Blog by Tag: Me and My Body

Comic Relief 80s theme

Today at Astley Park it was Comic Relief day and we had an 80s theme. 

It was great seeing the learners in their own clothes, especially the brightly coloured T-shirts, leg warmers and tutus. The staff also joined in with their dress wear!

The school…

Another busy week in Oak Class. We have continued our healthy eating theme throughout the week: listening to the sensory story about Sammy’s Favourite Foods and healthy lunch box activities, trying different new foods. We especially enjoyed the mango, popcorn and yoghurt. We all practiced our…

Before half term, 10 pupils chosen from the football team were picked to play in a match against another school! These pupils were picked because of their dedication to attending football practice regularly, therefore they were rewarded for their commitment. 

We did some training and…

This week in Oak class we have been independently decorating pancakes and making our own drinks. In our Attention Autism sessions we enjoyed watching Miss Melling splatting ‘5 current buns’ and showing us how to pour our very own drinks. Then it was our turn to decorate pancakes with fruit and…

Willow have had a great first week back and have been super busy!! The learner’s really enjoy our sensory story of ‘The Hungry Catepillar’ pretending to be caterpillar’s then to transform into butterflies. They have completed really good maths work and shown good engagement and their work has…

Willow class have had a super busy 2 weeks. Swimming, music, PE, learning about coins and money, role play shop and so much more. We made our own Supertato heroes with a potato and we added different materials to make our superhero, the learners really enjoyed this.  Our learners enjoyed learning…

On Monday Miss Troughton delivered Our Creativity lesson with the theme ‘Seaside’. This week we copied a picture by drawing it, then colouring it in. After this we got different materials and used glue to stick it to our pictures.

This week is Children’s Mental Health week.

Children's Mental…

Willow have been working their little socks off thIs week. We have been swimming, singing, playing musical instruments, having community trips to Asda and learning more about healthy eating and keeping fit. Our learners have done so well learning about money and what is worth more and what is…

This week in maths we have continued with working on the four operations, focusing on division Some of us have learnt what sharing is, how to use physical resources to help us share and also how to use factors to divide large numbers by 2-digit numbers! 

In Picture News on Monday, the question…

In maths this week, we have continued with developing our understanding of the four operations and using these in different contexts. Some of us have been writing number sentences using the times symbol, some of use have been using picture representations to solve larger problems and some of us…

This week started with Picture News again. This week we had to think answer the question 'Should you be allowed to build homes anywhere?'. We talked about what it would be like if people started to build houses in the middle of the track or in the middle of Astley Park. We also thought about what…

On Friday some of Sycamore Class went to a Boccia competition at All Seasons Sports Centre in Chorley.

They worked really hard and represented Astley Park so well, we are so proud of them! 
 

They cheered on all the other schools in the competition and we wracked up loads of points when it…