World Book Day 6th March 2025

Count down to World Book Day 2025 begins! We will be celebrating World Book Day on Thursday 6th March. Children are encouraged to dress up as their favourite book character…

Pupil Voice Fayre 2024

Our Pupil Voice Fayre was buzzing with excitement as KS1 and KS2 shared which roles they want to apply for and why. Huge thank you to our subject leaders for…

Join The 10 x 10 Challenge This Summer

Our year 5 Reading Champion presented at the launch of the 10 x 10 initiative at Hackney Town Hall this week. She spoke about her love of the library and…

Librarians Spring Clean

The Librarians would like thank all families who have recently returned books that were at home. They enjoyed sorting and Spring cleaning all communal bookshelves!

New Year Refresh With Our Librarians

Our librarians were hard at work organising all book shelves ensuring everyone had a neat selection of stories to choose from. They also shared their recommended reads, including: 'Baby Dragon…

Librarians Hard At Work

Our Year 6 librarians got hands on organising the communal bookshelves making it tidy and easily accessible for everyone to use!

Get Caught Reading!

Year 4 Reading Ready

Year 4 have been reading the text The Great Kapok tree which links to their topic on Brazil. The children worked in partners analysing the text, identifying patterns, making connections…

Year 4 Author Visit

Year 4 were visited by Salvatore Rubbino author and illustrator of A Walk in London. He shared his stories and his writing process with the children; explaining that he carries…

Year 2 Author Visit

As part of Booklinks, children from Year 2 were visited by the author and illustrator Karin Littlewood. Karin told the children how some of her ideas started and discussed the…

Families’ Week

This week is Families’ Week at Orchard, an opportunity to celebrate the diversity both in our school community and modern society! How will you be celebrating? #familytime @stonewalluk  

Librarians at Work!

As part of World Book Day the Head Librarians organised a book swap. Children brought in books that they have enjoyed and would recommend to others and exchanged it for…

Hackney Summer Reading Challenge

A big congratulations to everyone who took part in the Summer Reading Challenge!

Year 2 Poets

Year 2 created their own poetry. The children were able to identify adventurous verbs, interesting adjectives and recognise rhyming couplets and repetition. They used all of this knowledge to write their…

Parent Reading Returns!

We were delighted to welcome our new parents in Nursery to Parent Reading last week. Adults joined children to read a book as part of our weekly celebration of the love…

Pupil Voice Fayre

This week Orchard hosted the annual pupil voice fair to explore the responsibilities children might like to lead on this academic year. Children visited different stalls in the hall to talk…

Parent Reading

Parent Reading continues to be a much loved part of our weekly routine at Orchard. We love seeing all the parents coming in to read with us and we would…

Celebrating Reading

Our Year 1 and Year 5 pupils celebrated reading for pleasure by swapping classes to share books. Both Year Groups enjoyed the experience.

Pupil Voice Recruitment Fair

We have held our Pupil Voice Recruitment Fair with applications filled out for many roles... head gardeners, librarians, digital leaders, green team, peer mediators, art ambassadors, timestable ambassadors and more!