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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…

11G were given a white wooden bunny to decorate for Easter. They were given lots of ideas on how they could decorate them. Some chose to use felt tips - thankyou Mrs Williams, and others chose to use paint or to decoupage them using small pieces of patterned paper and glue and…

This week for Easter, 7P have been busy little chicks. 7P have been making beautiful crafts to take home to their friends and family. There has been lots of cutting and sticking, finger painting and some beautiful writing. 

The sensory tray was so much fun. Some of the children enjoyed matching…

We’ve been exploring all things Easter in  Maple this week with lots of Easter themed continuous provision. 
 

On Monday in the morning we did cookery and made Easter nest cakes, we all enjoyed eating them for our snack. 
In the afternoon we took part in an Easter themed attention autism. In…

On Monday morning we did some maths puzzles and games, we really enjoyed them. Then we did some reading. In the afternoon we painted our World War 2 model planes. Some of us found it really relaxing, some of us found it messy but we all enjoyed it. Then we did the blog and our friends did…

Apologies for our lack of blog posts recently, here is one to end this term with. Only one term left at Astley Park for 11G after these holidays.

On Monday morning we took the time to catch up on what everyone had got up to at the weekend. We used this as part of our speaking and listening…