Blog by Tag: Equality

This week classes have been invited to join in Remembrance Day traditions throughout school.

Each teacher has planned meaningful and engaging activities surrounding the theme of ‘War’ and ‘Remembrance’.

Learners have been exposed to different learning focuses and learning new facts through a…

We have been super busy the past two weeks in Chestnut Class, we have been been exploring key events such as Halloween and bonfire night with tuff trays and sensory activities. 

We have been enjoying our daily trip to the sensory room where we have been playing on the swing, jumping in the…

Today Maple Class took part in Remembrance Day activities through Attention Autism and through creativity. We watched Miss flour sieve to reveal small crosses in the tuff tray and then sprinkle green glitter to represent Flander’s Field and we took turns in Stage 3 to sprinkle red tissue paper to…

Today 7P remembered all those that had lost their lives and those who still serve and have served in war. 
 

7P took part in a 1 minute silence outside with the rest of school while Mrs Chaloner played the Last Post on the corners.

We designed our own Poppies on purple mash and then watched…

Today 9A learnt about why we celebrate Remembrance Day every year on the 11th November. The children spoke about what they already know about Remembrance Day and why they think we have a two minute silence. They correctly said that we celebrate Remembrance Day to remember the millions who have…

Phew what a busy week it has been in 10G this week, it feels like we’ve blinked and it is Friday again! Hope that everyone had a good half term and is ready for the new half term ahead.

On Monday, 10G were late to the party to learn about showing racism the red card as we didn’t get chance to…

On Thursday 20th October Maple Class showed Racism the Red Card! We enjoyed sharing joint attention and exploring all things Red during Attention Autism and in our red themed sensory trays. We have been finding and putting together puzzles of photos of our face in the tuff tray and recognising our…

Wow, what a turnout for the secondary pupil as’ Halloween Disco! Pupils and their families came back to school in the dark in their spookiest outfits to play games and dance. There were some fantastic dance moves and lots of giggles. 
We hope everyone had a lovely time, please enjoy some photos…

This week in 8P we celebrated show racism the red card day. The class took part in lots of class learning about different people and how being different is ok. The whole class made great contributions  to a class discussion about different skin,eye,hair and clothes. We talked about how it’s never…

This term we have been looking at Hairspray the musical. We have learnt about ‘Black’ and ‘White’ segregation in USA in the 1960s. 
 

Today we have proudly danced to ‘You can’t Stop the Beat’ a song from the musical - no matter who you are, if you want to get up and dance, don’t let anyone…

On Friday children and staff were invited to wear jeans or blue clothing to help raise money for the genetic condition community. Classes all across school engaged in ways meaningful to them, from Jean based crafts and sensory stories in Maple class, to circle time discussions and iPad collages in…

Maple had the best morning down at Westway! We are all very proud of how well the boys represented Astley Park. The class attended the Chorley Schools Sports Partnership Football Festival. All the boys actively participated in a penalty shoot out against an FA representative. George was the top…