Blog by Tag: Equality

As part of our English today in 11A we have been looking at and talking about the importance of Martin Luther King Day, we watched some clips and then had a discussion about how we were all feeling.

Some of us said that it made us angry, upset about segregation and we all agreed that…

This year for World Religion Week, Chestnut Class enjoyed exploring light linked to the Sikh celebration of Diwali. We made salt dough Diya lamps during our attention autism sessions and enjoyed turning the lights off and signing about our lamps on Friday afternoon to mark the end of the week.…

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…

This half term so far we have enjoyed a range of different activities, these include,  celebrating Halloween and exploring a variety of Halloween themed activities, such as pumpkin picking in our very own pumpkin patch, pumpkin carving and spooky stories with Mrs Mahood. We have also done…

This week we have had another excellent week. The staff team in 8P are extremely proud of all of the children in class. 

The week started off with weekend news and lots of super reading from the children. We had a visit to Asda to buy our ingredients for cooking on Thursday. The children…

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…

Celebrating International Men’s Day in 7P.

So on Tuesday, 7P celebrated International Men’s Day by looking at a PowerPoint about the special men in their lives and talking about how important they are. 

The PowerPoint named men like dads, stepdads, uncles, male cousins, grandads,…

Friendship week in 7P.

All this week 7P have been celebrating “Friendship Week” in different ways. 

In food tech, whilst half of 7P went to Asda, the rest made some Friendship cookies.

The learners made sure that they made enough cookies for them to take one cookie home and…

Diwali in 7P

This week 7P celebrated Diwali. The learners looked at a PowerPoint on what activities Hindus do when they celebrate Diwali. 

The children learnt that Diwali means “Festival of Light” and it marks the beginning of the new year in the Hindu calendar. 

We looked at all the…

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…

This week at Astley Park, pupils have been learning about the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali.  It is also known as the ‘Festival of Light’ and celebrates good overcoming evil. 
Classes throughout school have celebrated this in lots of different ways, from Attention Autism sessions, to sensory…

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…