Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

This week it’s careers week in school!

We started first thing on Monday with a visit from Karan Bamber from Runshaw College who talked to the learners about life at Runshaw and what it would be like if that was the college they chose to go to.

After this, Lee from the DWP came in the talk to…

This week at Astley Park it’s been Careers Week and 7P got involved with this. 

The class looked at a PowerPoint about different jobs the learners could do when they get older. 

We looked at what chefs do and doctors just naming a few.

You will be interested to know that in 7P we…

Today Chestnut Class enjoyed looking at photographs of the special women in their lives. Some of the children used communication boards to describe their inspirational women with kind words like amazing, beautiful and caring! We hope you all have a lovely weekend celebrating the inspirational…

This week is careers week. In class we have been looking at different jobs and what jobs we would like to do when we are older. We have had lots of different career ideas - firefighters, theme park workers, farmers, mechanics and more.

We split in to 2 groups and visited the local community,…

We have had such a busy week this week exploring all activities. We’ve continued our topic of pirates by finding treasure in ice, decorating parrots, finding messages in bottles and cutting and sticking different outfits on the pirates. 

On Tuesday we celebrated pancake day. We enjoyed role…

We have had a lovely day in Rowan Class exploring a Teddy Bear's Picnic theme.

This morning we all took part in a sensory story - Going on a Bear Hunt - we especially enjoyed being chased by the bear! 

We decorated and enjoyed eating teddy bear biscuits and we went on our very own bear…

What a busy week we’ve had this week in Oak class .

This week we have been exploring fruit in our continuous provision using a choice board, cutting and requesting different items, one of our favourites was the spinning toy and making cupcakes out of magic sand.

We have also been very…

It’s Careers week In KS4! The learners have lots to look forward to and lots of different people coming into speak to them about their next steps. 

On Monday, a lady from Runshaw College visited our school to provide us with  information about the college experience. She spoke in detail…

On Monday we used the morning to have breakfast and talk about what we did over the half term. Then after break we had maths where we recapped months of the year, including how many days are in each month and what order they come in. In the afternoon we all went to ASDA to do some shopping and we…

Welcome back!

7A have settled back into school life exceptionally well after the holidays.

On Monday, they got back into their swimming lessons at Hindley swimming pool. 

In music, in the afternoon, Miss Troughton introduced us to a new song, ‘Three little birds’ by Bob Marley.…

Before the half term holidays, Chestnut Class started visiting Iceland and the Postbox. This week, we resumed our weekly trips!

Some of us walked to Iceland. We used visuals to help us find the way and stayed safe by holding an adult’s hand. In the shop, we found the items on our shopping…

What a fabulous week we’ve had to the start of spring 2. This term beech have become pirates! 

We have had so much fun exploring all things pirate and sea themed tuff trays, finding hidden treasure, having a go at walking across the plank and loved dressing up! 

During attention autism,…