17 Mar

A Busy Week in Beech Class

We have had a super busy week in Beech class. 
On Tuesday we made our Mother’s Day cards. We created lots of finger prints using green and pink paint and then turned these into a flower. 
On Wednesday we all worked together to make some yummy, heart shaped biscuits for our Mummy’s. We mixed all…

9 Mar

Beech Class Get Colourful

Yesterday Beech class celebrated Holi. 

Holi celebrates the arrival of Spring in India, the end of Winter, and the blossoming of love. 

At Astley Park School it definitely wasn’t the end of Winter as we celebrated in the snow!!! 

Beech Class had a great time getting very colourful and it…

8 Mar

Astley Park celebrate Holi

Astley Park School had a fantastic time on Wednesday 8th March as we celebrated the Hindu festival of Colour known as Holi.  Holi is a Hindu festival that celebrates Spring, Love and new life. Holi is a colour festival, with dancing, singing and throwing powder paint and coloured water. It marks…

23 Feb

Beech Class Had A Flipping Great Pancake Day

On Tuesday, Beech Class celebrated pancake day. 

We had a pancake themed sensory tray where we could sprinkle flour, make playdoh pancakes, and flip them in the pan using a spatula. 

Mrs Barrand made a messy pancake during Attention Autism!!! She used flour, milk, and cracked pretend eggs to…

10 Feb

Happy Half Term From Beech Class

Beech Class have had a lovely last week in class.

We have kept ourselves active and regulated for mental health awareness week. We have had lots of fun on the playground, had lots of movement sessions in the hall, and used our regulation equipment in class. 

We are all excited for a week off…

3 Feb

Beech class bake bread!

As part of our food topic, Beech Class have enjoyed making bread this week! 

In Attention Autism, Mrs Barrand mixed together ingredients to make the dough. A few of us helped by pouring in the water and stirring it with a wooden spoon. Once the dough had risen, we kneaded the squidgy dough on a…

26 Jan

Beech Class Celebrate Chinese New Year

On Monday, Beech Class celebrated Chinese New Year. We explored a tuff tray filled with Chinese food and pictures, listened to some Chinese music, and made our very own Chinese dragons. We all enjoyed playing with the wiggly noodles using the chopsticks!! In our AA session some of us were lucky…

20 Jan

World religion week in Beech Class

Beech class have been super busy this week!

Continuing our “Very Hungry Caterpillar topic”, we have practiced our chopping skills to make cucumber and tomato caterpillars and made some caterpillar hats!

For world religion week we have been exploring Christianity. We enjoyed preparing and…

13 Jan

The Very Hungry Caterpillar in Beech

This week Beech class have enjoyed exploring “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”.

In Attention Autism, we have used a balloon to make a picture of the very hungry caterpillar, counted all the fruits he ate, and made a colourful butterfly!

We have practiced our chopping skills cutting lots of…

16 Dec

Happy Christmas From Beech Class!!!

Beech Class have had a fun, festive last week of term. 

We have done some dressing up and loved looking at our funny outfits in the mirror. 
We have enjoyed playing with Christmas sensory trays and looking at all the sparkly objects. 
We had a little play in the snow before coming back inside…

9 Dec

Beech Class Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

You won’t believe what we have been getting up to in Beech Class!!!!

We have been making lots of Christmas crafts, some ready to send home and others for our art exhibition. We all decorated our class Christmas tree whilst listening to some festive music. On Thursday we had a Christmas party!!!…

5 Dec

Beech Class …. I’ll Huff & I’ll Puff

Last week the theme in Beech Class was ‘The Three Little Pigs’. 
We did a ‘What’s in the box’ where Miss made printed houses and then sprinkled straw on house number 1, placed sticks on house number 2, and built bricks on house number 3. 
We made the most of the dry weather and went for lots of…