Blog by Tag: 9A Class

This week in 9A, we have been learning about Easter! 

This involved us reading the Easter Story and learning about Easter traditions. We also made Easter Egg nest cakes (using mini eggs too of course) and enjoyed doing lots of different Easter activities. 

These included…

This weeks in 9A’s cooking session, we made chocolate rice crispie and cornflake cakes. First, the pupils broke up the bars of chocolate, resisting the temptation to eat them! They then used the microwave to melt the chocolate and added in their choice of either the rice crispies or cornflakes.…

This Wednesday afternoon, 9A looked at what is Holi and why people all over the world celebrate it. 

We learnt that it marks the beginning of spring. And during Holi, people celebrate the story of Prahlad. 

Prahlad’s father was a cruel king that wanted everyone to worship him, but Prahlad…

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…

In PE this week, the children started off the lesson by playing a game called Dragons. This consisted of them making two chains where they were holding onto each other’s shoulders and they had to try to remove the tag from the last person on the other chain. They really enjoyed this warm up and…

9A cooking activity this Tuesday was of course pancakes!

Miss Buck spilt the class into two halves. 

One group joined Ms Carter and Miss Howarth in the food tech room. 

They had to read the instructions about how to make a delicious pancake. 

The learners weighed out the…

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…

9A healthy cooking activity this week was to make a home made pizza on a tortilla wrap. 

On Monday morning, in Nurture Time, the class had to design their own pizza, choosing what topping they wanted. The toppings to choose from was ham, chicken and pepperoni, with additional toppings of onions…

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!

This week, the school has been celebrating Chinese New Year and this year it’s the year of the Rabbit. 

The class watched a PowerPoint on how the Chinese signs were created. After they had watched the slides, they made their own Chinese rabbit using paint, card and wax crayon. As well, the…

This week 9A worked as a team and made “Ms Carter’s Home Made Healthy Lasagne”.

They all followed a step by step instruction sheet and got together the ingredients they needed, which were bought from this week’s shopping visit. 

The ingredients were mince meat, carrots, celery, onions,…

In preparation for World Religion Week, where 9A will be learning about Islam, 9A went on a visit to Chorley Mosque to gain knowledge of the Muslim faith. We were very lucky because Mr Maher, one of our governors, came with us too.
 

When we arrived at the Mosque, Mubeen, the Imam (religious…