--- title: "Celebrating Diwali in 9P" url: "https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2025-10-20-12-16-00-celebrating-diwali-in-9p" school: "Astley Park School" --- # Celebrating Diwali in 9P ![Image of Celebrating Diwali in 9P](https://files.schudio.com/astley-park-school/images/blog/IMG_3890.jpeg) 20 October 2025 [Mrs Pope](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/blog/author/popec) This week 9P have been learning all about the Hindu festival of light, Diwali. We learnt how people celebrate during the five day festival, and the preparations that they make, including cleaning their homes, buying new clothes, exchanging gifts of sweets and dried fruits, preparing festive meals and enjoying firework displays with family and friends. We also learnt how people decorate for Diwali, from lighting ‘diyas’ (little oil lamps) to arranging flowers and creating colourful Rangoli patterns on the floor and intricate Mehndi patterns on their hands. Having enjoyed learning all about Diwali and looking at some amazing photographs, we then created our own colourful Rangoli patterns, of which we were very proud and some of us went onto create Mehndi patterns on an outline of a hand. [RE](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/blog/tag/re) [9P Class](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/blog/tag/9p-class) [2025-2026](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/blog/tag/2025-2026) [ Week 7 in Willow](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2025-10-20-09-29-00-week-7-in-willow) [Diwali in 10P ](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/blog/2025-10-20-14-09-00-diwali-in-10p) ![Astley Park School](https://files.schudio.com/astley-park-school/images/logo/AstleyPark_School_footer_logo.png) #### Astley Park School Harrington Road Chorley Lancashire PR7 1JZ 01257 262227 #### School Info - [Admissions](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/school-info/admissions) - [Fundraising](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/parents-carers/useful-info/astley-park-school-parents-staff-friends-association/fundraising) - [Ofsted Info](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/school-info/ofsted) - [SEND Information](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/school-info/send) - [Vacancies](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/school-info/vacancies) - [Contact Us](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/contact) #### Parents/Carers - [Behaviour](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/parents-carers/behaviour) - [Arbor](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/parents-carers/arbor) - [LPPA](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/parents-carers/lppa) - [Online Safety](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/curriculum-classes/online-safety) - [Attendance](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/parents-carers/attendance) #### Social Media - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/astleyparkschool) © Copyright 2016–2026 Astley Park School School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://astleypark.lancs.sch.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)