Blog by Tag: My Community

Chestnut Class have loved the snow this week and spent lots of time outdoors exploring, scooping and throwing snow balls!

In PSHE we have been focussing on identifying and recognising facial features through songs, mirrors and matching activities and creating collages.

During Food tech we…

It has been a very snowy and cold week for 8P, but we have kept warm by getting involved in lots of activities. 

A visit by a P.C.S.O. from our local Police force was extremely interesting. This was arranged as part of the ‘My Community’ curriculum - Employer encounters. 
We were encouraged to…

It’s been great to see everyone back in Chestnut class and get back into routines this week. As part of our house and homes topic, children have enjoyed 3 Little Pigs Attention Autism and even helped to ‘blow’ the houses down! We’ve been building structures and enjoying different homes in the…

7P have had a brilliant first week back. They have coped so well as we have had lots of different adults due to illness.

7P have worked on their reading, learnt about how our bodies change as we get older like shoe size, height and losing our teeth. We have also named all of our body parts and…

Astley Park School are proud to be celebrating World Religion Week next week (15/01/24-19/01/24).

Each class has been allocated a different religion to learn about though a variety of lessons and experiences across the week. Please see the list below to see what religions individual classes…

Willow class have had a week jam packed with Christmas events.

Everybody was very excited to perform in the Christmas shows on Monday and Tuesday, then on Wednesday we had a class trip to Escape Entertainment Centre where our pupils took part in ten pin bowling. We practised our road safety…

What a wonderful week it has been for staff and pupils in 8P. 

We have watched some lovely Christmas films, drank hot chocolate with marshmallows and cream, eaten yummy party food, played party games and danced to Christmas music. 

Unfortunately, our class trip to meet Santa at the farm had…

What an exciting day in Maple Class! 

We all had a very special breakfast this morning, we ate lots of pastries, brioche and reindeer crumpets! We sat and ate with our friends and then we had a visit from someone very special…. Santa and his elves!

We all spoke to Santa and took it in turns…

On Wednesday, pupils from Willow class attended an Inclusive Festival run by Chorley Sports Partnership at All Seasons Leisure Centre. There were lots of sports to try including dodgeball, volleyball, football and basketball. We also enjoyed dancing to Christmas music and throwing snowballs at the…

We have been having lots of fun in the build up to Christmas in Maple Class.

We have all enjoyed our Christmas themed sensology, we explored lots of different things using our senses, we loved tasting the gingerbread! We made melted snowman cards during sharing our learning with our parents….…

In Willow class this week, we enjoyed holding a Sharing Our Learning event where parents were able to join their children making melting snowman biscuits, completing Christmas crafts and watching PowerPoint presentations that some pupils had made about themselves. 

We enjoyed walking to Asda on…

This week 9A we’re lucky enough to visit the pantomime at Victoria Hall in Bolton. We travelled with some other classes to see Cinderella and Mr Welsh kindly drove us in the school minibus whilst some travelled on the coach. Everyone found the pantomime very funny with lots of silly jokes. The…