Blog Author: Mrs Powell

What an exciting Careers week at Astley Park School!!  As part of our careers programme, learners have taken part in lots of activities linked to jobs and careers. 

KS4 students have undertaken inverse job interviews, speaking with local employers to find out lots about the local labour market.…

Today’s World Book Day was a huge success! Thank you all for your efforts, our students looked amazing! Some truly brilliant costumes. 

Well done to our Staff team who made it so fabulous due to their amazing efforts as always! What a fantastic day!

Our primary learners were treated to some…

Today we explored the Mormon celebration of Pioneer Day that is celebrated in Utah, America.  We learnt about Brigham Young, who in 1846, led like-minded people from New York, 2700 miles to Salt Lake City. They travelled pulling small wooden carts with their own belongings together with horses,…

A rainbow of colour descended on Astley Park today as we celebrated Autism Awareness day.  Learners across school took part in lots of wonderful activities to create autism awareness. Our explorers took part in Attention Autism sessions where rainbows and colours were the main theme.  Adventurers…

World Autism Acceptance Week is back from 27 March – 2 April 2023 and we will be celebrating World Autism Awareness Day which takes place in school on Friday 31st March 2023. On this day we are asking our learners to come to school dressed in colourful clothing.  We are hoping that in each class…

Wow!!! What a fantastic World Book Day we have all had!!

We celebrated World Book Day this year thinking about Movement in literature.  For our Adventurers and Explorers, we had fabulous dance workshops. Those in Primary explored Handa's Surprise and in secondary, Charlie and the Chocolate…

As religious Studies is part of our collapsed options choices, 10R have had lots of fun looking at Judaism this week as part of World Religion Week.  We learnt about the story of Passover; when Moses led the Jewish slaves to freedom from the Egyptians. We looked at how families celebrate this…

Today the 'R' classes in KS4 took part in their My Choices Day.  This is a collapsed curriculum day where option subjects are chosen by the pupils and they study their choices based on the theme. This term it is Remembrance Day and the option choices were: History, Geography, Art, Modern Foreign…

9R have spent time this week with their new class team and in their new classroom. All students took it in their stride as they took part in team challenges and games to help them settle in. These included watering the KS4 garden which is no mean feet!!! Students had to problem solve moving water…

11R had a fantastic time at their prom on Thursday 30th June. After meeting for drinks and nibbles, the class had their official prom photoshoot before boarding the huge Hummer Limo that whisked them away to Shawhill Golf Club. There, they enjoyed a mocktail reception, a beautiful 2 course meal…

Hello and welcome to our final year 11R summer term. This term is going to be fast and furious as we have lots to get through. 

As you will probably already know lots of our students have sat their initial entry level exams in maths and English. Some of the students will be continuing to sit…

Wow what a fantastic day we have had!!

At the beginning of the day Mr Welsh held a whole school teams video call and showed everyone CCTV footage from last night.  A mysterious visitor had been creeping around the secondary classrooms looking in cupboards and drawers. Who could this sneaky…