Blog by Tag: 2023-2024

Mental Health week in 8A

It was lovely to see 8A learners in school on Monday, wearing green to celebrate Mental Health week . 

This Mental Health week, we are focusing on “My Voice Matters'”, and the class has had several chats, explaining that there are different ways the learners can…

For the final week of our “colour my world” topic, Beech class have been exploring towns.

We’ve created our own houses using recycled materials (cardboard boxes and paper bags), played with toys cars and trains, made “traffic light toast”, and explored lots of town scenes in our trays. In our…

On Tuesday 6th February we celebrated Safer Internet Day at Astley Park School.

Our dedicated team of Digital Leaders have been meeting regularly this term to discuss ideas for the day. The Digital Leaders have also spoken to their classmates to find out what they are worried about online, and…

Thank you to the 6 parents who enrolled and completed the National College Annual Award in Online Safety for Parents and Carers 2023-2024!

I am sure you found this super helpful- there will be more courses for parents and carers on here in the future!

The wheel has been spun and the…

This afternoon, pupils in 7P have been learning about using the Internet safely. We watched an powepoint about The Pop Up Gremlins, and talked about how we can keep safe online. We learned the 3 rules to follow if a pop up appears on our device “Stop, Close and Tell”. We enjoyed taking part in…

As part of our Homes and Habitats topic this term, we have been exploring the story: The Three Little Pigs.

We have enjoyed participating in the sensory story and helping Mrs Down with the props, signs and familiar phrases. Some of us answered some very tricky questions about the story, and…

8A at Fieldfare celebrating Miss McPartlin last week in school.

8A walked all the way to the Fieldfare for our lunch today, to celebrate Miss McPartlins last week in school, as she is leaving for a little rest before having her baby. 

8A was very sensible walking down the big hill and…

On Monday morning we learnt about mental health week. We talked about how we felt and that our voices matter then we did some mindfulness colouring. After break we did some reading and Sound-write. After lunch we did relax to get ourselves ready for the afternoon. We then made some decorations for…

Hello everyone, you join us at the end of another action packed week in 11G. 

On Monday we were off to the gym as usual. This week, instead of working against our partner, we had to work with them to complete our team challenge. Each pair had to travel 2km on each piece of cardio equipment,…

On Wednesday afternoon, Mrs Fisher, Mrs Banks and Miss Wilkins headed off to All Seasons Leisure 
Centre accompanied by 9 pupils from 11G, 10A and 9P to take part in Chorley Sport Partnership’s 
Panathalon. They were joined by 5 other SEND settings from the local area and took part in 8 
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It has been a very busy week for the staff and pupils in 8P. 

We have done lots of interesting lessons, including Maths, English, Phonics and Cooking. 

This morning, we were fortunate enough to go on a trip to Rascals indoor play centre, to make up for the Christmas trip which was cancelled…

This week Chestnut learners have been busy making sandwiches; practising our skills of spreading and cutting using cutlery. On Wednesday we made choices of toppings - jam/cheese spread/chocolate spread using our communication boards to support us and I can say that jam was the most popular…