Blog by Tag: 10R Class

Different Families, Same Love

LGBT+ History Month is celebrated in February in the UK. This week, Astley Park School is proud to celebrate LGBT History Month through exploring different family types. 

• All learners will be working towards our weekly six star challenge in which all…

Over the next week pupils and staff at Astley Park will be attempting to walk a total of 100 laps of the school track or if learning from home around their local area or gardens in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore who became the nation’s hero last spring after raising more than £32m for the NHS…

While we are learning from home and seeing less of friends and family looking after our mental health is more important than ever.

This year's Children's Mental Health Week concentrates on expressing yourself.  Expressing yourself can be done in lots of different ways  - it includes  how you…

As part of our work for World Religion work 10R have been learning all about Judaism.  In our teams call on Tuesday we read a news article written by Mrs Woods all about synagogues and then completed a quiz about what we had read.

Students then wrote their own article about the opening of a new…

We hope everybody has had lots of fun learning about their class religion in our World Religion Week activities.

This week we have had lots of photos and videos shared with us of everybody at Astley Park completing our very special World Religion Week Six Star Challenge. Your teachers and…

We all know times are challenging at the moment. This means it is especially important that we look after our bodies and minds. This means being kind to ourselves and taking part in activities that we find relaxing and that we can do together at home. There is a strong link between cooking,…

With rain pouring down outside and stay at home orders in place it’s more important than ever to look after our well-being.  A blast of fresh air can do wonders for your mental well-being, getting your body moving and lifting your mood.

There’s lots of fun things that you can be doing outside…

For PE lessons this term we are trying yoga.  This weeks lesson focussed on breathing and how it can help you channel your attention and relax.  
Those of us in class enjoyed our yoga session and found it relaxing even though some of the poses were challenging!

We hope those of you learning…

What a busy end of term we’ve had in 10R!  As part of our ASDAN work we have made strawberry Santas and stitched Christmas tree decorations. 
On Thursday we had a fantastic sharing our learning session where the students tested the parent’s Christmas knowledge by challenging them with a Christmas…

As the Jewish faith start the Festival of Hanukkah this week, 10R have been using their internet searching skills to independently research 3 facts about the festival. Pupils were asked to put these facts into a poster and then present their poster to the class using mirror screening. Pupils…

Today we started the party with a chippy lunch, a nice treat to start the celebrations.
Following on from a bit of fresh air to let our lunch settle, we had an afternoon of party games and laughter! We played pin the nose on Santa, Reindeer hoopla, pass the parcel and festive corners. 
 

We…

As part of our ASDAN work some of 10R have been making healthy snacks on Friday mornings. This week pupils were very concerned to learn they were making goats cheese, tomato and olive triangles as they were confident that they didn’t like olives, goats cheese or tomatoes!  
We talked about how…