8 Mar

Getting ready for our Sponsored Swim!


As you are probably aware, 11R are taking part in a sponsored swim in a couple of weeks time.

All funds raised will go towards our end of year prom, so please, please, please get those sponsorship forms filled in, as every pound counts!

8 Mar

11R Learn about Holi

Today we learned the story of Holi, the Hindu colour festival. We learned the meaning of different colours and with our coloured glasses we mixed coloured powder. Pupils enjoyed learning about this different culture. 
 

in English we looked at Holi facts and opinions. Pupils enjoyed marking…

8 Mar

Astley Park celebrate Holi

Astley Park School had a fantastic time on Wednesday 8th March as we celebrated the Hindu festival of Colour known as Holi.  Holi is a Hindu festival that celebrates Spring, Love and new life. Holi is a colour festival, with dancing, singing and throwing powder paint and coloured water. It marks…

6 Mar

Another busy week in 11R.


Another busy week in 11R  working at Chorley in Bloom planting lots of seeds and bulbs, all ready for the lovely spring time. We also started our final swimming sessions and everyone worked really hard on their  front crawl technique.

Our favourite day this week had to be Wednesday which was…

24 Feb

11R Enjoy Chorley in Bloom


 

We arrived at The Hub, we managed to miss the rain and arrived there nice and dry. A young man called Zak was helping Iris and David. He was very knowledgeable. He explained what we were going to do and showed us different kinds of bulbs. We also got to smell the garlic bulbs some of us…

8 Feb

Safer Internet Day @Astley Park

Another amazing Safer Internet Day at Astley Park School.

 

Many pupils learned the importance of understanding of reasonable and healthy time on iPad. Something we can all struggle with is recognising when we have spent too long on a device. Many of our pupils are working hard with this…

8 Feb

Mental Health Awareness in 11R



We all know the importance of looking after our mental health in 11R- however this week we have been focusing on our worries and anxieties, looking at how they show themselves in in us- and some strategies that we use to help us!

We looked at positives, rather than things that we struggle…

7 Feb

Celebrating Chinese New Year in 11R !

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In 11R we have had a fantastic week celebrating Chinese New Year ! We have been finding out fun facts about Chinese New Year and sharing with our friends, making origami rabbits followed by an hilarious game of Chinese whispers.

31 Jan

Valentines Disco 2023

The order forms are coming home today- for this years Valentines Disco- which will be held on Thursday 9th February- 5-7pm! Please fill in your slip and return to school as soon as you can! These events are great fun and raise valuable funds towards Prom/School funds!

29 Jan

11R independent travel 2023


 

This was our first trip out on pupil transport in year eleven. 
We walked to the local bus stopped.  Once the bus had stopped . Each one of us used our NOW card  and ask the bus driver for a bus ticket to  Leyland Tesco, quite challenging for some of us, but we all did…

20 Jan

11R icy weather did not stop our fun, we made bird feeders!

Our visit to Chorley in Bloom was cancelled due to the icy weather. So we continued with our D of E topic in school. We all contributed in a class discussion with everyone saying something that could help the environment, from recycling to using energy efficient light bulbs. Then the fun…

13 Jan

11R Start Volunteering With Chorley In Bloom

This week was the start of our volunteering section of our Duke of Edinburgh Award. We walked upto the education hub space of Chorley in Bloom and we had our induction with the lovely team there. We learned about health and safety in a garden and working as a team. We had a tour around the site…