Blog by Tag: PSHCE

Last week, members of the school council met with Sarah from the PSHE association to contribute ideas to the development of PSHE resources for children with special educational needs. They gave some really good feedback such as resources that include images of real people rather than cartoons, and…

Today Chestnut Class enjoyed looking at photographs of the special women in their lives. Some of the children used communication boards to describe their inspirational women with kind words like amazing, beautiful and caring! We hope you all have a lovely weekend celebrating the inspirational…

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.…

This week, we have had two very important SMSC events: NSPCC Number Day and Safer Internet Day. 

We learnt about Safer Internet Day using a PowerPoint about the importance of online safety. We also discussed what online threats there could be and discussed the importance of not talking to…

This week, we have been learning about Children's Mental Health Awareness Week through a range of activities. 

During regulation sessions, we have learnt about how certain activities, for example - yoga, can help with our mental health. 

We learnt about Children's Mental Health Awareness…

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…

This week in class 9P, we have been busy with lots of different lessons and activities.

On Monday, we have been focusing on our phonics, picture news and reading. 
We have also been focusing on our road safety, and with the weather being so bad outside we practised using the car mat in class.…

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,…