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Within our current theme ‘All Around the World’, Chestnut Class have been exploring their world through different seasons. This week we have been exploring ‘Autumn’.

On Thursday, Miss Cross led an Attention Autism using the colours red, brown and orange to make a hedgehog! She modelled dipping…

As part of our “The World About Me” topic of festivals, we are beginning to think about Christmas in Sycamore class. We are learning that Christmas is about giving as well as receiving gifts. Today we experienced receiving a present during our Christmas present attention autism session. We wished…

This week has been a challenge for all pupils in class.

We have really raised the stakes for our independence. Pupils took part in a functional ICT lesson on Monday, editing a letter which had several errors, following instructions. We then learned about what an envelope should be…

Barf group had a very busy first day at Calvert!

We started the morning off with a big cooked breakfast before heading off in the mini van to see some lovely views from the top of a mountain! We then wen5into the forest and learnt some bush craft; we learnt how to light a fire and toasted some…

They may not have made it to the World Cup this year but Italy have certainly made it in Oak Class!

The Italian adventure began last week, pupils enjoyed decorating their own pizzas using core boards to make choices, before eating them of course! Pupils have decorated the Italian flag selecting…

This week was Friendship week and Children in Need.

7A have been very busy, some of them have played word games making a pattern of all their friends names,which they really enjoyed whilst others coloured pictures of what friendship means to them.

Everyone sat together to listen to Miss…

Last year we did our first ever Reverse Advent at Astley Park School- and it was such an amazing success that we are doing it again!

Every day during Advent - we brought in donations of tinned food/ toiletries etc- and placed them into Christmas boxes- thanks to everyone’s generosity- by the…

Hello to everyone on this very wet Friday! We are all very excited for Monday for our residential visit to Calvert Trust. Mrs Fisher sent some important information to parents yesterday afternoon via email, if your child is attending the residential visit please make sure you read this…

We’ve had a brilliant week in 9A! 

In our My Communication lessons this week, 9A learnt about verbs. Verbs are doing words, for example, running. One group practised identifying verbs used in the text - “Meg and Mog”, and the other group practised writing sentences using verbs, linked to…

Today, Beech Class were all invited to a Teddy Bears Picnic!

This week our topic has been ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. We have enjoyed exploring bear themed activities all week and today was a very special day!!! We all brought our favourite teddy from home and sat together to enjoy some…

This week in Chestnut Class we have been focusing on our Social and Communication skills as a part of Friendship week. We have been exploring activities with others and working on developing our tolerance skills accepting others joining us. We have had lots of laughs and smiles during Intensive…

This week we have been celebrating friendship week. We have been talking about what it means to be a friend and have discussed the different qualities that each of us have.

On Monday this week we wore odd socks to show that everyone is different. The learners in class designed and coloured…