Blog by Tag: Arts and Creativity

10R had lots of fun researching and learning all about the Chinese New Year. We learned that 2022 is the year of the Tiger and that the learners in 10R were born either in the year of the dog or the year of the pig.

We watched the story of how the Emperor challenged the animals to race across…

This week in 7 a all the children have worked really hard . We have seen lots of progression in both English and maths . 
In English the children have watched parts of the film UP ! We used this as a starting point to work on predictions from last week . They was able to create their own…

What a fun day we’ve had today in 11G-

We talked about the festivals that we celebrate- before looking at celebrations in other cultures- as today is Chinese New Year- The Year of the Tiger!
Most of our class were born in the year of the Rooster- and some in the Year of The Dog- Miss…

This week has been a little different in 7A , but that didn’t stop them . 
This week we have engaged in lots of fun activities and even had a go at some challenges . 

We have enjoyed some leaping and landing gymnastics in PE . Some of this felt a little but scary for some children on the…

We had 3 fun packed days of festive fun in our Holiday Heroes club held during the Christmas holidays.

We managed to pack in 2 trips to Space sensory rooms in Preston where everyone had lots of fun - it's one of our favourite activities as the facilities are perfect for our pupils and everyone…

Are you ready for Christmas? We are in Sycamore! 
 

We have had a busy week in Sycamore, we have decorated wrapping paper, made our Christmas cards and designed snowy pictures. All set for the big day! We have also been very busy week behind the scenes this week filming for our part for the…

Today we looked at Remembrance Day. We listened to Mrs Cobham read her Uncle Bert’s memories of being a soldier in WWII and listened to his thoughts and feelings about war. Mrs Cobham shared some photos of Uncle Bert’s time as a soldier and some photos of her family.

We listened to a beautiful…

Today 11G found out lots of new information about Diwali.
We looked at power points and had fun using the internet to help us find the answers to Miss Robertson question sheet.  We looked at rangoli patterns and made some of our own…..great fun. 

Elephants are an important symbol in…

Victoria Hough is an artist who specialises in working with groups of children to create exciting pieces of art. We invited her into Astley Park School to help us create a masterpiece to incorporate our new school values of Kindness, Respect, Honesty, Positivity and Teamwork. Victoria worked with…

At the start of last week we were told that all the classes would be having a pumpkin competition which caused great excitement amongst the pupils and staff of 9R.

We went outside to choose our very own, extremely large pumpkin, from our Astley Park pumpkin patch and then we spent time…

11G have become entrepreneurs this week.

After a long debate ……we came to a very important decision. How we can help raise money to go towards our prom.

Its a while off yet , but we need to get going.

Halloween seemed like a good place to start . We talked about what we bought needed to…

This week we have been learning about Euro 2020. We have worked in pairs to research different things and we have worked on our own. We have learned about the teams and the players, the countries taking part and we have researched flags.

On Tuesday England played Germany and they won…