Blog by Tag: Chestnut Class

This week in chestnut class we have been exploring and learning all about farm animals. 
The children have enjoyed joining in with lots of Attention Autism activities. We have had fun singing songs and exploring foods that are grown on the farm. We did some vegetable counting and sorting, each…

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We just thought we would share a video to show you how to do a correct plank exercise from Mr Murphy. It's fantastic to see so many of you trying these new challenges, keep it up.

A new challenge will be published each Monday for you to achieve your stars that week, this week is week 2.…

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We had an amazing response to last weeks challenge and would love for even more pupils to join us this week.

Remember If you achieve 6 stars you get a gold award, 5 stars for a silver award and 4 stars for a bronze award and you’ll get a shout out in our star of the week assembly!

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Well done everyone! You are all absolutely amazing.

Week 1's Gold award winners are:

Scarlett in Chestnut

Adam in Maple

Annie in Rowan 

Olivia in willow

Michael in 8R

Thomas in 8R 

Cordell in 8R

Well done - you achieved all 6 stars. WOW.

Week 1's Silver…

Yesterday the children in Chestnut Class had a fun afternoon creating animal prints.

After watching Mrs Smith do an animal themed ‘What’s in the Box’ the children then used different animals and paint to make footprints on their paper. They then experimented using different shapes to create a…

We’re going on a lion hunt, 

We’re going to catch a big one, 

We’re not scared, we’ve been there before!

This week in chestnut class our story has been “We’re Going on a Lion Hunt”. We have had lots of fun swishing in the long grass, splashing in the lake and squelching in the swamp…

This week we have enjoyed lots of number songs in Chestnut class. We particularly enjoy the song “five currant buns” so today Mrs Crouch ran a very messy attention autism session based on the song. We made currant buns out of shaving foam and enjoyed splatting them when it was our turn to buy a…

We would like to wish Noah a very happy 8th birthday! We had a lovely time celebrating in Chestnut Class this afternoon!

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Would you like to take part in an exciting competition as part of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month? Take a look at the competition below. If you take part, make sure you send Mrs Crouch a copy of your entry (crouchm@astleypark.lancs.sch.uk) as well as emailing it over to…

This afternoon we enjoyed a music themed attention autism session in Chestnut class. We watched Mrs Crouch drop different materials on a xylophone or tambourine to create different sounds and then we took turns to play the instruments. We had lots of fun! 

Today is a very special day for Miss Brown. It's her birthday and under normal circumstances she would have been at home on Bank Holiday Monday celebrating with her family. Miss Brown was on the staff rota to come in today so instead was in school, so the staff in school wanted to make sure it was…

The learners in school in lower primary this week have been exploring the story, “The Gruffalo” by Julia Donaldson. We are enjoying exploring the sensory story and have used shapes to create different faces of characters from the story. We are also enjoying “Mental Health Awareness Week” and have…