1 Mar

Willow Class Celebrate St David’s Day

Today we celebrated St David’s Day in Willow Class. 
We learned all about St David and then tested our knowledge with a quiz. 
Following the quiz we made beautiful daffodil sun catchers and coloured in some Welsh flags. 
At snack time some of us tried Welsh cakes and others smelled them. 
What…

23 Feb

8A My Creativity- Making sculptures out of clay

8A are continuing to learn about Sculptures in their art work this half term (as part of our Spring theme Our Planet). 

This week we learnt that sculptures can be made of any sort of material, but that the most common ones are metal, stone and clay.

To link to the Our Planet theme, we…

2 Feb

Making sculptures in 8A

As part 8A's Our Planet theme this half term, 8A have been learning about Sculptures as part of their My Creativity work. 

Each week, we have focused on a different artist and this week it was Barbara Hepworth. In previous weeks we have learnt about Marc Quinn who liked to make sculptures of…

14 Jan

What will 8A be learning about this term?

Happy New Year everyone!

8A have had a fantastic start to the new year. We thought you might like to know all about our new theme, "Our Planet" and what we will be learning about this term. 

My Communication

In My Communication this half term, Mrs Crouch will be helping us to write some…

10 Dec

The festivities continue in 8A ☃️

We are ready for Christmas in 8A. The countdown is certainly on! 
 

Yesteday we joined in with the Be Internet Legends Google assembly. This was an assembly streamed via YouTube with lots of interactive questions. We even got a shoutout! Mrs Crouch, Mrs England and Mrs Taylor were so impressed…

19 Nov

Sycamore Class - One Kind Word

This week at Astley Park has been friendship week, Sycamore Class have all been working hard this week and have been discussing kind words, writing an A-Z of kinds words then using them to support and compliment each other. 

We fully enjoyed making a friendship tree, using paint to print our…

11 Nov

7P's very exciting week!

What another fabulous week it has been in 7P!

We started the week with a potions lesson, helping to support us with our counting, addition and in some cases multiplication! We used the different potion ingredients to count, and used numicon shapes to help us where we needed it! We have tried…

11 Nov

Get busy with Sycamore

Sycamore have been very busy since coming back from half term. We fully enjoyed a visit from Victoria Hough a professional artist who came into school to help us create a fantastic piece of art that will be displayed in the main corridor for everyone to admire. This piece will reflect our school's…

5 Nov

7P Celebrate Diwali and Bonfire Night

7P have settled in very well after their half term holidays. It was great to talk about what they had all been up to and look at pictures too!

This week 7P have been learning about Diwali through My Thinking and Problem Solving and My Communication. Learners in 7P have shown that they can…

4 Nov

Crafting our Values with Victoria Hough

Victoria Hough is an artist who specialises in working with groups of children to create exciting pieces of art. We invited her into Astley Park School to help us create a masterpiece to incorporate our new school values of Kindness, Respect, Honesty, Positivity and Teamwork. Victoria worked with…

31 Oct

Halloween and a couple of spooky weeks in Willow class

What a great couple of weeks in Willow class! We have been excited for Halloween all October and named it “spooky month” in class. Have a look at some of the exciting things we have been up to:

The children have enjoyed some spooky themed lessons and tying work into books such as funny bones…

21 Oct

7P Busy and Spooktakular Few Weeks

It has been a very busy couple of weeks in 7P. We have had a brilliant time and can't wait to share all of the photographs with you.

7P were very lucky and got to take Coco out for a walk during golden time. She is so friendly and fluffy and we all really enjoyed ourself. 
We continued to work…