Blog Author: Mrs Mahood

It’s been another busy week in Willow class, we have reached the end of this half term and everyone in Willow class is very excited about the holidays (and Halloween)!

This week, we have continued our focus on money and have been practicing counting, adding and multiplying in our toy shop. We…

We’ve had a fantastic time in Willow class this week.

We’ve continued exploring puppets as part of our Toybox topic and whilst half of the children were swimming, the others planned and performed their own puppet shows.

We had a maths challenge this week when Mrs Mahood brought in a big…

It’s been another great week in Willow class where everyone has been busy exploring puppets as part of our “What’s in the toy box” topic.
In My Creativity we have explored different types of puppets and had lots of fun role playing with them in the puppet theatre. In My Communication, we read the…

It’s been another fantastic week in Willow class. The children have been busy taking part in lots of money related activities including playing money bingo, role play in our toy shop and coin matching games.
 

Everyone loved mixing paint and making splatter pictures with colours appropriate to…

It’s been another busy week in Willow class. Unfortunately a couple of our fabulous teaching assistants have been unwell, but we are so proud that all the pupils have coped well with lots of new faces helping in class. We’ve done lots of assessments all week, so today we enjoyed making chocolate…

We have reached the final day of Holiday Heroes for Summer 2023. We’ve had 4 fabulous weeks of playing games, having fun, making friends, spending quality time together and creating special memories. 
 

Today was our oldest children’s turn to go swimming at Nye Bevan pool in Skelmersdale.…

What a wonderful day everyone has had today, the weather was mainly kind to us again and we all enjoyed spending some time outside. 
 

Group 1 had another visit to Space Sensory Rooms in Preston and groups 2 and 3 stayed onsite and had a marvellous time on the giant inflatable slide and…

The third week of Holiday Heroes has finished with a fantastic day. 
 

The weather was fantastic so everyone was able to spend some time outside in the sunshine, we even had ice creams. Group 1, children from the lower primary classes, went on a visit to Space Sensory Rooms where they had a…

Wow, it’s week 3 of our Holiday Heroes sessions, the first 2 weeks have whizzed by with lots of fun, laughter and special moments. 
 

Today our youngest children went to Space Sensory rooms in Preston. All the children (and the staff) love visiting there - the amazing slide is always a big…

Welcome to day 4 of Holiday Heroes and what a fantastic day we’ve had!

Group 1, our youngest group of children went on another trip to The Play Den in Burscough. This is a great play centre which we can book exclusively for our groups so the children can have lots of fun in a safe…

Welcome to week 2 our Holiday Heroes. 
 

Today was a busy day for everyone - all groups remained on site and took advantage of the fantastic facilities here at Astley Park School - the sensory room, playground, bike track and climbing frame were all well utilised. We were delighted that…

Welcome to day 2 of Holiday Heroes, today has been an action packed day for everyone!

 Group 1, our youngest group of children went on a trip to The Play Den in Burscough where they had a fantastic time climbing and sliding on the play frame and playing with all the toys, ride on vehicles and…