
Oak Class celebrate World Book Day
Oak class have been superheroes this week! We have had so much fun in forest school, on the climbing frame and of course, in our classroom where we explored our chosen book - Supertato.
For World Book Day, we practiced making prints with potatoes, made our own Supertatos and dressed up as…

Different Families, Same love in Oak Class
This week Oak Class have been learning all about different families, same love.
On Monday we read ‘The Family Book’ and drew our own families. We spoke to each other about who is in our families. We spoke about our Mums, Dads, Grandads, Grandmas, Brothers and Sisters. Isla and Harvey wrote on…

Different Families, Same Love - An Information Blog for Parents
Different Families, Same Love
LGBT+ History Month is celebrated in February in the UK. This week, Astley Park School is proud to celebrate LGBT History Month through exploring different family types.
- All learners will be working towards our weekly six star challenge in which all…

Happy Birthday Harvey!
Oak Class have had such an exciting and busy week doing some excellent learning and celebrating Harvey's birthday! We wanted to say a big thank you to Harvey and his mum for the red Spiderman cake that he brought in for his friends and teachers! We hope you had a really fun birthday,…

100 laps for Captain Sir Tom Moore
Over the next week pupils and staff at Astley Park will be attempting to walk a total of 100 laps of the school track or if learning from home around their local area or gardens in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore who became the nation’s hero last spring after raising more than £32m for the NHS…

Oak Make Memories
This week in Oak Class we have been able to make lots of memories with our families at home whilst also exploring emotions, numbers and practicing our writing.
Isla and Harvey played not one but two games with Miss Curry about emotions and they did great counting of the numbers on the die!…

Oak Get Messy!
Oak Class have been very busy and very messy this week! Thank you to all of the parents for sending spare clothes in, please continue to send those in so we can carry on having the fun that we've had this week!
Isla and Harvey have been exploring animals in the edible mud that Miss…

World Religion Week - 6 Star Challenge
We hope everybody has had lots of fun learning about their class religion in our World Religion Week activities.
This week we have had lots of photos and videos shared with us of everybody at Astley Park completing our very special World Religion Week Six Star Challenge. Your teachers and…

Oak Explore Holi, The Festival of Colour
In Oak Class we have really enjoyed celebrating World Religion Week with our friends at home. Miss Curry read us all the story of the Holi festival on our Teams call this week and Isla, Harvey and Toby used some really colourful powder paint to spell out the word Holi using a sieve. It was really…

Chill & Chat Tuesday 26th January
On Tuesday 26th January we will be holding our first virtual ‘Chill & Chat’ session with parents and carers. The first session will be focused on supporting learning and well-being at home during these challenging times. The aim of the session is to provide an informal forum for parents to have a…

Oak Class go to space!
This week Oak class have been very busy learning with their teachers in school and their mums and dads at home. Although we are not all in school, we have been able to see some of our friends on two Teams calls. On Monday's call Miss Curry read a very exciting story about Yoff, Zid and Mab (three…

A big welcome to Miss Armstrong and Mrs Baxendale
As we say goodbye from Oak to Mrs Simpson and Miss Branfield we are also saying a big welcome to Mrs Baxendale and Miss Armstrong.
Miss Armstrong has previously worked at Astley Park but has been on maternity leave for the past year, she has welcomed a little girl called Jessa and is now…