Blog by Tag: Equality

Black history month in 10A 2025

On Friday we celebrated Black History month. The learners have a few colouring sheets of key figures and word searches that were connected to Black History month.

Whilst doing these work sheets the class watched live chat on Picture News which was…

WOW, what a busy week this week has been…

Our learners have done some great work this week, and have tried their best in all they have done! 
We have spoken about our weekend news, looking at what each of our friends and staff have been up to over the weekend. Followed by picture news.
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What a great week we’ve had in oak class, ending the week with rainbow day celebrations. 
We have really enjoyed exploring our colourful themed continuous provision and engaging in Rainbow Attention Autism. 
We have all made our very own rainbow flags and especially enjoyed our Rainbow…

Today was such a fun day full of colour and pride. All of sycamore decorated different flags and then marched around on our rainbow day walk! Well done Sycamore! 
 

This week in willow class we have celebrated being proud of ourselves. We have explored all of the differences in our families and ourselves. We have spoken about what we like and feel proud of. Things that we have achieved and things we like. 
The children have created some beautiful artwork…

As part of this year’s Pride celebration at Astley Park School, classes were given a different colour each to base a piece of artwork on. These are going to be used to make a bigger display with all the colours of the rainbow for our equality display.

9A was given the colour blue and chose an…

Rainbow Day in 7P

Friday, Astley Park School Celebrated Rainbow Day. Rainbow Day is a celebration of LGBTQ+. 7P watched a video from the Pop and Olly channel on YouTube. This channel covers lots of child friendly videos that talk about same gender relationships amongst other things. The…

8P have settled in to their last half term of being year 8, after having a lovely week off. 
 

Since being back in school, the learners have been joining in with lots of different activities and doing some incredible learning. 
Our learners have really enjoyed dressing up in our circus themed…

Celebrating Eid in 7P

On Monday 7P celebrated Eid. The learners watched a PowerPoint explaining what Eid is and how muslim’s celebrate this day. 

We learnt that Eid means festival or celebration. Some Muslim families celebrate Eid by putting on new clothes and sharing meals with…

Today 8A have spent time across the day learning about Eid-al-Fitr.

This morning, we participated in a circle time, sharing what we already knew about Eid-al-Fitr, before engaging in learning tasks which entailed using iPads to research about the celebration.

8A shared some of their…

Yesterday was a very special day for some of our friends in Sycamore Class. It was Eid al fitr which marks the end of the fasting period which is called Ramadan. The children worked very hard learning some of the traditional dances and learning all about the meaning of Ramadan. The children were…

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…