Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

Day two at Bendrigg.

The day started for some of us at 6 am and others a little earlier !

We then all went for a lovely breakfast of toast, cereal, fruit, cups of tea, hash browns and pork or vegetarian sausages. 

After this we got ready for our first activity of the day,…

Year 7 have had a fantastic start to our stay at Bendrigg. The fun began back in sunny Chorley when we realised that our coach had rows of 3 seats together, like a plane! We had a smooth journey up to Bendrigg, and there was lots of excited chatter on the coach. When we arrived we were…

Day one at Bendrigg.

Wednesday morning, the learners came in very very excited. We tried to keep it as normal as possible. We had lots of visitors coming in , wishes us all a good time. Mr Welsh even came onto our coach and gave us all a high five. 

They were amazing in the coach and we…

What a fantastic sporty week we’ve had in Oak Class!

During the week we have had lots of fun enjoying a variety of different sports and activities.

Oak class have enjoyed bikes, cosmic kids yoga, dance, bowling, sensory circuits, boccia, balloon tennis, bouncy castles, soft play,…

Monday morning started with our usual maths and picture news. The learners had to write a diary entry about a shipwreck that they had survived. They had to describe what had happened and also how they might have felt. In the afternoon we had the class computers and learnt how to log on, sign in…

9A have been learning all about the Egyptians in ‘The World About Me’ lessons. To help with our learning we visited The World Museum in Liverpool. There we learned all about life in ancient Egypt. We saw lots of different things from ancient Egyptian including some mummies.

Whilst there we had…

A very busy week for Sports week.

On Monday 7A had a dance session with Peter and Anna from Dance Syndrome.

They did some warm up moves and then learnt some dance moves to Green,Green grass. After this they played Pass the move. Peter started off and did his move which everyone copied then…

Today we visited Liverpool World Museum. We went to see the Egyptian mummies as part of our Horrible Histories topic. We had a good look around the Egyptian section of the museum and saw lots of mummies, artefacts and hieroglyphics.

We enjoyed looking around all the different floors, the…

Sports week in 7P

This week it’s been Sports week at Astley Park school. The learners followed a within-task schedule on what activities they were getting involved in. 

On Monday, 7Ps first Sports activity was zorbing on the field. They did good listening on how to get into the…

9P have had a fantastic sports week! With activities such as,

. Yoga 

. Circus skills

. Dance syndrome 

. Crazy golf

. Zorbing 

. Indian Dancing

. Balloon Tennis 

. Boccia 

. Archery 

We all enjoyed the sports day yesterday together too! 

Today we have been on our…

Chestnut class have had a brilliant sports week.

We’ve enjoyed:

- A dance workshop with “Dance syndrome”

- Playing with the parachute

- Riding bikes in the sports cage

- Soft archery 

- Balloon tennis

- Sensory circuits in the hall

- Fitness session

- Mini golf

-…

We have had a fantastic Sports Week in Rowan Class!

Zorbing, swimming, dancing, minigolf, archery, inflatables and fitness - phew!

Everybody tried their best at all activities - hope you all enjoy a relaxing weekend.

Mrs Down and the Rowan Class Team