Blog by Tag: Beech Class

Yesterday Beech class celebrated Holi. 

Holi celebrates the arrival of Spring in India, the end of Winter, and the blossoming of love. 

At Astley Park School it definitely wasn’t the end of Winter as we celebrated in the snow!!! 

Beech Class had a great time getting very colourful and it…

On Tuesday, Beech Class celebrated pancake day. 

We had a pancake themed sensory tray where we could sprinkle flour, make playdoh pancakes, and flip them in the pan using a spatula. 

Mrs Barrand made a messy pancake during Attention Autism!!! She used flour, milk, and cracked pretend eggs to…

Beech Class have had a lovely last week in class.

We have kept ourselves active and regulated for mental health awareness week. We have had lots of fun on the playground, had lots of movement sessions in the hall, and used our regulation equipment in class. 

We are all excited for a week off…

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…

As part of our food topic, Beech Class have enjoyed making bread this week! 

In Attention Autism, Mrs Barrand mixed together ingredients to make the dough. A few of us helped by pouring in the water and stirring it with a wooden spoon. Once the dough had risen, we kneaded the squidgy dough on a…

On Monday, Beech Class celebrated Chinese New Year. We explored a tuff tray filled with Chinese food and pictures, listened to some Chinese music, and made our very own Chinese dragons. We all enjoyed playing with the wiggly noodles using the chopsticks!! In our AA session some of us were lucky…

Beech class have been super busy this week!

Continuing our “Very Hungry Caterpillar topic”, we have practiced our chopping skills to make cucumber and tomato caterpillars and made some caterpillar hats!

For world religion week we have been exploring Christianity. We enjoyed preparing and…

This week Beech class have enjoyed exploring “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”.

In Attention Autism, we have used a balloon to make a picture of the very hungry caterpillar, counted all the fruits he ate, and made a colourful butterfly!

We have practiced our chopping skills cutting lots of…

Beech Class have had a fun, festive last week of term. 

We have done some dressing up and loved looking at our funny outfits in the mirror. 
We have enjoyed playing with Christmas sensory trays and looking at all the sparkly objects. 
We had a little play in the snow before coming back inside…

Our Primary Phase absolutely loved welcoming parents and carers into school on Monday to celebrate the hard work our wonderful children have put into creating the Winter Wonderland Art Exhibition. 

We all enjoyed celebrating our learners and all they have achieved throughout this festive season…

You won’t believe what we have been getting up to in Beech Class!!!!

We have been making lots of Christmas crafts, some ready to send home and others for our art exhibition. We all decorated our class Christmas tree whilst listening to some festive music. On Thursday we had a Christmas party!!!…

Last week the theme in Beech Class was ‘The Three Little Pigs’. 
We did a ‘What’s in the box’ where Miss made printed houses and then sprinkled straw on house number 1, placed sticks on house number 2, and built bricks on house number 3. 
We made the most of the dry weather and went for lots of…