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Welcome To Year 3

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Calendar and Term Dates

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Community Help

Keeping Safe Online

School Dinner Menu

Waterside Sustainability Group

Year 3 Christmas Extravaganza

We would like to thank the families of our wonderful year 3 who came to see them over the two performances today! We are so proud of all of year 3!

A huge thank you to our school community for the generous donations you have made to Baby Necessities - the charity selected by our School Council to support this Christmas.

Thank you for showing true Orchard generosity and spirit.

Celebration Assembly
12th December 2025

We have just celebrated our Stars of the week, Well done to all!

Year 6

Year 6 have been taking part in 6 weeks of workshops. They have been learning 12 new strategies through a programme called The Decider. The programme teaches children to have a greater self-awareness of how to manage their thoughts, feelings and behaviours. The focus is on the 12 core skills they will learn to promote emotional intelligence, mental health and strategies to cope with challenging emotions and impulsive behaviours.

Year 5

Thank you to all the family and friends who joined Year 5 at St Andrews for our Christingle service. The children all read so well, with some beautiful solo singers too. The highlight was the children singing with their lit Christingles - it made us all feel so Christmassy. Well done Year 5 - we are very proud of you.

Year 3

During history, 3JD have been making/building Bronze Age houses outside using the “wattle and daub” technique. As you can see, it has been very messy yet it has also been successful!

Community Champions

Today we celebrated two of our pupils in Star of the Week assembly for their community action.

Jenson in Year 6 was recognised for his litter picking efforts on his way home from school every single Friday, come rain or shine. Not only this, at weekends, he can be found on local shorelines clearing up plastic and other items which cause damage to the marine environment

Isaac in Year 5 was so inspired by his learning about the Kisoboka Trust and fundraising Waterwalk, that he went on to raise even more money by running bake sales at home.

Hythe Rotary Club, two members of whom were able to join us in our special assembly, recognised the boys' efforts and awarded them with cheques for £75, to be given to their chosen charities .

Jenson has donated his to the Marine Conservation Trust and Isaac has added it to the Year 5 collection for the local Kisoboka charity.

As a school we are incredibly proud of their sense of compassion and community spirit. Well done Jenson and Isaac!

Year 3

Year 3 have been practicing key sewing skills to help them sew a glasses case.

As announced at the PFTA AGM in October, thanks to the generosity of the OJS school community and the hard work put in by the PFTA team and helpers at various events throughout 2024/25, we were able to raise an amazing £16,000 to support the school in providing a wonderful environment to learn and have fun.

The monies raised were agreed at the AGM to be used to support various parts of the curriculum with some new equipment or materials along with over £10,000 going to support the much needed renovations in the school playground including Victoria’s Garden which was built in 1996 so next year will be 30 years old.

It was agreed at the AGM that the renovations in Victoria’s Garden, which are expected to cost over £30,000, would be the key focus of fundraising for 2025/26.Victoria’s Garden, which is a memorial space dedicated to a OJS student, is an important part of the playground for the children and needs a major renovation after serving the OJS community for nearly 30 years.

The PTFA are looking forward to our next fundraising events this term with the Christmas Wrap Rooms and Christmas Discos but to reach our goal as soon as possible we have posted QR codes in the playground which can be scanned to make one-off donations of any value via the PTFA Sum Up platform.

All donations, big or small, can help us reach our goal faster!

Many thanks,

PTFA Committee

Year 5

Please click the link to read about the wonderful work the Kisoboka Trust are doing with the money raised from Year 5's Water Walk

https://www.kisoboka.org.uk/news

Year 4

We had lots of fun exploring K'nex as part of our DT work on mechanisms.

Year 5

A huge well done to our wonderful year 5's on their fundraising achievements for the Kisoboka Trust. They undertook a water walk before half term and raised an amazing £860.60 which is just brilliant and we are very proud of them.

Thanks to volunteers from the Kisoboka Trust for joining us and chatting to the children as they walked.

Year 4

We have been learning about the Anglo Saxons in Year 4. We enjoyed making Anglo Saxon settlements to show off all our learning.

5DW CET River Trip

Despite the weather, 5DW had a brilliant river trip last Friday. We enjoyed taking river measurements, pond dipping and finding out more about ant hills and fungi!

5IU CET River Trip

5IU had a fabulous day following a tributary of the Beaulieu River. They completed 2 different river surveys and also found lots of different creatures while pond dipping.

