17 Jan

Online Gaming and Relationship

As we get closer to Online Safety Day 2022, we are beginning to look at gaming and the dangers for our pupils around being engrossed in such a hobby.

 

On Tuesday 8th February school will be looking at gaming and the relationships involved with such an activity. Pupils will be taking part in…

3 Dec

First Signs of Christmas in 11R

This week we have had our first taste of Christmas activities. Firstly some pupils visited Runshaw College where they made some gingerbread and other festive treats and had a look around the facilities. Then class visited Four Seasons Leisure Centre to visit the gym where they worked out using the…

30 Nov

St Andrew’s Day in 11R

Today in 11R we have learned so much about St Andrew the patron saint of Scotland. We started with word searches and crosswords which introduced us to some new words. Then we watched the story of St Andrew and did some guided reading from a Powerpoint. Some of us did a sequencing activity to help…

24 Nov

St Andrew’s Day Celebrations at Astley Park School!

On Tuesday 30th November, we will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day in classes. Some classes will be celebrating this through sensory play with water, some will be focusing on the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, whilst others while be exploring the life of St Andrew using information…

19 Nov

11R - One kind word, good CLEAN fun making soap and a birthday boy.

Another busy week in 11R. With this week being friendship week, we started off with odd sock day on Monday. The students have spent time this week thinking about this year's friendship week theme "one kind word." We spent time discussing the difference between bullying and banter with staff and…

11 Nov

Children in Need - Together We Can

Children in Need has been celebrated across the whole school this week in various different ways suitable for all our learners! 

Please enjoy our lovely pictures below of the activities that have taken place! 

In addition, a special thanks to all our Star Staff Bakers who took part in our…

5 Nov

A Busy Week and a New Look 11R

On their return to school this week 11R received their leavers hoodies which they all look very smart in. A big thank you to 11G staff from all of us for arranging them.   
This week there have been lots of activities going on. We have continued with our Environmental Awareness module looking at…

4 Nov

Crafting our Values with Victoria Hough

Victoria Hough is an artist who specialises in working with groups of children to create exciting pieces of art. We invited her into Astley Park School to help us create a masterpiece to incorporate our new school values of Kindness, Respect, Honesty, Positivity and Teamwork. Victoria worked with…

1 Nov

Our Leavers Hoodies have arrived!



We had a lovely surprise today- we have all been waiting patiently- and today- it finally happened! Our Leavers 22 Hoodies arrived! We couldn’t wait to try them on, we all felt (and looked) very important, smart and grown up! We definitely stand out from the crowd!

A massive Thank You to…

21 Oct

Halloween Pumpkin Competition

Congratulations to Class 7P who are the winners of our Halloween Pumpkin competition.  Mr Welsh and Mrs Millard were our judges for today and had a difficult decision due to the fantastic effort classes had made.

Mr Welsh presented 7P class and all the other classes with some lovely halloween…

21 Oct

11R Stop Motion animation, Halloween and all things construction

What a busy week we have had this week. We have had lots of college visits this week both with school and with parents. The students are now getting a really good idea of where they want to go in September. This week, we visited the construction building at Preston College. We learnt how to tile…

5 Oct

11R Looking at our next steps.

College visits continued this week for some pupils who went to Newman college for the second time. They took part in some fun sports games in the dance room. There was also a tour around the beautiful outside area for some of the pupils. 
In class we have started to look at our environment and…