Blog by Tag: ASDAN

Back in February year 11 began an environmental investigation into the schools CO2 footprint.

We went around each member of staff in school and asked how they travelled to school and back each day and where they came from. We then worked out what mileage they travelled and what each persons…

On Monday morning we learnt about Remembrance Day. We talked about why we commemorate Remembrance Day and what happens on each year on the 11th November. We then went down to the cage at 11 o'clock to listen to Mrs Chaloner playing the Last Post on her trumpet. The whole class were very…

This week saw some of us continuing with addition and subtraction in maths, looking at how to break down word problems so solve the questions. Some of us worked on multiplication and division, using written methods to find the answers.

In English, we have been writing letters to local garden…

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

This week in English, we thought of a place we would like to visit on holiday and created a word bank to describe it. We then used these words to tell our families about our holiday on a postcard. We had to be sure to not write too much, as postcards aren't very big, but I think we all got across…

Last week, we decided in our English lessons that we would write a letter to Joe Wicks to tell him all about our topic Healthy Living and to ask him if he has any tips for us, so today we thought about what we wanted to tell him and what questions we had for him. Hopefully we will get a reply! In…

As part of our new school year we are embarking on our Young Enterprise experience. 
As part of this we have had to create a company, this involved a board meeting where we discussed job roles, we then had to decide what roles we would like to apply for and have a small interview to say how we…

10A have been learning Parenting Awareness as part of our ASDAN studies- and this week we have had a visit from Mrs Crouch and her baby!

We asked her lots of questions- and all came to the conclusion that babies can be very expensive, and are very demanding but they are also lots of…

11R have had a very busy start to their last term at Astley Park!

Last week we carried on with our ASDAN unit on Environmental Awareness, where we have been looking after the beds at the front of school and collecting the recycling from the other classes and throwing in our large bins ready for…

As part of our careers enrichment programme a few pupils visited Nuffield Gym to undertake a 5 week programme of work experience.

This week the pupils worked with Ashley a PT instructor and familiarised themselves with the environment. This involved using equipment safely, a warm up and cool…

This term in 10A is busy with community visits around the area. 
Our first visits of the week are to Chorley in Bloom, Jake visited on Monday and is involved with planting and creating a feature using tyres, unfortunately due to the weather the rest of the class were unable to visit but we will…

After our visit to Bendrigg the class have been writing their own personal diaries about their experiences. 
We had a chance to reflect on the time at Bendrigg and what exciting adventures we had, we wrote about what things we liked and disliked, what we found challenging and what we found…