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On Monday we celebrated World Down Syndrome Day in school.

We celebrate on this day because 21st March signifies the uniqueness of of the trisomy of the 21st chromosome which causes Down Syndrome.

Lots of the learners wore odd socks to school to celebrate.

Some of our learners designed…

Today as a Whole School we took part in World epilepsy day. 

10R wore purple and watched a powerpoint to help us all understand epilepsy and the effect this has on others. 

As part of our day 10R watched Staff deal with an pretend seizure and how to deal with this should it happen to them…

It was a pleasure on Wednesday to take 13 pupils and 3 staff members to represent Astley Park School at Lancashire Special Schools U14 and U16 football league playing 8 competitive games in very warm conditions. Both teams played each game with a positive team spirit working hard for each other…

This week we enjoyed doing PE in the sun.

Everyone took part, listened well to instructions and tried very very hard! 
 

We enjoyed doing some races, using different equipment and working as a team in a relay race. 
 

It was lovely to see and hear everyone supporting each other. 
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In order to celebrate International Epilepsy Day 9R decided to take part in the 50 million steps challenge by walking around the track on our school field ten times which added up to one full mile. 
 

We all managed to complete the challenge and we all enjoyed the exercise in the fresh air…

This week in 7 a we have been busy making some special treats to thank the special ladies around us. Some children decided to make their gifts for their mums , grandmas , aunties and sisters. At the start of the week the class used different materials and colours to mix up some lovely scented soap…

Chestnut class have been listening and attending to lots of different musical instruments this half term. We have enjoyed the rainmaker and big drum and couldn’t wait to have a turn to repeat back the sounds we heard.  We have been recognising and identifying sounds of hidden instruments,…

One week to go to our Sponsored Swim!

We have all been practicing very hard- we just need to collect lots of sponsors! The more money we make- the better our Prom Day will be

Happy Birthday Leon!

We had a lovely time celebrating with you in Oak Class, playing pass the parcel, singing happy birthday and having a dance. Thank you for our special treat of a McDonalds lunch to celebrate we all loved it!

Maple Class have had a ‘super’ day celebrating Red Nose Day! Pupils wore their favourite superhero t shirts and costumes. Exploratory play included a red tray and red mashed potato. Attention autism consisted of a bucket filled with red balloons, coloured sand and googly eye red noses in the tuff…

9Gs Busy Week.

Monday, we looked at Astley Park School Values, Kindness, Positivity, Respect, Honesty and Teamwork. We said that staff will be looking out for 9G doing any of our values this week.

9G then shared our weekend news. It was Lily’s birthday on Sunday she told us all about…

This morning 10R walked to town to visit Ebb and Flo to get our World Book Day books. We all listened to the different book introductions and chose a book that sounded the best. 

The whole class then exchanged their tokens for their chosen book independently. 

We then walked to Massa’s to…