Our Junior Road #Safety Officers teamed up with Metro Survivor and Hackney’s Max Moorcroft for a Police Speed Watch initiative. They played an active role in promoting safer driving and raising awareness about speed limits to help make our roads safer! 🚔🚦🚸 #RoadSafety

Year 5 have been learning about #music for #film. They listened to #music from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and used it to inspire their own character compositions! They focused on emotion through timbre, dynamics and pitch. 🧙‍♂️🎬🎶 #MusicComposing #Film

Orchard are proud to have been awarded the Wellbeing Award for Schools. Recognised for our commitment to emotional wellbeing for pupils, staff and parents. #WellbeingAward #EmotionalWellbeing #ChildrensMentalHealth 🌱✨ Read the full assessor’s comment here: 👉

Our Grandparents' Tea was a wonderful success! #Grandparents enjoyed cakes, sandwiches, word searches and puzzles with their grandchildren and were treated to a fantastic performance from our Orchard Choir. A huge thank you to all our staff, especially Beverley, for organising

#EYFS had a lovely time celebrating their #significant females! They talked about who is in their families, shared special moments together and created their own family trees 🌳👩‍👧‍👦 #FamilyTime #FamilyTree #SignificantFemale

Our #librarians have been busy restocking the Little Book Hut at Orchard after hundreds of #books flew off the shelves in just half a term! With fresh books ready, the hut is all set for more young #readers to enjoy. 📚 #ChildrensBookProject #BookLovers #Literacy

Our #Science Fayre was a huge success last term! From making slime to explosive volcano eruptions with baking soda — and so much more.  The room was buzzing with curious minds and brilliant #experiments. Thank you to everyone who joined. 🟣🧤🧪 #ScienceDay #ScienceFayre

Our Peer Mediators designed fun wet play #games and cannot wait to bring them to classrooms! They also inventoried and restocked #playground sheds, finding #ecofriendly ways to repair and repurpose play equipment. 🌧️🎲🏀♻️ #Eco #PeerMediators #Sustainability #GreenSchool

This week, our KS2 #Language Captains mentored KS1 pupils in sharing the #Spanish Phrase of the Week! They demonstrated brilliant teamwork, leadership and language learning in action. 🇪🇸🌟 #MFL #LanguageCaptains #PupilVoice

The Orchard’s Got Talent #auditions were a huge success! Huge congrats to all who took part, every act was amazing and full of incredible #talent, making the judges’ job super tough. A big shoutout to our Head Boy and Head Girl for picking the finalists. 🎭🎤🌟 #OrchardsGotTalent

Our Orchard’s Got #Talent was a huge success! Our brilliant children wowed us with #magic, #dancing, #singing, #gymnastics and more. Everyone enjoyed treats while cheering them on. Huge thank you to Mrs Siddique, Ms Grodze, Ms Allen, our judges and all the staff who made it

Our pupils did not make the final of the Debate Mate Cup 2025, but they debated with passion, confidence and sharp #oracy skills. A brilliant day of learning, #teamwork and unforgettable moments, well done all! 👏🗣️📢 #Debating #DebateMate #SemiFinals

Our Junior #RoadSafety Officers (JRSOs) had an amazing time at the #Hackney JRSO Celebration Party this week! They reflected on a year of brilliant road safety work, took part in fun #competitions, and proudly received awards from the Hackney Speaker. 🚦🚸⛔️ #RoadSafety #JRSO

Today’s #EYFS induction was a success! New starters received #goodie bags, tasted our #schooldinners, and met Ms Headen, our Headteacher, and Ms Grodze, our Assistant Headteacher. Families also loved the pre-loved #uniform stall. We cannot to see them all at our EYFS picnic!

#SportsDay last week was a brilliant day of fun and #teamwork! The children took part in a baton #relay, egg and spoon #challenge, bean bag run, sack hop, overs and unders, shot putt, and a hockey relay — so much cheering and effort! 🏅🎽🥚🏑🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🎉 #SportsDay2025 #Activity

#EYFS and parents had a great time on #DT Day building boats from corks, string and felt sails. It was a fun, hands-on #activity full of creativity and testing if the boats would float made it even more exciting! 🚤✂️👩‍🎨👨‍👧 #DesignTechnology #Art #Creative

Our Viridis #Music Festival brought the community together with incredible performances from Orchard, Southwold, Hoxton #Choir and our #instrumental band groups. A huge thank you to Ina and Sevtap for making it so memorable. We were honoured to welcome Cllr Rathbone, our

Our Years 4-6 pupils recently took part in a Young Writers #competition, with over 140 entries from our school chosen for publication! We are thrilled that one of our pupils was 1 of just 5 #winners out of 23,000 entries — taking home a goody bag and an Instax Mini Camera.