Blog by Tag: Geography

Thank you for being a friend in 8A

This week has been “Friendship week” at Astley Park. 

We have been looking out for our learners being kind towards other. 

We have seen learners looking after their friends whilst out walking to and from Asda in the high winds. We have also seen…

Apologies for the missing Blog last week. 8A had such a busy week that it completely slipped by without us posting so this week we are covering both weeks. 
We hope you enjoy our Rainbow Flag design incorporating the AP logo. We enjoyed the parade around school looking at everybody’s designs. We…

Today the 'R' classes in KS4 took part in their My Choices Day.  This is a collapsed curriculum day where option subjects are chosen by the pupils and they study their choices based on the theme. This term it is Remembrance Day and the option choices were: History, Geography, Art, Modern Foreign…

What a great day 7A have had!!!

We visited Pumpkin Patch Farm in Scarisbrick. We were met by James who showed us where everything was then off we went.

We walked up and down the field in our wellies looking at all the different shapes, sizes and colours of pumpkins. There were orange, green,…

This week Willow Class went on our first walking trip to visit Astley Park. We have been learning all about our local environment, habitats and wildlife in class, especially looking at local birds during the big bird watch in February so it was time to put all our knowledge to the test! 
We…

This half term Willow class are looking at our local environment and what we can do to look after it, alongside caring for our planet. We are looking at ways to be more eco friendly and ways we can make our local habitats/communities a better place.

We have had some great discussions about what…

On Tuesday it was the first full moon of the Lunar calendar which meant it was Chinese New Year! 
pin Willow class we looked at how this special event is celebrated and why it is important to Chinese culture. We looked at ways people around the world celebrate the special day and days following…

This week has been a little different in 7A , but that didn’t stop them . 
This week we have engaged in lots of fun activities and even had a go at some challenges . 

We have enjoyed some leaping and landing gymnastics in PE . Some of this felt a little but scary for some children on the…

Another busy week in 11R. With this week being friendship week, we started off with odd sock day on Monday. The students have spent time this week thinking about this year's friendship week theme "one kind word." We spent time discussing the difference between bullying and banter with staff and…

We have had a football themed week this week.

We have worked independently using book creator on our iPads to make a presentation about a country of our choice from the Euros.

We had to find the flag, find the country on a map and highlight it and then find some interesting facts - who knew…

7A have really enjoyed Italy Day. We all remembered to wear colours from the Italian flag and enjoyed Italy themed sensory play and learning all about the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Mrs Crouch told us some interesting facts about the Leaning Tower of Pisa and then we worked in teams to try and create…

This half term we are learning all about how to make the most of our leisure time as part of our ASDAN curriculum. Yesterday we all had a chat about what we thought this topic would be about and came up with some fantastic suggestions such as: bowling, swimming, running, playing games,…