Blog by Tag: Oak Class

On 30th April, Oak Class wore red inspired by the “Show Racism The Red Card” movement and we engaged in lessons around diversity. 
 

We read a story called We Are All Different and we saw lots of pictures of how people are all different; some people have curly hair and some people have…

Oak class have been sailing through this week in their pirate adventures. We loved alerting our bodies to The Pirate Song; we went forwards, backwards, this way (left), that way (right), up and down, up and down, over the deep blue sea. We even created a few of our own dance moves…

We’re glad to be back in Oak Class and we’ve got our pirate hats and hooks at the ready for this term, exploring our theme of Pirates! 
 

We’ve been practicing our turn taking playing a really fun game of Pop-Up Pirates and we did really well at sharing with our friends. We’ve got so many…

On Monday, we wore odd socks in Oak Class to celebrate World Down Syndrome Day which was on Sunday 21st March. We chose the brightest, fluffiest socks we could find and wore them with pride for two pupils in our class who have diagnoses of Down Syndrome. 
 

We have continued exploring zoo for…

Last week some of the children throughout school got busy to help school enter an Easter competition that Chorley police station is running to win lots of Easter eggs.

The children got very creative making cards with Easter egg prints, finger print Chicks, hand print Chicks and sheep. The…

In Oak Class this week we have been exploring our theme of zoo through The Monkey Puzzle, a sensory story about a little monkey who lost his mum and we saw a slithering snake, a ribetting frog, a beautiful butterfly and a brightly coloured parrot with lots of fluffy feathers which we got to feel…

Oak class have all reunited this week and we’ve had so much fun seeing all of our friends in school again! 

Although some of us were a bit nervous to come back into school, we have had such a good time in our new outside area and have been very busy again. We sang Five Little Speckled…

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…

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

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…

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,…

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…