Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

Learners in Sycamore class had a fantastic surprise when they arrived at school this morning. Overnight, a pumpkin patch had appeared on the grass outside their classroom! Everyone went outside to choose their own pumpkin, which they then brought back into the classroom. The next job was to scoop…

This term 9A have done some fantastic work in our speaking and listening in circle time. To help us remember to take turns to listen and to speak we use ‘The talking turtle’ which means that we can speak if we have hold of it and if we don’t then it we listen and wait our turn to speak. This has…

This week at Astley Park, pupils have been learning about the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali.  It is also known as the ‘Festival of Light’ and celebrates good overcoming evil. 
Classes throughout school have celebrated this in lots of different ways, from Attention Autism sessions, to sensory…

Willow class have been learning about Halloween traditions.  Lots of us are very excited about dressing up for Halloween. We have had some spooky attention autism sessions. We have read a sensory story about some skeletons. We counted skeleton bones and tried to put them together again.  Willow…

Welcome to our blog for the second day of October half-term Holiday Club.

Today our younger children had a trip to Space sensory rooms. Everyone had a fabulous time and, as always, the giant slide was a big hit! The children enjoyed their lunch back at school and then spent some time outside on…

Welcome to our first October half-term Holiday Club blog. Today is the first day of Holiday Club this half term, we will be back again on Thursday this week.

Our younger children have had lots of fun today - they have all enjoyed bouncing on the bouncy castle in the school hall, they also had…

We have had a super busy term Autumn term in class 9P.

. Swimming building confidence in the water.

.  Library Visit ordering  and choosing books, we all enjoyed reading books in the comfy area.

.  Maths, using our topic this term of witches and wizards. 

.   9P have enjoyed…

Week 7 We did it in 7P!

Well, what an awesome half term we have had in the new 7P of 2024-2025. 

It’s been lovely getting to know all the learners individually as the weeks have gone by and of course them getting to know us. 

We have done cooking in food tech, (hope you have enjoyed…

A busy last week in 10P this week! On Monday we had weekend news, where we heard all about the exciting things people had been getting up to at the weekend. In the afternoon we went shopping to ASDA to buy bread for toast and the ingredients for our food tech lesson the following day!

On…

Our new fruit this week was raisins. Most of us really enjoyed them. We enjoy tasting new fruits and can’t wait to see what new fruits we have next term. On Monday Miss Troughton gave us a Harry Potter booklet continuing our witches and wizards theme. Word searches, design a wand and spot the…

We have enjoyed a lovely Autumn 1 in Rowan Class.

We have done lots of super work, explored and played, and made some great friendships.

Have a lovely half term break everyone and see you back in Autumn 2.

Mrs Down and the Rowan Class Team