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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…

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…

This year for World Religion Week, Chestnut Class enjoyed exploring light linked to the Sikh celebration of Diwali. We made salt dough Diya lamps during our attention autism sessions and enjoyed turning the lights off and signing about our lamps on Friday afternoon to mark the end of the week.…

During World Religion Week, 9P we looked at the different religions and beliefs. Looking at the different Gods and places of worship. 

The children watched a PowerPoint and discussed the different beliefs from around the world. Looking at similarities such as the Holy book, places of…

We’ve had a fantastic first week back in 9P! 

On Monday, we did Phonics, Picture News and PSHE in the morning. They did really well in their decision making activities linked to road safety and social skills. We also made a group decision on where we want to go on our reward class trip before…