Blog Author: Mrs Bretherton

This term in P.E we have been playing rounders and have been practicing our throwing and catching skills. Over the last few weeks everyone has worked so hard and we have seen a huge improvement. Even the teachers have joined in (and have been incredibly competitive).

We have been out and about…

We’ve had another week enjoying the lovely sunshine in 8A. We have been outside for p.e, playing rounders and practicing our throwing and catching skills.

We have continued learning about health and safety this week. We had lots of fun role playing in our ‘hospital’. We had patients, doctors,…

This week some of the class have taken part in Bikeability. Everyone had to listen carefully and follow instructions so that they could learn how to keep safe. Every person that took part worked hard and did super listening. The rest of the class went on a community visit to get the weekly…

Another 4 day week for us this week. And another week of enjoying (and melting in) the beautiful sunshine. 

This week we have to been to Morrisons to pick some fruit for our breakfast in class. Whilst we were there we even got to enjoy some free fruit as it was available for children to help…

First week back in 8A after the Easter holidays. This week we welcomed Mrs Crook into 8A as our new teacher. Mrs Crook will be sharing the teaching with Mrs Lane.

We were only in for 4 days this week so we’ve had to work super hard to fit everything in. We have been learning about first aid and…

The last week of term in 8A and goodbye to Miss Cross.

This week we welcomed family in to our class for sharing our learning, learning about the celebration of Eid. We worked with our families to make lanterns and we got to try different foods that would be eaten during Eid. 

As an end of…

This week in PE we have tried orienteering. We worked in pairs and had to follow a map to find the different signs located around the school. It was pretty tricky, but with determination we managed to follow the map and find what we were looking for. The sunshine was an added bonus.

In Science…

Last week Astley Park went back to the 80’s for Comic Relief. We had lots of fun dancing outside in the sunshine to 80’s music. Lots of people dressed up in 80’s clothes. There was lots of bright colours and frilly tutus. 
 

We really made the most of the sunshine, going out on community…

What a fun filled week we have had in 8A. 

We have taken part in science week and have done some experiments in class. We made a huge mess when making slime…but it was sooo much fun. We made spinning helicopters, built models out of straws and Playdough and did an experiment with milk and food…

This week is careers week. In class we have been looking at different jobs and what jobs we would like to do when we are older. We have had lots of different career ideas - firefighters, theme park workers, farmers, mechanics and more.

We split in to 2 groups and visited the local community,…

On Tuesday some of 7A had sharing our learning with Miss Cross and Mrs Hand and some of 7A went to the park with Mrs Bretherton and Mr Crew.

We were very lucky to have some nice weather so that we could enjoy playing on the park. We had lots of fun playing on all of the equipment, working out…

What a super week we have had in 7A. Whilst some of the class went to Calvert Trust, some stayed at school with Mrs Hand and Mrs Bretherton.

This week we have been busy having lots of fun. We have played games, been swimming, baked yummy cookies, been on the bikes, had a mini cinema, splatted…