Blog by Tag: Arts and Creativity

On Tuesday this week it was International Men’s Day, this celebrates men's achievements and contributions while addressing critical issues like male health, gender-based violence, and the importance of positive male role models.

7A discussed different male celebrities and the male role models…

On Monday it was Remembrance Day. All of 7A went outside with the rest of the school and our very own Mrs Chaloner played the Last Post on her cornet. Everyone was extremely respectful whilst observing the 2 minute silence.

We had music with Miss Troughton again this week and drummed along to…

This week the children have been very excited about bonfire night. We have explored lots of different areas of learning using elements of fireworks and bonfire inspired words and patterns. The children created some very colourful pictures and used amazing communication with peers talking about…

This week in 7A has been a busy one!

Our ‘new’ food this week was plums. Some of us had never tried plums but we all really enjoyed them. A few people said they were like a cross between an apple and orange.

Autumn poems found the rhyming words and then coloured rhyming words in different…

This week willow class have had a very busy week. Some of the children went swimming working on their water confidence and techniques. On Wednesday some children had a lovely walk to the park working on their road safety and stranger danger. Towards the end of the week we explored the celebration…

This week at Astley Park, pupils have been learning about the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali.  It is also known as the ‘Festival of Light’ and celebrates good overcoming evil. 
Classes throughout school have celebrated this in lots of different ways, from Attention Autism sessions, to sensory…

Our new fruit this week was raisins. Most of us really enjoyed them. We enjoy tasting new fruits and can’t wait to see what new fruits we have next term. On Monday Miss Troughton gave us a Harry Potter booklet continuing our witches and wizards theme. Word searches, design a wand and spot the…

Our wonderful willow class children have been learning all about autumn over the last few weeks. They have created some beautiful pieces of art using paints and other media and explored our autumn tough tray, including leaves, sticks and insects! We listened to autumn stories including don’t hog…

Our ‘new’ food this week was passion fruit. Everyone that tried it liked it, with some saying it was sweet and a few saying it was sour. On Wednesday the students were learning more on the topic Witches and Wizards. We drew our own wizards, discussed names and different spells they could…

On Wednesday, 8A did an exciting science lesson with Miss Robertson. Their target was to design their very own potion. 

Firstly 8A watched a clip from Harry Potter where the pupils from Hogwarts were making their own potions. 

8A then looked at different shaped potion bottles on their IPads…

This week in 9A we have been looking at Character descriptions. We read a description of a character and then had to draw what we thought they looked like from the description. We had some brilliant interpretations and pictures. 
On  Monday we were lucky enough to have a special yoga…

11G were given a white wooden bunny to decorate for Easter. They were given lots of ideas on how they could decorate them. Some chose to use felt tips - thankyou Mrs Williams, and others chose to use paint or to decoupage them using small pieces of patterned paper and glue and…