Blog by Tag: 2023-2024

The last 2 weeks have been very busy in 7P! The children have worked super hard and have also had lots of fun too. 

7P have been working on their independence skills in class and around school, trying their hardest to be as independent as they possibly can. Trying to do things without help…

This week Chestnut Class have enjoyed exploring Rainbows through Attention Autism, learning the Makaton sign for Rainbow and enjoying singing the colours of the rainbow. We painted our own parade flag and enjoyed adding glitter to make it sparkle,

We’ve made colourful fruit skewers, peeling,…

Summer 2 in 11R has been another busy week! We started off the week with Miss Anderton and on Monday we had a maths lesson on time in the morning and the afternoon we had a lesson on energy. We made our own paper plane launchers to test out wind power and once we made them we took them out onto…

Beech class have had a lovely week learning about more “people who help us”. 

We had lots of fun exploring “doctors”. We dressed up as doctors, explored stethoscopes and doctors’ tools, and sang “polly had a dolly”.

To explore “dentists”, we practiced brushing big teeth, read a book…

This week in 8P, we've done lots of fun learning as part of our new Summer 2 timetable! 

Monday: We did PE in the morning, and everyone joined in really well! We did Weekend News/positive play and watered our plants in the polytunnel in the afternoon. 

Tuesday: We did PSHE in the…

This week Rowan class have been very lucky to visit the pet shop.  Some children travelled via the mini bus and some children used their road safety knowledge and put it to work on the walk there. 
The children enjoyed looking at all of the different animals and talked about the animals different…

On Monday we were right back into lessons, starting off the day with a functional maths lesson on money. We used coins and notes and practiced identifying coins and how much each coin was worth. We looked at how many pennies were in a pound and how to add money up.

In the afternoon we had our…

On Wednesday, 8A did an exciting science lesson with Miss Robertson. Their target was to design their very own potion. 

Firstly 8A watched a clip from Harry Potter where the pupils from Hogwarts were making their own potions. 

8A then looked at different shaped potion bottles on their IPads…

Welcome back to our final ever half term as 11G at Astley Park! It has been another fun filled week and as you will have heard, we have lots of fun things coming up over the next 6 weeks before it is time to bid farewell to everyone. 

On Monday morning, Mrs Cobham wasn’t in school as she…

This half term, Beech class are exploring “people who help us”. 

We started the week by exploring firefighters. We sang “5 little firemen”, explored fire engines, and put out pretend fires with spray bottles. 

We also explored the police. We dressed up as policemen, completed jigsaw…

Welcome back 9A, how fast has this year gone? We are in our final term of Year 9! We’ve had a very busy year, and have lots planned for a busy last term. 
This week in maths we are looking at division, the learners used whiteboards and multilink to find ways of splitting numbers equally. 
In My…

Welcome to our blog about Holiday Heroes on Thursday 30th May. 

We were hoping for some lovely weather so that our upper primary group and secondary pupils could visit Astley Park, but it looked miserable in the morning. Everyone, including the staff, enjoyed bouncing on the inflatable in the…