Blog by Tag: Willow Class

Willow class were very lucky to be invited to participate in the Chorley Schools Sports Partnership dance festival! This was our first trip this year and we were so excited for a ride on the minibus to go on a school trip.

The children enjoyed a musical warmup keeping in time to the beat and…

On Tuesday 30th November, we will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day in classes. Some classes will be celebrating this through sensory play with water, some will be focusing on the story of the Feeding of the Five Thousand, whilst others while be exploring the life of St Andrew using information…

Children in Need has been celebrated across the whole school this week in various different ways suitable for all our learners! 

Please enjoy our lovely pictures below of the activities that have taken place! 

In addition, a special thanks to all our Star Staff Bakers who took part in our…

Willow class have worked hard this week looking at our safety skills coming up to Bonfire night to stay safe at Bonfires and around fireworks. Earlier in the week we looked at the history behind bonfire night and the story of Guy Fawkes along with finding out how exactly fireworks work and how…

Victoria Hough is an artist who specialises in working with groups of children to create exciting pieces of art. We invited her into Astley Park School to help us create a masterpiece to incorporate our new school values of Kindness, Respect, Honesty, Positivity and Teamwork. Victoria worked with…

Today in Willow class we were learning all about Divali! We looked at what Divali actually means- what is it and how is it celebrated? The children enjoyed talking about the special celebration and ways it is celebrated using special food, music, decorations and lights. Some of the children drew…

In October Willow Class learnt about why we have black history month, celebrating the achievements of black men and women. We have had lots of good conversation about wrong it would be to be be treated differently for how you look or where you come from with learners relating this to our own class…

What a great couple of weeks in Willow class! We have been excited for Halloween all October and named it “spooky month” in class. Have a look at some of the exciting things we have been up to:

The children have enjoyed some spooky themed lessons and tying work into books such as funny bones…

Congratulations to Class 7P who are the winners of our Halloween Pumpkin competition.  Mr Welsh and Mrs Millard were our judges for today and had a difficult decision due to the fantastic effort classes had made.

Mr Welsh presented 7P class and all the other classes with some lovely halloween…

Willow class have had a busy week showing their adults what smarty-pants they are at maths!

We have been refreshing our knowledge of numicon and completing numicon assessments to see what we can remember from last year and what we want to work on this year. While friends have completed their…

Today Willow class welcomed families to join us in class to raise some money for Macmillan coffee morning. 
We enjoyed playing games, sharing cakes and having a good chat! 
 

This week Willow class have been learning all about our own feelings and our friends’ feelings.

We have been looking at when to ask for help if we feel cross and that sometimes our friends might needs different things- some of us said we want space if we are sad, some of us would want a walk…