Orchard

During the spring term, we are going to be exploring animals and their habitats. We will be answering the following learning questions and also investigating microhabitats in our school grounds. […] […]

During spring term, our geography unit will explore the Isle of Coll in Scotland. Our sequence of learning will embed lots of physical and human geographical knowledge and will involve […] […]

A few weeks ago, we enjoyed our trip to Rye Mead’s Nature Reserve with Peartree. We had great fun ponddipping and hunting for mini beasts. We learnt about backswimmers, ram […] […]

In art we have been using autumn leaves as our inspiration to explore different drawing techniques. Firstly, we collected our favourite leaves and copied them carefully. We had to pay […] […]

During English, we have been using the book “A World Full of Plastic” to inspire our writing. Afterdiscussing ways in which we could help, the children decided to write to […] […]

On Tuesday 7th December, the whole school enjoyed a fun filled geography and RE enrichment day to discover how Christmas is celebrated around the world in different countries and cultures. […] […]

Our Christian values are important to us. We used them to come up with our class agreement. Sometimes we like to reflect and so our reflection area has a prayer […] […]

We love to read in Orchard Class and are always excited to choose new books from the reading garden as well as from our school library. In Year Two, we […] […]

We are very excited to start learning about our history topic and discovery all about this significant historic event. In history, we use our enquiry skills to answer a sequence […] […]

We know the importance of looking after our wellbeing. Our Zen Den is the perfect place to reflect about our feelings, write down any worries or calm down in this […] […]

This half term we will be learning all about how different animals grow. Our learning questions are: How do different animals grow? What do animals need to survive? What changes […] […]