Blog Author: Mrs Russell

Yesterday the children in Chestnut Class had a fun afternoon creating animal prints.

After watching Mrs Smith do an animal themed ‘What’s in the Box’ the children then used different animals and paint to make footprints on their paper. They then experimented using different shapes to create a…

Well as we come to the end of another week learning from home let’s see what the Chestnut superstars have been up to …

First up is George,

George has been practising his fine motor skills this week, cutting, sticking and colouring, to make a fantastic, yummy ice cream! He has also been…

The sun seems to have gone behind the clouds this week but Chestnut class are all still smiling J

Let’s go to Harry first…

Harry has been making the most of MADD week. He has been practising his yoga with Cosmic Kids, had a teddy bears picnic, played shops and been dressing up. I can see on…

Even though the sun has disappeared we have had a lovely, fun week in Oak Club.

We started most mornings by listening to the sensory story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We counted out all the food that he ate and even guessed that he would change into a beautiful butterfly! We talked about the…

Hi All,

I hope you are all keeping safe and well.

Some lovely news to start with. On the 16^th of April, Miss Hothersall had her baby girl who they have called Lottie. They are both home and doing well J

Now as we are coming to the end of another week of learning from home let’s see what…

Chestnut Class have had another super busy couple of weeks working from home. It makes my day seeing all your super pictures so thank you so much for taking the time so send them!

First up is Harry …. Harry has been making lots of fantastic Easter Arts and Crafts, I really like his yellow…

Since being at home the children in Chestnut class have been super busy!

Harry has been cooking yummy biscuits with his sister, having lots of fun every morning with Joe Wicks, and joining in singing lots of counting rhymes.

Noah has been working hard on Education City, practising tracing…

As a special treat 8G and 8R went for lunch to The Astley.

We all did lovely talking to our friends and showed The Astley staff what super manners we have!!

We have come away with full tummies and big smiles :-)

Today in 8G we learnt all about Holi Festival.

We looked at why and how Hindus celebrate the festival and decided it sounded like lots of fun!!!

After we had learnt all about it we had a colour party of our own, just like they do in the carnival of colour.

We used all different techniques…

With it being World Book Day and Astley Park School having an Animal theme, this morning we have read the book 'Giraffes Can't Dance'.

After reading the book we got creative and made our own giraffes. We had a paper plate each and we could use paint, glue, paper, scissors and googly eyes. As…

In ‘My Creativity’ this week we have been having fun with musical instruments. 
Miss Heaton put lots of instruments at the front and we all had to follow instructions as to what instrument to pick. We then had to do super looking for the symbol prompts to start and stop playing and if we were…

As part of the LGBT+ celebrations we decorated our own rainbows that we are going to display in our classroom. 

We had a a very grown up discussion about how we are all different and the world would be a very boring place if we were all the same. Some of us could even tell me what LGBT stands…