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Day three at Bendrigg

Well, it’s our last day of making amazing memories at Bendrigg and what a fantastic time we have had. 

Another yummy breakfast of cereal, fruit, toast, croissants and pancakes.

For a lot of our Year 7s it’s been their first time away from people they…

Day two at Bendrigg.

The day started for some of us at 6 am and others a little earlier !

We then all went for a lovely breakfast of toast, cereal, fruit, cups of tea, hash browns and pork or vegetarian sausages. 

After this we got ready for our first activity of the day,…

Day one at Bendrigg.

Wednesday morning, the learners came in very very excited. We tried to keep it as normal as possible. We had lots of visitors coming in , wishes us all a good time. Mr Welsh even came onto our coach and gave us all a high five. 

They were amazing in the coach and we…

Sports week in 7P

This week it’s been Sports week at Astley Park school. The learners followed a within-task schedule on what activities they were getting involved in. 

On Monday, 7Ps first Sports activity was zorbing on the field. They did good listening on how to get into the…

Rainbow Day in 7P

Friday, Astley Park School Celebrated Rainbow Day. Rainbow Day is a celebration of LGBTQ+. 7P watched a video from the Pop and Olly channel on YouTube. This channel covers lots of child friendly videos that talk about same gender relationships amongst other things. The…

Fathers Day card making in 7P

This week we talked about Father’s Day. We chatted that this day was to celebrate a special male in their life. The learners did good listening about how Father’s Day can be for a grandad, uncle, cousin, brother or just a good friend and it’s to say thank…

Summer Fair poster making in 7P

In 7P we thought we would make a poster to advertise our Summer Fair which is on Saturday 14th June at 11am and of course advertise what stall 7P team are holding.

They all had a check list to make sure no information was missed off. 

They had…

Recycling in 7P

This week 7P looked at different materials that we have to recycle. 

Firstly, the learners took turns and played a recycling game on the laptop. They had to drag each item of rubbish into the correct bin. 

Next, we went outside and looked for hidden recycling…

Paint printing the circus in 7P

On Thursday afternoon we had Miss Anderton doing her My Creativity lesson. Firstly the learners watched a PowerPoint of different animals in the circus. They enjoyed making the noises of these animals. We had lions, elephants and cheeky monkeys in…

VE Day in 7P

On Thursday morning the learners listened to a story about VE Day and watched a video about it. The class watched a news report that was 80 years old celebrating the end of the Second World War. The video also showed a picture of a lady who was 15 years old at the time and…

PE in 7P

Wednesday mornings are 7P’s PE slots and as our topic is the circus, we had some circus activities to try out.

Our first circus activity was walking the tight-rope. The learners had to use their balancing skills and walk along the bench. 

Next was marching. They had to…

Summer term in 7P

This summer term 7P’s topic is “We are going to the Circus”. To start off this topic, the learners watched a little video of a circus which has acrobats doing different activities like jumping in the air and type rope walking. 

Then the learners used bright colours…