Blog by Tag: KS4

11R have had great time celebrating their very last Christmas at Astley Park School. 
With craft days making lots of things from snowmen, cards, hand made presents for family and many more things, parties, Christmas gifts , school production and end of term trips. Oh my goodness what busy…

What a Performance we had on Tuesday! 

The secondary department would like to thank all the parents, family, carers and family friends who came to see our show and also those of you who joined from home via video link. It was a wonderful turn out. 

I am sure you will all join me in…

It’s getting close to Christmas now and 11G are very busy with all their Asdan work. 

On Monday we discussed our weekend news, everybody joined in and listened their friends and asked some super questions to find out more information.

Week 6 of our swimming lessons and everts is improving…

Today in 10R we were looking at how to stay safe online by keeping ourselves anonymous when we are on the internet. Yesterday we learnt what it meant to copy, modify and alter photos online and how this can affect us, especially when it is done to our photos without our consent. We learnt never to…

Today we welcomed our parents and careers into school to show off our learning throughout the Autumn term. 
 

Parents were welcomed into the hall to watch a presentation of rehearsal photos which lead us into watching our PE Hairspray performance taught to us by Dani from Chorley School Sports…

11G were very lucky this week to go to a pantomime at The Empire Theatre, Blackburn. We watched Cinderella, we were all very excited and some of us were a little nervous as we hadn’t been to the theatre before. 

We all had great fun, it was very funny especially the ugly sisters and…

Today, 10R had their first Sharing our Learning session! We had the parents come in and we talked all about our trip to Calvert Trust last week. We looked at pictures and explained what we did on each day and about every activity. Everyone said what their favourite activity of the week was and…

10R had a wonderful day at Haydock Races today; but don't worry, there was no gambling involved. 

This was a first for all of our learners, as none of them had ever been to the races before, with not many of them ever seeing a race at all, even on TV. We started our day meeting Toby, an…

We have been waiting a while……but we are so pleased with our leavers hoodies. 

Wow!!! Another busy week in 11G we are working really hard on our Asdan work. 

On Monday we shared our weekend news with our friends, we all had very busy weekends but we were eager to come back to school to learn. In English we are reading the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory we looked…

This week has been a challenge for all pupils in class.

We have really raised the stakes for our independence. Pupils took part in a functional ICT lesson on Monday, editing a letter which had several errors, following instructions. We then learned about what an envelope should be…

Last year we did our first ever Reverse Advent at Astley Park School- and it was such an amazing success that we are doing it again!

Every day during Advent - we brought in donations of tinned food/ toiletries etc- and placed them into Christmas boxes- thanks to everyone’s generosity- by the…