26 Feb

9R I’ll be there for you #friends #family

After a much deserved break, 9R were back in action and ready to start another term of doing some brilliant work. On Monday our learners in school continued our WW2 topic by researching Anne Frank and her famous journal during the war. They discovered lots of interesting facts about her life and…

25 Feb

Different Families, Same Love in Rowan

This week in Rowan class we have been celebrating ‘Different Families, Same Love’. 

We listened to a story ‘The Family Book’ and learnt about different families. We talked about who lives in our houses and what we love about them. 

On Tuesday Mrs Carney did an Attention Autism session and we…

25 Feb

Chestnut Class go on a Bug Hunt

This week in Chestnut Class, we have been reading the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

We have enjoyed making our own caterpillars, exploring the fruit that the caterpillar ate in the story, counting the fruit, and having fun in our sensory story tuff tray. We even went on our very own bug…

25 Feb

We are all Different in Chestnut Class and That is Great!

This week at Astley Park School, we have been looking at we have been celebrating diversity within our families entitled ‘Different Families, Same Love’.

In Chestnut Class we have been looking at our family books and pictures of our families.

We then saw our friends on our video call and…

25 Feb

‘Different Families, Same Love’ in Sycamore.

This week we have been very busy in Sycamore class. Our theme has been ‘Different Families, Same Love’ we have looked at how families may vary and what family means to us. We enjoyed seeing our friends and listening to the story of ‘Part of the Party’ and hearing how the plan for the party had…

22 Feb

Different Families, Same Love - An Information Blog for Parents

Different Families, Same Love

LGBT+ History Month is celebrated in February in the UK. This week, Astley Park School is proud to celebrate LGBT History Month through exploring different family types. 

  • All learners will be working towards our weekly six star challenge in which all…
12 Feb

Learning together 12/2/2 11G

A fabulous final week for 11G before we break up for a well deserved rest over half term. 
 

Lots of wonderful fun activities this week including keep fit sessions with Joe Wicks, exhausting but really great fun..and then a great Trepak and Russian dancing session using bouncy balls in time to…

12 Feb

Happy Birthday Daniel!

Today Willow class celebrated a special day- Daniel’s birthday! Daniel is 11 tomorrow so we had an early birthday party in class today to have a lovely time with friends before half term when Daniel can celebrate with his family.

We all played musical statues and Daniel asked to be the party DJ…

12 Feb

A fabulous end to Spring 1 in 7A

7A have really impressed the staff team this week with their hard work, kind words and team spirit! 
 

In our My Thinking and Problem Solving lessons this week we practiced our number skills with Mrs Fisher. We also took part in Safer Internet Day on Tuesday and had some fabulous discussions…

12 Feb

10G smashed another lockdown!

Wow 10G. We made it to half term. We have all been learning from home this half term. It has been very strange but we have enjoyed still being able to see each other four days a week on our TEAMS calls and understand that we need to stay safe at home. We have all had another busy week this week.…

12 Feb

Beech class explore Valentine’s Day activities

We have explored pink and red paints making some lovely paintings. We enjoyed our strawberry and cream sensory tray with marsh mallows and sprinkles and some lovely pink foam. Well done. 
 

Mrs Barrand, Mrs Banks, Ms Goonan, Miss Holden. 
 

12 Feb

Chestnut Class Superstars

What another busy week for Chestnut Class!

We have been carrying on with our beach theme in Class. We have all been busy building sandcastles, making huge ice-creams from different materials and decorating them, pretending to be crabs and click-clacking with instruments, and making handprint…