spanish. We counted objects and wrote the numbers in Spanish with a sentence. For example: Hay Trece Buos

Year 3 - 'The Ice Palace' by Robert Swindells

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

Year 3 - Power of Reading: Jemmy Button Oracy Discussion

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

Year 3 - Plants Printmaking Project

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

Year 2 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 3 - Printing

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

Year 2 Meet Connor The Fireman

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

Year 2 Maths - Rounding Numbers

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

Year 2 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 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 2018

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

Year 2 - World Book Day

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

Year 2 - 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 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 - Solving Maths Problems Involving Money

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

Year 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 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 5 - Design and Technology: Digital Media Workshop

Year 5 participated in a Creative Curriculum project in partnership with Open City and British Land. The Creative Curriculum project entailed children working with artist Reza Ben Gajra and musician Luke Crookes to create a themed animation based on: ‘Our Local Area’ as part of the Year...

Year 5 - Art Trip

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

Year 4/5 - Bow Arts Reading Sheds

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

Year 4 visit 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 visit St Luke's

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

Year 4 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 - 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 - Science: Electricity

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

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 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 - 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 - IntoUniversity Workshop

Year 4 enjoyed a fantastic workshop today with IntoUniversity! We learnt about future careers. We became Paleontolgoists, Product Designers and Civil Engineers. We had a great time digging up fossils and designing buildings and shoes. We really learnt a lot about some interesting future careers....

Year 4 - Black History Month

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

Year 3's Science Museum Trip

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

Year 3's Ancient Egyptian Scrolls

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

Year 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 - National Maritime Museum Titanic Workshop

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

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...

Year 1 - Art in Autumn 2016

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

Year 1 - Grey Class Music

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

Year 1 - Exercising With 5-a-day

Year 1 have been respecting our bodies this half term by exercising daily using 5-a-day. We have a lot of fun keeping fit and healthy!

Year 1 - Deacon Class Bookcases

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

Year 1 - Data

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

Year 1 - Breakfast With a Book

Year 1 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

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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 - 'The Man on the Moon' by Simon Bartram

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

Year 1 - Measuring

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

World Book Day - Book Fair

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

Welcome

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

Traction Man

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

Thematic Approach

The following documents outline the thematic approach to teaching that we take at Shoreditch Park. Thematic Approach Yearly Overview with Writing Genres Art KS1 and KS2 Yearly Overview Computing Curriculum Map 2015 Plan 1 Musical Progression KS1 Spanish Yearly Overview 2015

The Snail and the Whale

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

The Princess and the White Bear King

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

The Hodgeheg

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

The City of London Academy, Shoreditch Park

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

Year 1 - Maths: Addition

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

Year 1 - 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 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Breakfast With A Book

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

Year 2 - ASPIRE Enquiring Ebony Assembly

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

Year 2 - 2D and 3D Shapes

In Year 2 we are learning about 2D and 3D shapes. Today we looked at the faces and edges of a range of 3D shapes. We worked with our partner to count the faces and edges. We also talked about real life objects which are 3D shapes

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 Topic: Ourselves and Our Local Area

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

Year 1 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 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 - 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 - Textiles

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

Year 1 - 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 - Power of Reading: Story Maps

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

Year 1 - 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

Reception Daily Update - Tuesday 3rd November 2026

Today’s focus: Maths Today we started our new topic in maths- 1,2,3,4 and 5. Today the children had to use different picture cards that represented 4 and 5. The children had to sort them into 2 hoops, one that represented 4 and one that represented 5. Discuss at home: Can you show me 4 with your...