Blog by Tag: Arts and Creativity

Well what another wonderful week we have had in 8A. Miss Bentham has been working hard teaching us how to keep ourselves safe online. Some of the pupils were shocked to learn that Alexa listens to everything we say and will link to our phones or iPads to try and persuade us to buy things Alexa has…

On Tuesday it was World Down Syndrome Day, we all wore odd socks in support. Everyone loved looking at each other’s socks and chose favourites. We coloured in socks in lots of different colours,read the story ‘We are all different’ then discussed and came up with 3 things each about what makes us…

This week we have been very busy in 7A.

On Monday we worked very hard on our number skills and also made some lovely Mothers Day cards, we hope you like them as much as we enjoyed making them! 

In Mrs Wells lesson on Wednesday we talked about our picture frames and what they would look like,…

On Monday 11G did some data collection on the staff car park. They looked at the different types of  cars and counted and recorded each type. 

On Tuesday we went on the school mini bus to Leighton Moss an RSPB nature reserve in Carnforth. The pupils were split up into groups and using their…

This week we have made some decorations for the Valentines Disco next week.We designed our own sponsor form for our sponsored swim on Tuesday. We visited the gym on Wednesday, our teachers are very proud of what we have achieved while we have been visiting the gym. 

On Thursday we went to Asda…

11G have had a very busy term. We are certainly ready for our Christmas break.

On Monday we made some Christmas cards for our family, some of us made a reindeer card and others made a robin card.

On Tuesday morning we went swimming, we swam for a while and then because it was our last…

Our Primary Phase absolutely loved welcoming parents and carers into school on Monday to celebrate the hard work our wonderful children have put into creating the Winter Wonderland Art Exhibition. 

We all enjoyed celebrating our learners and all they have achieved throughout this festive season…

It’s getting close to Christmas now and 11G are very busy with all their Asdan work. 

On Monday we discussed our weekend news, everybody joined in and listened their friends and asked some super questions to find out more information.

Week 6 of our swimming lessons and everts is improving…

Wow! What an amazing lesson we had at Preston College today!
We found our way to the studio- passing quite a few familiar faces (past Astley Park pupils) on the way!

Sarah our tutor certainly put us through our paces- after a warm up, were we stretched our muscles, we performed a quick Zumba…

Today the 'R' classes in KS4 took part in their My Choices Day.  This is a collapsed curriculum day where option subjects are chosen by the pupils and they study their choices based on the theme. This term it is Remembrance Day and the option choices were: History, Geography, Art, Modern Foreign…

This week in 8P we have continued building up our hand eye coordination and fine motor skills. We made fish by threading ribbons to make scales. We continued to weave baskets and thread beads. 
Weather walk got a bit wetter this week, but it didn’t put us off going out and taking our daily…

This week Oak Class’ core word was ‘Go!’ Pupils responded to ready, steady, go across contexts including on the bikes.

We have also been studying Handa’s Surprise through song and sensory trays. Some beautiful artwork has been produced by expressing colour and media choices. Some of the boys…