Blog by Tag: Chestnut Class

Today we all wore our own clothes in Chestnut Class, and wore something red!

We enjoyed a music session this morning where we played along to the song 'It's good to be me'. 

We spoke about how we are all different and that's great!!!

Have a lovely bank holiday weekend Chestnut…

Chestnut Class have had a very exciting week learning all about ‘The 3 Little Pigs’. We have been exploring different materials and making pig houses out of straw, sticks and duplo, and pretending to blow them down. 

We all decorated a biscuit with pink icing and marsh mellows to make a pigs…

This week in Chestnut class we have been learning all about spring. We have used forks in different coloured paints to make tulip pictures, painted blossom trees using our fingers, dug in the soil filling the plant pots, and looked for worms in the soil. We have explored the school grounds with…

Last week some of the children throughout school got busy to help school enter an Easter competition that Chorley police station is running to win lots of Easter eggs.

The children got very creative making cards with Easter egg prints, finger print Chicks, hand print Chicks and sheep. The…

In Chestnut Class this week, we made some cute Easter Cards for our familiies.

We squeezed a yellow blob of paint onto the middle of our card and then used a fork to spread the paint out. Once we had done this we stuck on 2 eyes and an orange beak, to make a super cute Easter chick!!! We can't…

Chestnut Class have had a lovely week settling back into our routine.

We have enjoyed playing with our friends, exploring our fancy new outdoor area, and getting very busy with fun activities!

We have also been getting glittery whilst making our special cards for Mother's Day. We hope they…

This Week, Chestnut Class have continued to look at the book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'. 

We have enjoyed listening to the story, trying some of the food that the caterpillar ate, exploring different leaves and herbs in our tuff tray, and making some super caterpillar crafts!!

On Thursday…

This week in Chestnut Class, we have been reading the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’.

We have enjoyed making our own caterpillars, exploring the fruit that the caterpillar ate in the story, counting the fruit, and having fun in our sensory story tuff tray. We even went on our very own bug…

This week at Astley Park School, we have been looking at we have been celebrating diversity within our families entitled ‘Different Families, Same Love’.

In Chestnut Class we have been looking at our family books and pictures of our families.

We then saw our friends on our video call and…

Different Families, Same Love

LGBT+ History Month is celebrated in February in the UK. This week, Astley Park School is proud to celebrate LGBT History Month through exploring different family types. 

• All learners will be working towards our weekly six star challenge in which all…

What another busy week for Chestnut Class!

We have been carrying on with our beach theme in Class. We have all been busy building sandcastles, making huge ice-creams from different materials and decorating them, pretending to be crabs and click-clacking with instruments, and making handprint…

Over the next week pupils and staff at Astley Park will be attempting to walk a total of 100 laps of the school track or if learning from home around their local area or gardens in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore who became the nation’s hero last spring after raising more than £32m for the NHS…