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Celebration Assembly
27th March 2026

We have just celebrated our stars of the week, Well done to them all!

New Playground Area and Victoria's Garden Update

Our new astroturfed play area opened this week where the old raised flower beds used to be. The pupils are loving the new area!

Also Victoria's Garden is back open again! The pupils are enjoying having the quiet space again to use. Thank you to everyone that has supported the PTFA towards these projects!

5DW

5DW had a brilliant afternoon making DT models with pulleys. Everyone worked really hard and showed great resilience!

Year 3 and 4

Year 3 and 4 were able to watch the Praizin Hands Puppet group this morning for assembly. Thank you so much to the group for performing for us!

World Book Day 2026

Bubble Bubble toil and trouble,The Year 6 team were in a huddle.....

The Year 6 team took on characters from Macbeth yesterday to celebrate World Book Day. They would like to thank the children for the effort that many of them made with their costumes. The team also want to celebrate how amazingly well the whole year group did in their mock SATS last week. It was calm, smooth and showed that our pupils are resilient and adaptable. We are so proud of you all!

Orchard Junior School had great fun at our world book day on Thursday 5th March! We had some amazing costumes so well done to all!

We have been awarded the good travel plan for our pupils walking and cycling to school. Thank you to everyone for your efforts!!

Year 5 Build a Book Day
at Noadswood

A group of Year 5 children had a fantastic time at Noadswood taking part in a Build a Book Day with Stewart Ross. We look forward to reading their book when it is all put together.

Year 5 Kisoboka Trust Update

Please click the link below to see how the Kisoboka trust is using the money year 5 raised for their water walk earlier this year!

https://www.kisoboka.org.uk/news

Year 3

Year 3 have had the opportunity today to be taught how to make soup by Dave Belsey, who is in charge of our new catering company.

He taught the children how to chop, snip and grate vegetables and then taught them to sweat the vegetables ready for blending and tasting.

We had the best day.

Year 6

On Tuesday, Year 6 welcomed local historian Marc Heighway to speak to us about the impact of World War 2 on our local area. Children will be bringing home an ‘I-Spy’ activity from Marc that you may wish to do with them over the half-term break.

Year 4

On Wednesday, Year 4 visited Noadswood to find out more about the Vikings. We had a great day listening to an historical reenactor and handling artefacts. We also made Viking glue and created shields for a longboat.

Year 3

3MC went to 6JF today to help answer: "Do our bones grow over time?" As you can see, they worked together measuring and recording so that they could compare their different types of bone lengths.

Year 3

Year 3 went to Year 6 today to help answer: "Do our bones grow over time?" As you can see, they worked together measuring and recording so that they could compare their different types of bone lengths.

6SL Trip to Beaulieu

6SL had a brilliant day on their 'Rush to Hush Hush' day at Beaulieu Motor Museum. They learnt how spies were trained, how they communicated and the part that Beaulieu Estate played in covert operations.

6VS Trip to Beaulieu

6VS had a brilliant day on their 'Rush to Hush Hush' day at Beaulieu Motor Museum. They learnt how spies were trained, how they communicated and the part that Beaulieu Estate played in covert operations.

6JF Trip to Beaulieu

6JF had a brilliant day on their 'Rush to Hush Hush' day at Beaulieu Motor Museum. They learnt how spies were trained, how they communicated and the part that Beaulieu Estate played in covert operations.

Our thanks to Mr O'Reilly, Mrs Croton and Mrs Trunley for coming out of retirement to join us for the day.

Just a reminder to please park considerately in the local area, please also make sure to be careful whilst parking and reversing as there are so many children and parents in the area during the pick up and drop off times. We thank you for your continued support in this matter.

Community Champions

Today we celebrated two of our pupils in Star of the Week assembly for their community action.

Jenson in Year 6 was recognised for his litter picking efforts on his way home from school every single Friday, come rain or shine. Not only this, at weekends, he can be found on local shorelines clearing up plastic and other items which cause damage to the marine environment

Isaac in Year 5 was so inspired by his learning about the Kisoboka Trust and fundraising Waterwalk, that he went on to raise even more money by running bake sales at home.

Hythe Rotary Club, two members of whom were able to join us in our special assembly, recognised the boys' efforts and awarded them with cheques for £75, to be given to their chosen charities .

Jenson has donated his to the Marine Conservation Trust and Isaac has added it to the Year 5 collection for the local Kisoboka charity.

As a school we are incredibly proud of their sense of compassion and community spirit. Well done Jenson and Isaac!

As announced at the PFTA AGM in October, thanks to the generosity of the OJS school community and the hard work put in by the PFTA team and helpers at various events throughout 2024/25, we were able to raise an amazing £16,000 to support the school in providing a wonderful environment to learn and have fun.

The monies raised were agreed at the AGM to be used to support various parts of the curriculum with some new equipment or materials along with over £10,000 going to support the much needed renovations in the school playground including Victoria’s Garden which was built in 1996 so next year will be 30 years old.

It was agreed at the AGM that the renovations in Victoria’s Garden, which are expected to cost over £30,000, would be the key focus of fundraising for 2025/26.Victoria’s Garden, which is a memorial space dedicated to a OJS student, is an important part of the playground for the children and needs a major renovation after serving the OJS community for nearly 30 years.

The PTFA are looking forward to our next fundraising events this term with the Christmas Wrap Rooms and Christmas Discos but to reach our goal as soon as possible we have posted QR codes in the playground which can be scanned to make one-off donations of any value via the PTFA Sum Up platform.

All donations, big or small, can help us reach our goal faster!

Many thanks,

PTFA Committee

We’re proud to announce that Orchard Junior School has achieved the Gold School Games Mark for the second year in a row! A huge well done to all our pupils and staff for their outstanding commitment to sport and physical activity.

This year, we’ve further expanded sporting opportunities across the school - boosting the number of intra-school events and setting a new participation record in inter-school competitions!

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