Blog by Tag: my thinking and problem solving

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…

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…

Hola! This week in 9A, we have continued to learn about multiplication and division. Some of us were learning about the multiplication symbol, some of us were learning about sharing and grouping and some of us were even learning about ratio! Great work from everyone. In English, we use our setting…

This week Chestnut Class have enjoyed exploring Rainbows through Attention Autism, learning the Makaton sign for Rainbow and enjoying singing the colours of the rainbow. We painted our own parade flag and enjoyed adding glitter to make it sparkle,

We’ve made colourful fruit skewers, peeling,…

This week in 8P, we've done lots of fun learning as part of our new Summer 2 timetable! 

Monday: We did PE in the morning, and everyone joined in really well! We did Weekend News/positive play and watered our plants in the polytunnel in the afternoon. 

Tuesday: We did PSHE in the…

Welcome back 9A, how fast has this year gone? We are in our final term of Year 9! We’ve had a very busy year, and have lots planned for a busy last term. 
This week in maths we are looking at division, the learners used whiteboards and multilink to find ways of splitting numbers equally. 
In My…

9A have had a fantastic end to the half term. We started the week off with a descriptive game where we each drew a head on a piece of paper and then folded the paper. We passed it to someone else and they drew a body. We folded it again and passed it over to someone else for them to draw the…

8P have had a fantastic week! 

On Monday, we did Bike Ability in the morning, Yoga just after lunch and Weekend News in the afternoon. 
On Tuesday, we did swimming and summer fair posters in the morning, and learnt about postcards that used words from our Phonics units in the afternoon. 
On…

8P have had a fantastic 4-day week this week! 

On Tuesday, we did our weekend news in the morning and learnt about postcards and zones in the afternoon. 
On Wednesday, we did our weekly differentiated Colourful Semantics activities and we learn about strangers, safe strangers and online safety…

This week in our Food Technology lesson, 8A made a sorting hat which we have all seen when we watched Harry Potter. 

The class followed a step by step instruction sheet and also followed Ms Cullen’s demonstration. 

The learners showed good listening and made super choices throughout the…