23rd November 2022
At Orchard, we are focusing on waste reduction and recycling. As a school, we are becoming more awa...
23rd November 2022Year 2 enjoyed their Maths lesson this week where they took part in a practical division lesson. Thi...
10th November 2022Year 2 enjoyed their English lesson where they created their own story! Using inspiration from the s...
10th November 2022As part of DT Day, Year 2 had the opportunity to create their own moving cars. They used constructiv...
20th October 2022The selected Sport Ambassadors were informed of their new roles this week and were eager to commence...
19th October 2022Year 2 visited the Great Fire of London exhibition at the Museum of London. They enjoyed touring aro...
7th October 2022Year 2 enjoyed their visit to Hackney Library. They attentively listened to a story read by the libr...
29th September 2022Year 2 loved their Science lesson involving circuits. They were given electrical components, includi...
29th September 2022Year 2 enjoyed learning how to use child-safe search engines in ICT. They used the search engine 'Ki...
28th September 2022EYFS and KS1 loved bringing their Significant Male to school this morning. There was a range of acti...
28th September 2022Year 2 enjoyed learning about Sikhism in RE. They learned about the different Sikh symbols and looke...
21st July 2022To celebrate Hispanic Day everyone dressed in red and yellow to match the Spanish flag! An exciting ...
6th July 2022Click here to view our special lunch menu that will be served on Hispanic Day!
13th June 2022The school choir performed very well at the Well Street Common Festival on Sunday 12th June and were...
31st March 2022Hackney Foodbank will be handing out free children’s packed lunches* from all of their distribut...
25th February 2022Dear Parents & Carers, Hackney Council want your input in the design change for the Well Stre...
23rd February 2022The Digital Leaders from years 5 and 6 helped to create and deliver an assembly to their year groups...
3rd February 2022Year 2 had a fantastic day visiting the Van Gogh Immersive Experience. They learnt all about Vincent...
2nd February 2022Year 2 have been learning about jobs around caring for animals. They had a visit from Zoo Lab who sh...
25th January 2022Our peer mediators were incredibly busy during the Autumn term with their peer mediator training. Th...
25th January 2022This term, the Sports Ambassadors have been tasked with reminding their classmates about the importa...
25th January 2022Our Green Team held a very informative assembly where they educated the school about climate change,...
30th November 2021Year 2 have been using atlases in Geography to identify the seas around the UK with the help of comp...
22nd October 2021The Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) had their first meeting this week. Max Moorcroft, a road saf...
8th October 2021In RE, Olive Class have been studying Sikhism. They have looked at the 5K's of Sikhism and discussed...
8th October 2021Year 2 have been finding the missing numbers in number sequences by using cubes, number lines or the...
8th October 2021In Science, Year 2 have been looking at circuits. They have been using the different components of a...
30th September 2021Parents/Carers in Hackney - Have your Say!
19th January 2021Remote learning has not stopped the children sharing and celebrating their holiday homework projects...
19th January 2021At Orchard, cycling is offered to all KS2 children. Here is our Autumn 2020 summary! 63 y...
19th January 2021We are so proud of the engagement in home learning at Orchard. Don't forget all learning tasks for e...
22nd November 2020In Geography this half term, Year 2 are learning about the UK and for their half term homework, were...
1st November 2020The children enjoyed learning all about fire safety in school and at home. They were able to share w...
1st November 2020During Democracy Day, children in Years 1-6 had the opportunity to cast their own vote for Year 6 Sc...
1st November 2020Dr Bike & Bikers Breakfast at Orchard was busy, with 42 bikes receiving a safety check and minor...
12th October 2020Year 2 children have been learning how to name some fruit in Spanish and have used their Spanish num...
20th September 2020Year 2 had their first music lesson of the term last week. The children learned lots of body percuss...
20th September 2020The children in Year 2 are very excited to be learning about The Great Fire of London. They have bee...
13th July 2020There was culture and creativity throughout the school during Hispanic Day! The theme was Art & ...
25th June 2020This week the teachers in KS1 have seen children taking part in a wide range of exciting hands on ac...
25th June 2020Have you tried the virtual challenges on the home learning web page yet? Don't forget to email your ...
21st June 2020Pupils in Year 2 have been taking part in some hands on home learning. Children and their families h...
9th June 2020We have seen a number of holiday projects sent in to the home learning email address. What an amazin...
26th May 2020Last week the younger children in school started the day off with a Joe Wicks PE lesson. They then p...
25th May 2020Last week, the children attending school read the book 'Mama Built a Little Nest' and learnt about a...
25th May 2020As part of Booklinks, children from Year 2 were visited by the author and illustrator Karin Littlewo...
3rd May 2020Some more wonderful examples of creative home learning, well done everyone! ...
28th April 2020This week is Families’ Week at Orchard, an opportunity to celebrate the diversity both in our school...
28th April 2020Well done Orchard! It is wonderful to see such continued commitment to learning. Thank you to ever...
23rd April 2020Don't forget, if you need to change home reading books, the parent room has been set up as a library...
23rd April 2020The children attending school this week are enjoying getting creative and linking literacy and art! ...
17th April 2020The children in KS1 and EYFS have been enjoying the sunshine and experiencing outdoor learning. &...
14th April 2020Science Day was a huge success and ended in a wonderful celebration of the experiments undertaken ac...
15th March 2020The resident gardeners visited Year 2 this week and all children took part in a workshop. The childr...
15th March 2020In Literacy this week Year 2 have been reading the text Crown: An Ode to a Fresh Cut. Inspired by th...
