Blog Author: Ms Carter

Today 9G learnt about St David’s Day. The class looked at a PowerPoint telling us it’s a special day for anyone who is Welsh as St David is the patron saint of Wales. 

St David’s day is celebrated on the 1st March each year.

Many people pin a daffodil or a leek to their clothes and some,…

Back to work in 9G

9G shared all their holiday fun with everyone. 

Half term fun included holidays away in a pod, going to Blackpool, cake making, train journeys, film watching plus fun activities had at the holiday hero’s. 

9G then had to write 4 separate sentences on what they got…

On Tuesday 8th February it was Safer Internet Day at Astley Park School. In the morning the class learnt the sign for “Safer Internet Day”.  

We discussed what they thought the internet was used for. At first they just thought the internet was Google, but after thinking a little longer about…

Kung hei fat choy from 9G

On Tuesday 1st February, 9G celebrated Chinese New Year.

The pupils were greeted by their staff with their hands together, bowing their heads and saying “ kung hei fat choy”  which means “Congratulations and best wishes for a prosperous New…

9G have worked really hard this week. 

Monday morning 9G shared what they had done over the weekend. There was telly watching, visiting family, eating lots of pizza, walks and shopping. They then put what they did in good sentence structure with great drawings. 

After that 9G…

This week it’s been World Religion Week. 

9G looked at 10 flags and they had to name the countries. The staff were amazed on their answers… We had the UK, USA, Brazil, China, Kenya, Israel, Australia, India, Russia and Japan. 

This lead onto different religions, Christianity, Judaism,…

9G on Safari

Our topic this half term in 9G is Safari Animals. 

We listened to the sounds of some different Safari animals. 

Some of the learners copied the sounds. 

We have been learning facts about loins, giraffes, cheetahs, zebras, elephants and monkeys. 

9G did a…

Happy new year 9G

It was so nice seeing everybody in school after our Christmas break.

9G shared their Christmas and New Years activities. 

There was lots of visiting families, parties and some of 9G watched fireworks on New Year’s Eve. 9G then entered what they had done into…

It has been the final week before the Christmas holidays.

This week in our “My thinking and problem solving” lesson, the class split up in little groups. Some of the learners were looking at sequence and patterns, putting a picture of Santa sledge in the correct order then looking at…

As 9G have had a very busy couple of weeks in class, so it has been very hard to keep up with the antics of our own 9Gs elf on the shelf. He has been busy himself, getting everywhere around school from taking over directing the buses, wanting to become a deputy head and then hiding in a dinner…

What a busy week 9G have had.

This week we started off practising our signalong to “We Wish you a Merry Christmas “. It has been a long time since we last did this so at first we were a little bit rusty, but after a couple of goes we smashed it. Hopefully you will see a clip of 9G showing off…

Sounds like everyone had a good rest over half term. 

It was great hearing what everyone had been up to. There’s been lots of visits to Blackpool, visiting families, trick or treating and watching football.

With the information 9G gave , the class then had to practise their hand writing…