Blog Author: Mrs Fisher

On Wednesday afternoon, 11A were invited to Chorley Train Station to meet Sarah Morgan who is the Community and Sustainability Manager for Northern Rail. Earlier in the year, 11A were asked to create a piece of artwork to be displayed at Chorley Train Station that would showcase some of the…

11A had a brilliant time on Tuesday this week. We were only a very small group as 5 young people were off on transition days to college. We arrived and headed straight over to the splash park where the lady was waiting for us to open up. The weather was dry (not the warmest) which was all we could…

On Thursday in our Picture News lesson in 11A we were discussing the housing crisis that is currently happening in England. We watched a clip from Sky News where we learnt that the new government are pledging to build a substantial amount of new houses across the country to help ease the social…

Today in our Picture News lesson in 11A we have been discussing YouTube and other video sharing platforms. The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has recently written to YouTube and other video sharing platforms and asked them to post more educational content. This has come following the Government's…

Year 11 have organised the Valentine's Disco again this year to raise funds for the Year 11 prom this summer.

All pupils from Key Stage 3 and 4 (Years 7-11) are invited to attend. All pupils must be accompanied by an adult.

The disco will take place on Thursday 13th February from 5pm-7pm in…

Well, it feels like a very long time ago now, but on Friday 21^st June a group of Year 10 and 11 learners had the very exciting opportunity to take part in an escape room activity and then camp on the school field over night.
We started the fun by erecting the tents (which is much more complicated…

Phew, what a crazy couple of weeks we’ve had in 11G! Hoping that everyone has a well deserved rest this weekend. You’ll be pleased to hear, these last two weeks of school will be a bit less hectic. 

On Monday morning we were swimming at Hindley as usual. This week was a special themed…

Well what a strange this week has turned out to be! As I’m writing this, we are down to just 4 weeks left in 11G!!!

On Monday morning we were off to swimming at Hindley. We have a new teacher now who is lovely and she put us through our paces to get lots of lengths in. Mrs Fisher and Mr…

Welcome back to our final ever half term as 11G at Astley Park! It has been another fun filled week and as you will have heard, we have lots of fun things coming up over the next 6 weeks before it is time to bid farewell to everyone. 

On Monday morning, Mrs Cobham wasn’t in school as she…

Hello all, you join us at the end of a short week in school and we will be having another short week next week too!

On Monday morning we were off to the gym for our PE session. This week we worked in pairs against another pair of friends. The challenge was to complete 5 minutes on each piece of…

Happy Friday! We have had a very busy week this week in 11G and as of today we have less than 50 days of 11G left!

On Monday morning Mrs Cobham was needed to cover in 9P next door, so Miss Snailham very kindly offered to come into school for an extra day to cover for Mrs Cobham. We all went to…

Welcome back to our final term for 11G at Astley Park School! How crazy does that sound?! We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter break. We are all raring to go for our last term. 

On Monday morning we welcomed everyone back to class. As I mentioned in my email before we came back, the…