Blog by Tag: Beech Class

This week in Beech class, we have enjoyed exploring our “changes and growth” topic. 

First, we focused on baby animals and matching them to their mummies.

On Tuesday, we played with the baby dolls. We gave them a bath, dressed them, and rocked them to sleep.

Next, we explored faces. We…

This week Beech Class have been exploring the different types of weather. 

At the start of the week, we explored the rain. In attention autism, Mrs Barrand used an umbrella to protect herself from the different types of rain. We used sparkly glitter, hailstone rice and some of even got sprayed…

This week, Beech class have been exploring the story of Jack and the Beanstalk!

Throughout the week, Mrs Barrand has led us through a sensory story in our Attention Autism sessions. We’ve used wellies to make footprints up the beanstalk and dropped beans onto drums.

We’ve also enjoyed…

Beech class enjoyed a lovely trip to Ashurst Beacon country park on Thursday.

We walked along the woodland trail, splashed through a small stream, and even found a Gruffalo statue! We then stopped to enjoy our picnic lunch before playing on the play park. We had so much fun!

Throughout the…

This week Beech Class have been exploring ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. 

In attention autism we listened to the story, counted all the fruits that he ate and used a balloon to make our very own caterpillar!

We practised our chopping skills, cutting up different types of fruit and enjoyed…

For the final week of our “colour my world” topic, Beech class have been exploring towns.

We’ve created our own houses using recycled materials (cardboard boxes and paper bags), played with toys cars and trains, made “traffic light toast”, and explored lots of town scenes in our trays. In our…

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The wheel has been spun and the…

This week, Beech class have continued exploring the seaside.

In our tuff trays, we’ve had lots of fun exploring bubbles, spaghetti, sand, and sea animals.

We’ve also shaped Playdoh into sea animals, used bingo dabber to colour in turtles, and splatted shaving foam ice creams. 

In…

This week in Beech class we have been exploring the seaside!

We’ve had lots of fun exploring sand trays, playing with sea animals and boats, and decorating sandy shells.

On Tuesday we got on the minibus and drove to Formby Beach. Unfortunately, the Beach was closed due to high winds, but we…

This week in Beech class we have explored nature in a variety of environments in the world around us. 

On Monday, we explored “farmyards”- we played with lots of farmyard animals and made an angel delight mud bath for the pigs!

On Tuesday, we explored the snow and icy weather with a lovely…

Astley Park School are proud to be celebrating World Religion Week next week (15/01/24-19/01/24).

Each class has been allocated a different religion to learn about though a variety of lessons and experiences across the week. Please see the list below to see what religions individual classes…

Beech class has had a lovely first week back!

As part of our “colour my world” topic, this week we have been exploring winter.

In our adult led activity sessions, we’ve made paper penguins, water bottle snowmen, and potato masher snowmen. On Wednesday we made our own snowstorm using a…