Blog by Tag: Arts and Creativity

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…

This week in 8P we have had a spinning time with lots of fun. 
We have played shop, learning money and communication skills together. The shop soon turned into a shop run by a super hero charging over 100 pounds for a pair of gloves.

We continued with our topic of The weather, having daily…

What a busy and exciting week in Maple Class! We are working hard to learn and follow our routines and learn new names and faces. 
 

This week we have continued exploring the Jungle through sensory stories, Forrest walks, Attention Autism, play, jigsaws, sounds and getting creative. We have…

This week in 8P we continued working on our topic of Weather, we continued our weather walks and took some fantastic pictures of the weather. 
We all painted a rainbow and then we created a class display with them. 
On Wednesday we went swimming and made a real splash in the pool. The class…

Group 1 have had a super week in Holiday Heroes. This week we have been to the Space Centre, spent time in the sensory room, been on the bouncy castle and had a super time on the new playground. We have thoroughly enjoyed playing lots of fun games with our friends and getting to explore…

This week we have started ‘The Funfair is at the Beach.’ We started by exploring different activities themed around the beach and then joined in with an Attention Autism themed around boats. We took it in turns to sit in a pretend boat, hold a flag and sing a song. We then sat altogether and…

Hi all,

Thank you to all our families who participated in Sharing Our Learning last week. It was wonderful having you all with us. We look forward to you all joining us again when we are in year 8. 

This week has seen 7A explore a wide range of activities for Sports Week.  All the pupils…

What a wonderfully time 9R have had this week…

Yesterday we travelled on the mini bus to The Fylde rugby club to take part in a Tag Rugby inter schools competition alongside nine other schools.

What a fabulous fun and very active time we had, the pupils played so well and it was heartwarming…

This week 7A have been looking at the Anglo Saxons and what weapons they used to fight in the battle against the Vikings. At the start of the week they looked at what they used to defend themselves. The children made some amazing shields and designed their very own pattern to go on the front of…