Year 3 Trips to Dibden Purlieu

Year 3 used their geographical skills on their trips to Dibden Purlieu using maps, data, field sketches and seeing the changes over time within our local area.

Year 3

Year 3 have been learning about Mondrian and have begun creating our own versions. We have started with paper and did a silent gallery today and then will be moving on to painting in the upcoming weeks!

Sports Leaders

This morning, our first wave of new Sports Leaders took part in their Leadership Training with Mr. Drake from The New Forest School Sports Partnership and Testwood School.

During the session, they joined in with a variety of PE activities while developing key leadership skills. They learned how to take on different roles, select fair teams and adapt games and activities to make them more or less challenging. To guide their decisions, they used the acronym PACES:

People/Participation
Area
Communication
Equipment
Safety

A huge thank you to Mr. Drake and NFSSP for delivering such excellent training, and congratulations to our new Sports Leaders, who all passed with flying colours!

The Magic of Yet!

Each year, when our soon-to-be Year 3 pupils visit at the end of Year 2, they take part in a magical activity based on the story character Beegu.

Each child designs their own "Beegu" ready to land on the alien land of Junior School. Three lucky designs are chosen at random and transformed into cuddly toys that live in Reception alongside creations from previous years.

Mrs Taylor reads them a special story on the fist assembly of September about the magic of "yet", and each Beegu design turns into "Yet" creature — the idea that even if you can't do something now, you will be able to in the future!

These adorable Yets serve as a daily reminder to our pupils: You might not know it YET, but you will soon!

A huge well done to this year’s brilliant creators — your Yets are amazing!

During the year 6 Show last term you raised £311 for SCARF, a local charity. once children are back at school they’ll be re-starting all our term time clubs which include a Saturday morning Multi Sports Club, a Youth Club, a Drama Club and an art club.

We’re proud to announce that Orchard Junior School has achieved the Gold School Games Mark for the second year in a row! A huge well done to all our pupils and staff for their outstanding commitment to sport and physical activity.

This year, we’ve further expanded sporting opportunities across the school - boosting the number of intra-school events and setting a new participation record in inter-school competitions!

#TeamOrchard #SchoolGames #GoldMark2025

Seatbelt Safety

Click here to see some information about Seatbelt Safety from the Road Safety Team

Year 6 Multiplication Support

If your child would like some support with Multiplication or would like to do some more multiplication work. Please use the QR Codes Provided.

PTFA Update

Thank you so much to the hard work fundraising by our PTFA, We have now taken delivery of our new minibus! Our first outing will be a cross country race next week.

Thanks again to the PTFA.

School Notices

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The Road Safety Team are responsible for educating young people and their families on the importance of keeping safe when travelling in a vehicle. Part of this education includes ensuring young people are travelling with correct restraints. Are you aware that 37% of children are in the wrong type of seat for their age and/or height? The Road Safety Team would like to share this car restraint leaflet with you to ensure you know how to always keep your child(ren) safe – in the correct restraint. There are also hints and tips about choosing the right seat, transporting other people’s children and how to fit different types of car seat. To read this informative leaflet, please visit – In car safety parent guide.

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New 15 Session Course - Final Spots Available! Athletic Youth Club is a weekly, long-term athletic development programme designed to help young people build speed, strength, agility, coordination and confidence in a fun, supportive environment. Sessions are suitable for all abilities and are ideal for children who play sport or simply want to move better and feel stronger. Who: Ages 7+ Where: Noadswood School Sports Hall When: Thursdays 5–6pm Next Programme: 15-week block starting Thursday 20th November Booking Options: Full Course or Weekly Bookings Available Save 10% on all bookings with code: FC10 Training is delivered by Mr Ramsey and his Football Clinic team of qualified youth development coaches with backgrounds in sports science, biomechanics and multi-sport coaching. ✅ Age-appropriate athletic training ✅ Focus on fundamental movement skills ✅ Confidence-building, inclusive sessions ✅ Fun, game-based learning to keep children motivated Register: www.thefootballclinicuk.com/athletic-youth-club

Exciting opportunity for our pupils!Mr Ramsey’s Football Clinic is inviting girls in Years 3–6 to join a free taster session at their Girls’ Football Development Centre.

A brilliant way to develop skills, stay active and build confidence with expert coaching.

More information and booking visit: www.thefootballclinicuk.com Use the code: FREETASTER via the weekly booking option to secure your free session.