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Orchard Primary Academy

 

4 Pine

Welcome to 4 Pine!

 Welcome to the class page for 4 Pine. 

 Here you will find lot's of useful information that you may need and give you an insight into the fun and exciting things we are currently learning about. 

In 4 Pine we are ready, respectful and safe.

Below are our academy value symbols -

 

 

Staff

In 4 Pine you are taught by Miss Carter.  

On Friday afternoon you will be taught by Miss Eyles while Miss Carter is on PPA.

We will be supported in a morning by Mrs Hogarth.

Below is a copy of our class timetable.

Important Information

Our P.E days are Mondays and Fridays.

4 Pine have PE on a Monday and Tuesday, Monday we will have indoor P.E. and Tuesday outdoor P.E. On P.E. days we will need to come to school in our P.E. kits and we stay in them for the day. Please make sure all items are clearly labelled with the children's names on.

Our P.E. kit consists of -

  • Pumps (indoor) and trainers (outdoor)
  • Plain white round neck tee-shirt or polo top
  • Plain black PE shorts
  • Plain black joggers/tracksuit bottoms/leggings
  • Black hoody - A school jumper must be worn if they do not have a black hoody)

 

Children also have the option to wear the Orchard Primary Academy branded PE kits. These can be ordered from;

https://kitworld.uk/school-shops/

This half term our focus is rounders and tennis.

It is important to keep hydrated throughout the school day so we need to have a bottle of fresh water in the classroom with our names on.  We have water fountains in school to refill these when needed.

 Reading 

 

In 4 Pine we take home library books that can be changed bi-weekly and any reading at home can be logged on Boom reader (see link below). We will read daily in school to also log on boom reader.

 https://go-read.co.uk/ 

Key dates

 

  • Wednesday 8th October Stay and learn session for parents and carers- Reading
  •  Friday 10th October World mental health day
  • Friday 14th November Children in Need day
  • Friday 5th December Stay and learn Christmas tree decoration session
  • Friday 19th December 2025 - Inset day

This term we will be learning ...

 

English

Our English book focus for this term will be, 'Edward Tulane' where we will write our own continuation of the story.

Maths 

In Maths, this half-term, we will be working on number and place value. 

To help our Maths we will be using Times Tables Rockstars which we can also play at home and the Rekenrek in school to help us!

It is important that we practice our time tables every day, as we take the time table check this year.

 

Topic
 
This term, our topic will be the ancient egyptians and animals including humans. We will be focusing on the impact the egyptians have had on our society and the lasting impact on the contribution to mathematics and medicine. We will be making our own egyptian scroll as part of our art topic this half term too.
In science, we will be focusing on different animals and humans and the body parts including the teeth and digestive system and food chains, with a focus on predator and prey.