Blog by Tag: 2023-2024

First week at Nuffield Health Club for the group, Ashley started the session with a warmup and stretching activity to get them ready. Ashley then introduced them to the training circuit they will be working on over the next six weeks which included, a rowing and ski pull  machines, a…

Welcome back 7A!

Last week 7A jumped back into routine and explored what we are learning about over the summer term. 7A, 8A and 9A are all learning under the theme of ‘Welcome to Hogwarts’ and have been spilt into the Hogwarts houses, earning points for their house (at the end of the term the…

Before half-term, Year 7 who attended the Calvert Trust residential invited families into school for our Calvert Rewards assembly.

A big thank you to all our families who were able to join us for the afternoon of celebration. We had a wonderful turn out and it was lovely for us to share some…

What an amazing first week back we have had in Rowan class.Our new topic this half term is Under the Sea and we have done lots of work around this. We have looked at different emotions and made our own feeling octopus. We really enjoyed our sensory story Commotion in the Ocean and looking at all…

Welcome back to our final term for 11G at Astley Park School! How crazy does that sound?! We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter break. We are all raring to go for our last term. 

On Monday morning we welcomed everyone back to class. As I mentioned in my email before we came back, the…

We’ve had a fantastic week in 8P! What a great first week back. 
 

On Monday, we did our holiday news, where we looked at lots of photos of what we did in the holidays and talked about our time off school. In the afternoon, we played on the wobble boards and then did our PSHE lesson on body…

This term Chestnut class are learning all about the seaside. This week we have enjoyed lots of creative tasks linked to our topic area- printing including bubble wrap print, lids and other household items to make repeated patterns and we will be continuing to explore printing over the coming…

This week KS4 started their work experience at Chorley Hospital. Year 11 and year 10 students headed off to the Life Centre where we met Karen, who would be showing us round and leading the sessions while we are there. We started off by going through what each week would look like before Karen…

As part of our “houses and homes” topic, this week we have been exploring the three little pigs! 

In our Attention Autism sessions, Mrs Barrand has led us through the sensory story. She made the pigs’ houses from straw, sticks, and bricks, and then we huffed, puffed and blew them down! We’ve…

Wow, Spring Term flew by for 7A!

During the Spring Term, we did lots of fantastic learning - working on our functional life skills, our Aspirational Learning Goals and our Curriculum Learning Goals.

In My Communication based lessons, we learnt about Acrostic Poems in Spring 1 and Postcards…

Just before the Easter holidays we found out that we had been invited to the final of the Panathalon Xtend tournament that we attended back in January! 8 pupils from 11G, 10A and 9P travelled to Bolton Arena with Mrs Fisher, Mrs Banks and Miss Wilkins on the minibus on Wednesday morning.…

Today was the last day of our Easter Holiday Club. In the morning, everyone had fun in school - using the scooters,  didi cars and hover boards in the hall, having sessions in the sensory room and using the adventure playground and climbing frame outside. All the groups had a trip this afternoon -…