

Orchard Training Homeschool Advent Calendar!
Day 19: Bake a Festive Treat Your nineteenth Homeschool Advent Calendar task is to bake either mince pies or gingerbread men, fill the...


Weekly Maths Problem
Don’t forget to write out the Weekly Maths Problem at the top of your page, date the work and show all your workings out (even the wrong...


Merry Christmas Everyone!
Tomorrow marks the final day of the Autumn term. It has been a very long 15 weeks, with Covid and norovirus affecting us in the first half of term, followed by a particularly tough half term that ended with three weeks of flu. This flu has hit our younger home schoolers and their parents especially hard, with some of our families feeling the effects for over 3 weeks. Despite all of this, the resilience and commitment across our community has been remarkable. Over the course o


Orchard Training Homeschool Advent Calendar!
Day 18: Dance to Christmas Songs Your eighteenth Homeschool Advent Calendar task is to turn up the volume and have a living-room disco!...


Orchard Training Homeschool Advent Calendar!
Day 17: Bake Christmas Tree Biscuits Your seventeenth Homeschool Advent Calendar task is to get the cutters out and bake biscuits shaped...


Word of the Week
Library Meaning – a place where books and other resources are kept for reading or borrowing. Example of using it in a sentence: “I...


Orchard Training Homeschool Advent Calendar!
Day 16: Make a Festive Hot Chocolate Your sixteenth Homeschool Advent Calendar task is to load up with cream, marshmallows, sprinkles—or...


Rethinking School - The Unique
Week 15 - of our Rethinking Schools Series In this our final post on Rethinking School and this week we are turning our attention to the...


Orchard Training Homeschool Advent Calendar!
Day 15: Sing Christmas Carols Your fifteenth Homeschool Advent Calendar task is to sing whether you’re tuneful or not, belt them out loud...


Mischievous Moral Mayhem
This week's Mischievous Moral Mayhem is: You have been given some birthday money, but your friends want you to spend it all on going...



















