Blog Author: Mrs Bretherton

As part of Duke of Edinburgh award the learners will be undertaking many different activities to enable them to achieve their award.

Every week we will be visiting the gym to cover the physical element of the award. Everyone in 11G have worked so hard in the gym already and have amazed us with…

Welcome back everyone. We hope you’ve all had a lovely summer.

WOW, Year 11 already! It has been lovely to see everyone back in class this week and to hear all of the wonderful things that they have been up to over the holidays.

We have had a busy and fun filled week this week. We have…

As part of their ASDAN work 10G have planned and prepared a birthday party for 3 members of their class.

The first task was choosing what party food we were going to have. After lots of suggestions (some of us wanted a roast dinner on our buffet) we managed to narrow down the list to a few…

This week it has been Sports Week at Astley Park School. We have taken part in lots of different sporting activities over the course of the week. We have taken full advantage of the beautiful weather and have spent lots of our time outside enjoying the sunshine.

Monday was our turn for the…

This week at Astley Park School we have celebrated Rainbow Week, as part of Pride month. We have been talking about how we are all different which makes us all special. We enjoyed learning about families and how they can all be different, but still equally as wonderful. 

As part of the…

As part of our ASDAN work we have been visiting Chorley library. As we do every Monday afternoon, we walked from school to the library using our road safety skills to ensure that we kept safe. 

Once at the library we throughly enjoyed having a look around at all of the books and choosing…

This week at Astley Park School we have celebrated the Buddhist festival of Wesak. 

In 10G we have been learning about Wesak and what the festival is about. We learnt that Wesak is the most important of the Buddhist festivals and during this time Buddhists collect food and donate it to…

We had the most exciting day in 10G today celebrating Thomas’ 15th birthday. Thomas’ mum kindly invited us to Gator Golf for fun and food.

We had such an amazing time playing golf, a couple of the class even managed to get a hole in one. We have spent the afternoon eating yummy food and playing…

This week the weather has been glorious! In 10G we have really made the most of the lovely weather. We have had lessons outside and had our lunch al fresco too. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful outdoor area next to our classroom. Fingers crossed this weather continues so we can carry on…

On Wednesday we had a change from our usual morning Cafe in class. As it was a lovely day we went for a walk to the Cafe at Astley Park. We practiced our road safety skills whilst out in the community, finding safe places to cross and spotting dangers.

Once at the Cafe we looked at the…

To celebrate the Commonwealth Games being hosted in this country, and the Queen’s Jubilee year, the school took part in the Lancashire School Games Baton Relay. Members of the school council, together with participating classes, provided a welcoming party for teachers and pupils from St Mary’s…

10G has had another busy fun packed week this week.

We have worked on our communication skills when making our smoothies and pancakes. We had to follow the recipe’s and instructions for each and working as a team we were able to put together our ingredients and mixture to make the smoothies and…