Blog by Tag: my thinking and problem solving

This week in maths, we continued learning about position and direction. We have been learning about clockwise and anticlockwise directions, applying our learning of fractions when talking about quarter, half, three-quarter and full turns, plotting coordinates to draw shapes and translating shapes…

8P have had a fantastic week! We have been focusing a lot on our one-to-one reading this week. Our favourite lesson was also learning about farm animals and their habitat in Science. We recapped our previous learning about sea animals at the start of the lesson. 
 

For our community visit this…

This week we started our new maths topic, position and direction. We have been looking at the directions of turns, starting with left and right, moving onto clockwise and anti-clockwise. Some of us have also been looking at the position of coordinates and labelling what they have seen. In English,…

Yesterday afternoon 7A hosted their summer term Sharing our Learning. Parents were invited into class to join us for a ‘Potions Class’ lesson. In ‘Potions Class’ we have been exploring the properties of materials and grouping them by category and features.

This afternoon, our lesson was…

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…