Blog by Tag: Equality

We had a lovely afternoon celebrating the Jewish festival of Passover- we watched a power point about this important event in the Jewish Faith.
We learned that the Jewish people had a party which lasted 7 or 8 days.

We learned lots of new words- and were all very interested in the Seder…

Welcome back 7A!

Last week 7A jumped back into routine and explored what we are learning about over the summer term. 7A, 8A and 9A are all learning under the theme of ‘Welcome to Hogwarts’ and have been spilt into the Hogwarts houses, earning points for their house (at the end of the term the…

Well what a fabulous first week back in 7P this week, and what a busy week we’ve had…

This week we have welcomed our new TA, Mrs Pope. We have really enjoyed getting to know her, and showing her what an amazing class 7P are! Welcome Mrs Pope, we are so excited to have you!!

This week we have…

Welcome back to our final term for 11G at Astley Park School! How crazy does that sound?! We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter break. We are all raring to go for our last term. 

On Monday morning we welcomed everyone back to class. As I mentioned in my email before we came back, the…

Wow, Spring Term flew by for 7A!

During the Spring Term, we did lots of fantastic learning - working on our functional life skills, our Aspirational Learning Goals and our Curriculum Learning Goals.

In My Communication based lessons, we learnt about Acrostic Poems in Spring 1 and Postcards…

On Thursday 8A participated in looking through a PowerPoint all about Down Syndrome. 

8A identified that we had two learners in class that have Down Syndrome. 

The PowerPoint explained that people are born with Down Syndrome because they are born with different cells. This is ok. This is…

7P have had another lovely week. Part of this week was learning about World Down Syndrome day. 
 

7P spoke about what this means and how just because someone has Down Syndrome they can do the same things that we can. We are all unique and special and that is okay. 
 

We explored this…

On Thursday 21st March Chestnut Class celebrated World Down Syndrome Day. The theme this year is # End the Stereotypes. The day is represented by lots of socks because chromosomes look like socks!  We wore brightly coloured socks or odd socks, designed socks using the primary colours and balloons…

Celebrating Neurodiversity in 8A

This week 8A has been looking at Neurodiversity and celebrating “Different Minds” and that it’s good to be different. We are all different!

8A played a small game of bingo. The cards had different types of people’s hair.

Miss Robertson then…

This week we have been very busy taking part in lots of activities. 

We celebrated Neurodiversity week by learning about how we are all different, in the way we process information and the way we think. 
This was a very interesting lesson, and we all learnt lots of interesting facts.

On…

Mental Health week in 8A

It was lovely to see 8A learners in school on Monday, wearing green to celebrate Mental Health week . 

This Mental Health week, we are focusing on “My Voice Matters'”, and the class has had several chats, explaining that there are different ways the learners can…

Over the last couple of weeks, 11R have explored Hinduism for our World Religion learning. We have spent time looking at Hindu celebrations and learnt all about how Hindu’s celebrate Diwali. We learn about how Hindu's celebrate Diwali by creating intricate and colourful patterns called 'rangoli',…