8 Mar

Astley Park celebrate Holi

Astley Park School had a fantastic time on Wednesday 8th March as we celebrated the Hindu festival of Colour known as Holi.  Holi is a Hindu festival that celebrates Spring, Love and new life. Holi is a colour festival, with dancing, singing and throwing powder paint and coloured water. It marks…

18 Jun

8G's Big Summer Catch up!

8G’s Big Catch Up!

Hello parents, carers, pupils and followers.  Sorry it has been a while since we last pushed out some fresh 8G content, but we have just been to busy.

I’d like to start off by giving a heart felt thank you and good by to our Teaching assistant Miss Pilkington who left…

16 Apr

Things are shaping up well in 8G

8G have hit the ground running as we enter the summer term. This week we have started designing a camper van, learning about shapes, experienced a sensory story about camping and built our Google internet legends. All the pupils have settled well and are keen to carry on learning as full class. 

25 Mar

8G Cook up and Easter Treat!

It has been another jam packed week in 8G as we prepare for the Easter break. In My Communication and My Thinking and Problem Solving lessons the pupils have been busy seeing how much progress they have made with their reading and number skills.
 

In our World About Me lesson we looked at the…

23 Mar

Easter Card Competition

Last week some of the children throughout school got busy to help school enter an Easter competition that Chorley police station is running to win lots of Easter eggs.

 

The children got very creative making cards with Easter egg prints, finger print Chicks, hand print Chicks and sheep. The…

19 Mar

8G are out of this world!

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1........Blast off!!!!

8G did the most amazing science experiment yet, when they made rockets which, after a few false starts, our rockets actually took off towards space. We were all so excited, as we watched from the safety of the forest school area (where Mr…

11 Mar

8G Avengers Assemble! All our superhero’s back together


 

What an exciting week we’ve had in 8G. 
 

The first excitement was when our friends, who have been learning from home, returned to school on Monday. It was fantastic to see Eshan, Tyler, Jacob and Harry back in our classroom - we can’t believe how much they’ve all grown though.

5 Mar

How do we fit it all in? Another week of fun and learning in 8G

What a crazy and fun week we’ve had in 8G this week.

The pupils in school and at home have been working hard across all our topics and subjects. 
This has seen us practice our science and enquiry skills, explore the world of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on World Book Day, live stream our…

26 Feb

Rainbow week in 8G 2021

This week we have celebrated Rainbow Week in 8G.
 

We have have all enjoyed taking part in lots of fun, rainbow themed activities including making glittery rainbow ice balls and a colour mixing Skittles experiment as part of our World About Me topic. We made some beautiful rainbow heart…

22 Feb

Different Families, Same Love - An Information Blog for Parents

Different Families, Same Love

LGBT+ History Month is celebrated in February in the UK. This week, Astley Park School is proud to celebrate LGBT History Month through exploring different family types. 

  • All learners will be working towards our weekly six star challenge in which all…
12 Feb

Week 6 in 8G

Well, it’s finally half-term and it seems like forever since we’ve all been together in class, but our whole class sessions on Teams have kept all our spirits up, Our baking sessions have been brilliant, and this week was no exception - we made chocolate cakes in class, and Harry, Eshan and Josh…

8 Feb

100 laps for Captain Sir Tom Moore

Over the next week pupils and staff at Astley Park will be attempting to walk a total of 100 laps of the school track or if learning from home around their local area or gardens in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore who became the nation’s hero last spring after raising more than £32m for the NHS…