Blog by Tag: 2022-23

7P had a wonderful Holi celebration with the rest of the school on Wednesday. 

We did some Holi crafts in class as part of our continuous provision where we explored what Holi was and used colour to represent this. We did this by writing Holi words, sequencing a Holi festival, creating Holi art…

What an amazing time 7P had on our Residential to the Anderton Centre.

On Tuesday when we arrived we went to our rooms, unpacked our cases and then made our beds. We then went off on our first adventure - low ropes and climbing. We worked alongside the adults to keep our balance on the low…

Our topic Emergency Emergency Emergency continues this half term, and we have had fun learning and exploring the work of dentists.

The learners have enjoyed lots of fun and multisensory learning activities including: a sensory stories, cleaning teeth, exploring the dentist role play area and…

We have had another busy week in class 8P.

The whole school experienced colourful celebrations for the Hindu festival of Holi on Wednesday. We revisited the meaning of the festival in class and we had lots of fun decorating our classroom with colourful handprints and paper chains. In the…

It’s Friday again! Don’t these week’s go by quickly?

On Monday we were swimming again at Hindley pool. Some of us were swimming in the shallow end and having a go at lifting up our feet to kick, rather than walking through the water. Some of us managed to swim nearly a full length without…

The staff and pupils had a fantastic time on the Anderton Centre residential and lots of wonderful memories were made.

On our arrival on the Tuesday we unpacked our cases , made our beds, and then we straight away got stuck into exciting activities which started off with the low ropes, the…

This Wednesday afternoon, 9A looked at what is Holi and why people all over the world celebrate it. 

We learnt that it marks the beginning of spring. And during Holi, people celebrate the story of Prahlad. 

Prahlad’s father was a cruel king that wanted everyone to worship him, but Prahlad…

What a busy week 10R have had!

On Monday we continued or topic of forces in science with Miss Anderton, where we made paper helicopters to look at how gravity works and how we can affect gravity by adding weight to something to make it fall faster. 

On Tuesday we carried on looking at bar…

Maple class love stories and books so we were excited for World Book Day! Harrison brought one of his favourite books to class ‘Superworm!’ (I love this one too!) and shared it with myself and his friends. Maple class enjoyed lots of activities linked to The Cat in the Hat by Dr Seuss in the…

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Today the Chestnut pupils and staff immersed themselves in activities to celebrate Holi. Holi also known as the Festival of Colours, Festival of Spring, and Festival of Love, is one of the most popular and significant festivals in Hinduism.

The pupils were provided with a…

Yesterday Beech class celebrated Holi. 

Holi celebrates the arrival of Spring in India, the end of Winter, and the blossoming of love. 

At Astley Park School it definitely wasn’t the end of Winter as we celebrated in the snow!!! 

Beech Class had a great time getting very colourful and it…

What a fun packed week we’ve had in Oak class this week. We have enjoyed playing with some Paw Patrol toys as well as practicing our first aid skills on the dolls in our continuous provision areas. We’ve engaged really well in our Attention Autism sessions and love seeing what’s in the box. We…