ORCHARD JUNIOR SCHOOL
Growing Together. Branching Out.
Headteacher: Mrs Carol Taylor
Phone: 02380 843162
3JD Art Work
3JD are coming to the end of their art unit of work and have had the opportunity to get creative.
They have used multimedia to create their own Mondrian picture.
Here they are at work..
3LM Trip to Dibden Purlieu
3LM our last class to complete the trip to Dibden Purlieu had a great time especially during their traffic survey. They also enjoyed the biscuits that St Andrew's offered.
Celebration Assembly
4th October 2024
We have just had our celebration assembly for our Stars of the Week! Well done to them all!
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3JD Trip to Dibden Purlieu
3JD have had a fab morning walking to Dibden Purlieu and understanding how the area has changed over time. Some great discussions and understanding of the importance of change and all topped off with a biscuit and drink (or 2) kindly given to us by the church!
Harvest Festival
Thank you so much for the Harvest donations so far. As you can see, the Bring a Tin campaign is well underway. Keep them coming! The last date is Friday 18th October.
Thanks also to the wonderful Harvest posters made by members of the School Council. They are decorating the school and a lot of time has been put into making them. Well done to the newly elected Council members
PCSO'S Visit
We welcomed our local PCSO'S Mike and Charlie into School on Monday, They will be visiting us on the playground.
3HY Trip to Dibden Purlieu
3HY had fun on their trip into Dibden Purlieu on Monday, they did not let any rain dampen their spirits
5DW River Trip
5DW had a brilliant time on their trip on Friday and loved going in the river and finding out what lived in the pond!
Sport at Orchard
Mr Dyer had the pleasure of taking out the first sports team of this academic year. 6 Year 4 pupils attended a multi-sports festival at Testwood School, and had an amazing time, competing in 6 different activities with pupils from 7 different schools
School Council
Our School Council are asking for help for the foodbank and one of our talented year 3 pupils designed this poster. Thank you for the donations so far!
Year 4 Hillier's Garden Trip
This week, Year 4 went to Hillier Gardens as part of their Science topic ' Living Things and their Habits'. We enjoyed pond dipping, minibeast hunting and building habitats for woodland creatures.
PTFA AGM
Book Fair
5MT River Trip
5MT went to Beaulieu last week to have a guided river tour. They enjoyed themselves immensely
Victoria's Garden
Calling all knitters and crochet experts. Victoria's Garden is looking so much with the flowers that have been kindly gifted. We could do with some more to cheer up this space!
3JD
3JD 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!
An Update Regarding last year's Water Walk
Mrs Fenton was delighted to receive an update this week from The Kisoboka Trust following fundraising last year. All of the pupils took part in a Water Walk, raising money to support the building of toilets for a school in Uganda.
As promised. the charity have kept us updated with the building progress and the children have had photos shared with them this week in class.
As a school, we are incredibly proud of the children- their efforts and fundraising will make such a difference to hygiene at the school. What a difference £600 has made!
If you would like to read the update and see photos, have a look at this link.
Congratulations
Congratulations to all our leavers. We wish you well at your new schools.
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We look forward to seeing everyone else and welcoming our new year 3 pupils on the 3rd September for a great new year!
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Wishing all our Orchard Families a Happy Summer Holiday!!
New Year Info 2024 - 2025
Sports Update
Today we held our annual Sports Celebration assembly. Reflecting on an incredible year of school sport, celebrating both individual and team success.
2023-24 in numbers:
204 children have competed in sporting events for Team Orchard this school year, representing our school impeccably as always. We are incredibly proud of this achievement.
We have taken part in 67 sports events, fixtures and competitions this year.
8 times Orchard Junior School represented the New Forest area at Hampshire School Games events.
10 school athletics records were broken this year!
We also brought back our Sports Achievement Award for the first time since before lockdown. This year the trophy was awarded to Sophie for always representing Orchard with the upmost respect, enthusiasm and pride. Competing for Orchard in almost every sport possible over her time at Orchard. Showing an incredible dedication to school sport, a willingness to learn and develop her skills in PE, lunch time clubs, morning training sessions and even doing extra practices at home. Congratulations and well deserved Sophie.
A huge congratulations to everyone who has represented Team Orchard for the school year 2023-24, well done - you have made us all very proud!
We can't wait to see what we can achieve next year!
Southampton Schools Champions
On Monday, our Year 5&6 Girls Football team faced Highfield Primary in the Southampton Schools City Cup final at Oasis Mayfield Academy. Doing as they have done all season, they played incredible football with great energy and hard work, resulting in a dominate 3-0 win! Three excellent goals from Jess, Hettie and Skye and another clean sheet for Layla and our defenders to be very proud of!
The perfect way to end the season for our Year 6s as they look ahead to secondary school, who have been great role models for our three Year 5s in our team this season, hoping to retain the trophy next season! Congratulations Girls!
Year 3
The Year 3 children have been learning about the different regions in Brazil. in groups, the children created a table top display for one of the regions to persuade others to visit. Excellent team work was shown by all.
Year 5 Maths Challenge
On Tuesday, a very talented group of mathematicians were invited to the New Forest Maths challenge at Applemore College. It was a morning full of a range of tricky maths challenges where we saw our children strive to be their best, apply their knowledge and show great team work. The problem-solving activities included translation, building structures, fractions, code breaking etc. Our children’s hard work and determination paid off as we saw Team 2 come 1st and Team 1 come 2nd out of all the local schools who brought 2 teams each. We are super proud of all of these children not just because of their tremendous maths knowledge but of the behaviour and attitude.
Orchard Students Past and Present
Wow.....how amazing are our Orchard pupils, current and past.
On Tuesday, two year 5 teams took part in the Applemore Maths Challenge. There were ten teams and Orchard took first and second place! Thank you to Mrs Walley for organising this event and Mrs Dew for taking the children to take part.
Secondly, Mrs Fenton was incredibly proud to see past pupils take part in the current Noadswood production of Matilda. It is always encouraging to see how pupils have progressed in their love of performing. It really was a wonderful show.
Year 6 Hythe Walks
On Wednesday, 6DW had an great trip to Hythe to carry out surveys and questionnaires for their Geography project. Everyone in Hythe was very friendly and the children enjoyed chatting to locals and tourists and finding out what they like about Hythe.
Unexpected Visitors
We had some unexpected visitors today on the field. A swarm of Honeybees arrived much to the amazement of the pupils. We called in the expertise of a local beekeeper who came in to gather the swarm into a temporary hive so they can be relocated.
If you would like to know more information about honeybees and discuss the excitement with your child please see https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/animals/insects/honey-bees/
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.
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Thanks again to the PTFA.
School Notices
Please see below the link for some Noadswood Open events for year 5s to think about which secondary school they wish to go to,
As soon as the other schools send theirs over we will let you know,
Here is the link to book the Applemore College open events for Year 6
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Here are New Forest Academy's Open Mornings Information
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Open evenings for year 6
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