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Apologies for our lack of blog posts recently, here is one to end this term with. Only one term left at Astley Park for 11G after these holidays.

On Monday morning we took the time to catch up on what everyone had got up to at the weekend. We used this as part of our speaking and listening…

We have had a busy week in Oak class and we have had lots of fun. 

On Monday morning we counted bunnies in an attention autism session. In the afternoon half of Oak class decorated biscuits, with icing and sprinkles. The other half of Oak class made pizza, we all sat together at the table for…

What a wonderful week some of our Year 7 learners had at the Calvert Trust Residential.

Day 1: 

On Monday, we travelled via coach to Calvert Trust and when we arrived, we made ourselves comfortable in our rooms, unpacking our suitcases and having a chill together. 

Later, we split…

On Tuesday 8A did lots of egg-ercise when hunting for their eggs on their Easter egg hunt. They did an egg-cellent job when using their map work to search for their hidden egg. Using directions to help them they found all 11 egg faces. Then when they got back they got egg-xactly what they wanted-…

We have finally made it to our last day before the Easter break. 

8P have had a lovely week.

We have been to the supermarket, where we bought items for our food technology lesson.

We have made a variety of sandwiches which we ate this morning, before making some really nice Easter…

This week in Beech class we have been exploring lots of Easter activities!

We’ve matched coloured eggs together, painted Easter chicks, and decorated Easter eggs! 

Mrs Barrand demonstrated in Attention Autism how to make cornflake nest cakes. We then had a go ourselves and added mini eggs to…

A huge thank you to Mr Murphy for organising so many amazing opportunities in the community this term.

We have really enjoyed our experiences and would like to express our thanks to Chorley in Bloom, Boulder UK, Nuffield Health Centre, Chorley Leisure Centre and we look forward to many more…

We have enjoyed a busy last few weeks of the Spring Term.

All learners have worked incredibly hard and continue to make fantastic progress in all areas. We are all so very proud of you.

Have a lovely break and see you soon.

Mrs Down and the Rowan Class Team

This week Chestnut class have been busy getting ready for Easter!
In Food tech we have enjoyed practising our spreading skills by preparing hot cross buns for snack time. During creative tasks we made egg shell cards using primary colours and repeating patterns and decorating foam eggs. In…

A HUGE thankyou to everyone who bought raffle tickets to help us raise money for our prom. We drew the raffle on Thursday and the winners were Danny, Katie, Mrs Mahood, Lily and Josh.

Thankyou to Tesco, Morrisons, Booths and Asda in Chorley who donated the prizes and Miss Brown who…

We started the week getting ready for Easter. We made paper plate chicks, enjoyed splatting some eggs and did some excellent Easter egg weaving. We made a snowstorm in class out of shredded paper and used the green screen to film the next part of our We’re Going On A Bear Hunt film. Towards…

Today at Nuffield the group met Luke a trainee PT who was working with Ashley. After the warm up exercises the group moved to the treadmill for a 5 min workout, they all remembered to attach the emergency tag something learnt from our visit to All Seasons Leisure Centre.

Ashley then asked the…