Blog by Tag: Physical Development and Healthy Lifestyles

Another busy week in Oak Class. We have continued our healthy eating theme throughout the week: listening to the sensory story about Sammy’s Favourite Foods and healthy lunch box activities, trying different new foods. We especially enjoyed the mango, popcorn and yoghurt. We all practiced our…

Welcome back!

7A have settled back into school life exceptionally well after the holidays.

On Monday, they got back into their swimming lessons at Hindley swimming pool. 

In music, in the afternoon, Miss Troughton introduced us to a new song, ‘Three little birds’ by Bob Marley.…

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…

On Monday Miss Troughton delivered Our Creativity lesson with the theme ‘Seaside’. This week we copied a picture by drawing it, then colouring it in. After this we got different materials and used glue to stick it to our pictures.

This week is Children’s Mental Health week.

Children's Mental…

What a busy active few weeks we’ve had in Oak Class!

We’ve been practicing our hand and foot coordination in P.E through catching, throwing and kicking balls. Also we continue to strengthen our core during our weekly balance bikes sessions too.

Some of Oak Class have walked to Astley…

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

What a busy first term of year 11. We have become budding business owners with our own company E.A.T Eleven A Team providing a tuck shop and bacon butty delivery service for the staff of school, what a challenge this has been but 11A have risen to the challenge as always.

We have also been…

This week in English, we thought of a place we would like to visit on holiday and created a word bank to describe it. We then used these words to tell our families about our holiday on a postcard. We had to be sure to not write too much, as postcards aren't very big, but I think we all got across…

Maths this week has seen us continue with addition and subtraction, with some learners working on adding 3 1-digit numbers together, adding tens across 100s and even adding and subtracting fractions! 

In English we have been working on our reading skills, spending lots of time reading our books…

Chorley School Sports Partnership

Annual Awards ceremony 2024

Three pupils from 11A and myself represented APS at the Annual Awards ceremony hosted by Chorley School Sports Partnership held at Chorley Town Hall. 

APS had been invited to the event having received a nomination for…

Last week, we decided in our English lessons that we would write a letter to Joe Wicks to tell him all about our topic Healthy Living and to ask him if he has any tips for us, so today we thought about what we wanted to tell him and what questions we had for him. Hopefully we will get a reply! In…

10A visited Haigh Hall this week, each group was given a map and were asked to find specific things whilst in the park. We had a great time exploring the woodland areas and the park areas where we found a train station, a pond with ducks, and walked all the way towards the Leeds Liverpool canal. 
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