Blog by Tag: 2023-2024

This week Chestnut class have been busy getting ready for Easter!
In Food tech we have enjoyed practising our spreading skills by preparing hot cross buns for snack time. During creative tasks we made egg shell cards using primary colours and repeating patterns and decorating foam eggs. In…

A HUGE thankyou to everyone who bought raffle tickets to help us raise money for our prom. We drew the raffle on Thursday and the winners were Danny, Katie, Mrs Mahood, Lily and Josh.

Thankyou to Tesco, Morrisons, Booths and Asda in Chorley who donated the prizes and Miss Brown who…

Today at Nuffield the group met Luke a trainee PT who was working with Ashley. After the warm up exercises the group moved to the treadmill for a 5 min workout, they all remembered to attach the emergency tag something learnt from our visit to All Seasons Leisure Centre.

Ashley then asked the…

On Thursday 8A participated in looking through a PowerPoint all about Down Syndrome. 

8A identified that we had two learners in class that have Down Syndrome. 

The PowerPoint explained that people are born with Down Syndrome because they are born with different cells. This is ok. This is…

7P have had another lovely week. Part of this week was learning about World Down Syndrome day. 
 

7P spoke about what this means and how just because someone has Down Syndrome they can do the same things that we can. We are all unique and special and that is okay. 
 

We explored this…

This week in Beech class, we have enjoyed exploring our “changes and growth” topic. 

First, we focused on baby animals and matching them to their mummies.

On Tuesday, we played with the baby dolls. We gave them a bath, dressed them, and rocked them to sleep.

Next, we explored faces. We…

What a lovely day for Planting trees! 

We had a great time planting 6 Silver Birch Trees in Astley Park- in conjunction with Chorley in Bloom and Chorley Borough Council- the trees are going to be part of a Remembrance Walk in memory of a Council Worker and local people who sadly lost their…

On Thursday 21st March Chestnut Class celebrated World Down Syndrome Day. The theme this year is # End the Stereotypes. The day is represented by lots of socks because chromosomes look like socks!  We wore brightly coloured socks or odd socks, designed socks using the primary colours and balloons…

Today KS4 and KS3 had a very special visitor; Kerry from Lowther Theatre came in to run a short workshop with a few of the KS4 and KS3 classes. We talked about all of the different jobs that are involved in the theatre, from actors and dancers to the lighting and sound production to the people who…

What a fantastic visit to Boulder. 10A were a shining example of Astley Park School, displaying so many of our values. We showed great kindness and teamwork by helping each other, offering support and guidance to our friends. 
This week we re visited the holds we use and played a game to see if…

Celebrating Neurodiversity in 8A

This week 8A has been looking at Neurodiversity and celebrating “Different Minds” and that it’s good to be different. We are all different!

8A played a small game of bingo. The cards had different types of people’s hair.

Miss Robertson then…

This week on our weekly visit to Nuffield gym the group met Justin a PT who kindly stepped in for Ashley who was unable to meet with us this week. However, Ashley had left details with Justin of what the group had been working on in the gym. After a short warm up and stretches the group helped…