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Christmas fun in 7P

This week in 7P we have had lots of Christmas fun. 

On Wednesday the panto of  “Dick Whittington” came to Astley Park School.

7P was lucky enough to have front row seats. There was lots of “oh no they’ve not”, and “it’s behind you” shouted out. It was an…

Today, after a pancake breakfast, we have had a fantastic day canoeing on Ulnswater lake. Everybody worked in their teams to travel around the lake and we enjoyed some team games that were lots of fun. Some of us were brave enough to stand up on the canoes to do head, shoulders, knees and toes and…

On Tuesday, we celebrated International Men’s Day. We did a lesson linked to these celebrations on Tuesday afternoon.
 

In this lesson, we learnt about:

- stereotypes and looked at different types of stereotypes (with visuals for support) 

- how men can be under a lot of pressure at work…

This week in maths, we continued learning about position and direction. We have been learning about clockwise and anticlockwise directions, applying our learning of fractions when talking about quarter, half, three-quarter and full turns, plotting coordinates to draw shapes and translating shapes…

This week we started our new maths topic, position and direction. We have been looking at the directions of turns, starting with left and right, moving onto clockwise and anti-clockwise. Some of us have also been looking at the position of coordinates and labelling what they have seen. In English,…

This week Chestnut Class have continued to explore Under The Sea topic through Attention Autism, creativity, and the continuous provision. We’ve been counting sandcastles, ice creams and sea creatures and finding out how many left when one is taken away. We’ve been practising our pouring skills…

We have had a very busy start to our last half term in 7A. 

In Week One, we had a school based week, recapping learning and skills from Summer 1. We had big learning focus in surrounding our creative thinking and creative writing skills. We worked in groups to design a group ‘monster’.…

8P celebrated Rainbow Day on Friday by learning about how families around the world are all different. For example, some families have two mums, some families have two dads, some families have a mum and a dad, and some families have two mums and two dads. We also discussed how there are also…

What a lovely week it has been for staff and pupils of 9P. 

We have been celebrating our own version of Pride week with lots of discussions around families, awareness, acceptance and equality. We have used power points and colouring sheets to learn more about how we are all different, and how…

Well what a strange this week has turned out to be! As I’m writing this, we are down to just 4 weeks left in 11G!!!

On Monday morning we were off to swimming at Hindley. We have a new teacher now who is lovely and she put us through our paces to get lots of lengths in. Mrs Fisher and Mr…

Hola! This week in 9A, we have continued to learn about multiplication and division. Some of us were learning about the multiplication symbol, some of us were learning about sharing and grouping and some of us were even learning about ratio! Great work from everyone. In English, we use our setting…

What a busy week it’s been in 8A.

This week it’s been Rainbow week and Neurodiversity week.

At the start of the Rainbow activity day the class target was to say one thing they have learnt about Rainbow day / Pride month after the activity. 

Firstly, 8A watched a video about…