Blog by Tag: Equality

This week has been a very busy week for the children in 8P.

This week we started off by sharing our weekend news, discussing what everyone has been up to over the weekend. We then looked at some ‘picture news’ looking at news through photos. This week we learned about what is good to watch…

In maths this week, we have continued with developing our understanding of the four operations and using these in different contexts. Some of us have been writing number sentences using the times symbol, some of use have been using picture representations to solve larger problems and some of us…

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…

Week 2 has been a very fun filled, busy week. 
We have been doing lots of reading, writing and number work throughout the week. All the children have tried their best and done some incredible independent work in class, as well as some group and 1-1 work. 
We had a very exciting trip to the zoo…

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…