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It’s our final week in Beech class! To celebrate what a super year we’ve had, we have spent the week enjoying all our favourite activities. We have had lots of fun visiting the sensory room & hall, exploring lots of water play & sensory activities in class , and spending time together on the…

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…

This week we have enjoyed coming together to meet our new friends and staff team as part of our transition onto Maple Class in September. Lots of us know each other already and we have also welcomed a new learner to Astley Park too and we look forward to her joining us full time.
 

Maple Class…

9R had a wonderful time at their end of year party today! We had a lovely buffet of crisps and cakes that the learners purchased themselves at ASDA and followed it up with some dancing and some party games like musical statues and musical chairs. After a little boogie we headed outside for some…

This week we have enjoyed spending our last week together in Oak class. There has been lots of fun, laughs and play - we will all miss each other so much but we are very excited to watch the children flourish as they take their next steps at Astley Park. To celebrate our wonderful year, we had a…

McDonald Day and Party time in 9G

Well, today was our McDonald’s Day , which all the class has been looking forward to all week. Miss Cross kindly went for our HUGE order to McDonald’s in town. 

The learners were very happy to see Miss Cross with all the McDonald’s bags in the pink…

This afternoon we have had our transition afternoon with new staff who will be with 9G when they become 10G in September.

Mrs Fisher led the session where we were introduced to Zones of Regulation which will be replacing the ALERT programme that we currently use in class. We looked at the…

On Monday morning, we were very kindly joined by Teddy, Annie, Amelia and Daniel's Mum with our Adventurers group for a cooking session as part of our Sharing Our Learning.

Parents got to experience how we all take part in a cooking session and followed along with the pupils as we made our way…

This morning Chestnut Class had their transition session ready for September. 

To fit in with the hot hot weather, Miss Hothersall and Miss Cross planned a fun sensory play based session around the theme ‘Ice Cream’.  

Our morning began with us exploring our environment and meeting our new…

Teamwork by 9G

Over the past couple of weeks, 9G have been working on a project in small groups. Their project was to create their very own circus character. The groups had to think of what activity the character was good at, what they wore, how they would speak and of course a name. The…

This afternoon children from Willow class and Sycamore class were invited to join other Chorley schools for a football skills session at westway sports centre.

We practiced looking after our own ball, taking the ball from opponents, shooting, dribbling the ball and passing to friends. All the…

What an end to a great time at Astley Park School.

We celebrated by getting our shirts signed, yes we were allowed to write on each other’s shirts.

Then the final day arrived,  after sausage butties for breakfast at school. We had a few tears but happy ones. We all had graduation gowns…