
- Apr 29
Year 5 - Osmington Bay - Last Day
So we've got back safely but the final 24 hours or so was pretty eventful! Here's just a few photos to round off the blogs. The children...

- Apr 28
Year 5 - Osmington Bay - Day 2
Another amazing day - warm and cloudy on the whole which has been fantastic. Just off to tea - a few tired eyes appearing (amongst the...

- Apr 27
Year 5 - Osmington Bay - Day 1
Have we really only been here since 12pm?!!! What a busy afternoon we've had... a few photos then I'm back to the fun!!! All is fine...

- Mar 3
World Book Day!!!
Today we celebrated World Book Day and well done for all the fantastic costumes. The teachers really enjoyed teaching the different...

- Mar 2
Long Running - Perry Dalziel Invitational Cross Country at Walhampton School
Our biggest team of the year so far left Orchard on Wednesday lunchtime to do battle with the wind and the rain and compete in the Perry...

- Feb 17
Year 5 - Greek Monsters
As past of our History focus on Greek monsters, we have been working up to designing, making and painting clay eyes. Today was the...

- Feb 17
Year 3 - Roald Dahl Day!
To finish our topic on Stricty Bakeoff, we had a Roald Dahl to celebrate reading the classic text of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

- Feb 15
Year 3 - Strictly Bake Off Competition!
After weeks of testing, evaluating and selecting healthy flavours, our final cake designs were made and Claire, from number 15, came in...

- Feb 2
Year 6 - Science - Investigating Magnets
We have been investigating how strong magnets actually are.

- Feb 1
Year 5 - Greek Dragon Eyes
In our Art series of lessons, we have been sketching human and dragon eyes with pencils and pastels. Next stop: clay! Using a range of...

- Jan 27
Long Running - New Forest Year 5 and 6 Cross Country Championships at Gang Warily
After the success of our last cross country outing, hopes were high as the Orchard Cross Country team set off for the Year 5 and 6 New...

- Jan 20
Year 4 - Viking Day
Patricia from Creative History came in and delivered a day of Viking life. The children learnt the history of Vikings, village life and...

- Jan 19
Year 3 - Cake Making
We had great fun today as part of our Strictly Bakeoff Topic. We learnt how to make simple sponges. We looked carefully at the role of...

- Jan 10
Year 3 - Tasting "Secret Ingredients"
We tasted and evaluated a range of healthy ingredients we thought could be used in our cake as our secret ingredient. We rated each food...

- Dec 23, 2021
Year 6 - World War 2 Day
During the day, the children made hessian Christmas decorations and learnt to sew buttons! We played war time games like marbles and we...

- Dec 16, 2021
Year 5 - Christingle
The children were not able to go to St Andrew’s to take part in the traditional Christingle Service. However, we were able to holdf a...

- Dec 1, 2021
Year 5 - Victorian Day
All of the Year 5 team and children spent the morning in role as Victorian school pupils and staff. We took part in arithmetic,...

- Nov 26, 2021
Year 4 - Investigating Earthquakes
Design Competition! Calling all young architects and engineers! Design a new office building for the centre of town! You need to build a...

- Nov 17, 2021
Year 6 - Beaulieu Trip for Local History
Learning about how Beaulieu was used during WW2. It was set up as a trap for the enemy! The bridge was fortified, there were Pill Boxes...

- Oct 20, 2021
Year 3 - Forest Day
We explored our school grounds, and created Andy Goldsworthy art using natural resources and sketched physical features.