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Moons, Greek buildings and Living on a Prayer
Hi all, This week in Year 5 both classes made a final recording of living on a prayer. Click here to watch 5B Click here to watch 5K Science We enjoyed learning about the cycle of the moon. The children looked at a ball half black and half white from different angles to see why…
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Orchard Blog 23/10/26
Our Maths focus this week has been all about addition and subtraction. To make sure everyone was learning at the right pace, we split into groups to master our numbers. Some children worked hard on adding and taking away with numbers up to 5. Other children challenged themselves with addition and subtraction up to 10.…
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Headteacher blog 23rd October 2026
It is the end of a long, eight-week half term. We have had two positive parents’ evenings this week and the start of the school year has gone well. We have been doing lots of tours for prospective parents which is encouraging as the local birth rate has plummeted. Year 3 classes have visited a…
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Headteacher blog 16th October 2026
It has been a typically busy week. I had the pleasure of taking some Y6 children to Rawdon Tennis Club for a PE lesson and I spent an afternoon with Y3 children as part of their Stone Age Day making and using spears and bows and arrows. Firing a bow and arrow is pretty tricky,…
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The Orchard news 15/10/26
It has been an incredibly busy, exciting, and hands-on term in the Orchard! The children have shown fantastic enthusiasm across all our subjects, and we are so proud of how much progress they have made. Here is a look at what we have been up to: In our English sessions, we started the term focusing…
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Greek Day and Night and Day
The highlight of this week was obviously Greek Day! The children’s outfits looked fantastic and we had so much fun throughout the day! Some of the activities included, making grape juice, eating a variety of Greek food, playing a game of grandmothers footsteps to try and steal food, marching, performing a Greek play in Athens…
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Headteacher blog 9th October 2026
It has been a terrific week. We had over 40 runners in the area cross country competition and all the children did really well. Dee Dee and Ellis came second in their races, and the Y3 boys and the Y5 girls teams both scored very well and will almost certainly progress to the city finals.…
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Cross country success
On Monday we took 40 children to the area cross country competition at Stanningley Rugby Club. We had teams in each race and the children did really well. They show speed, resilience and determination. Dee Dee almost won the Y4 girls race and Ellis came second in the Y3 boys. The Y3 boys’ and Y5…
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Harvest Festival 2026
We celebrated our annual Harvest Festival this morning with packed halls of children and families. We had a magnificent harvest display from the school farm (and some lovely family donations of pumpkins, squashes and some exotic tomatoes). It would be barely possible to have more variety. We also had generous donations of food for our…
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Headteacher blog 2nd October 2026
It has been an unusual week that started with me having to work from home whilst Day 1 of the new headteacher recruitment took place. Governors will update the school community at some point soon as regards what the outcome of the process has been. The week also started with bad news that we had…
