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Today KS4 and KS3 had a very special visitor; Kerry from Lowther Theatre came in to run a short workshop with a few of the KS4 and KS3 classes. We talked about all of the different jobs that are involved in the theatre, from actors and dancers to the lighting and sound production to the people who…

What a fantastic visit to Boulder. 10A were a shining example of Astley Park School, displaying so many of our values. We showed great kindness and teamwork by helping each other, offering support and guidance to our friends. 
This week we re visited the holds we use and played a game to see if…

Celebrating Neurodiversity in 8A

This week 8A has been looking at Neurodiversity and celebrating “Different Minds” and that it’s good to be different. We are all different!

8A played a small game of bingo. The cards had different types of people’s hair.

Miss Robertson then…

This week we have been very busy taking part in lots of activities. 

We celebrated Neurodiversity week by learning about how we are all different, in the way we process information and the way we think. 
This was a very interesting lesson, and we all learnt lots of interesting facts.

On…

This week on our weekly visit to Nuffield gym the group met Justin a PT who kindly stepped in for Ashley who was unable to meet with us this week. However, Ashley had left details with Justin of what the group had been working on in the gym. After a short warm up and stretches the group helped…

This week Beech Class have been exploring the different types of weather. 

At the start of the week, we explored the rain. In attention autism, Mrs Barrand used an umbrella to protect herself from the different types of rain. We used sparkly glitter, hailstone rice and some of even got sprayed…

Maple class enjoyed word book day!

Mrs Gregory, Miss Townson, Miss Wheeler, Miss Brown and Miss Woods dressed as trolls!

All the class enjoyed a superhero themed attention autism session, we did super listening and turn taking! In stage one we all enjoyed seeing what was inside the box, for…

Maple class enjoyed exploring our focus of the Arctic! 

We enjoyed exploring the provision and engaging with Arctic themed activities! We listened to our Polar Bear sensory story and did lots of brilliant communicating and listening. Everyone enjoyed our sensology session, we looked at arctic…

We had a SUPER World Book Day in Sycamore Class.
 

Sycamore Class were joined by some new friends from The Hive at Buckshaw primary school. 

Our friends joined us for a morning of World Book Day fun, we started off in the hall where we all took part in a Super Hero themed drama…

What an exciting Careers week at Astley Park School!!  As part of our careers programme, learners have taken part in lots of activities linked to jobs and careers. 

KS4 students have undertaken inverse job interviews, speaking with local employers to find out lots about the local labour market.…

This week you will see a new face in our pictures as we have a new member of the class team, Miss Knott. Miss Knott has been a great help and we are happy to have her.

This week is Neurodiversity Week in school, we started our Monday Morning off by talking about how our brains are different and…

What a great time we’ve had in Willow class. At the beginning of the week we made a snowstorm out of lemonade and mentos, walked barefoot through squelchy mud and learnt about different types of habitats. We also continued to look at non-fiction texts and began filming our own version of We’re…