15th March 2020As part of World Book Day the Head Librarians organised a book swap. Children brought in books that ...
15th March 2020Children in Year 2 took part in a special World Book Day workshop run by the publishing house, Pengu...
15th March 2020As a school, the children have chosen to support Shelter this year as the school charity. The target...
15th March 2020This term the digital leaders have been busy raising the profile of e-safety. They have designed and...
15th March 2020Spring Dr Bike and Bikers Breakfast event on the 17th March 8.30am - 10.30am
9th February 2020Year 2 have been learning how to describe what they are wearing in Spanish and practised their phras...
2nd February 2020The children had the opportunity to sell products made during Work Week at the Enterprise Fayre. The...
2nd February 2020The School Council launched a whole school Book Corner and Inspiration Station competition. This wee...
2nd February 2020Year 2 are learning about Christopher Columbus in history. To help find out more information they co...
2nd February 2020Year 2 have been reading different stories about Paddington. As part of their learning they have res...
2nd February 2020In Year 2, we explored germination and what the word meant before dissecting a bulb and labelling ea...
2nd February 2020Year two have been looking at animals, because of this we were lucky enough to get to meet some very...
19th January 2020Our school choir were busy spreading festive cheer around Hackney before Christmas. They performed a...
19th January 2020Thank you to all the families who contributed donations to the Winter Fayre and to those who came to...
11th December 2019The Orchard Eco Team decided they want to focus on tackling litter around our school and in our loca...
11th December 2019Year 2 travelled to the Barbican to watch the London Symphony Orchestra. They listened to lots of di...
11th December 2019Orchard hosted the first cross site School Council meeting of the academic year last week. School Co...
11th December 2019Year 2 had a fantastic day out orienteering at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. They were able to read ...
11th December 2019In recognition of Anti-Bullying Day, children dressed up in blue as Orchard showed that no bullying ...
17th November 2019A big congratulations to everyone who took part in the Summer Reading Challenge!
17th November 2019The Eco Team presented assemblies to the whole school this week. They gave top tips on how we can al...
17th November 2019Look at the fantastic holiday homework created by pupils in Year 1 - 4. As geographers, the children...
17th November 2019In year 2 we were learning movement through exploring vehicles in dance. We thought hard about how t...
10th November 2019Every Friday morning, Lower School enjoy Parent Reading. It is always a wonderful to see so many adu...
10th November 2019We have again received the Gold Travel Stars Award at Orchard Primary School. We are again in the to...
29th September 2019We were delighted to welcome our significant males into school again this week to join in with learn...
29th September 2019Year 2 created their own poetry. The children were able to identify adventurous verbs, interesting a...
29th September 2019Last week our Deputy Headteacher attended the IQM Awards to receive our re-accreditation for the...
22nd September 2019We were delighted to welcome our new parents in Nursery to Parent Reading last week. Adults joined c...
22nd September 2019This week Orchard hosted the annual pupil voice fair to explore the responsibilities children might ...
22nd September 2019This Summer holiday, pupils from Year 2 to 6 were entered in a Times Tables Rockstars Summer League....
14th July 2019Last week Orchard enjoyed celebrating Hispanic Day. The children enjoyed an assembly let by Ms Josep...
29th May 2019Year 2 enjoyed their educational trip to Hampstead Heath, where they explored two different habitats...
28th May 2019Our annual Families' Week was a huge success. The children had the opportunity to learn about lots o...
28th May 2019Check out some of the fantastic Easter holiday homework produced by children across the school. Thes...
28th May 2019The new family cycling club got off to a great start this half term. Four children and four adul...
12th May 2019Year 2 children really enjoyed DT Day! They had a fantastic time learning about a balanced diet and ...
12th May 2019As part of Book Links Week, Year 2 had a visit from author and illustrator David Lucas. The children...
14th March 2019Fairtrade Fortnight got off to a great start last week and it all started with a thought-provoking a...
7th February 2019As part of work week, Year 2 were visited by a vet. He told us about all the work vets do in the loc...
27th January 2019Last week we celebrated our holiday homework winners. All children who participated received cer...
27th January 2019Year 2 have been learning about William Morris and the technique of printing. They used Morris's des...
27th January 2019The NSPCC led assemblies on Keeping Safe for Years 1-6 as part of their Speak Out; Stay Safe Pro...
8th January 2019The children did some sketching and printing inspired by nature on their recent visit to the William...
21st November 2018Check out some of the fantastic homework projects created by children across KS1 and KS2, including ...
1st November 2018Friday 2nd November is our first Design & Technology Day of the year. Parents/carers are welcome...
14th October 2018As part of our World Week celebrations, we enjoyed a wonderful international evening bringing togeth...
14th October 2018Year 2 have undertaken a gardening workshop to learn about the power of the sunlight and made photog...
14th October 2018Year 2 have been working really hard on their writing in class. They have been trying to include a r...
14th October 2018Year 2 took part in an exciting trip to Broadgate Circus. Here they watched an amazing aerial perfor...
9th October 2018Thank you to all the significant males who joined us in school last week to support our learning! ...
1st August 2018Although a day late due to the snow, World Book Day was again a huge success. With creative costumes...
1st August 2018School councils from Orchard, Southwold and Hoxton Garden held a joint meeting to meet with Hackney ...
1st August 2018Thank you for supporting families week. The children learned about different types of families and o...
1st August 2018Our Samba Band is in full rehearsal using the instruments awarded to us at the Mayor of Hackney Musi...