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Well what a great start to the year we have had in maple class !

This week we have visited Asda to buy healthy food for our snack ,and had a lovely trip to get active on the playground at Devonshire park .

We have also been using our senses to explore and count vegetables .

The children…

This week in willow class we have continued our theme of healthy hero’s. Some children had a walk to Asda to shop for their own healthy foods to use in food technology. Later in the week the children accessed food technology and used lots of skills from reading instructions , taking turns and…

This week has been a very busy week for the children in 8P.

This week we started off by sharing our weekend news, discussing what everyone has been up to over the weekend. We then looked at some ‘picture news’ looking at news through photos. This week we learned about what is good to watch…

Beech class have started on our new topic ‘Mini Beasts’. This week we explored the story ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. 

We enjoyed listening to the story during AA, chopped and tasted different fruit, made caterpillars from playdoh and explored a range of sensory trays. We also did amazing…

Today in our Picture News lesson in 11A we have been discussing YouTube and other video sharing platforms. The culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, has recently written to YouTube and other video sharing platforms and asked them to post more educational content. This has come following the Government's…

Year 11 have organised the Valentine's Disco again this year to raise funds for the Year 11 prom this summer.

All pupils from Key Stage 3 and 4 (Years 7-11) are invited to attend. All pupils must be accompanied by an adult.

The disco will take place on Thursday 13th February from 5pm-7pm in…

On Monday this week, 9P learnt about Martin Luther King Day! We read a PowerPoint about this inspirational man and then watched a video about him, before also watching a video about Rosa Parcs who also took a stand for Black Civil Rights in America. The children really enjoyed learning about…

In maths this week, we have continued with developing our understanding of the four operations and using these in different contexts. Some of us have been writing number sentences using the times symbol, some of use have been using picture representations to solve larger problems and some of us…

This week started with Picture News again. This week we had to think answer the question 'Should you be allowed to build homes anywhere?'. We talked about what it would be like if people started to build houses in the middle of the track or in the middle of Astley Park. We also thought about what…

As part of our English today in 11A we have been looking at and talking about the importance of Martin Luther King Day, we watched some clips and then had a discussion about how we were all feeling.

Some of us said that it made us angry, upset about segregation and we all agreed that…

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 year for World Religion Week, Chestnut Class enjoyed exploring light linked to the Sikh celebration of Diwali. We made salt dough Diya lamps during our attention autism sessions and enjoyed turning the lights off and signing about our lamps on Friday afternoon to mark the end of the week.…