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Recycling in 7P

This week 7P looked at different materials that we have to recycle. 

Firstly, the learners took turns and played a recycling game on the laptop. They had to drag each item of rubbish into the correct bin. 

Next, we went outside and looked for hidden recycling…

Willow class walked to Astley Park holding hands in pairs. They stopped at the end of the roads, looked both ways and recognised when they were able to cross the road. We walked through the woods and we all walked the whole loop, stopping off at the park on the way back so they could have a little…

On Wednesday last week, a few of our pupils participated in a swimming gala. The gala was for Secondary aged Special school children and was arranged by Chorley School Sports Partnership (CSSP) and Miss Buck & Mr Flavell took the children to the event. The pupils presented exemplary behaviours…

Another short week for 10A, so lots to do. 

On Monday we looked at money in Maths. As part of our Asdan work  we are looking to make and sell items to raise funds for our year 11 prom. We talked about how we should work as a team when we are making the items, we discussed ground rules we would…

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…

Willow class have had a super busy two weeks. They have completed amazing math work and really pushed and challenged themselves. We made pancakes for pancake day and our learner’s chose their own toppings and decorated their pancake. Our learner’s absolutely love our sensory stories, our new one…

Today Chestnut Class enjoyed looking at photographs of the special women in their lives. Some of the children used communication boards to describe their inspirational women with kind words like amazing, beautiful and caring! We hope you all have a lovely weekend celebrating the inspirational…

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…

This week, we have been learning about Children's Mental Health Awareness Week through a range of activities. 

During regulation sessions, we have learnt about how certain activities, for example - yoga, can help with our mental health. 

We learnt about Children's Mental Health Awareness…

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…