Blog by Tag: Willow Class

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…

What a fantastic start to the new year!

Willow staff were so excited to welcome pupils back to school on Monday and couldn’t wait to get to know everyone. The children arrived full of excitement and were eager to get start the new year.

We have all had such a lovely week playing games,…

Last week Willow class held their very own awards ceremony in class! Everyone is moving on to new things in September- new rooms, new classes and new schools so we decided to have a big celebration and party to end the year.

The children worked hard with Miss Riley to create a PowerPoint…

On Wednesday this week we went on our last trip of the year- to the park on Devonshire Road!

The children had a fantastic time in the sun playing on the equipment together. Please enjoy all the photos.

Willow class have had a fantastic start to the week.. celebrating Chris’s birthday!

Today Chris turned 11 so we decorated the classroom and got ready for an afternoon party, celebrating with Chris! 

First we played pin the tail on the donkey.. but with a twist! Chris chose one of his…