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Week 3 in 7P Celebrating!

Wednesday of this week, 7P and the rest of Astley Park School participated in celebrating Ofsted giving us, again, an outstanding result by inflatables coming into school. 

Luckily for the school, the weather was on our side, glorious sunshine!

7P took their…

Jeans for Genes day in 7P.

Friday, Astley Park had non school uniform day and everyone could, if they wanted, come into school in Jeans for Genes Day. We all enjoyed dressing up together to support the brilliant cause and understood that we all need to treat everyone kindly and make sure…

Today Year 11 visited Beacon Fell. What a lovely late summer day we chose to explore some lovely countryside.

Before we left we all had a chance to have a look online and we wrote a mind map of the things we would like to see and do whilst at the park. 
 

As we began our walk we began to…

Wow what a busy time beech class have had this week! We have continued our topic of colour, this week exploring the colour yellow!

We have enjoyed exploring our sensory trays full of yellow sand, glitter, ducks and paint. We have also loved making our own playdoh, splashing in the water and…

After the 6 weeks holiday 8A are the new 9A at Astley Park! We have all been getting to know each other and have had a very busy few weeks with lots of different activities.

In English learners are finding out lots of information about the work and life of David Attenborough and making their…

Last week, we decided in our English lessons that we would write a letter to Joe Wicks to tell him all about our topic Healthy Living and to ask him if he has any tips for us, so today we thought about what we wanted to tell him and what questions we had for him. Hopefully we will get a reply! In…

Week 2 in 7P

All the learners have settled in really well in their new class. 

This week 7P went on a scavenger hunt around school. They all went off in their groups and looked for different items. 

We saw lots of leaves when on the track, and beautiful little yellow and white…

We have had a fabulous first fortnight in 7A! There are 6 learners in our class who have joined Astley Park in September, so we have taken every opportunity to get to know each other. 
So far we have found out that together we have lots of siblings, lots of pets and that pizza is a firm favourite…

Beech Class have had a fantastic week 2 still settling in and exploring the colour blue! 

We have enjoyed exploring the sensory trays filled with flour, sand and glitter! We also had an exciting music lesson on Tuesday, taking turns to play the wind chimes and the drum.
 

Throughout the…

We’ve had a busy couple of weeks in 10P getting back into the swing of things as we begin our journey in KS4.

We’ve had our first couple of sessions at the gym where everyone has had such a positive attitude towards something new, even if lots of us were a bit nervous at first.

We also had…

As part of our new school year we are embarking on our Young Enterprise experience. 
As part of this we have had to create a company, this involved a board meeting where we discussed job roles, we then had to decide what roles we would like to apply for and have a small interview to say how we…

This week we have been busy in 8P. 

We have had our very first community visit into town, to get the ingredients for this week’s cooking lesson with Miss Troughton. The children showed us how amazing they can be with crossing the roads and walking sensibly. 8P showed off our school values…