Sycamore

This week has been a super fun week at Astley park. It’s been science week! The children have had lots of fun taking part in different science experiments. Slime making was the class favourite. Well done sycamore class we are all so proud of you all.

As part of our community visits, this week we visited Astley Park. 

We all used our road safety skills to safely cross the road, some of us walked with a friend and some of us walked with an adult. 

When at the park, as you can see, we had lots of fun!

We all loved going on the big slide…

As part of our topic Healthy Hero's this term and to celebrate Pancake day, we all made fruit pancakes! 

We all followed our instructions and used our cutting skills that we have practised to carefully cut our fruit. 

We all loved our pancakes. 

What a busy first week back we have had! 

• We have carried on with our phonics and reading and practicing our letters. 
• As part of healthy hero’s we have made cucumber sandwiches. 
• We have loved playing in our new outdoor area

We have had such a busy term! 
Sycamore have looked at healthy and unhealthy choices, the hungry caterpillar, AA sessions, lots of Thrive Time and we’ve all done amazing! 
Hopefully our outdoor area should be finished when we come back just in time for warmer weather and lots of outdoor…

This term, we have been reading the story “ The Very Hungry Caterpillar”. We have made our own caterpillars, butterflies and made some food to feed our caterpillars. We have all been so busy! 
Well done Sycamore for all your hard work! 
 

This term in Sycamore, we are learning all about making healthy choices! 
As part of this we have been making fruit skewers! 
We have all worked super hard on being able to cut our fruit independently and place the fruit on the skewer, all while independently following our instructions! 
Well…

On Friday some of Sycamore Class went to a Boccia competition at All Seasons Sports Centre in Chorley.

They worked really hard and represented Astley Park so well, we are so proud of them! 
 

They cheered on all the other schools in the competition and we wracked up loads of points when it…

This half term so far we have enjoyed a range of different activities, these include,  celebrating Halloween and exploring a variety of Halloween themed activities, such as pumpkin picking in our very own pumpkin patch, pumpkin carving and spooky stories with Mrs Mahood. We have also done…

Learners in Sycamore class had a fantastic surprise when they arrived at school this morning. Overnight, a pumpkin patch had appeared on the grass outside their classroom! Everyone went outside to choose their own pumpkin, which they then brought back into the classroom. The next job was to scoop…

We have had some super busy weeks in Sycamore! 
We have worked really hard on following instructions and working with our friends. We’ve done some hard work on numbers and letter sounds.

We have been on lots of community visits so far this Summer term, our learners have shown us how brilliant they can be whilst out and about! 

- Lovely independent walking

- Amazing road safety skills

- Super independent shopping 

Can’t wait to get out and about more! 
 

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