Blog by Tag: 8A Class

8As day out to Rascals and McDonalds 

The learners were very excited this morning coming into school. 

They still had to do their reading and writing and had their morning snacks before we all set off to Rascals. 

Mrs Cheetham was our driver for the day and chauffeured the class…

Black History Month is celebrated in October in the UK and Astley Park School is proud to celebrate Black History Month with a focus on, 'Saluting our Sisters'.  This is intended to build awareness, educate and share lived experiences of Black women.  The theme of ‘Saluting our Sisters’ highlights…

Rocket making in 8A.

As our topic is “Space”, 8A was given a sheet to jot down ideas to design their very our Rocket.

The learners were given ideas on different materials they could use when they started to make their Rocket.

The learners then drew their design out on paper,…

8A on how to make the world in 7 days.

This term 8A will be learning all about beginnings and endings. Today, 8A looked how our world was created. We did explain at the start of this topic that different religions believe in different scenarios as to how the world was created, and the…

This Friday, the school celebrated Jeans for Genes Day. It’s so nice seeing the pupils coming in with their own clothes on in support of the charity. The staff had their jeans on today too. 

The learners looked at the PowerPoint explaining about why we have Jeans for Genes day. The…

Just wanted to show you the great baking 8A has been this week in our Food Technology lesson. Ethan’s mum donated three Solar System cake mixes, (Thank you again).

The class mixed up the cake mix and made some amazing cakes. We made sure to measure the milk, eggs and butter accurately…

On Friday children and staff were invited to wear jeans or blue clothing to help raise awareness and funding for  genetic conditions. Classes all across school engaged in ways meaningful to them, from Jean based crafts and sensory stories, coloured themed Attention Autism to circle time…

This week classes at Astley Park have been focussing on smashing stereotypes. Stereotypes restrict the ways in which we see ourselves, others and the world around us. They make us jump to conclusions, which can stop us from getting an accurate picture.  We have been learning…

This week 8A was introduced to our new topic, “To Infinity and Beyond”.

We have looked very closely at the moon, and the learners used describing words to write a small poem about how the moon looks. There was some brilliant words used by the learners and some good sentence…

This week, 8A has been looking at “Vision Boards”. 

The class firstly spoke about what they want to achieve this school year, either at school or at home. 

The class then looked at different areas of vision. We looked at what the learners are grateful for, self-care ideas, a phrase or…

Welcome back to the new 8A 2023/24. I hope you are all looking forward to a new school year. It was lovely seeing all the children returning with smiles on their faces. 

Our first week has been a nice chilled one, easing the learners (and staff) gently back into a school routine. 

On…

Another wonderful week to end the year in 8A Our tomatoes were picked and sent home to ripen. The sunflowers grew taller than our learners. We celebrated one learners birthday that is in the holidays and they were treated to some Stagecoach freebies.

Mrs England joined us this week to help with…