Blog by Tag: RE

Maple Class have had a fantastic week exploring the Islamic Faith through Attention Autism, dress up, creative work, cooking and music. We have tasted traditional foods and made sweets eaten at Eid using our fabulous communication skills to make requests, follow instructions and take turns. We…

Beech class have been super busy this week!

Continuing our “Very Hungry Caterpillar topic”, we have practiced our chopping skills to make cucumber and tomato caterpillars and made some caterpillar hats!

For world religion week we have been exploring Christianity. We enjoyed preparing and…

For World Religion Week Rowan Class have been exploring Islam.

We have looked at different Mosques and what is inside them. We listened to call to prayer and tasted dates.

Some of us practiced Mehndi patterns and made a crescent moon and star mobile.

We all really enjoyed the jigsaws and…

8P visited the Hindu temple this morning with our friends from 7P. 
Our host showed us each shrine in the temple, telling stories about each God  that was represented in each shrine. We also had the opportunity to explore some of the artwork in the temple and Chris found an interesting new…

This week we have focused our learning around the Islamic faith as part of our World Religion celebrations!

On Monday, our topic was introduced through attention autism, we enjoyed dressing up during stage 3 in traditional clothes. We also explored frozen fruit as a media for painting, we chose…

In preparation for World Religion Week, where 9A will be learning about Islam, 9A went on a visit to Chorley Mosque to gain knowledge of the Muslim faith. We were very lucky because Mr Maher, one of our governors, came with us too.
 

When we arrived at the Mosque, Mubeen, the Imam (religious…

As a special rewards treat for hard work all year, Willow. Lass went to Smithills farm to see the animals and a special visitor… Father Christmas!

We went to see the lovely donkeys just like in the Christmas story on our way in. Then we went to see the meerkats, wombats, owls and lots of…

What a lovely week of festivities for Willow class! 
We started the week with an amazing trip to Barton Grange garden centre to look at the Christmas decorations. As part of our RE topic of Festivals and celebrations we have started work to learn about the Christian celebrations of Christmas.…

Today Maple Class celebrated their Class Christmas Party! This morning we enjoyed a festive themed sensory circuit in the Hall and Attention Autism. At lunch we had party food and snacks and during the afternoon we played pass the parcel, pin the star on the Christmas Tree and enjoyed our…

This afternoon Sycamore class enjoyed a Christmas party afternoon with Mrs Crouch. We started the afternoon with an attention autism session where we pulled Christmas crackers and put on our party hats. We then played pass the parcel, musical statues and pin the nose on Rudolph. We enjoyed party…

As part of our “The World About Me” topic of festivals, we are beginning to think about Christmas in Sycamore class. We are learning that Christmas is about giving as well as receiving gifts. Today we experienced receiving a present during our Christmas present attention autism session. We wished…

This week at Astley Park School we have celebrated the Buddhist festival of Wesak. 

In 10G we have been learning about Wesak and what the festival is about. We learnt that Wesak is the most important of the Buddhist festivals and during this time Buddhists collect food and donate it to…