Blog by Tag: 2022-23

For World Religion Week 7G are learning about Sikhism! 
 

We started our learning about the religion by looking at their place of Worship called a Gurdwara. We watched a short video clip of a little girl showing us what happens there. 

There was some good remembering from the video: Harry…

Chestnut had a trip out to Ashurst Country Park. It was a bit wet and windy but we still had a great time!

Some of us loved the preteens pirate ship and were playing pirates.

We went for a woodland walk, splashed in muddy puddles and found the Gruffalo!

This week is Religion week at Astley Park School.

8G are learning all about Christianity. Yesterday we spoke about what Christians believe and the rules that they follow. We talked about why the symbol of a Cross is important and where Christians go to pray.

We then made amazing pictures…

9G had a very fun and busy first week back. We are learning all about Doctors this term. We have been very busy playing doctors and nurses in our role play area. We drew around each other’s bodies and then painted the outline, it was really interesting to see how tall we all were. We also made…

This morning 7R have been practicing their Functional Maths skills in the community. We are learning all about money. We went to Massas cafe and enjoyed an ice cream or a snack and a drink. We were asked to order and pay for our own snack. Some of us found finding the correct coins to make a total…

This week in school we are celebrating World Religion Week. 8R have been asked to learn about Christianity so today we talked about different churches and the stained glass windows. We then spent the afternoon making our own stained glass windows. Some of us followed a template and some of us…

We visited Devonshire Road Park today, it was a little cold, wet and windy but it didn't stop us having a brilliant trip. We went on the slides, swings, roundabouts, climbing frames, balancing beams trampoline and even made some music using the equipment. A group of children wanted to play…

Welcome back to all our fantastic pupils in 8G! Everyone seems to have settled back into routine after the chaos of Christmas. It has been really nice to hear about what you have all been up to over the Christmas break.

Our new theme for the Spring term will be Doctor, Doctor! This first half…

On Friday it was Skye AND Jake's 13th birthdays.

We had a very busy day as Mrs James came to see us in the morning to do some work about feelings and then in the afternoon it was our first time back at swimming this year. Luckily we still found time to sing Happy Birthday and to eat some yummy…

Welcome back and a Happy New Year!

7R have lots to look forward to this term. Our new theme is "Food, Glorious, Food". 

Communication, Language and Literacy

In our "Communication, Language and Literacy" lessons we will be exploring the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald…

To begin our first week back of the new year, 9R created an ebook about their Christmas holidays on the iPads. They used some wonderful pictures to show us what they had done. It all looked very fun and exciting! Our new topic is food glorious food. So on Tuesday we watched Oliver. The songs were…

8G started cooking lessons this week. Every week we will take it in turns to cook something as part of our healthy eating topic.

This week it was Group 1's turn to cook. They made tomato spirals with Mrs England and Miss Aindow.

Before they started, everyone washed their hands and put on an…