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Welcome back to our final term for 11G at Astley Park School! How crazy does that sound?! We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter break. We are all raring to go for our last term. 

On Monday morning we welcomed everyone back to class. As I mentioned in my email before we came back, the…

We’ve had a fantastic week in 8P! What a great first week back. 
 

On Monday, we did our holiday news, where we looked at lots of photos of what we did in the holidays and talked about our time off school. In the afternoon, we played on the wobble boards and then did our PSHE lesson on body…

This term Chestnut class are learning all about the seaside. This week we have enjoyed lots of creative tasks linked to our topic area- printing including bubble wrap print, lids and other household items to make repeated patterns and we will be continuing to explore printing over the coming…

Willow class have come back after the Easter Holidays ready to learn! 

This week half of Willow class have been swimming and the other half took part in a food tech lesson. Lots of fun was had by both groups!

We also began to explore this terms theme ‘Under the Sea’ by reading the book…

This week KS4 started their work experience at Chorley Hospital. Year 11 and year 10 students headed off to the Life Centre where we met Karen, who would be showing us round and leading the sessions while we are there. We started off by going through what each week would look like before Karen…

As part of our “houses and homes” topic, this week we have been exploring the three little pigs! 

In our Attention Autism sessions, Mrs Barrand has led us through the sensory story. She made the pigs’ houses from straw, sticks, and bricks, and then we huffed, puffed and blew them down! We’ve…

Wow, Spring Term flew by for 7A!

During the Spring Term, we did lots of fantastic learning - working on our functional life skills, our Aspirational Learning Goals and our Curriculum Learning Goals.

In My Communication based lessons, we learnt about Acrostic Poems in Spring 1 and Postcards…

This week, we have been very busy in Oak class!

On Monday, in food tech, some of us made tortilla pizzas and some of us decorated digestive biscuits, with icing and sprinkles.

We have all visited the park this week, we loved playing on the equipment at the park, with our…

Just before the Easter holidays we found out that we had been invited to the final of the Panathalon Xtend tournament that we attended back in January! 8 pupils from 11G, 10A and 9P travelled to Bolton Arena with Mrs Fisher, Mrs Banks and Miss Wilkins on the minibus on Wednesday morning.…

Today was the last day of our Easter Holiday Club. In the morning, everyone had fun in school - using the scooters,  didi cars and hover boards in the hall, having sessions in the sensory room and using the adventure playground and climbing frame outside. All the groups had a trip this afternoon -…

We’ve had another fun packed day in Easter Holiday Club. Today’s activities included more bouncing and climbing on the inflatable assault course as well as sessions in the sensory room. We also did some baking and children from our upper primary and secondary classes took part in some fantastic…

Welcome to day 1 of Holiday Heroes for the Easter Holidays 2024. We have 3 days of Holiday Club this week on Tuesday 2nd April, Wednesday 3rd April  and Thursday 4th April - there will be a separate blog for each day. 
 

Tuesday is our busiest day with 47 pupils booked in! We had lots of…