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This week 7A have been looking at the Anglo Saxons and what weapons they used to fight in the battle against the Vikings. At the start of the week they looked at what they used to defend themselves. The children made some amazing shields and designed their very own pattern to go on the front of…

This week at Astley Park School we have celebrated the Buddhist festival of Wesak. 

In 10G we have been learning about Wesak and what the festival is about. We learnt that Wesak is the most important of the Buddhist festivals and during this time Buddhists collect food and donate it to…

Today 10R visited Duke Street Family and Well being service. 
We listened to the staff carefully and answered lots of questions on parenting awareness. 
The class practiced changing nappies and dressing babies. All our babies stayed on the changing matts and not on the floor !
The class…

This week in 7A we have been learning the importance of looking after our bodies and how we can look after our friends. 

The children have been following on from last week with first aid training. This week we discussed and practiced the recovery position and the steps we need to take before…

On Monday, all pupils celebrated Wesak (Buddha Day). The Buddhist festival celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of Buddha. Pupils explored the story of Buddha in ways appropriate to their pathway and worked hard creating mandalas which were entered into the APS Mandala Contest, the…

Today 10R made some beautiful cards for Wesak. 
We followed instructions to make the card as part of our celebration of Buddha day.

The class coloured in some Mandala and we talked about how we are all unique as our lotus flowers and Mandala are unique.

we learned that Wesak celebrates the…

This Friday was very exciting for the older primary children- we had a joint golden time in the hall!
Children from Willow, Sycamore and Rowan have been thinking about the transition to high school (or our friends transitions while we get some new friends in class) so we were all very excited to…

A brilliant week in beech class this week. We have looked at happy and sad for mental health week and some of us wore green for mental health day today. We have had some ice and snow attention autism sessions and a special one for mental health day. Lots of exploring and fun in our continuous…

7P have worked so hard this week! You can see a variety of pictures below of circus skills, role play, going to the shop, playing games and cooking! 
 

We have focused this week on Mental Health Awareness Week and Loneliness. 7P were able to recognise right and wrong actions around this topic…

Today we explored Mental health awareness & looked at loneliness and how we could help our friends when they felt sad. We had a lovely day creating green biscuits, cards &  friendship bracelets that we gave to our friends.
We looked at the story “Larry’s left out” & talked about how we could…

This week 11R have continued with their Environmental Awareness work in ASDAN. We took on the project of creating a bug hotel. To begin with we did some research and made a list of materials that would be needed to be gathered from around the school grounds. We had already got some pallets and…

11g have had a fantastic week looking at our own mental health. We have been outside getting lots of fresh air, riding bikes. We helped out keeping our school clean and tidy. We where give a box of chocolate in appreciation for helping out. Which did our mental health the world of good…