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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…

9G had a lot of fun at Astley Park on Monday afternoon. We went to the pets corner first to see all the different animals. We particularly found the tortoise and bunny rabbits fun to watch. We then went to the park and had an amazing time. We went on the zip wire, crawled through the tunnels,…

In our "Understanding of the World" lessons this afternoon, we will be learning about where foods come from with a geography focus. Last week, we learnt all about foods that come from Italy. We tried pizza, mozerella cheese, risotto and spaghetti. We then went into groups and found Italy on the…

On Tuesday 7G were very busy! We began learning more about dentists and how to look after our teeth!

We all had a go at brushing our own teeth, making sure we used our own toothbrush with our name on, some toothpaste and water! Once we had cleaned them all, some of us had a go a chewing a…

For World History Day, Maple Class looked at the toys children used to play with in the olden days. Maple looked at rocking horses, jack in a boxes and penny spinners. We talked about the toys we like to play with and  compared them. We then went to tables and enjoyed making some old toys…

It was our first Cooking and Nutrition session of Spring 2 and we couldn't miss the chance to make pancakes after it was Shrove Tuesday this week!

It was Group 1's turn to cook this week- we are all getting much better at remembering how to set up when we get into the Food Tech room. We wash…

Welcome back from what I hope was a lovely half term break!

We’ve hit the ground running this week in 8G, lots of fantastic work has been happening.

On Wednesday morning we took part in our second My Thinking and Problem Solving lesson of the week. This started with a quick game of Numicon…