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What a lovely day for Planting trees! 

We had a great time planting 6 Silver Birch Trees in Astley Park- in conjunction with Chorley in Bloom and Chorley Borough Council- the trees are going to be part of a Remembrance Walk in memory of a Council Worker and local people who sadly lost their…

On Thursday 21st March Chestnut Class celebrated World Down Syndrome Day. The theme this year is # End the Stereotypes. The day is represented by lots of socks because chromosomes look like socks!  We wore brightly coloured socks or odd socks, designed socks using the primary colours and balloons…

On Friday it was Red Nose Day. We all brought the red and wore some amazing red outfits. We painted on our red nose, enjoyed lots of activities with 'red' themes and worked together to make some crafts and enjoy an Attention Autism session.

Well done Team!

This week in Maths we have finished our topic of data and statistics, we split into groups and looked at charts, line graphs, pictograms and collecting and reading data. On Monday we started making our world war 2 planes to show parents and carer’s when they come in for sharing our learning next…

Today we have learnt all about the history of Red Nose Day, why we celebrate it and how we can raise money to help children all around the world.

We also designed our own red noses, did some wonderful colouring and made a red nose picture of ourselves. 
 

It’s been very busy this week in Willow class. We had swimming, bikeability,and a library visit at the beginning of the week. We did some excellent work on the life cycle of a frog and continued our sensory story We’re Going On A Bear Hunt. We also read non-fiction texts and then made posters…

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…