WORD UP 2025: THE FINALE

Word Up ends this week with a trip to The Apples 2 Lemons Cafe to find the Do it Dude and to see what will become of The Nightingale? Thank you to One Kind Productions for 7 free shows for every single Goldbeaters and Orion child. Children left the I-Shine Theatre full of joy and happiness because of you.

Homes in Arthaven 

Enjoy our pop up installation here

WORD UP 2025: HOMES WEEK

We are busy this week thinking about how important a home is and what makes a home.  Every child is creating a home for a huge housing estate in the city! It's nearly the end of an incredible WORD UP...watch Super Juice on Friday to find out if KINDNESS WINS!

MAKE & BAKE FOR MUMS

Thank you Y2 and Y3 children who took part in our make and bake for mums in celebration of Mother's Day to raise money for BYT.

Children hand made a gorgeous gift to take home.

WORD UP 2025: KINDNESS RALLY

Orion and Goldbeaters children and staff believe that KINDNESS WINS! Look at all outside TOGETHER today...chanting and rallying for more kindness, more care and more love. KINDNESS is our super power. Arthaven TV filmed and interviewed us for their news! We were Breaking News!

WORD UP 2025: I LOVE WORDS COMPETITION

This wonderful competition returned to Orion and Goldbeaters this Word Up. Our children showed incredible skill, creativity and imagination in including a variety of new and exciting words in their writing. KS1 used words like "industrious" and "diligent" and KS2 incorporated the words "ziggurat", "pristine" and "rapport". Children performed winning entries the final of the competition judged by Vanessa Feltz and they were INSPIRATIONAL! 

WORD UP 2025: NEURODIVERSITY CELEBRATION WEEK

A special week in school where we celebrate neurodiversity and we recognise all the strengths and talents of our neurodiverse community.  We also learn how parts of school life, events, lessons and days might be more challenging for neurodiverse young people and how we can adapt to make sure everyone is happy here at The Orion. Thanks Miss Hindle for the fab assemblies explaining how different brains can work. 
 

WORD UP 2025: WORLD BOOK DAY

The sun always shines on World Book Day at The Orion. Huge thanks for dressing up as always in your amazing costumes. You looked great! It felt like Hogwarts school...there were so many Harry Potters and Hermione Graingers! Y4, Y5, Y6 children took part in a huge quiz online and 171 books were ordered for Orion children! THANK YOU FOR A GREAT DAY!

Get new books to celebrate World Book Day. Our Word Up Book Sale goes live today until next Monday. You can buy books for your child for just £2.50 and can help our school! When you buy a book please mark the order with your child's name and class and the books will arrive at school and be delivered to your child. Having books at home can really boost your child's academic progress.

WORD UP 2025: PART 2

Welcome back to school for the second half of Word Up. Thanks for all the bottle art that was made over the half term break - being creative helps our well-being and reusing and recycling plastic helps our environment. See some of the really imaginative creations here. For the next two weeks we will be learning about the wonderment and woes in the entertainment zone of a city and all the words connected with that zone. WORDS WORDS WORDS!

Word Up 2025: Week 4

We've been thinking a lot about healthy habits and loving words this week. We've learned about a new artist called Chris Uphues who does beautiful pieces of arts with lots of hearts and bright colours. We've loved creating our own. Word Up is full of LOVE!

Word Up 2025: Week 3

This week we are in a new zone of the city - the Well-Being and Active Zone. It is also Children's Mental Health Week and we will have soon time everyday taking care of our minds and the way that we think. There are well-being zones around the school for children to use. We came to school on Word Up Friday in our active wear today. It made us feel good and comfortable and ready to be active!

WORD UP 2025: Week 2

I-Shine Uni is back this week with of course a Word Up Theme. School feels so positive and exciting...not like everywhere else in January...we are learning words all connected with transport, there are words everywhere! PC Lee, our school's policeman has visited all the classes in our school this week to make sure that we know how to stay safe in a city. The Super Juice story - The Colour of Love is on every Wednesday!

WORD UP 2025: Week 1

The children are Tiny Art crazy!  Y1 and Y2 have taken part in word workshops. We are learning about transport and words connected with transport...there are so many! I-Shine Cinema is back for families to enjoy a movie together. Parents are helping with a Do More Task this weekend...find out about New York City. The Do-It-Dude is still missing!! Word Up Word Up!

WORD UP 2025

It's here! We've been counting down...and we are ready for 10 weeks of exciting learning, special guests, experiences, Word Up Fridays and the Word Up story. Thanks Mr F...we are ready!

