Blog by Tag: My Community

We had a fantastic week this week! We went on lots of community visits to celebrate the end of term and to practise the skills we've learnt throughout the year linked to road safety and responding to other dangers in the community, as well as paying for items in the community. 

We went to…

10A visited Haigh Hall this week, each group was given a map and were asked to find specific things whilst in the park. We had a great time exploring the woodland areas and the park areas where we found a train station, a pond with ducks, and walked all the way towards the Leeds Liverpool canal. 
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This week in maths, we continued learning about position and direction. We have been learning about clockwise and anticlockwise directions, applying our learning of fractions when talking about quarter, half, three-quarter and full turns, plotting coordinates to draw shapes and translating shapes…

8P have had a fantastic week! We have been focusing a lot on our one-to-one reading this week. Our favourite lesson was also learning about farm animals and their habitat in Science. We recapped our previous learning about sea animals at the start of the lesson. 
 

For our community visit this…

This week we started our new maths topic, position and direction. We have been looking at the directions of turns, starting with left and right, moving onto clockwise and anti-clockwise. Some of us have also been looking at the position of coordinates and labelling what they have seen. In English,…

On Tuesday some of 7A had sharing our learning with Miss Cross and Mrs Hand and some of 7A went to the park with Mrs Bretherton and Mr Crew.

We were very lucky to have some nice weather so that we could enjoy playing on the park. We had lots of fun playing on all of the equipment, working out…

This week in 8P we worked on being Sun safe as we had very hot weather, we learnt that sun cream should be applied every 2 hours, wearing a hat helps keep our heads cool & protects our face from the Sun. We brought water bottles in so we could keep on top of our fluids & stay  hydrated due to…

This week Chestnut Class have continued to explore Under The Sea topic through Attention Autism, creativity, and the continuous provision. We’ve been counting sandcastles, ice creams and sea creatures and finding out how many left when one is taken away. We’ve been practising our pouring skills…

These weeks are just flying by - and the warm weather is definitely helping!

This week we have introduced a new regulation slot into out timetable. This involves getting outside and using battle ropes to get us energised in a morning. The learners have enjoyed spending this time outside. In…

We have had a very busy start to our last half term in 7A. 

In Week One, we had a school based week, recapping learning and skills from Summer 1. We had big learning focus in surrounding our creative thinking and creative writing skills. We worked in groups to design a group ‘monster’.…

Duck visit in 8A

This week we have had a few special visitors. Miss Molloy from Sycamore class arranged for Astley Park to be the proud owners of some duck eggs. The school has looked after these duck eggs and three of the eggs hatched. 

In turn each class within Astley Park have looked…

This week started with us introducing 'Snack Shop', where our learners were given spending money for the week that they will use to 'buy' their snacks this week. We have been VERY generous with the pricing, with a whole piece of toast only costing 5p and a packet of crisp costing 10p. This will…