7 Nov

Maple celebrate Halloween and Bonfire Night!

Maple class had a great start to school! We have celebrated Halloween and Bonfire night, some of us also had our first trip to Space Centre. 

We engaged in Halloween sensory play and engaged with a bonfire night sensology session. We explored bonfire night colours, taste, smells, sounds and…

7 Nov

9A Autumn 2- Week 2

9A’s Blog in the learners own words. 
 

On Monday morning we looked at numbers in maths and some problem solving. In My Communication we started writing our own stories about a planet we have invented. We are learning about death and funerals in Understanding the World. It Has Been Raining All…

6 Nov

Oak class celebrate Halloween and Bonfire night

We’ve had a busy couple of days in oak class this week. 

 

Some of us visited the park. We did great turn taking with our friends, and super sharing! We played on the see-saw, we went on the swings, we had a great time spinning on the roundabout and we loved taking turns, going down the…

2 Nov

7A are Back!

This week 7A have been very busy settling back into routine and getting back into the swing of learning, through some Halloween and Bonfire Night theme activities.

On Tuesday, we applied our speaking, writing and drawing skills to share stories about our half-term and then applied our creative…

19 Oct

Black History Month

Black History Month is celebrated in October in the UK and Astley Park School is proud to celebrate Black History Month with a focus on, 'Saluting our Sisters'.  This is intended to build awareness, educate and share lived experiences of Black women.  The theme of ‘Saluting our Sisters’ highlights…

15 Oct

Rowan autumn term week 6

Rowan class have all worked so hard this week. We have been to the park continuing our travel training skills. We have made biscuits and used our creative skills to turn them into some very cute hedgehogs, they were delicious! We also enjoyed our music lesson, lots of us liked the recorder and…

13 Oct

Oak Class have been busy!

We have been very busy this week in Oak class! 
We have been in the Sensory room, we have made some yummy angel delight, we’ve been to Asda, we’ve been to the park, we’ve dressed as superhero’s, we have taken selfies with our friends, we have done some Halloween painting. Despite all the fun we…

7 Oct

8P Week 5 ☺️

We’ve had a fantastic week in 8P! The children have enjoyed: 

- Phonics lessons 

- carousels of activities in most lessons

- watching “We’re going on a Pumpkin Hunt” story again 

- discussing weekend news 

- going to the Café 

- going to…

5 Oct

Chestnut Class - Week 3

 

Another busy week in Chestnut Class! As part of our topic, ‘In the Toy Box’ we have been exploring different modes of transport through Attention Autism Stage 1 and Stage 2 reveals and copying simple modelled actions using ramps in Stage 3. We enjoyed expressing our choices of transport toys…

29 Sep

Astley Park have been Smashing Stereotypes!


 

This week classes at Astley Park have been focussing on smashing stereotypes. Stereotypes restrict the ways in which we see ourselves, others and the world around us. They make us jump to conclusions, which can stop us from getting an accurate picture.  We have been learning…

18 Sep

7P Week 2 Autumn 1

7P had another great week.

We really got into our routine this week and started to show the teachers in 7P how good we are. This week we have demonstrated our independence skills by making fruit kebabs in cooking. We all had a go at this and even if we didn’t want to eat it we persevered and…

15 Sep

9P have settled back into school life.

This week 9P have been busy bee’s.

We have been working extremely hard on our conversation and writing skills, using our chatter mats, soundswrite and playing Guess Who!

On Tuesday and Wednesday we split into our groups and went to Asda, we took turns in getting items off the shopping list,…