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A massive thank you to Bircacre Garden Centre for donating some bulbs to our class - we have started planting them, watered them and are eagerly awaiting for them to grow!

Hopefully we will be able to show you a beautiful, display of flowers in a few weeks time!

This week in Sycamore it was World Religion Week in Sycamore we looked at Islam, we looked at The 5 Pillars of Islam and the beliefs of how to live a good life.  We looked at the declaration of faith (Shahada),  prayer (salah), alms-giving (zakat), fasting (sawm) and pilgrimage (hajj)

We then…

This week 10R have looked at Judaism.

pupils have explored what it is like to be a Jew, learning about their holy day Shabbat. They have also learnt about the symbol, the Star of David. 
 

We incorporated Hanukkah, a festival of dedication through light, into a yoga session. Pupils…

As we get closer to Online Safety Day 2022, we are beginning to look at gaming and the dangers for our pupils around being engrossed in such a hobby.

On Tuesday 8th February school will be looking at gaming and the relationships involved with such an activity. Pupils will be taking part in…

On Friday, Oak class had a very special treat to celebrate Arav's birthday! We all sat together at our group table and enjoyed a McDonald's treat to celebrate. We all chose what we would like and absolutely loved it! Thank you Arav - we hope you had a wonderful birthday over the…

This week we will be celebrating World Religion Week. Each class will have a different religion to learn about and celebrate.  Keep your eyes peeled for our whole school blog at the end of the week. 

Rowan Class have had a super busy week!

We got back in the pool on Monday as our weekly swimming lessons resumed and we all had so much fun.

We have been using our Thinking and Problem Solving skills in cookery this week, making sandwiches, and decorating cakes - counting ingredients and…

In class we have been having our breakfast in the “Cafe at The Astley”. Each person in our class has been given their own job role to fulfil within the cafe. We have various different roles including: waiter, cooks, washing up, drying up and cleaner. Everyone has worked really hard and has done…

9G on Safari

Our topic this half term in 9G is Safari Animals. 

We listened to the sounds of some different Safari animals. 

Some of the learners copied the sounds. 

We have been learning facts about loins, giraffes, cheetahs, zebras, elephants and monkeys. 

9G did a…

Happy New Year everyone!

8A have had a fantastic start to the new year. We thought you might like to know all about our new theme, "Our Planet" and what we will be learning about this term. 

My Communication

In My Communication this half term, Mrs Crouch will be helping us to write some…

We had great fun on our first visit to Chorley in Bloom.  
After a short ride on the school mini bus we arrived at the community garden. We meet two lovely ladies that are going to help us.  Each one of us got a little yellow bag, which had seeds for us to look at . Gill and Iris told us…

What a wonderful first swimming session we have had this week in Sycamore. Our teachers are super impressed with how well we all did. Everyone followed instructions, was extremely sensible, tried very hard putting a lot of effort into their swimming and had also importantly had fun! We swam on our…