Blog by Tag: 2022-23

Last year we did our first ever Reverse Advent at Astley Park School- and it was such an amazing success that we are doing it again!

Every day during Advent - we brought in donations of tinned food/ toiletries etc- and placed them into Christmas boxes- thanks to everyone’s generosity- by the…

Hello to everyone on this very wet Friday! We are all very excited for Monday for our residential visit to Calvert Trust. Mrs Fisher sent some important information to parents yesterday afternoon via email, if your child is attending the residential visit please make sure you read this…

We’ve had a brilliant week in 9A! 

In our My Communication lessons this week, 9A learnt about verbs. Verbs are doing words, for example, running. One group practised identifying verbs used in the text - “Meg and Mog”, and the other group practised writing sentences using verbs, linked to…

Today, Beech Class were all invited to a Teddy Bears Picnic!

This week our topic has been ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We have enjoyed exploring bear themed activities all week and today was a very special day!!! We all brought our favourite teddy from home and sat together to enjoy some…

This week in Chestnut Class we have been focusing on our Social and Communication skills as a part of Friendship week. We have been exploring activities with others and working on developing our tolerance skills accepting others joining us. We have had lots of laughs and smiles during Intensive…

This week we have been celebrating friendship week. We have been talking about what it means to be a friend and have discussed the different qualities that each of us have.

On Monday this week we wore odd socks to show that everyone is different. The learners in class designed and coloured…

On Monday we all made a friend a friendship band, some of us chose friends in class whilst others chose friends in different class and even a member of staff was given a band.

We decided it was nice when someone does something kind for someone else.

On Tuesday we added to our self portraits…

Rowan Class supported Children in Need today by exploring all things yellow!

We made Pudsey faces, decorated Pudsey biscuits, did some Pudsey dancing and made some lovely lemon playdough.

Well done everyone, you had lots of fun for a good cause.

Mrs Down and the Rowan Class Team :) 

Rowan Class explored friendships this week. 

We enjoyed a sensory story - Simon the Sock, which was all about not needing to be the same as others to be friends. We then mixed lots of ingredients to make a friend: 2 cups of love, sprinkle of kindness, 3 spoons of respect, fun and…

10R have had a jam packed friendship week this week!

On Monday we went swimming, where we all supported each other and, at the end of the lesson, had a bit of fun swim time where we got to play a splash each other. On Tuesday we started our new topic in maths of time and in the afternoon we…

Maple class been enjoying The Rainbow Fish sensory story as part of our learning for Friendship Week! We explored how when the Rainbow Fish shared his beautiful shiny scales with his friends he was happy. We have been using our fabulous communication skills to create wonderful Rainbow Fish…

10G were swimming on Friday morning so unfortunately we were unable to complete activities around Remembrance Day and take part in the minute silence.

During Nurture Time for the past week, pupils from 10G have been decorating pictures of poppies and Mrs Cobham has put them together to make a…