Blog by Tag: The World About Me

Today Rowan class have learnt about Eid and how it is celebrated.

We worked in small groups to make our own star shaped biscuits and enjoyed eating them together at snack time.

Super learning today Rowan!! 

This week in 11R we have been learning about the Muslim festival, Eid. 

Together we learnt that Eid is also known as 'The Festival of Breaking the Fast'. Eid celebrates the ending of a month long fast called Ramadan. 

We found out that the date of Eid changes each year and is dependent on…

We had one day less in school this week but we didn’t have any less fun or learn any less! We also had a birthday to celebrate! We had lots of cake and sang a big happy birthday to Ayah.
 

We’re continuing to Sail the Seven Seas in Oak Class and we’re still finding treasure in our learning. In…

At the weekend Thomas went to Thornton Clevelys with his family. His mum had a surprise, there was a film crew using one of the cafes on the promenade. Thomas told us all about it on Tuesday morning during nurture

He said they are filming a new Star Wars TV series called Andor which is a…

Today we have been celebrating our differences in Sycamore for our ‘Astley Park Wears Red’ day.

Sycamore enjoyed a morning of activities including, circle time and portrait crafts. 

During our circle time we had a talk about why we are wearing red - Sycamore were great at sharing their ideas…

On 30th April, Oak Class wore red inspired by the “Show Racism The Red Card” movement and we engaged in lessons around diversity. 
 

We read a story called We Are All Different and we saw lots of pictures of how people are all different; some people have curly hair and some people have…

Today in Rowan we have been wearing red to celebrate that we are all different.

We listened to a story about what makes us all different to each other but we are all friends together. 

We used our describing words to describe another person in Rowan class and we all had to guess who it was.…

Today 9G wore red to celebrate standing against racism. 
 

In class we spoke about what racism is, and how we have to be kind to everyone no matter what their differences. We read the story ‘We are all different’, and then took part in some circle time activities. We spoke about what makes us…

In Sycamore we have been continuing with our story of The Snail and the Whale. We have been working both in groups and independently to discuss parts of the story. We have been looking at parts of the story from the perception of the snail and from the perception of the whale, we then used these…

Thursday 22nd April was Earth day so Astley Park school celebrated in style!

The children learnt about ways in which we can look after our planet, making artwork and posters to inspire  others to keep our world clean and look after it.

Please have a look through a selection of fantastic work…

Another very sunny and fabulous week in 9G!

On Monday we started the week with My Thinking and Problem Solving where we continued with our number work and started to show how well we know our coins. Some learners were matching coins, and others were able to show they knew the names of the…

In Sycamore this week we have been looking at the story of The Snail and the Whale. Firstly we looked at the features of a book cover, and what we could see on the cover of The Snail and the Whale. We then wrote a sentence on what we think might happen in the book before sharing our ideas with our…