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...

Another amazing day - warm and cloudy on the whole which has been fantastic. Just off to tea - a few tired eyes appearing (amongst the...

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...

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

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...

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

To finish our topic on Stricty Bakeoff, we had a Roald Dahl to celebrate reading the classic text of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

After weeks of testing, evaluating and selecting healthy flavours, our final cake designs were made and Claire, from number 15, came in...

We have been investigating how strong magnets actually are.

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...

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...

Patricia from Creative History came in and delivered a day of Viking life. The children learnt the history of Vikings, village life and...

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...

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...

During the day, the children made hessian Christmas decorations and learnt to sew buttons! We played war time games like marbles and we...

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...

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

Design Competition! Calling all young architects and engineers! Design a new office building for the centre of town! You need to build a...

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...

We explored our school grounds, and created Andy Goldsworthy art using natural resources and sketched physical features.