Blog by Tag: Equality

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Would you like to take part in an exciting competition as part of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month? Take a look at the competition below. If you take part, make sure you send Mrs Crouch a copy of your entry (crouchm@astleypark.lancs.sch.uk) as well as emailing it over to…

VE Day is a shortened name for Victory in Europe. This year we are celebrating 75yrs when Germany surrended (gave themselves up) to end the 2nd World War. This was a very happy time in England and many parties were had. 

If you would like to learn more about this special occasion here is a…

Last Monday, Mr Darbyshire led our assembly and we learned about the traditional Hindu festival ‘The Holi Festival’. Some of us got to have a turn using powder paint to create colour clouds. 

Back in Oak class we explored colour through lots of activities. Miss Cross did an Attention…

Last Friday, Oak had their belated Rainbow Day and celebrated how we are all different. 

First we read the story ‘We Are All Different’. We took turns using mirrors to talk about how we all look and what we had that was the same or different. Oscar told us he had glasses and Tig said he…

Last week 7G celebrated Holi festival. This is a Hindu festival where the coming of spring is celebrated through lots of colourful activities. 

7G chose red as their colour to come into school in. All the children had an item of clothing on that was red. 
With Mr Murphy in the morning they all…

On Monday, Willow class learnt about the Hindu spring festival Holi. We chose blue as our class colour and some children chose to wear this colour to school for the day. Willow class loved the idea of the paint throwing celebrations and made their own powder paint art following an attention autism…

Challenge your family this spring time using the free resource from Google’s Be Internet Legends Parent Zone.

Talk to your family and learn together. Please feel free to feedback your experiences!

If you need any further support please don’t hesitate to contact…

Willow class celebrated Rainbow Day by wearing bright clothes to create a class rainbow and learning all about how people are different.

We discussed how rainbows have lots of different colours that all come together to make something brilliant- just like all our friends making one…

As part of the LGBT+ celebrations we decorated our own rainbows that we are going to display in our classroom. 

We had a a very grown up discussion about how we are all different and the world would be a very boring place if we were all the same. Some of us could even tell me what LGBT stands…

Today we all came in different coloured clothes for Rainbow Day but we didn’t really understand why. We had a discussion about LGBT History Month and why it is important that we celebrate Rainbow Day. We learnt what LGBT stands for and what the words mean. We then played a circle time game,…

To celebrate rainbow day chestnut class dressed in brightly coloured clothes and collages pictures of rainbows. We also had lots of brightly coloured sensory activities to explore.

As the students had come dressed in colourful clothes to celebrate Rainbow Day, we looked at what it is to be the same  but different. Students thought about how we are all different; including things like being interested in different hobbies, having different family members, speaking in…