8A

Our final week in 8A

Wow, what can we say. It’s been an amazing year in 8A. We have had plenty of laughs and also worked really hard all year! 

So, to celebrate our year in 8A, we had our own little celebration awards assembly in class. 

The learners were Worlds Best in different…

On Tuesday, 8A went on their end of year trip. We walked into Chorley and made our way to Escape Entertainment where the staff were waiting for us. 

When we went in we got ourselves settled and then started playing Crazy Golf. Wow, what amazing aim they all had and we even had a few holes in…

Sports week in 8A

Our first activity at the start of our Sport week was Yoga. 

We were introduced to Tracey again who started our Yoga session by a little Meditation. We followed Tracey’s instructions and did a big breath in then big breath out whilst holding their chest with their…

Duck visit in 8A

This week we have had a few special visitors. Miss Molloy from Sycamore class arranged for Astley Park to be the proud owners of some duck eggs. The school has looked after these duck eggs and three of the eggs hatched. 

In turn each class within Astley Park have looked…

What a busy week it’s been in 8A.

This week it’s been Rainbow week and Neurodiversity week.

At the start of the Rainbow activity day the class target was to say one thing they have learnt about Rainbow day / Pride month after the activity. 

Firstly, 8A watched a video about…

On Wednesday, 8A did an exciting science lesson with Miss Robertson. Their target was to design their very own potion. 

Firstly 8A watched a clip from Harry Potter where the pupils from Hogwarts were making their own potions. 

8A then looked at different shaped potion bottles on their IPads…

This Tuesday Astley Park School looked at “World Hunger Day”. 

Some learners in school brought in non perishable food items to donate. Thank you. These items will be donated to the locate food bank that families use when they are in difficult times.  

8A was asked to write down on a white…

On Monday morning 8A participated in a 20 minute yoga session. We had a lovely lady called Tracey that came into school to take this yoga session. 

Firstly, we concentrated on our breathing and how our tummy moves when we do deep breathing, breathing in through our noses and out through our…

This week in our Food Technology lesson, 8A made a sorting hat which we have all seen when we watched Harry Potter. 

The class followed a step by step instruction sheet and also followed Ms Cullen’s demonstration. 

The learners showed good listening and made super choices throughout the…

This Monday 8A took advantage of the dry weather and we walked to Devonshire RoadPlayground.

Whilst walking, we all concentrated on road safety and demonstrated good awareness of what we need to do to cross the road safely. 

When at the park, 8A showed fantastic turn taking with the…

On Tuesday 8A did lots of egg-ercise when hunting for their eggs on their Easter egg hunt. They did an egg-cellent job when using their map work to search for their hidden egg. Using directions to help them they found all 11 egg faces. Then when they got back they got egg-xactly what they wanted-…

On Thursday 8A participated in looking through a PowerPoint all about Down Syndrome. 

8A identified that we had two learners in class that have Down Syndrome. 

The PowerPoint explained that people are born with Down Syndrome because they are born with different cells. This is ok. This is…