Blog Author: Mrs Banks

This week on our weekly visit to Nuffield gym the group met Justin a PT who kindly stepped in for Ashley who was unable to meet with us this week. However, Ashley had left details with Justin of what the group had been working on in the gym. After a short warm up and stretches the group helped…

Last week a number of pupils from Year 11 took part in a Bikeability Level 1&2 assessment. After initially being assessed in school the pupils then went out on the road for a further assessment of their riding skills. The weather was against them but they remained positive throughout and after…

A very exciting week in 10A for careers week.

We were very lucky to receive a talk from past pupils of Astley Park, they each told us about their experiences since leaving school and entering into college or work. There were some very interesting stories and we had the opportunity to ask…

This week at the Nuffield Gym Ashley the Personal Trainer had designed a training circuit for the pupils to attempt. The circuit was a combination of a seating weight lift, rowing machine, ski pull, sledge push and lunges. Ashley timed the pupils on each activity and when directed they rotated…

As part of our Duke of Edinburgh Experience we shall be volunteering at Chorley in Bloom.

Today was our first visit and we were greeted by the volunteers, Iris and Jill. 
Our project today was to create our Grass heads, as a group we listened to the instructions and followed them.

We…

As part of our careers enrichment programme a few pupils visited Nuffield Gym to undertake a 5 week programme of work experience.

This week the pupils worked with Ashley a PT instructor and familiarised themselves with the environment. This involved using equipment safely, a warm up and cool…

This term in 10A is busy with community visits around the area. 
Our first visits of the week are to Chorley in Bloom, Jake visited on Monday and is involved with planting and creating a feature using tyres, unfortunately due to the weather the rest of the class were unable to visit but we will…

This week whilst thinking about being healthy we have been enjoying lots of sport activities.

A group were involved in a day of football where we displayed great teamwork, and represented Astley Park School with great enthusiasm and pride.

Another group visited Chorley Leisure Centre where…

What a busy week in 10A.  Welcome to Mr Murphy who has had a very busy first few weeks getting to know 10A.

This week we have been discussing ‘World Religion” we have be doing lots of various activities around various religion and discussing the difference in the religions. 
We have also as a…

What a very busy and fun couple of weeks we have had in 10A celebrating all things Christmas.

we have worked really hard his year and it was time for fun and celebrations, we have enjoyed visits to crazy golf and the Trafford Centre as well as a visit to The Astley for a Christmas lunch. We…

Today 10A have been learning all things Hannukah. We all took part in preparing a potato latkes These potato pancakes (called latkes) are meant to symbolize the miracle of Hanukkah, we all had a good try at peeling, grating, mixing and cooking our Latkes. We all enjoyed eating them, they reminded…

After our visit to Bendrigg the class have been writing their own personal diaries about their experiences. 
We had a chance to reflect on the time at Bendrigg and what exciting adventures we had, we wrote about what things we liked and disliked, what we found challenging and what we found…