29 Jan

11R independent travel 2023


 

This was our first trip out on pupil transport in year eleven. 
We walked to the local bus stopped.  Once the bus had stopped . Each one of us used our NOW card  and ask the bus driver for a bus ticket to  Leyland Tesco, quite challenging for some of us, but we all did…

20 Jan

11R icy weather did not stop our fun, we made bird feeders!

Our visit to Chorley in Bloom was cancelled due to the icy weather. So we continued with our D of E topic in school. We all contributed in a class discussion with everyone saying something that could help the environment, from recycling to using energy efficient light bulbs. Then the fun…

13 Jan

11R Start Volunteering With Chorley In Bloom

This week was the start of our volunteering section of our Duke of Edinburgh Award. We walked upto the education hub space of Chorley in Bloom and we had our induction with the lovely team there. We learned about health and safety in a garden and working as a team. We had a tour around the site…

10 Jan

Reverse Advent 2022


Today myself, our School councillor and deputy from 11R  delivered all of the donations that we had collected during advent to our local Food Bank!

We had planned to go as a class- but unfortunately due to the weather we couldn’t!

A big Thank You to everybody that sent in donations-…

16 Dec

11R Build up to Christmas


11R have had great time celebrating their very last Christmas at Astley Park School. 
With craft days making lots of things from snowmen, cards, hand made presents for family and many more things, parties, Christmas gifts , school production and end of term trips. Oh my goodness what busy…

15 Dec

Secondary Christmas Spectacular

What a Performance we had on Tuesday! 

The secondary department would like to thank all the parents, family, carers and family friends who came to see our show and also those of you who joined from home via video link. It was a wonderful turn out. 

I am sure you will all join me in…

9 Dec

11R Sharing Our Learning - Hairspray

Today we welcomed our parents and careers into school to show off our learning throughout the Autumn term. 
 

Parents were welcomed into the hall to watch a presentation of rehearsal photos which lead us into watching our PE Hairspray performance taught to us by Dani from Chorley School Sports…

29 Nov

Great news Hoodies have arrived!

We have been waiting a while……but we are so pleased with our leavers hoodies. 

23 Nov

11R Independent Travelling

This week has been a challenge for all pupils in class.

 

We have really raised the stakes for our independence. Pupils took part in a functional ICT lesson on Monday, editing a letter which had several errors, following instructions. We then learned about what an envelope should be…

21 Nov

Reverse Advent 2022

Last year we did our first ever Reverse Advent at Astley Park School- and it was such an amazing success that we are doing it again!


Every day during Advent - we brought in donations of tinned food/ toiletries etc- and placed them into Christmas boxes- thanks to everyone’s generosity- by the…

10 Nov

11R does Performing Arts at Preston College

Wow! What an amazing lesson we had at Preston College today!
We found our way to the studio- passing quite a few familiar faces (past Astley Park pupils) on the way!

Sarah our tutor certainly put us through our paces- after a warm up, were we stretched our muscles, we performed a quick Zumba…

8 Nov

Remembrance Day - KS4 My Choices Day 10R and 11R Autumn Term 2022

Today the 'R' classes in KS4 took part in their My Choices Day.  This is a collapsed curriculum day where option subjects are chosen by the pupils and they study their choices based on the theme. This term it is Remembrance Day and the option choices were: History, Geography, Art, Modern Foreign…