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Celebration Assembly
19th April 2024

We have just had our celebration assembly for our Stars of the Week! Well done to them all!

Sports Update

On Wednesday we took two Year 4 teams to Totton Tennis Centre, to compete in the New Forest schools competition. After developing and practicing their skills before Easter in PE, it was great to see the children showcase what they have learned in a competitive environment.

A very enjoyable afternoon which saw both teams progress into tier 2 of the competition, with our 'A' Team claiming the gold medal in that tier. Congratulations everyone and well played!

On Tuesday our talented Year 5&6 Sportshall Athletics team competed in the County Finals in Aldershot, for the first time since the competition began. With outstanding drive and determination the children performed at an extremely high level, with many achieving personal bests in their individual events. Competing against 16 other qualifying schools from all over the county we are very proud to have finished second and earn the silver medal! Congratulations to all our athletes, everyone at Orchard Junior School is very proud. Well done!

Year 5 Build a Book Day

Today a few of our Year 5 Pupils spent the day at Noadswood for a Build a Book Day. They were joined by Published Author Stewart Ross and they created their own books. They have had a fantastic day!

Year 6 Bikeability

Today marks the end of our Year 6 Bikeability Week! We are so proud of all our Year 6's who have achieved either their Level One or Level Two.

The team were really impressed with how well they have done.

Year 3 Roman Day

On Tuesday, Year 3 had a fantastic day at Noadswood learning about the Romans. We loved listening to the Roman reenactor, we made delicious Roman biscuits and we made ink so we could practice writing Roman numerals.

Sports Update

On Friday 8th March our outstanding Girls Football teams represented the New Forest area at the Hampshire Finals, after an excellent qualifying round in February seeing both teams finish 1st and 2nd the New Forest. An achievement alone that made us extremely proud.

Friday's Hampshire event was a step up in competition, both teams started superbly, finishing their respective groups undefeated.

Orchard Whites went on to qualify for Tier 2 (Championship) after 5 draws in round one. They continued in the second half of the tournament being hard to beat, showing great defensive awareness and team work. Narrowly missing out on the semi-finals. A team made up of mostly Year 5's the future is bright for Girls Football at Orchard.

Orchard Greens powered through their first round group with 5 wins and 5 clean sheets from all 5 matches! This form continued into round two where they qualified for Tier 1 (Super League), where Orchard Greens qualified for the semi-finals with two games to spare finishing top of their group with 4 wins from 5 games.

Into the semi-finals, drawn against a very well organised team in Western Primary School. After a tight game it took penalties to separate the two sides. Layla making two great saves and successful penalties from Sophie and Jana, booked Orchard Greens a place in the final.

Unfortunately, the final proved to be one game too many. Against a physical side the girls competed bravely and gave everything they had left. Orchard Greens bring home a very well earned the silver medal, congratulations girls!

A fantastic day of football, incredible performances and effort from all Orchard players, who should all be very proud of their individual and team performances, well done!

Year 5 - Ancient Greece

Year 5 pupils are learning about the origins of democracy in Ancient Greece. To support our understanding of how our local council works, Year 5 were visited by Malcolm Wade today. Malcolm clearly explained what his role involves and talked through some of the key issues in the area at the moment.

We were really proud of the way in which the children listened and by the quality of some of their questions. Malcolm talked about a new play area that is going to be developed in the Navy Fields near to Shore Road. We are exploring opportunities for how our pupils can be involved in the planning process, expressing their views regarding what kind of things children would really enjoy. Watch this space!

Sports Update Badminton

On Wednesday our 'A' and 'B' Badminton teams represented the New Forest area at the County Finals in Portsmouth. In what was a really high quality competition, our teams performed incredibly well all afternoon. These children have worked extremely hard in morning club to develop their skills and showcased their ability when it mattered, in some really intense matches. We are very proud to say that both teams finished in the top 5 in Hampshire. Our A team narrowly missed out on the semi finals finishing 5th. Our B team progressed to the semi finals, narrowly missing out on the final. Then played in the bronze medal match and were able to secure victory, in a really competitive match against St Bedes of Winchester.

Results:

Orchard B - 3rd Bronze Medalists

Orchard A - 5th and winners of tier 2

Well done!

Year 3

We have had a busy half term learning how to be a 'Healthy Kid' in Year 3. We couldn't believe that poor Charlie Bucket only ate cabbage soup! We created a healthy and balanced soup for him, making sure we used foods from the different food groups. We chopped, cut and grated our ingredients but of course the best part was eating it all up.

Year 4 Ukulele Concert

We are so proud of our Year 4 pupils who performed a concert with their Ukuleles for their Families and Carers yesterday. They did so well!

Year 5

Year 5 are busy showing off their knowledge of the architecture styles used to build ancient Greek temples.

Working together in small teams, they've been planning, building and presenting their temples. A lot of communication, compromising and problem solving has been going on too!

Lot's more to come this week: building periscopes, painting clay dragon eyes and thinking about what community means to the Muslim community on our RE Day. Busy, busy, busy!!