Blog Author: Ms Carter

Today 9A learnt about why we celebrate Remembrance Day every year on the 11th November. The children spoke about what they already know about Remembrance Day and why they think we have a two minute silence. They correctly said that we celebrate Remembrance Day to remember the millions who have…

We have had a very busy week this week in 9A! 

In our My Communication lessons, half of the class have been learning about the book - “Meg and Mog” and half of the class have been studying passages from Harry Potter. They have all engaged really well with their new learning and have…

We’ve had a great week in 9A!  

We’ve been starting to access the community again. Many pupils have enjoyed going shopping this week. They sourced ingredients for our cooking sessions. One group made cheese toasted sandwiches and one group made chocolate brownies. Yum yum! They were delicious.…

What another brilliant week we’ve had in 9A! The pupils have been responding really well to the class rules and have take all feedback on board. We have had assessment week this week and everyone has worked so hard. We have completed many assessments linked to functional Maths and English skills…

Whilst we are still getting to know the learners, the class has played some board games. On the board games, there were ‘tricky words’ that had to be read out to their partner when they landed on that square. The staff were very impressed with how good their reading and word memory from last year…

 Well, it’s been our first week in year 9, and what fun we have all had.

The learners all came back looking refreshed from their six weeks holidays.

First thing we looked class promises and the learners made so fantastic suggestions about what promises we are all going to follow this…

It’s the final count down in 9G

Well, the final day of our learners being in 9G has arrived.

This morning 9G had their photos taken and staff made a collage of their first day of being in 9G and their last. It was lovely to see how they have altered in the past 12 months.

They will…

McDonald Day and Party time in 9G

Well, today was our McDonald’s Day , which all the class has been looking forward to all week. Miss Cross kindly went for our HUGE order to McDonald’s in town. 

The learners were very happy to see Miss Cross with all the McDonald’s bags in the pink…

Teamwork by 9G

Over the past couple of weeks, 9G have been working on a project in small groups. Their project was to create their very own circus character. The groups had to think of what activity the character was good at, what they wore, how they would speak and of course a name. The…

Sport Week 2022

All this week 9G has been taking part In sports week! We’ve taken part in riding bikes, orienteering, curling, striking and fielding and athletics. We’ve all enjoyed taking part in these activities and the learners have had lots of fun! 

We have shown lots of our school…

This week at Astley Park School it is “ Rainbow Week”. 

Each class at Astley Park has been looking at our different families, the people we live with and how we are all different and proud to be who we are! 

In 9G, we looked at what makes all kinds of different families. 

We…

We have had a fun-filled, brilliant week full of positive attitudes towards learning. Starting at the beginning of the week we have created our own workbooks to keep all our fantastic work in, we spoke about the importance of reflecting on your work and being proud of what you have done.

Our…