Blog by Tag: Personal Social Development and Life Skills

Children's Mental Health Week 2025 took place at Astley Park School between the 3rd -9th February 2025. This year, one of the themes is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself and aims to raise awareness and support and empower young people.

The learners watched a couple of PowerPoints to help them to…

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week - “Know yourself - Grow yourself” During this week we’ve talked about how we feel when we our bodies are dysregulated and what we can do to help us feel calm, happy and regulated again. The learners had lots of ideas and we discussed how things work for…

This week year 11 have been thinking about our mental health. We discussed about what emotions we feel, how we might deal with that in a college setting and what we could do to help ourselves. Who can we talk to, what activities might make us feel better and how important it is to share your…

On Monday in Our creativity we made colourful jellyfish which we got to take home. We enjoyed cutting tissue paper and sticking it all together then making the dangly tentacles. They looked great.

In PHSE this week we looked at how we look after ourselves. An in depth conversation began about…

What a week Willow class has had! Our learners have enjoyed swimming, PE, food technology  a visit to the supermarket and much more! We are so happy with our learners engagement and attainment during activities and tasks, they are all super stars. Our sensory story of Supertato ties in with our…

That’s it folks, last week of school in 2024 and boy has it been busy!!!

On Monday our learners performed twice in our Astley Park’s got Talent show. Everyone had a great time and we hope you agree that they all did an amazing job!!!! Well done 7A.

On Tuesday we had our community visit to…

Well, what a busy week we have had!!!

We have had lots going on, on Wednesday in Our Creativity we made placemats ready for our Christmas lunch on Thursday. We listened to some nice calming Christmas music to get us all in the spirit of Christmas. In Food Tech we all made a sandwich ready for…

Another busy week in 7A.

Our food of the week was raspberries…. Everyone really enjoyed them giving a score of 6 out of 5 upwards.

In our ‘The world around me we’ lesson we were learning about solids and liquids, all of 7A could name one of each. We also had some Vimto ice cubes that we knew…

This half term so far we have enjoyed a range of different activities, these include,  celebrating Halloween and exploring a variety of Halloween themed activities, such as pumpkin picking in our very own pumpkin patch, pumpkin carving and spooky stories with Mrs Mahood. We have also done…

On Tuesday this week it was International Men’s Day, this celebrates men's achievements and contributions while addressing critical issues like male health, gender-based violence, and the importance of positive male role models.

7A discussed different male celebrities and the male role models…

On Monday it was Remembrance Day. All of 7A went outside with the rest of the school and our very own Mrs Chaloner played the Last Post on her cornet. Everyone was extremely respectful whilst observing the 2 minute silence.

We had music with Miss Troughton again this week and drummed along to…

This week in 7A has been a busy one!

Our ‘new’ food this week was plums. Some of us had never tried plums but we all really enjoyed them. A few people said they were like a cross between an apple and orange.

Autumn poems found the rhyming words and then coloured rhyming words in different…