Blog Author: Miss Carter

10P had another busy week this week! We started off the week by doing our weekend news where we all wrote some sentences about what we did and then we discussed it as a class and asked our friends questions about what they had done. In the afternoon we had our trip to ASDA, splitting up into two…

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks in 10P getting back into the swing of things as we begin our journey in KS4.

We’ve had our first couple of sessions at the gym where everyone has had such a positive attitude towards something new, even if lots of us were a bit nervous at first.

We also had…

11R have had a very busy, emotional last two weeks of school! We've been to lazer tag, had a go at building our own volcanoes, played ball games with our friends and took part in our last session of Chorley in Bloom!

Today we had our graduation where we celebrated all of our amazing learners…

Last week was another busy week for 11R!

On Monday we had Miss Anderton for maths in the morning, where we started to plan our dream bedrooms, looking at sizes of rooms and how we would begin to cost everything up. In the afternoon we had science, where we continued to look at energy by making…

Yesterday our year 11s had their prom! It's been a very busy past few weeks getting everything finalised and ready and we're all so glad that the day ran smoothly and everyone had a great time.

We welcomed our learners to school in the afternoon where they were all dressed up and ready for the…

Summer 2 in 11R has been another busy week! We started off the week with Miss Anderton and on Monday we had a maths lesson on time in the morning and the afternoon we had a lesson on energy. We made our own paper plane launchers to test out wind power and once we made them we took them out onto…

On Monday we were right back into lessons, starting off the day with a functional maths lesson on money. We used coins and notes and practiced identifying coins and how much each coin was worth. We looked at how many pennies were in a pound and how to add money up.

In the afternoon we had our…

11R have had a busy last week leading up to our half-term break!

On Monday we had our usual maths lesson and in the afternoon we had a science lesson. We were learning abouts forces with Miss Anderton and today we were talking about wind power. We built our own windmills and coloured them in,…

This week we all had fun at Chorley in Bloom! We went to a different site than we usually do, and went to the community garden next to Chorley B&Q. We learnt that this is used by members of the community if they can't always afford vegetables and that a lot of people who may not have their own…

11R have had a very busy start to their last term at Astley Park!

Last week we carried on with our ASDAN unit on Environmental Awareness, where we have been looking after the beds at the front of school and collecting the recycling from the other classes and throwing in our large bins ready for…

This week KS4 started their work experience at Chorley Hospital. Year 11 and year 10 students headed off to the Life Centre where we met Karen, who would be showing us round and leading the sessions while we are there. We started off by going through what each week would look like before Karen…

Today KS4 and KS3 had a very special visitor; Kerry from Lowther Theatre came in to run a short workshop with a few of the KS4 and KS3 classes. We talked about all of the different jobs that are involved in the theatre, from actors and dancers to the lighting and sound production to the people who…