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Children's Mental Health Week 2025 took place at Astley Park School between the 3rd -9th February 2025. This year, one of the themes is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself and aims to raise awareness and support and empower young people.

The learners watched a couple of PowerPoints to help them to…

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week - “Know yourself - Grow yourself” During this week we’ve talked about how we feel when we our bodies are dysregulated and what we can do to help us feel calm, happy and regulated again. The learners had lots of ideas and we discussed how things work for…

We started this week on Monday with a breathing activity as it’s Children’s Mental Health week this week and we wanted to do something that is good for us. Then it was maths where continued to look at the months of the year. In the afternoon we were working on our road safety and we all went up to…

On Monday Miss Troughton delivered Our Creativity lesson with the theme ‘Seaside’. This week we copied a picture by drawing it, then colouring it in. After this we got different materials and used glue to stick it to our pictures.

This week is Children’s Mental Health week.

Children's Mental…

This week, we have been learning about Children's Mental Health Awareness Week through a range of activities. 

During regulation sessions, we have learnt about how certain activities, for example - yoga, can help with our mental health. 

We learnt about Children's Mental Health Awareness…

This week Beech class have enjoyed learning all about bugs. During continuous provision, we used different materials to find the hidden bugs, explored the rhyme ‘incy wincy spider’, made playdoh insects, coloured in pictures and read stories all about the creepy crawlies. 

We also enjoyed…

We’ve loved our first week back with Miss Seddon; we’ve done lots of fun activities throughout the week. 

Monday- In food technology we made orange juice and in class we listened to our hungry caterpillar sensory story. 

Tuesday- We enjoyed lots of gross motor activities in P.E. 

In class…

This week year 11 have been thinking about our mental health. We discussed about what emotions we feel, how we might deal with that in a college setting and what we could do to help ourselves. Who can we talk to, what activities might make us feel better and how important it is to share your…

9A have been really busy since the Christmas break.

We found that we have some budding gymnasts in PE. Pupils did really well balancing on the beams and keeping a bean bag on their heads whilst navigating around obstacles. Over the PE lessons pupils have used equipment like hula hoops and mats…

It's Children's Mental Health Week this week and Oak class have been taking part by wearing our own clothes or the colour Green on Monday. This year's theme is 'Know Yourself, Grow Yourself'.

We have been exploring lots of exciting activities all week and we especially enjoyed Miss Mellings…

This term, we have been reading the story “ The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. We have made our own caterpillars, butterflies and made some food to feed our caterpillars. We have all been so busy! 
Well done Sycamore for all your hard work! 
 

This term in Sycamore, we are learning all about making healthy choices! 
As part of this we have been making fruit skewers! 
We have all worked super hard on being able to cut our fruit independently and place the fruit on the skewer, all while independently following our instructions! 
Well…