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As well as all the wonderful activities that went on in classes during World Book Day, the day ended with a fabulous parade of the costumes worn by the students. Prizes were up for grabs for the best costumes in each key stage. Mr Welsh, Miss Melling and Mrs Powell had a very difficult time…

We read the story of The Wizard of Oz. We focused on the story of the lion and learned about courage. We had a class discussion about times we need courage and what helps us get through.

some pupils identified that the lion didn’t drink a magic potion to have courage. The potion was a…

Beech Class had a lovely day celebrating World Book Day with lots of fun activities supporting the story we have been looking at in class 'Commotion in the Ocean'. 

We had a special visitor into class on Wednesday as baby Harvey came to see us all. The children spoke to Harvey's mum about how hard it is to have a new baby. We talked about nappy changing, dressing and feeding, as well as how much it costs to buy all the things a new baby needs. Mum said that…

World Book Day 2020!!

Some students came dressed in some fantastic costumes today. We celebrated animals in literature and looked at the stories of "Little Red Riding Hood" and "A Squash and a squeeze."  The students watched a staff presentation of the Julia Donaldson story as well as taking…

Chestnut Class have had a great day celebrating world book day!

we listened to the story of the rainbow fish, then explored lots of under the sea activities and made some jelly fish.

Chestnut Class had a great look around the Sealife Centre on Tuesday!

We saw lots of different under the sea animals, our favourite was the sting rays and sharks!

For World Book Day, Maple Class enjoyed reading the story of Cock A Moo Moo, about a cockerel who forgets his noise. He enjoyed meeting lots of new animal friends and learning about the noises they make, before remembering how to Cock A Doodle Doo with help from his friends. We then enjoyed making…

With it being World Book Day and Astley Park School having an Animal theme, this morning we have read the book 'Giraffes Can't Dance'.

After reading the book we got creative and made our own giraffes. We had a paper plate each and we could use paint, glue, paper, scissors and googly eyes. As…

It was Group 2's turn to cook today. After pancakes last week, made by Group 1, it was time for something savoury. As Miss Aindow's favourite food is pizza (it's even her signing name!), we thought we would adapt the traditional pizza and make it slightly easier/healthier and cook tortilla…

In ‘My Creativity’ this week we have been having fun with musical instruments. 
Miss Heaton put lots of instruments at the front and we all had to follow instructions as to what instrument to pick. We then had to do super looking for the symbol prompts to start and stop playing and if we were…

During our "understanding of the world" lesson this afternoon, our classroom was transformed into a French cafe. We tried orange juice (jus d'orange), bread (pain), pain au chocolat and criossants. We used french vocabulary and when Mrs Crouch asked if we wanted to try a food, we responded with…