Blog by Tag: community access

It has been a busy week for the pupils and staff in 8P. 

We have done lots of hard work and also had lots of fun. 

Unfortunately, the rain meant that we had to use the school transport to take part in our weekly shopping trip (instead of practising our travel training), but we still had a…

This week at the Nuffield Gym Ashley the Personal Trainer had designed a training circuit for the pupils to attempt. The circuit was a combination of a seating weight lift, rowing machine, ski pull, sledge push and lunges. Ashley timed the pupils on each activity and when directed they rotated…

As part of our Duke of Edinburgh Experience we shall be volunteering at Chorley in Bloom.

Today was our first visit and we were greeted by the volunteers, Iris and Jill. 
Our project today was to create our Grass heads, as a group we listened to the instructions and followed them.

We…

As part of our careers enrichment programme a few pupils visited Nuffield Gym to undertake a 5 week programme of work experience.

This week the pupils worked with Ashley a PT instructor and familiarised themselves with the environment. This involved using equipment safely, a warm up and cool…

This term in 10A is busy with community visits around the area. 
Our first visits of the week are to Chorley in Bloom, Jake visited on Monday and is involved with planting and creating a feature using tyres, unfortunately due to the weather the rest of the class were unable to visit but we will…

8A at Fieldfare celebrating Miss McPartlin last week in school.

8A walked all the way to the Fieldfare for our lunch today, to celebrate Miss McPartlins last week in school, as she is leaving for a little rest before having her baby. 

8A was very sensible walking down the big hill and…

On Monday morning we learnt about mental health week. We talked about how we felt and that our voices matter then we did some mindfulness colouring. After break we did some reading and Sound-write. After lunch we did relax to get ourselves ready for the afternoon. We then made some decorations for…

This week whilst thinking about being healthy we have been enjoying lots of sport activities.

A group were involved in a day of football where we displayed great teamwork, and represented Astley Park School with great enthusiasm and pride.

Another group visited Chorley Leisure Centre where…

This week has been mega busy in 10A. Jake was able to work with Chorley in Bloom and continue his Community Action Project. The whole class have been crazy busy working towards ASDAN qualifications in class and in the community, including sentence structure in English and measurement and  time in…

1st school in for 2024 in 8A

It was so nice seeing the learners in 8A returning back to school in 2024.

It was lovely hearing all their enjoyable Christmas and New Year celebrations.

We have had a fun and relaxing week this week settling the learners back into school…

The pupils and staff have had a lovely week back in class, after a very busy Christmas.

We had a walk to Asda where we split into two groups, one group searched for and bought items for our snack time while the other group searched for and bought items for our food technology lesson. 

Using…

All our Holiday Heroes enjoyed a private screening of Wonka at Reel Cinema in Chorley today. We were very proud of the excellent choices made by the children in the local community. Everyone agreed that the film was brilliant - and the goody bags were very popular too! 
 

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