12 Feb

7R learn about the rotten Romans!

Today 7R celebrated “History day” as we missed it last week due to our Calvert residential trip. We have had a fantastic day!

This morning, Mrs Crouch split us into research teams. Each team was given research questions to find out the answer to. The teams had to delegate roles to decide a…

10 Feb

Willow enjoy Victorian Day

Last Thursday was our first history day of the year and all primary phase classes learnt about the Victorians.

Willow class learnt all about what it was like to be a child in the Victorian era, looking at Victorian schools and workhouses for children. The children loved learning about all the…

6 Feb

9G’s Roman Celebration Day!

9G have been fantastic day being Romans today. In the morning we learnt all about Roman Mosaics, who had them and what they looked like. We then made our own Roman Mosaics using glue and different coloured seeds. In the afternoon we then learnt all about Roman soldiers, what life was like for them…

3 Feb

8R Digital Artwork

Today in class we discussed World Mental Health week. We talked about the things we do to keep ourselves calm and happy. We all had lots of different things that we did to help us. We then used the i pads to draw some artwork to show this. See the link attached to see our fantastic pieces of…

23 Jan

7R are artists!

7R have been learning about the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo as part of our "Food, Glorious Food" topic. We learnt that he created portraits using images of fruits and vegetables. We made our own art in his style using 3D art (using real fruits and vegetables) and drawing. We enjoyed the activity…

17 Jan

7R learn about Sikhism for World Religion Week 2020!

This week, 7R have been learning about Sikhism. We started by learning about the 5Ks. We watched videos and interacted with props before making our own Kangha or designing a Kirpan. We talked about what the 5Ks represented for Sikhs. We then learnt all about the Gudwara. We learnt about the…

14 Jan

Religion Week in 8G

This week is Religion week at Astley Park School.

8G are learning all about Christianity. Yesterday we spoke about what Christians believe and the rules that they follow. We talked about why the symbol of a Cross is important and where Christians go to pray.

We then made amazing pictures…

10 Jan

Food, Glorious Food - 7R

Welcome back and a Happy New Year!

7R have lots to look forward to this term. Our new theme is "Food, Glorious, Food". 

Communication, Language and Literacy

In our "Communication, Language and Literacy" lessons we will be exploring the book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald…