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Diwali in 7P

This week 7P celebrated Diwali. The learners looked at a PowerPoint on what activities Hindus do when they celebrate Diwali. 

The children learnt that Diwali means “Festival of Light” and it marks the beginning of the new year in the Hindu calendar. 

We looked at all the…

Maple class have been very busy this week engaging in lots of Autumn themed activities. We have been exploring Autumn coloured rice through pouring and sprinkling, improving our fine motor skills with the hammer , pumpkins and golf tees and making play doh pumpkins and spiders. We have thoroughly…

Beech class have had a great first week back after half term. This week we have enjoyed celebrating Halloween and Diwali.

During our continuous provision, we have loved making witches potions, exploring flour ghosts, making spooky monsters and used our fine motor skills to explore the…

This week has been a busy first week back. As usual we first looked at what our friends had been up to over the half term. Some of us went on a holiday, some had some sleepovers, and some of us stayed and did lots of different things with our family and friends. We have celebrated Diwali in lots…

This week we have celebrated all things Halloween in Chestnut Class, we have had lots of spooky continuous provision and Halloween themed group sessions. 

Our group sessions this week have included; 

• Halloween Sensology- We explored our different senses with Halloween themed…

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

Learners in Sycamore class had a fantastic surprise when they arrived at school this morning. Overnight, a pumpkin patch had appeared on the grass outside their classroom! Everyone went outside to choose their own pumpkin, which they then brought back into the classroom. The next job was to scoop…

This term 9A have done some fantastic work in our speaking and listening in circle time. To help us remember to take turns to listen and to speak we use ‘The talking turtle’ which means that we can speak if we have hold of it and if we don’t then it we listen and wait our turn to speak. This has…

This week at Astley Park, pupils have been learning about the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali.  It is also known as the ‘Festival of Light’ and celebrates good overcoming evil. 
Classes throughout school have celebrated this in lots of different ways, from Attention Autism sessions, to sensory…

Willow class have been learning about Halloween traditions.  Lots of us are very excited about dressing up for Halloween. We have had some spooky attention autism sessions. We have read a sensory story about some skeletons. We counted skeleton bones and tried to put them together again.  Willow…

Welcome to our blog for the second day of October half-term Holiday Club.

Today our younger children had a trip to Space sensory rooms. Everyone had a fabulous time and, as always, the giant slide was a big hit! The children enjoyed their lunch back at school and then spent some time outside on…

Welcome to our first October half-term Holiday Club blog. Today is the first day of Holiday Club this half term, we will be back again on Thursday this week.

Our younger children have had lots of fun today - they have all enjoyed bouncing on the bouncy castle in the school hall, they also had…