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World Religion Week.

This week at Astley Park School,  it’s been World Religion Week.

7P has looked at Judaism.

The class watched a PowerPoint and learnt about Hanukkah.

We learned a story about an evil king called Antiochus who didn’t like people having different beliefs to…

A busy healthy and frosty start to the term in Oak Class!

We have all settled back into our daily routine well and have enjoyed exploring the snowy frosty environment this week.

At Asda we have bought lots of fruit and vegetables for our friends to enjoy at snack time. This has helped us…

Christmas fun in 7P

This week in 7P we have had lots of Christmas fun. 

On Wednesday the panto of  “Dick Whittington” came to Astley Park School.

7P was lucky enough to have front row seats. There was lots of “oh no they’ve not”, and “it’s behind you” shouted out. It was an…

Christmas is fast approaching and everyone in 7A is getting super excited.

This week they have been doing lots of exciting things. In Music on Monday they did some excellent teamwork where one person jumped along the beat track whilst the rest played the beat to their jumps on their chosen…

Wow another very busy, exciting 2 weeks we’ve had in Oak Class! Everyone has worked super hard with their learning, from singing and counting The Very Hungry Caterpillar body parts in maths, solving missing number sequences and matching the caterpillars food items to numbers too. 

We…

So today sees the beginning of baking Christmas goods for our Youth Enterprise Tuck Shop.

This is the first experience of making mince pies and what a great job they did, rolling, cutting and filling.

Monday 18th - Today we had our first look at picture news. We had a look at an ancient city that has been discovered in the jungle in Mexico. We all found it really interesting, we then went on to have a look at other big discoveries through history and how they impacted the world. In the…

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…

On Monday it was Remembrance Day. All of 7A went outside with the rest of the school and our very own Mrs Chaloner played the Last Post on her cornet. Everyone was extremely respectful whilst observing the 2 minute silence.

We had music with Miss Troughton again this week and drummed along to…

On Monday morning this week 7A had our Sharing our Learning session.

Parents were invited in to see everything they had been learning about Diwali.

Mrs Chaloner showed the photos from last week and the learners told them what was happening and the different things they had learnt. 7A and…

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

Week 7 We did it in 7P!

Well, what an awesome half term we have had in the new 7P of 2024-2025. 

It’s been lovely getting to know all the learners individually as the weeks have gone by and of course them getting to know us. 

We have done cooking in food tech, (hope you have enjoyed…