Blog by Tag: Arts and Creativity

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…

Today in Willow class we have been learning about The Mona Lisa . 
 

We learned lots of interesting facts about where the painting came from, what events have happened surrounding the Mona Lisa and practised lots of fun Italian words. 
 

The children listened really well and even had a go…

What a long half term we’ve had and only one half term to go.

A usual week in 9R is a busy one and this week has been no different.

We’ve done lots of different activities including - designing our own marauders map, designing a lorry for Aldi, finishing stories and PE amongst lots of other…

Willow class have had an especially musical week this week! 
As part of our pirate topic we looked at sea shanties! We have learnt a lot about how pirates communicated and how lots of pirates couldn’t read so they had to use different means of communication. We looked at some examples of pirate…

We always have a busy week in 9R and this week has been no different.

In Communication, Language and Literacy we have have been working on Harry Potter based activities. Some learners have been using the story plans they worked on last week to write their own story, while others have made…

This week we’ve had Herbology which is all about plants and flowers with Professor Clarke. We all planted sunflower seeds. We are going to look after them by watering and letting them have plenty of sunlight, I wonder who’s will be the tallest.

In language and communication we have been…

8R have been super busy this week! We are all ready for a nice long weekend.

We started off our week by being challenged by Miss Brophy to a Kahoot quiz. She thought she would manage to trick us with some questions about time, money, capacity and shape... BUT we all did amazing and she was so…