Blog by Tag: Equality

Comic Relief 80s theme

Today at Astley Park it was Comic Relief day and we had an 80s theme. 

It was great seeing the learners in their own clothes, especially the brightly coloured T-shirts, leg warmers and tutus. The staff also joined in with their dress wear!

The school…

7A have had a very busy couple of weeks.

We have worked exceptionally hard on our Thinking and Problem solving, using cubes to measure different things and solving number problems.

In My Creativity everyone has been learning to play ‘3 Little Birds’ on the xylophone and more recently, the…

Holi Celebration in 7P

Friday afternoon at Astley Park was a little bit different. 

Instead of the normal Friday afternoon Golden Time, the whole school celebrated the “Holi” festival. 

The secondary team started off the celebrations with an amazing dance. After that Mr Welsh…

We have had a super time today celebrating the Holi Festival.

We all enjoyed the colour run, dancing and traditional food!

It was a lovely, colourful day, full of smiles :) 

Willow class have had a super busy two weeks. They have completed amazing math work and really pushed and challenged themselves. We made pancakes for pancake day and our learner’s chose their own toppings and decorated their pancake. Our learner’s absolutely love our sensory stories, our new one…

Today Chestnut Class enjoyed looking at photographs of the special women in their lives. Some of the children used communication boards to describe their inspirational women with kind words like amazing, beautiful and caring! We hope you all have a lovely weekend celebrating the inspirational…

Before half term pupils in 9A practiced their road safety skills whilst walking to Chorley Library.  They used a zebra crossing where ever possible waiting until cars stopped so they could cross safely. Everyone had a lovely time at the library looking at all the different kinds of books and…

Well done 7P. Today we learnt all about the NSPCC in line with NSPCC number day. First we listened to a story all about the NSPCC and then watched a video all about a child that needed extra support and how this charity helps them. We then were very sensible and chatted all about the different…

Last Monday, 8A learned about Martin Luther King JR. 8A had never heard of Martin Luther King before and enjoyed learning about him, his important work and why he is famous.

8A participated in a Circle Time session where we shared stories and facts about Martin Luther King JR and watched a…

For World Religion Week 2025, 8A spent time across the week learning about Buddhism.

We explored various elements of the Buddhism religion, including religious values, key beliefs, key symbols and artefacts and we learned the Story of Buddha.

8A participated in an array of activities…

The last couple of weeks have been go, go, go! 

Picture news last week was about  that UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has stated that building new homes is a 'top priority' and the government has announced changes to planning rules, to make housebuilding in the countryside easier.
We discussed…

On Monday, it was Martin Luther King day and the class watched an PowerPoint how Martin Luther King changed the way people thought about people who weren’t white.

The PowerPoint explained how people that weren’t white were treated, like not being able to sit on the same bus, not being able…