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Browse by All Therapeutic education SEMH school End of school year diversity Coronation Curriculum Days The Black Curriculum Visiting Speaker black history ## [Online Safety](https://orangetreeschool.org/blog/online-safety) Keeping up with the ever changing online world isn't easy! In order to help our kids navigate the... ## [A field trip to remember](https://orangetreeschool.org/blog/a-field-trip-to-remember) To enhance learning Y11 students of orange tree school went on a geography field trip to study... ## [Doc Brown visits the Orange Tree and the school celebrates its first Christmas](https://orangetreeschool.org/blog/doc-brown-visits-the-orange-tree-and-the-school-celebrates-its-first-christmas) Being a new school, we get to celebrate many firsts at Orange Tree School, and this year we are... ## [The Black Curriculum - Conversations with Young People](https://orangetreeschool.org/blog/the-black-curriculum-conversations-with-young-people) On Tuesday 11th of October, Ellern Mede Orange Tree welcomed our first guests of the academic year, ## [Our first year at Orange Tree](https://orangetreeschool.org/blog/our-first-year-at-the-orange-tree-school) It gives me great pleasure to write this at what feels like a seminal moment in the Orange Tree... ## [The Orange Tree approach](https://orangetreeschool.org/blog/the-orange-tree-approach) How do we give some of our most vulnerable young people an education that allows them to flourish... ## [End of year rewards trip](https://orangetreeschool.org/blog/end-of-year-rewards-trip) On the final Tuesday of the year, we celebrated all the hard work from students and staff with our... ## [Pride Day at Orange Tree](https://orangetreeschool.org/blog/pride-event-blog-draft) At the Orange Tree School, some of the most important and enriching days are those which are spent... ## [A Spring Term to Remember](https://orangetreeschool.org/blog/a-spring-term-to-remember) Zoe Ramshaw, Head of school – Friary Hall (Orange Tree School) – writes about a new addition to the... 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