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11R Enjoy Chorley in Bloom
We arrived at The Hub, we managed to miss the rain and arrived there nice and dry. A young man called Zak was helping Iris and David. He was very knowledgeable. He explained what we were going to do and showed us different kinds of bulbs. We also got to smell the garlic bulbs some of us…
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Safer Internet Day @Astley Park
Another amazing Safer Internet Day at Astley Park School.
Many pupils learned the importance of understanding of reasonable and healthy time on iPad. Something we can all struggle with is recognising when we have spent too long on a device. Many of our pupils are working hard with this…
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Mental Health Awareness in 11R
We all know the importance of looking after our mental health in 11R- however this week we have been focusing on our worries and anxieties, looking at how they show themselves in in us- and some strategies that we use to help us!
We looked at positives, rather than things that we struggle…
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Celebrating Chinese New Year in 11R !
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In 11R we have had a fantastic week celebrating Chinese New Year ! We have been finding out fun facts about Chinese New Year and sharing with our friends, making origami rabbits followed by an hilarious game of Chinese whispers.
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Valentines Disco 2023
The order forms are coming home today- for this years Valentines Disco- which will be held on Thursday 9th February- 5-7pm! Please fill in your slip and return to school as soon as you can! These events are great fun and raise valuable funds towards Prom/School funds!
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11R independent travel 2023
This was our first trip out on pupil transport in year eleven.
We walked to the local bus stopped. Once the bus had stopped . Each one of us used our NOW card and ask the bus driver for a bus ticket to Leyland Tesco, quite challenging for some of us, but we all did…
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11R icy weather did not stop our fun, we made bird feeders!
Our visit to Chorley in Bloom was cancelled due to the icy weather. So we continued with our D of E topic in school. We all contributed in a class discussion with everyone saying something that could help the environment, from recycling to using energy efficient light bulbs. Then the fun…
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11R Start Volunteering With Chorley In Bloom
This week was the start of our volunteering section of our Duke of Edinburgh Award. We walked upto the education hub space of Chorley in Bloom and we had our induction with the lovely team there. We learned about health and safety in a garden and working as a team. We had a tour around the site…
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Reverse Advent 2022
Today myself, our School councillor and deputy from 11R delivered all of the donations that we had collected during advent to our local Food Bank!
We had planned to go as a class- but unfortunately due to the weather we couldn’t!
A big Thank You to everybody that sent in donations-…
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11R Build up to Christmas
11R have had great time celebrating their very last Christmas at Astley Park School.
With craft days making lots of things from snowmen, cards, hand made presents for family and many more things, parties, Christmas gifts , school production and end of term trips. Oh my goodness what busy…
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Secondary Christmas Spectacular
What a Performance we had on Tuesday!
The secondary department would like to thank all the parents, family, carers and family friends who came to see our show and also those of you who joined from home via video link. It was a wonderful turn out.
I am sure you will all join me in…
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11R Sharing Our Learning - Hairspray
Today we welcomed our parents and careers into school to show off our learning throughout the Autumn term.
Parents were welcomed into the hall to watch a presentation of rehearsal photos which lead us into watching our PE Hairspray performance taught to us by Dani from Chorley School Sports…