We have been learning all about different homes, today we are drawing our own representations of the bears cave home from our focus English book and describing what it might feel like to live there. #EnglishatOrchard Orchard Primary

We completed our PANTS lesson. We looked at different types of respectful and disrespectful behaviour including different scenarios 👍 Orchard Pastoral Team Orchard Primary NSPCC

We have been very busy today making our Leaf Men using the leaves we collected yesterday🍃🍂🍁. The staff are blown away with the amazing results! #ExpressiveartsatOrchard #EnglishatOrchard Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team

This afternoon we worked on purple mash to create and present a video based on our science learning to convince people our Earth is spherical Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team 🌎

In Maths we are looking at the ‘oneness of one’ - We have looked at the numeral representation. We have been representing 1 on our fingers! The children also made their very own number block 1 #MathsatOrchard Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team

For Hate Crime Awareness week, officers from Dewsbury NPT attended Orchard Primary and spoke to the children in Years 5 and 6. Officers attended to give the children a better understanding of hate crime, and there were lots of good questions.

Creating stop-motion video of the fatal voyage of the Titanic. children are going to retell the story, adding images, text and speech before publishing! Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team #ComputingatOrchard #HistoryatOrchard

We are practising counting out a set to match a numeral and then challenging our partner to check our count using 1 to 1 correspondance. 🎃 #MathsatOrchard Orchard Pastoral Team Orchard Primary

Do you believe Year 6 can fly? Using the springboard for extra height today in PE #gymnastics Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team Team GB

Today we have been learning how to perform a stride and jump stop in basketball. We also learnt how to pivot with some control. Orchard Primary #PEatOrchard

We enjoyed our extra break time this afternoon. This was our reward for having the highest attendance last week ✨ Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team

The children have loved our new book focus ‘Home is where the heart is’ which features a bear and a hare. The children have made and done some amazing things within their provision time. Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team 🧸🐻🐇🐰🏠

Working practically to find all the different number bonds to 10 Orchard Primary #Mathsatorchard

Strengthening our fine motor skills while having fun hammering 🔨 matchsticks into the pumpkin.🎃 There was a lot of ideas about what would be inside the pumpkin... We will see 👀tomorrow! #finemotor Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team

Ivy class had a blast at the Halloween disco 🎃 Happy Halloween 👻 Orchard Pastoral Team Orchard Primary

Welcome to our field hospital in honour of Mary Seacole. We know that Mary Seacole was from Jamaica. We know that Mary Seacole was a nurse. We know that Mary Seacole was important. #BlackHistoryMonth2024 #smscatorchard Orchard Pastoral Team Orchard Primary

Today Willow class have enjoyed learning all about Bessie Coleman as part of #BlackHistoryMonth2024. We have enjoyed learning about her bravery as a pilot and even had a go at making our own paper aeroplanes! Orchard Primary

Today the children dressed scarily for an Halloween themed session. Activities included: pumpkins🎃,spiders🕷️, dancing🕺and the most popular - biscuit decorating. We even had a party snack of crisps and brownies😋 #Halloween #Festivals Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team

Today we had great fun watching fireworks and then identifying and copying the sounds🎆We also made and ate 😋our own edible sparklers!🎇😋 #celebrations #pre-phonics Orchard Primary Orchard Pastoral Team

Lots of outdoor learning today 🤩 Orchard Primary