Blog Author: Mrs Mahood

We had 3 fun packed days of festive fun in our Holiday Heroes club held during the Christmas holidays.

We managed to pack in 2 trips to Space sensory rooms in Preston where everyone had lots of fun - it's one of our favourite activities as the facilities are perfect for our pupils and everyone…

What a fantastic day we had on Sunday when we visited Stable Lives for a walk through nativity. The charity had kindly offered us some free places and we held a draw to select the lucky pupils. We arrived at Parbold Equestrian centre and we were greeted by Santa’s elves who gave us some lovely…

Last week we were delighted to re-open our Breakfast and After School clubs following a decrease in the number of positive COVID cases in school.

Breakfast Club takes place on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8:00am to 8:45am. Pupils can use our special menu to choose from a selection of…

Victoria Hough is an artist who specialises in working with groups of children to create exciting pieces of art. We invited her into Astley Park School to help us create a masterpiece to incorporate our new school values of Kindness, Respect, Honesty, Positivity and Teamwork. Victoria worked with…

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1........Blast off!!!!

8G did the most amazing science experiment yet, when they made rockets which, after a few false starts, our rockets actually took off towards space. We were all so excited, as we watched from the safety of the forest school area (where Mr…

What an exciting week we’ve had in 8G. 
 

The first excitement was when our friends, who have been learning from home, returned to school on Monday. It was fantastic to see Eshan, Tyler, Jacob and Harry back in our classroom - we can’t believe how much they’ve all grown though.
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This week we have celebrated Rainbow Week in 8G.
 

We have have all enjoyed taking part in lots of fun, rainbow themed activities including making glittery rainbow ice balls and a colour mixing Skittles experiment as part of our World About Me topic. We made some beautiful rainbow heart…

Well, it’s finally half-term and it seems like forever since we’ve all been together in class, but our whole class sessions on Teams have kept all our spirits up, Our baking sessions have been brilliant, and this week was no exception - we made chocolate cakes in class, and Harry, Eshan and Josh…

What a busy week we’ve had in 8G!
 

Our theme has been Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, and we’ve really enjoyed watching the original film in class. Katie and Clayton are also reading the book. We linked our science to this topic when we explored solids and liquids - we talked about what…

8G had a great week celebrating World Religion Week amongst lots of other fun activities.

We learned about Buddhism, and enjoyed making pictures of Buddha with tissue paper and chalk - they were so good that we’ve put them up on the wall outside our classroom so everyone can admire them.

We…

8G have a new member of staff, Miss Pilkington. She’s already a firm favourite with many of our pupils, as she’s actually been working in the class since October, as a temporary member of staff through an agency. The good news that we can now share is that Miss Pilkington has accepted an offer to…

This week in 8G, we’ve been thinking about different types of jobs. We started off by reading a story about Charlie the firefighter. We then took turns to choose a job card, before sorting the cards into “men’s jobs” and “women’s jobs”. We had some fantastic conversations about some of the jobs,…