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8A represented Astley Park in the Chorley High School Bowling competition this week. The event was organised by Chorley Sports Partnership and was held at Escape Entertainment Chorley. We were put into 2 teams  and took over lanes 5 and 6. Our Team Managers were Mr Crew and Mrs Devlin, who aren’t…

What a fantastic first week back!
Everyone was happy to be back at school and has settled back in to their routines extremely well.

7A visited Astley Park on Thursday afternoon. 

They left school and walked to the park showing their road safety skills along the way. Everyone stopped at each…

Beech Class have had a lovely couple of days celebrating Eid. 
We have had Eid themed sensory trays, coloured ‘Happy Eid’ cards, decorated Mehndi handprints with pen dabbers, and made a moon and stars picture with materials in Attention Autism. 
This afternoon, for snack we have had an Eid…

Today we have been looking at the Eid holiday.

Eid al-Fitr is the earlier of the two official holidays celebrated within Islam. The religious holiday is celebrated by Muslims worldwide because it marks the end of the month-long dawn-to-sunset fasting of Ramadan.

The day starts with prayers…

In 9A this week, we’ve been learning about Eid. 

The children enjoyed our focused lesson about Eid and Islamic Culture. 

First of all, we discussed what Eid is: a festival to celebrate the end of Ramadan. We recapped what Ramadan is and other important Islamic traditions and aspects of…

Welcome back ! 
Hit the ground running this week with some amazing digital art work . The children looked at digital images and used their words to talk about what they could see. The children then recreated the art work by using colours on the same image and adding in a printed photograph of…

We have had a very busy first week back in Rowan Class. 

Our topic this term is Down at the Farm.

We have been exploring plants and flowers, planting our own cress and getting the Rowan Class Garden ready.

We have made jam sandwiches in cooking, and explored picnics.

Some of us…

This term, 9A in their Tuesday afternoon cooking activity, made “Subway Cookies” with different fillings. This week we used white chocolate chip. 

We have chosen cookies for this term as 9A is looking at capacity and showing the class that these cookies start as small balls but spread out…

10R have had a very busy first week back after the Easter holidays!

On Monday we continued to look at inversion calculations in Maths and in the afternoon we began our new topic in Science, 'States of Matter', where we began to look at the difference between solids, liquids and gases.

On…

Well we are in our final term at Astley Park School- and the sun is shining - we have had a lovely first week back, it’s always nice, after a couple of weeks off school, to get back with our friends and find out what every has been up to in the holidays- we have had camping, holidays abroad,…

It’s our final day in Holiday Heroes this holiday period, but don’t worry, we’ll be back in May half- term.

Group 1 went to Space sensory rooms in Preston today. Everyone, including the staff, had a brilliant time on the fantastic slide, jumping in the ball pit and fun playing with the…

Day 2 of Holiday Heroes has gone well with lots of our lovely pupils enjoying a private screening of “Mummies” at Reel Cinema in Chorley. Everyone made good choices at the cinema and loved their goody bags with mini bags of popcorn, sweets, chocolate, biscuits and a drink.

Take a look at our…