Blog by Tag: 2020-21

This week Beech class have been builders using lots of materials to build including the blocks and foam bricks. They have washed muddy cars and played in our home corner. Each morning some children go to the hall and enjoy the sensory circuits, this includes climbing , crawling, jumping and…

10G have worked hard to be super chefs today. We have been learning all about how to use technology at home, school and in the community. Yesterday we worked very hard to make ourselves a set of instructions in order to create our very own chocolate mug cake. We found out that we could use…

At the weekend Thomas went to Thornton Clevelys with his family. His mum had a surprise, there was a film crew using one of the cafes on the promenade. Thomas told us all about it on Tuesday morning during nurture

He said they are filming a new Star Wars TV series called Andor which is a…

Another busy week for the staff and pupils of 11G, we have done lots of learning using our interactive whiteboard and we have shown that all of our learning can be fun by using the whiteboard to play sequencing games to help us to sequence the days of the week and the months of the year. 
We have…

7A pupils wore red today to mark the Show Racism the Red Card day.

On Wednesday, Mrs Fisher worked with small groups as part of My Community to talk about why people have different coloured skin. We looked at a new word “melanin” and talked about how it is like a curtain that protects our skin…

What a busy week it has been in 7A this week. Mrs Crouch has been very busy with Mrs Clegg and Miss Melling looking at the curriculum for next year so Mrs Fisher has been in school all week apart from Thursday.

On Monday morning we all took part in a Cooking and Nutrition session where we…

Today we all wore our own clothes in Chestnut Class, and wore something red!

We enjoyed a music session this morning where we played along to the song 'It's good to be me'. 

We spoke about how we are all different and that's great!!!

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend Chestnut…

This week we’ve had Herbology which is all about plants and flowers with Professor Clarke. We all planted sunflower seeds. We are going to look after them by watering and letting them have plenty of sunlight, I wonder who’s will be the tallest.

In language and communication we have been…

Today the class turned red for our Wear Red for Racism day. We had some fantastic activities lined up starting with a great story called 'Part of the Party.' The story is about a group of animals who have not been invited to a disco because they are different. The animals who have been left out…

Today 10R learnt all about diversity and used smarties to look at the percentages of different ethnic groups living in our country.  We had great fun exploding paint balloons on a map of the United Kingdom to represent the different ethnic groups and watching the different colours mixing together.…

Today Willow class learnt about racism and equality- treating all people the same. 

Willow class discussed what it means to be racist and everyone knew this was a bad choice. We talked about how it would make us feel to be treated differently to everyone else. Willow class said treating someone…

Today we have been celebrating our differences in Sycamore for our ‘Astley Park Wears Red’ day.

Sycamore enjoyed a morning of activities including, circle time and portrait crafts. 

During our circle time we had a talk about why we are wearing red - Sycamore were great at sharing their ideas…