Blog by Tag: Sycamore Class

A short week in school. We are so proud of how the children have come in and focussed this week with the disruption at the start of the week. We have enjoyed some fun activities designing and creating our very own pumpkins. The children explored the insides by smelling and feeling the pumpkin…

Last year 11G made a Makaton video showing lots of spooky signs.

Have fun practicing your scary signs and share them with your class team.

Happy Halloween 

Black History Month is celebrated in October in the UK and Astley Park School is proud to celebrate Black History Month with a focus on, 'Saluting our Sisters'.  This is intended to build awareness, educate and share lived experiences of Black women.  The theme of ‘Saluting our Sisters’ highlights…

What a fantastic week in Sycamore. 
Super reading and phonics this week working on the ‘ee’ sound for some of our learners. 
A lovely story in our woodland outdoor space. 
The children have worked hard to follow patterns and rhythms in music this week. 
Super PE lesson on Thursday continuing…

A very busy week in Sycamore class. 
A super sensory story in the tent. All of the children engaged well and did some super listening. 

During our toy box lesson we have been learning all about new and old toys. The children amazed us with how much they knew and demonstrated excellent…

On Friday children and staff were invited to wear jeans or blue clothing to help raise awareness and funding for  genetic conditions. Classes all across school engaged in ways meaningful to them, from Jean based crafts and sensory stories, coloured themed Attention Autism to circle time…

This week classes at Astley Park have been focussing on smashing stereotypes. Stereotypes restrict the ways in which we see ourselves, others and the world around us. They make us jump to conclusions, which can stop us from getting an accurate picture.  We have been learning…

This week in Sycamore we have enjoyed reading our story ‘Toys in Space’. Mrs Lane shared Toys In Space through a sensory story. The children enjoyed exploring the book before using their amazing phonics skills to build some words from the story. 
A real busy week trying super hard with our…

What a busy week! This week we have been focusing on friendships and feelings. The children have made some friendship soup. The children choose what quality they like to have in a friend and we added that with some food colouring to our super friendship soup. 

We have all worked really hard…

A huge welcome back!  What a fantastic week we have had in Sycamore Class. 

The children have had a very busy week with lots of fun and laughs.

We have made some super friendships this week welcoming two new children to Sycamore. 

The children have settled in very well back into school…

On Friday 30th June we celebrated our Primary Awards and Year 6 Graduation.

Parents and carers were invited to join in the celebrations! The event was streamed in school so pupils and teachers from other classes could also watch. 

Our Year 6 graduates were given certificates, goody bags &…

On Saturday 17th June 2023 we hosted our annual summer fair!

We are proud to say we raised over £2752! And we still have a final few amounts coming through! This was the most we have ever raised at an event! Thank you so much to all the families and staff who attended and helped us achieve this…