25 Jun

Sports Week: Paralympians

https://www.paralympic.org/video/ellie-simmonds-great-britain-women-s-200m-individual-medley-sm6

Hi Everyone 

Welcome to Thursday's blog, today we will be looking at the Great Britain Swimmer, Ellie Simmonds, who won the gold medal at the Paralympics and beat the world record by 2…

24 Jun

Sports Week: Paralympians

 
 
Hi Everyone
 

Welcome to Wednesday's blog. Today we will be looking at the highlights of some of the Volleyball Teams that competed in the Paralympics. Volleyball is a very fast and competitive sport and you have to work together as a…

23 Jun

Sports Week: Paralympians

Hi Everyone

Welcome to Tuesday’s blog. Today we will be looking at Paralympian Jonnie Peacock, a sprint runner and amputee, who ran in the men's 100 metres representing Great Britain. Please click on the link to watch the event where Jonnie Peacock not only won gold, he broke his own world…

22 Jun

11R Sports week challenges

As this week is Sports week, here are some suggested activities to keep you busy throughout the week! 

I look forward to seeing your pictures remember to blog them on Purple Mash or upload them to EFL

 

Disney active 10 minute games

https://www.nhs.uk/change4life/activities 

 

22 Jun

Six Star Challenge week 3 photo's

Hi everybody, we are so proud of how well you are doing in these challenges. Thank you for joining in and we love seeing your photos and videos each week! You look like you are enjoying them. 

This week pupils had some really tough challenges including tidying their bedrooms! I think your…

22 Jun

Sports Week Special Six Star Challenge

NEWSFLASH - We have updated the awards criteria so anyone who tries a challenge will get a bronze award

22 Jun

Sports Week: Paralympians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qynsSP-bXNg

Hi Everyone

Welcome to Monday's blog, this week at Astley Park school it is Sports Week, there are going to be different activities everyday that you can join in with at home and have some fun with family members

The Paralympics is a series of…

19 Jun

Sports Week 2020

We are excited to announce the details of this year’s Sports Week that all of our learners can take part in whether they are learning at home or in school.

What we will be doing

  1. There will be six sports challenges to complete across the week. The challenges are: Warm up, Throw, Catch or…
17 Jun

Lunchtime Lego Club

Hello everybody and welcome back to our Lego Lunchtime Club.
 

When we were last in school we had lots of fun making lots of different models with Lego and I have come up with an idea for you to do at home. This week at Astley Park we are thinking about rainbows so I would like to challenge…

15 Jun

Six Star Challenge Week 3

Happy Monday!

Here is this week's 6 star challenge.  We'd love to see as many pupils as possible get involved.

Remember if you try all 6 challenges you get a gold award certificate, trying 5 challenges wins you a silver award and you will receive a bronze award for trying 4…

10 Jun

Six Star Challenge - plank position demonstration

Hi

We just thought we would share a video to show you how to do a correct plank exercise from Mr Murphy. It's fantastic to see so many of you trying these new challenges, keep it up.

A new challenge will be published each Monday for you to achieve your stars that week, this week is week 2.…

10 Jun

11R Focus their breathing

Breathing is a great way to focus the mind. It can stop unwanted distractions and help us to concentrate on what is important. 

Try this:

  • Stand or sit for this activity.
  • Put both hands on your belly.
  • Close your eyes, or look down to your hands.
  • You may like to count “1, 2, 3” for…