8 Feb

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…

5 Feb

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!…

29 Jan

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…

22 Jan

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…

22 Jan

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…

18 Jan

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…

15 Jan

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…

8 Jan

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…

9 Dec

Oak Class: A Sneak Peek

This week Oak class have been working extremely hard to put our clip together for the schools Christmas Performance ‘Coronativity’. We’re very excited for our parents to see what we have done.

 

27 Nov

Oak look at Hansel and Gretel

This week Oak Class have moved away from Little Mermaid and have moved to looking at Hansel and Gretel. This week:

  • In My Communication we have explored a new sensory story, exploring the props to help our understanding. We have practiced our reading and writing skills through colourful…
14 Nov

Another FINtastic Week for Oak!

What another lovely week we have had in Oak Class looking at The little Mermaid. We have been very lucky that this week we have had two birthdays, Ellie and Noah’s. We’d all like to thank parents for the donations of sweets and cake which we all loved. 

  • In our My Creativity lessons we…
6 Nov

Shell-abrate good times! Oak Class Explore the Little Mermaid!

This week in Oak Class we have started our new story, The Little Mermaid.
 

  • First we explored a sensory story which Miss Curry delivered, looking at the objects under the sea, discussing the emotions in the story and predicting what would happen next. 
  • In My Communication we have been…