13 May

9R First Aid

As part of Personal, Social Development and Life Skills, 9R spent a lesson learning about First Aid and in particular how to place a casualty in the correct recovery position.

Mrs Lea showed the class her First Aid uniform that she wears when doing voluntary work outside of school and then she…

22 Apr

Fun in the sun continues for Dodd Group

Dodd Group had a fabulous second day at Calvert Trust after a good nights sleep. 
 

We had a yummy breakfast and then went up Dodd mountain to complete some challenges such as a scavenger hunt and a photo challenge. We worked together really well and had great fun exploring the woods. We…

31 Mar

An egg-citing afternoon in 8A!

This half term for Me and My Body, we have been doing Outdoor Adventurous Activities. We have practiced our team work skills and learnt that good teamwork means good talking and good listening to each other. We have practiced this through lots of games and some of us have also worked on our…

25 Mar

Epilepsy Awareness Day in 8A

Today 8A have been learning about epilepsy. We learnt what tonic/clinic seizures, absence seizures and focal seizures look like and talked about how we can help people who are experiencing seizures. We took part in a short first aid session where we learnt how we can keep somebody safe if they…

8 Feb

Safer internet day in Willow Class

Today willow class have been learning about staying safe and kind on the internet for internet safety day!

We looked at how we can make kind choices on the internet to keep the internet a happy place and what to do if we see something unkind. We had a go at looking at all the things we can do…

4 Feb

A message from 8A…

This term our theme is “Our Planet”. In our My Community lessons we have been thinking about our local environment and some of us have been out in the local community litter picking. We have been shocked at the amount of litter we have found over the past few weeks in Chorley Town Centre and at…

17 Dec

11Gs Alpaca Experience

On Thursday the 16th of December 11G were lucky enough to get to meet the Alpacas that came to visit Astley Park School. We got to stroke them, walk them around the school hall and feed them. We found it quite ticklish when they ate their food out of our hands but managed to stay very still. We…

16 Dec

Simply having a wonderful Christmas time in 8A

Wow we have had another fun filled day in 8A! This morning we were visited by some alpacas and then we enjoyed a festive games afternoon. We played a snowman beetle run, Christmas bingo, Christmas charades and pin the nose on Rudolph. We all took turns and had lots of fun. 

Tomorrow we have…

19 Nov

10G Friendship Fun Week

Friendship Fun in 10G 

Today we focused on one of our school values - Kindness.

At breaktime Miss Linde had her kindness spotters out and was looking for those learners in 10G that are kind to their friends by playing with them, including them and having fun with them. 

We played lots of…

19 Nov

11R - One kind word, good CLEAN fun making soap and a birthday boy.

Another busy week in 11R. With this week being friendship week, we started off with odd sock day on Monday. The students have spent time this week thinking about this year's friendship week theme "one kind word." We spent time discussing the difference between bullying and banter with staff and…

20 Oct

8A Zones of Regulation

8A have been learning all about Zones of Regulation this half term. We can now recognise which zones we are in at different times of the day. Last week we took part in a circle time activity to think about strategies that will help us return to the green zone from different zones or stay in the…

8 Oct

What a busy week in 10G

Wow, what a busy week we have had in 10G! 
 

This week in our P.E lesson we have been practicing our ball skills. To warm up we had to listen carefully to instructions all about changing direction, we did amazing! We all worked incredibly hard and did some super throwing and catching with…