Blog by Tag: 2023-2024

This week has been very busy but also enjoyable for the pupils and staff in 8P.

We have all been working hard during Phonics and English, concentrating on letter formation.

Our music and dance session was a great success as we took turns beating out a tune on a drum, and then making up our…

It’s been another fantastic week in Willow class. The children have been busy taking part in lots of money related activities including playing money bingo, role play in our toy shop and coin matching games.
 

Everyone loved mixing paint and making splatter pictures with colours appropriate to…

Apologies to everyone for the lack of blog last week. 11G’s curriculum newsletter was sent out last week, either via email or a paper copy. Please read and familiarise yourself with the things we will be doing this half term.

A massive plea, please can everyone try and take at least one…

This week at Astley Park School we held a MacMillan coffee morning. 10A class got fully involved, and earlier in the week everyone in class created a poster to advertise the event. The pupils did some brilliant work and made sure to include all the required information, and some lovely…

This Friday, the school celebrated Jeans for Genes Day. It’s so nice seeing the pupils coming in with their own clothes on in support of the charity. The staff had their jeans on today too. 

The learners looked at the PowerPoint explaining about why we have Jeans for Genes day. The…

We have been supporting both Jeans for Genes Day and Macmillan Coffee Morning in Rowan Class.

We enjoyed some lovely cakes at snack time and used some great communication to request the different coloured cakes.

We designed jeans and decorated them and found lots of words beginning with the…

Just wanted to show you the great baking 8A has been this week in our Food Technology lesson. Ethan’s mum donated three Solar System cake mixes, (Thank you again).

The class mixed up the cake mix and made some amazing cakes. We made sure to measure the milk, eggs and butter accurately…

9A have been learning to work on our independence skills by using the work stations again. We are gaining more confident at this and making our teachers proud. We have continued to explore To Infinity and Beyond and have looked at the story and film of Hidden Figures and the life of Neil…

Beech class have had another lovely week exploring bears.

This week we have focused on Goldilocks and the three bears. We’ve painted daddy bear’s face, counted the three different sized bowls, chairs and beds, and mixed together some porridge for them!

On Friday, we wore our jeans in honour…

On Friday children and staff were invited to wear jeans or blue clothing to help raise awareness and funding for  genetic conditions. Classes all across school engaged in ways meaningful to them, from Jean based crafts and sensory stories, coloured themed Attention Autism to circle time…

This week classes at Astley Park have been focussing on smashing stereotypes. Stereotypes restrict the ways in which we see ourselves, others and the world around us. They make us jump to conclusions, which can stop us from getting an accurate picture.  We have been learning…

This week in Sycamore we have enjoyed reading our story ‘Toys in Space’. Mrs Lane shared Toys In Space through a sensory story. The children enjoyed exploring the book before using their amazing phonics skills to build some words from the story. 
A real busy week trying super hard with our…