Blog by Tag: Willow Class

Black History Month is celebrated in October in the UK and Astley Park School is proud to celebrate Black History Month with a focus on, 'Saluting our Sisters'.  This is intended to build awareness, educate and share lived experiences of Black women.  The theme of ‘Saluting our Sisters’ highlights…

We’ve had a fantastic time in Willow class this week.

We’ve continued exploring puppets as part of our Toybox topic and whilst half of the children were swimming, the others planned and performed their own puppet shows.

We had a maths challenge this week when Mrs Mahood brought in a big…

It’s been another great week in Willow class where everyone has been busy exploring puppets as part of our “What’s in the toy box” topic.
In My Creativity we have explored different types of puppets and had lots of fun role playing with them in the puppet theatre. In My Communication, we read the…

It’s been another fantastic week in Willow class. The children have been busy taking part in lots of money related activities including playing money bingo, role play in our toy shop and coin matching games.
 

Everyone loved mixing paint and making splatter pictures with colours appropriate to…

On Friday children and staff were invited to wear jeans or blue clothing to help raise awareness and funding for  genetic conditions. Classes all across school engaged in ways meaningful to them, from Jean based crafts and sensory stories, coloured themed Attention Autism to circle time…

This week classes at Astley Park have been focussing on smashing stereotypes. Stereotypes restrict the ways in which we see ourselves, others and the world around us. They make us jump to conclusions, which can stop us from getting an accurate picture.  We have been learning…

It’s been another busy week in Willow class. Unfortunately a couple of our fabulous teaching assistants have been unwell, but we are so proud that all the pupils have coped well with lots of new faces helping in class. We’ve done lots of assessments all week, so today we enjoyed making chocolate…

It has been a very busy and enjoyable second week in Willow class as we have all been learning lots of new things and building up friendships within class. 

We all enjoyed making salt dough which was very messy but great fun, especially when we turned the salt dough into our very own hedgehogs…

Welcome back to pupils and staff in Willow class. 

We have all had a fantastic week getting to know new friends and renewing  old friendships through lots of fun activities.

It has been very busy but by Friday we were all settling into our new routines and we are looking forward to all the…

We have has a fantastic year in Willow Class and have had a fabulous year continuing to achieve new goals.

We made picnics on Wednesday and headed to Astley Park, testing out the picnic boxes we made in our Workshop lessons.

On Friday we enjoyed an ice cream treat, before finding out we were…

Last week in circle time, Willow class learned about Pioneer Day. We learned some simple facts including;

• Pioneer Day is a holiday celebrated on the 24th July every year.
• Mormons celebrate Pioneer Day and they celebrate with fireworks, rodeos and parades. 
• A Mormon is someone who follows…

Isla had lots of fun celebrating her birthday in Willow class last Wednesday, we played party games, danced and enjoyed some cake too! We hope you had a lovely birthday Isla.