Blog Author: Miss Cross

What a wonderful week Astley Park had last week for World Religion Week.  

Each class enjoyed exploring and learning about their allocated religions though a variety of personalised activities including Attention Autism, Crafts, Circle Times, Research and Writing and Cooking. Wow, everyone was…

Last week was World Religion Week at Astley Park and in 7A we were learning about Judaism. 

7A participated in various activities across the week learning different facts about Judaism. We took part in Circle Times, listened to stories, explored artefacts and cooked Hamantaschen Cookies. 

7A…

7A were extremely excited this morning about all the snow! Everyone came into school with big smiles and full of energy.

7A decided to use this opportunity to work on some of our safety skills and ALIs; learning about all the dangers and risks of the winter weather and how we can keep ourselves…

Astley Park School are proud to be celebrating World Religion Week next week (15/01/24-19/01/24).

Each class has been allocated a different religion to learn about though a variety of lessons and experiences across the week. Please see the list below to see what religions individual classes…

7A have had a very busy half term. Have a look below to see what we have been up to..

This half term we have been out and about in the local community weekly and have enjoyed visiting different places in Chorley – we have been to Astley Park, Pets Corner, Chorley Town, Asda and Devonshire Road…

On Friday, Astley Park School participated in Remembrance Day activities and traditions.

Throughout school, learners were presented with many fabulous activities and learning opportunities to support them experience and learn all about Remembrance Day.

Our Explorers, had ample…

This week 7A have been very busy settling back into routine and getting back into the swing of learning, through some Halloween and Bonfire Night theme activities.

On Tuesday, we applied our speaking, writing and drawing skills to share stories about our half-term and then applied our creative…

We have has a fantastic year in Willow Class and have had a fabulous year continuing to achieve new goals.

We made picnics on Wednesday and headed to Astley Park, testing out the picnic boxes we made in our Workshop lessons.

On Friday we enjoyed an ice cream treat, before finding out we were…

Last week in circle time, Willow class learned about Pioneer Day. We learned some simple facts including;

• Pioneer Day is a holiday celebrated on the 24th July every year.
• Mormons celebrate Pioneer Day and they celebrate with fireworks, rodeos and parades. 
• A Mormon is someone who follows…

Isla had lots of fun celebrating her birthday in Willow class last Wednesday, we played party games, danced and enjoyed some cake too! We hope you had a lovely birthday Isla.

Last Wednesday, Willow Class took off their learning hats and headed off site for a day filled with treat activities. 

Willow Class had been given the chance to share their ideas of what they would like to do to celebrate all their hard work and together they chose playing at the park,…

Last Monday, Willlow class went on a trip to the Mosque. We enjoyed looking in the Mosque, listening to a call to prayer and learning about why Muslims go to Mosque. We learned some new words and looked at Arabic letters. We also learned lots of things about Muslim families as we have been…