Blog Author: Ms Carter

Diwali in 7P

This week 7P celebrated Diwali. The learners looked at a PowerPoint on what activities Hindus do when they celebrate Diwali. 

The children learnt that Diwali means “Festival of Light” and it marks the beginning of the new year in the Hindu calendar. 

We looked at all the…

Week 7 We did it in 7P!

Well, what an awesome half term we have had in the new 7P of 2024-2025. 

It’s been lovely getting to know all the learners individually as the weeks have gone by and of course them getting to know us. 

We have done cooking in food tech, (hope you have enjoyed…

Week 6 Room on the Broom in 7P.

This week the learners continued the book “Room on the Broom”. After listening to the story, Miss Robertson printed out some photos from the book for us to make some super sentences about. 

Some of our learners had to put pictures of who, doing,…

Week 5 7P celebrating Black History Month

On Tuesday, Mr Mick Maher, 7P class governor joined us in the afternoon to look at how we were celebrating Black History Month. 

Firstly we watched a PowerPoint called “ We are all different “. This was to help the learners understand that we…

Week 4 Cooking and Visiting the Library 

This week 7P started their “Food Technology” and “Community Access” sessions.

This year we have decided to split the class for these activities so we can give the learners a more personalised experience. 

One group visited the local…

Week 3 in 7P Celebrating!

Wednesday of this week, 7P and the rest of Astley Park School participated in celebrating Ofsted giving us, again, an outstanding result by inflatables coming into school. 

Luckily for the school, the weather was on our side, glorious sunshine!

7P took their…

Jeans for Genes day in 7P.

Friday, Astley Park had non school uniform day and everyone could, if they wanted, come into school in Jeans for Genes Day. We all enjoyed dressing up together to support the brilliant cause and understood that we all need to treat everyone kindly and make sure…

Week 2 in 7P

All the learners have settled in really well in their new class. 

This week 7P went on a scavenger hunt around school. They all went off in their groups and looked for different items. 

We saw lots of leaves when on the track, and beautiful little yellow and white…

7Ps first week..

A huge welcome to our new 7P learners and their families.

It was lovely seeing the learners starting their new chapter in secondary in their grey jumpers. It made them look a year older!

What great fun we have had this week getting to know each other. 

We…

Our final week in 8A

Wow, what can we say. It’s been an amazing year in 8A. We have had plenty of laughs and also worked really hard all year! 

So, to celebrate our year in 8A, we had our own little celebration awards assembly in class. 

The learners were Worlds Best in different…

On Tuesday, 8A went on their end of year trip. We walked into Chorley and made our way to Escape Entertainment where the staff were waiting for us. 

When we went in we got ourselves settled and then started playing Crazy Golf. Wow, what amazing aim they all had and we even had a few holes in…

Sports week in 8A

Our first activity at the start of our Sport week was Yoga. 

We were introduced to Tracey again who started our Yoga session by a little Meditation. We followed Tracey’s instructions and did a big breath in then big breath out whilst holding their chest with their…