Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

9P have had a very busy week this week, as you can see from how many photos we've taken!

On Monday, we did Maths in the morning and then PSHE and Weekend News in the afternoon. 

On Tuesday, we went swimming in the morning and then did Science and Coding in the afternoon. Two…

7P went bowling.

On Friday, all of 7P learners and staff members were lucky enough to be able to go bowling at the Escape in Chorley.

We had two teams of five and what fun everyone had. We even had a couple of “strikes” from the learners. 

We saw some amazing turn taking throughout…

Another busy week in 7A.

Our food of the week was raspberries…. Everyone really enjoyed them giving a score of 6 out of 5 upwards.

In our ‘The world around me we’ lesson we were learning about solids and liquids, all of 7A could name one of each. We also had some Vimto ice cubes that we knew…

This week, beech class have been exploring the rhyme ‘5 currant buns’. We have had lots of fun exploring the trays full of flour, playdoh, sand and enjoyed having a tea party with our friends. During attention autism, we listened to the rhyme whilst splatting the foam, watched a flour shake…

This term we started our visits to Astley Park. 

In groups we walked to Astley Park and through the woods. 

We explored our senses, listening to what we could hear and looking around to see what we could see. 

We could hear dogs barking, leaves crunching, water flowing and birds…

Continuing on with our learning about the Pendle witches today we visited Pendle Hill and re created the walk that the women were made to do. We were very lucky with the sun shining although it was cold, and this made us think about the accused ladies walking, probably in bare feet all that…

So today sees the beginning of baking Christmas goods for our Youth Enterprise Tuck Shop.

This is the first experience of making mince pies and what a great job they did, rolling, cutting and filling.

On Monday 11th November, Astley Park School participated in Remembrance Day activities and traditions.

Throughout school, learners were provided many learning opportunities and activities to experience and learn all about Remembrance Day.

We saw learners enjoying various activities from…

Monday 18th - Today we had our first look at picture news. We had a look at an ancient city that has been discovered in the jungle in Mexico. We all found it really interesting, we then went on to have a look at other big discoveries through history and how they impacted the world. In the…

This half term so far we have enjoyed a range of different activities, these include,  celebrating Halloween and exploring a variety of Halloween themed activities, such as pumpkin picking in our very own pumpkin patch, pumpkin carving and spooky stories with Mrs Mahood. We have also done…

On Tuesday, we celebrated International Men’s Day. We did a lesson linked to these celebrations on Tuesday afternoon.
 

In this lesson, we learnt about:

- stereotypes and looked at different types of stereotypes (with visuals for support) 

- how men can be under a lot of pressure at work…

This week we have had another excellent week. The staff team in 8P are extremely proud of all of the children in class. 

The week started off with weekend news and lots of super reading from the children. We had a visit to Asda to buy our ingredients for cooking on Thursday. The children…