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That’s it folks, last week of school in 2024 and boy has it been busy!!!

On Monday our learners performed twice in our Astley Park’s got Talent show. Everyone had a great time and we hope you agree that they all did an amazing job!!!! Well done 7A.

On Tuesday we had our community visit to…

A super busy festive few weeks in Oak Class!

Everyone has made good choices whilst out in the community, from walking to Asda, ordering lunch in the cafe, walking to Astley Park walled garden, travelling to swimming and playing at Devonshire park.

Well what brilliant Christmas celebrations for year 11, a meal at The Astley pub and party day, great fun had by all!

We have been very fortunate this year to work alongside Parklands High School and Chorley Sports Partnership as part of this relationship we were very grateful to receive a surprise today.

Enclosed inside our Christmas card was a very kind donation of £50 towards our year 11 prom fund!

We…

What a super Christmassy day, we were served our Christmas lunch by Mr Welch and Mrs Ashcroft we enjoyed some Christmas singing and cracker jokes, a traditional Christmas lunch.

After we went to Chorley for our Secret Santa shopping, we all had our secret list of ideas for our friends we had…

Today was an amazing experience, we had been invited along to The Delta Hotel at Broughton to provide a Christmas sing along for the staff Christmas lunch. After lots of rehearsals and practice we were more than ready to give an amazing performance.

We arrived at the hotel and wow we delivered…

7P went bowling.

On Friday, all of 7P learners and staff members were lucky enough to be able to go bowling at the Escape in Chorley.

We had two teams of five and what fun everyone had. We even had a couple of “strikes” from the learners. 

We saw some amazing turn taking throughout…

Continuing on with our learning about the Pendle witches today we visited Pendle Hill and re created the walk that the women were made to do. We were very lucky with the sun shining although it was cold, and this made us think about the accused ladies walking, probably in bare feet all that…

On Tuesday this week it was International Men’s Day, this celebrates men's achievements and contributions while addressing critical issues like male health, gender-based violence, and the importance of positive male role models.

7A discussed different male celebrities and the male role models…

Last night we were invited to an awards evening with Chorley in Bloom to celebrate ours and others amazing contributions to the community volunteer group.

We were honoured to be presented with a Certification of Appreciation for our amazing continual contribution to the group. We also received…

Yesterday 11A visited Queens Park, each group was given a map of the park with the markers to find. We looked at the map and used locations around us to help us navigate where in the park we were, we used things like the pond, buildings and structures to help us understand where we were and where…

Before our trip to Bendrigg year 11 have enjoyed a Duke of Edinburgh Carousel morning. 

Our first visitor was Mrs Jones. Mrs Jones demonstrated some basic first aid skills that we might need whilst we are out and about in the countryside. We got to have a practice on things like broken bones,…