Blog by Tag: Equality

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

This week at Astley Park, pupils have been learning about the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali.  It is also known as the ‘Festival of Light’ and celebrates good overcoming evil. 
Classes throughout school have celebrated this in lots of different ways, from Attention Autism sessions, to sensory…

Week 7 We did it in 7P!

Well, what an awesome half term we have had in the new 7P of 2024-2025. 

It’s been lovely getting to know all the learners individually as the weeks have gone by and of course them getting to know us. 

We have done cooking in food tech, (hope you have enjoyed…

Week 5 7P celebrating Black History Month

On Tuesday, Mr Mick Maher, 7P class governor joined us in the afternoon to look at how we were celebrating Black History Month. 

Firstly we watched a PowerPoint called “ We are all different “. This was to help the learners understand that we…

Jeans for Genes day in 7P.

Friday, Astley Park had non school uniform day and everyone could, if they wanted, come into school in Jeans for Genes Day. We all enjoyed dressing up together to support the brilliant cause and understood that we all need to treat everyone kindly and make sure…

We have had a very busy start to our last half term in 7A. 

In Week One, we had a school based week, recapping learning and skills from Summer 1. We had big learning focus in surrounding our creative thinking and creative writing skills. We worked in groups to design a group ‘monster’.…

8P celebrated Rainbow Day on Friday by learning about how families around the world are all different. For example, some families have two mums, some families have two dads, some families have a mum and a dad, and some families have two mums and two dads. We also discussed how there are also…

What a lovely week it has been for staff and pupils of 9P. 

We have been celebrating our own version of Pride week with lots of discussions around families, awareness, acceptance and equality. We have used power points and colouring sheets to learn more about how we are all different, and how…

Well what a strange this week has turned out to be! As I’m writing this, we are down to just 4 weeks left in 11G!!!

On Monday morning we were off to swimming at Hindley. We have a new teacher now who is lovely and she put us through our paces to get lots of lengths in. Mrs Fisher and Mr…

Hola! This week in 9A, we have continued to learn about multiplication and division. Some of us were learning about the multiplication symbol, some of us were learning about sharing and grouping and some of us were even learning about ratio! Great work from everyone. In English, we use our setting…

What a busy week it’s been in 8A.

This week it’s been Rainbow week and Neurodiversity week.

At the start of the Rainbow activity day the class target was to say one thing they have learnt about Rainbow day / Pride month after the activity. 

Firstly, 8A watched a video about…

We have had a lovely day exploring Rainbow Day in Rowan Class.

We made a rainbow flag, coloured rainbows, went on a colour hunt and enjoyed a lovely story, In Every House on Every Street,

We then joined the whole school parade on the track with our flag!

Have a lovely weekend all.

Mrs…