January 2025: Countdown to Word Up

It's a new year and we are counting down to our annual Word Up festival. A highlight of our school calendar. It's the time of year when we focus intensively on acquiring new vocabulary, developing our speaking and listening skills, rocking on with reading and being wonderful writers. Word Up is for every child in the school from 2-11 and the children truly love it. Parents can really support their child's learning by watching the Super Juice films at home together and talking about the story. Word Up is for EVERYONE!

It's Docember 2024: Give a little HeART

Docember at The Orion is a time for kindness, appreciation and helpfulness. It is always time for Art. In the run up to special Christmas fun in the last week of term we must keep up our energy and be helpful members of our school community. 

CHILDREN IN NEED Part 2: 22nd November

The Lighter Life Art Boxes returned today and WOW - what an amazingly well supported task this was. THANK YOU PARENTS and THANK YOU KIDS. Feel Good Friday today included the Big Reveal SuperJuice film, the Children in Need Dance, talking time between older and younger children and a piece of cake!

£3511 was raised by Orion & Goldbeaters communities to help others. 

CHILDREN IN NEED - 15th November

Our kind and generous children pledge to help other children by bringing in donations for charity in beautifully decorated envelopes. What a Feel Good Friday it has been. Children are making art boxes, worry buddies and bracelets throughout the day and special tasks at home all next week. 

Barnet Infant Music Festival with Y2

A lovely morning for Y2 Orion and Goldbeaters to sing in a festival with other Barnet schools. Lots of feel good feelings from singing!

MEET TO REMEMBER

Our traditional 2 minute silence to reflect and remember took place today. Our kindness kids stand together to hope for a peaceful future.

GOLDSTAR FIREWORKS

Our biggest display ever. 1500 people from our school community came to enjoy our annual display.  As always our families showed patience, lovely manners and respect and appreciation. We are proud to be Orion and Goldbeaters.

AUTUMN 2: GOOD MOVE MOVEMBER

November can sometimes be a hard month - the winter is coming. If we focus on some simple Good Moves and turn November into Movember we can make life feel so much better! Good moves can include smiling, encouraging each other, being thankful, dancing. Our VITAL VITAMIN this week is Vitamin C - have a look at us having a vitamin C boost!

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: ROCKTOBER 2024

We have celebrated black history this year through the medium of film. Film can give much knowledge and inspire much thoughtfulness. Children completed a Feel Good Task at home of making a Caribbean Fruit Kebob to bring into school and enjoy. Magnificent engagement and effort. See the photos to feel good too and THANK YOU!

APPLE CRAZY: ROCKTOBER 2024

It's Apple Harvest Time. Children at the Orion will taste and learn the names of 6 British grown apples and understand how apples and other crops are harvested in the Autumn. Apples have huge health benefits and symbolise good health, happiness and sweetness in many cultures. 

One of the Feel Good 4's is giving. Our kindness kids were inspired to create 100 birthday cards for a gentleman celebrating his 100th birthday. We were so proud of the touching messages the children sent. It feels good to give.

WORLD SMILE DAY 2024

An annual tradition for a Feel Good Friday. Staff and children greet each other at the gate with smiles. Nearly every child completed the smiley task at home...thank you parents! Children learnt about Takashi Murakami - a contemporary Japanese artist - known for incorporating a smiley flower in his artwork. We visited residents and carers at Signature Living in Hendon to share smiles there too. 

Feel Good Friday for Macmillan: 27.09.24

Wearing green for Macmillan Cancer Support today. Children, teachers and parents all in glorious green. One of the Feel Good 4 is giving and we are grateful to all of the children who bought in £1 or more to donate to charity.  One of our Y2 DO MORE pupils set up an after school shop and raised £70 for Macmillan. What a star!

Family Bingo Night: 26.09.24

Parents and children playing Bingo together in the hall was gorgeous to see. Such concentration and participation especially when the glitter ball came out! Well done to those who won prizes and thank you to all who took part in our first family event of the year.

Move for Peace: 20.09.24

This week we have been getting fitter, stronger and cleverer. The Feel Good Fruit Shop has been open every morning for children to buy a banana snack and children have been building up fit bricks by jogging at school and at home. On Feel Good Friday all the children earned more fit bricks by getting together on The Orion Field and moving for Peace. It is a tradition in our schools to celebrate the International Day of Peace - it is always special, always happy and always important to us.

The Feel Good 4 

Let’s be fitter, stronger and cleverer! It’s good to feel good! Parents and children together having a better, healthier lifestyle this year.  It was Banana Friday today...bananas have a high nutritional value and are 75% water. They are an EXCELLENT healthy snack. 

Getting fitter is really important for our children. These amazing children are demonstrating a very simple way to increase their fitness and stamina.

We are so happy to be back at school for a new school year.  Thanks for being ready with such smart new school uniform. You look FAB!