Blog by Tag: KS4

Last week was another busy week for 11R!

On Monday we had Miss Anderton for maths in the morning, where we started to plan our dream bedrooms, looking at sizes of rooms and how we would begin to cost everything up. In the afternoon we had science, where we continued to look at energy by making…

Yesterday our year 11s had their prom! It's been a very busy past few weeks getting everything finalised and ready and we're all so glad that the day ran smoothly and everyone had a great time.

We welcomed our learners to school in the afternoon where they were all dressed up and ready for the…

Summer 2 in 11R has been another busy week! We started off the week with Miss Anderton and on Monday we had a maths lesson on time in the morning and the afternoon we had a lesson on energy. We made our own paper plane launchers to test out wind power and once we made them we took them out onto…

On Monday we were right back into lessons, starting off the day with a functional maths lesson on money. We used coins and notes and practiced identifying coins and how much each coin was worth. We looked at how many pennies were in a pound and how to add money up.

In the afternoon we had our…

11R have had a busy last week leading up to our half-term break!

On Monday we had our usual maths lesson and in the afternoon we had a science lesson. We were learning abouts forces with Miss Anderton and today we were talking about wind power. We built our own windmills and coloured them in,…

Over this half term in our learner led “good to be me” sessions we have been talking about “worries.” Through our group discussions we have realised that we all have worries and feel anxious sometimes and this is ok. We have talked about what worries us and some of us have very similar…

11R have had a very busy start to their last term at Astley Park!

Last week we carried on with our ASDAN unit on Environmental Awareness, where we have been looking after the beds at the front of school and collecting the recycling from the other classes and throwing in our large bins ready for…

This week KS4 started their work experience at Chorley Hospital. Year 11 and year 10 students headed off to the Life Centre where we met Karen, who would be showing us round and leading the sessions while we are there. We started off by going through what each week would look like before Karen…

What a lovely day for Planting trees! 

We had a great time planting 6 Silver Birch Trees in Astley Park- in conjunction with Chorley in Bloom and Chorley Borough Council- the trees are going to be part of a Remembrance Walk in memory of a Council Worker and local people who sadly lost their…

Today KS4 and KS3 had a very special visitor; Kerry from Lowther Theatre came in to run a short workshop with a few of the KS4 and KS3 classes. We talked about all of the different jobs that are involved in the theatre, from actors and dancers to the lighting and sound production to the people who…

11R have had a busy couple of weeks this term! 
 

In science we have been learning about plants and their parts and we got the chance to dissect some lilies and take them apart to look at all the parts up close and in person. We’ve also been looking at seed dispersal and all the different ways…

On Tuesday with Mrs Cobham we were discussing qualities so we talked about why we like staff members and we all agreed that we like staff who are caring,  Friendly and shows us respect. We like staff who are calm and cheer people up. Staff who get to know us as individuals are important because…