26 Nov

5 currant buns

Beech class have been enjoying the 5 currant bun song, we have been exploring the numbers 1 to 5 and some great counting and using our number names. We have had fun in the currant bun shop and have been taking away the currant buns and seeing how many were left.

We also baked our own buns with…

24 Nov

St Andrew’s Day Celebrations at Astley Park School!

On Tuesday 30th November, we will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day in classes. Some classes will be celebrating this through sensory play with water, some will be focusing on the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, whilst others while be exploring the life of St Andrew using information…

19 Nov

Old McDonald had a farm at Beech class

Beech class has been singing ‘Old McDonald had a farm’ this week, we have looked at all of the animals, felt all of the different textures we might find on a farm, like straw, mud, hay and grass and pushed the tractors along in the soil.
The pigs on the farm had a slide into the mud, everyone…

19 Nov

Friendship week in Beech

The pictures say it all! Happy friendship week

11 Nov

Children in Need - Together We Can

Children in Need has been celebrated across the whole school this week in various different ways suitable for all our learners! 

Please enjoy our lovely pictures below of the activities that have taken place! 

In addition, a special thanks to all our Star Staff Bakers who took part in our…

11 Nov

Astley Park ‘will remember them’

On this special day, the pupils of Astley Park have been getting very artsy producing some amazing arts and crafts ideas to pay respect on Remembrance Day! The children have all had their creative hats on and have made some fantastic tributes!

 

11 Nov

Beech Rememberance Day

Beech class had a lovely time making their own poppy using lots of sensory experiences and tools. 
We also enjoyed exploring the sensory poppy tray, lots of red.

 

5 Nov

Beech Class P.E and Balance bikes.

This week we have had a great P.E lesson supported by Chorley sports. We have also had Bike Ability helping us to learn to ride balance bikes- great fun!

5 Nov

Beech class celebrate Diwali and Bonfire night

Beech class has been looking at all of the colours for Diwali, we had a lovely sensory tray with lots of colourful sand and glitter. We made a glittery candle to celebrate the festival of light, and we had some Indian music and dancing on the screen to watch too. 
For Bonfire night we melted…

21 Oct

Beech classes Halloween fun

Beech class have enjoyed dressing up today, we have had skeletons, dinosaurs, scary princess and wizards. We explored the orange sand, and a Halloween tray. Everyone loved having a feel of the insides of the pumpkin after they watched it being cut into, we carved eyes, nose and a mouth. 
We were…

21 Oct

Halloween Pumpkin Competition

Congratulations to Class 7P who are the winners of our Halloween Pumpkin competition.  Mr Welsh and Mrs Millard were our judges for today and had a difficult decision due to the fantastic effort classes had made.

Mr Welsh presented 7P class and all the other classes with some lovely halloween…

21 Oct

Beech classes Halloween fun

Beech class have enjoyed dressing up today, we have had skeletons, dinosaurs, scary princess and wizards. We explored the orange sand, and a Halloween tray. Everyone loved having a feel of the insides of the pumpkin after they watched it being cut into, we carved eyes, nose and a mouth. 
We were…