
Farm Fest 2023 and Rainbow Day In Chestnut Class
Well it’s been another busy 2 weeks. Last week we had sharing our learning and hosted ‘Farm Fest 2023’ and this week we have celebrated rainbow day across school.
As always the pupils have been busy working on their play skills, engagement and communication.
We hope you enjoy our…
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Astley Park celebrate Rainbow Day
Astley Park School have a had a very colourful week as they explore rainbows, families and diversity as part of Rainbow Week celebrations!
Rainbow week is a joyful and colourful display of love, unity, and respect, with lots of activities to promote inclusivity, opportunities to educate, and…

Maple Class enjoy Farm Fest!
This week Maple have been busy getting ready for Farm Fest! We have been enjoying The Little Red Hen and making farm animals from the story including sheep and hens.
We have been counting spots on cows to help us with our accuracy and making sentences using Colourful Semantics to help us with…

9A Creative Space Centre visit
On Friday afternoon this week, 9A enjoyed visiting the Creative Space Centre in Preston. They loved having a two-tier sensory room to themselves, which included:
- large slide
- dark den
- ball pool
- musical steps
- massage chair
- other comfortable seating
- roller
- calming…

A busy first week back in Sycamore !
Welcome back !
Syacmore class have come back ready to hit the ground running .
This week in PE we have been practicing our throwing and catching skills working towards a full game of rounders .
In music this week the children have amazed all staff with their knowledge of…

7A day out at Blackpool Zoo.
Well what a great way to get back into school life… a trip to Blackpool Zoo!
7A were very excited as we set off to sunny Blackpool.
We arrived at the Zoo and it was very busy.
First stop was the penguins, on the way we saw a couple of the little monkeys, we loved seeing them jumping…

8P end another great half term!
Our learners have been working hard again this week!
On Tuesday we went to Aldi to top up our snack box and everyone was fantastic at using the checkout to put some items through and pay for them.
Wednesday was Luca’s 13th birthday and we celebrated with some cakes that he had very kindly…

9A Summer - Share Our Learning (session 1)
9A had their first Share Our Learning event of the Summer term this week!
We had Josh’s mum and Daniel’s mum visit us.
The pupils started off by performing their sensory regulation carousels.
They enjoyed showing the parents how to use the resources. Josh even used the head massager on…

Week 5 in Maple Class
Maple Class have had another lovely week enjoying our topic- Down on the Farm. We’ve explored the story of the Little Red Hen through Attention Autism, numbers songs and creative tasks and made the most of the lovely weather this week. During PE we have been accessing the balance bikes, 3…

Sycamore - Who can I trust ?
Sycamore have been learning all about adults who we can trust. The children used a combination of their own family photos, strangers that we know are safe e.g doctors and police and strangers that are not safe to categorise in the circle of trust .
Mrs Banks worked with this group and started…

The day the Buddhist Monk came to visit.
Today we had a visit from a Buddhist Monk, Kelsang Pagpa. All Buddhist monks are named Kelsang which means ‘fortunate one’ and his name Pagpa means ‘realised ultimate truth’.
He wore orange robes which are meant to symbolize simplicity and detachment of materialism.
He spoke to us about how…

3 Little Pigs visit Chestnut Class
Good afternoon,
The Chestnut pupils have been very busy this week learning about the three little pigs - linked to our topic of ‘Down On The Farm’. The pupils have enjoyed ‘pig’ themed attention autism activities, participated in a sensory story and made piggy cakes and biscuits. The pupils…