22 Jun

Sports Week: Paralympians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qynsSP-bXNg

Hi Everyone

Welcome to Monday's blog, this week at Astley Park school it is Sports Week, there are going to be different activities everyday that you can join in with at home and have some fun with family members

The Paralympics is a series of…

19 Jun

Sports Week 2020

We are excited to announce the details of this year’s Sports Week that all of our learners can take part in whether they are learning at home or in school.

What we will be doing

  1. There will be six sports challenges to complete across the week. The challenges are: Warm up, Throw, Catch or…
27 May

COMPETITION TIME!

Hi everybody,

Would you like to take part in an exciting competition as part of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month? Take a look at the competition below. If you take part, make sure you send Mrs Crouch a copy of your entry (crouchm@astleypark.lancs.sch.uk) as well as emailing it over to…

6 May

11R Thinking positive reflecting on VE day

VE Day is a shortened name for Victory in Europe. This year we are celebrating 75yrs when Germany surrended (gave themselves up) to end the 2nd World War. This was a very happy time in England and many parties were had. 

 

If you would like to learn more about this special occasion here is a…

20 Mar

Oak - Holi Festival 2020

Last Monday, Mr Darbyshire led our assembly and we learned about the traditional Hindu festival ‘The Holi Festival’. Some of us got to have a turn using powder paint to create colour clouds. 

 

Back in Oak class we explored colour through lots of activities. Miss Cross did an Attention…

20 Mar

Oak - Rainbow Day 2020

Last Friday, Oak had their belated Rainbow Day and celebrated how we are all different. 

 

First we read the story ‘We Are All Different’. We took turns using mirrors to talk about how we all look and what we had that was the same or different. Oscar told us he had glasses and Tig said he…

16 Mar

7G get colourful!

Last week 7G celebrated Holi festival. This is a Hindu festival where the coming of spring is celebrated through lots of colourful activities. 

7G chose red as their colour to come into school in. All the children had an item of clothing on that was red. 
With Mr Murphy in the morning they all…

15 Mar

Holi art in Willow class

On Monday, Willow class learnt about the Hindu spring festival Holi. We chose blue as our class colour and some children chose to wear this colour to school for the day. Willow class loved the idea of the paint throwing celebrations and made their own powder paint art following an attention autism…

9 Mar

Online Safety Family Challenge Spring Term

Challenge your family this spring time using the free resource from Google’s Be Internet Legends Parent Zone.

 

Talk to your family and learn together. Please feel free to feedback your experiences!

 

If you need any further support please don’t hesitate to contact…

14 Feb

Rainbow Day in Willow class

Willow class celebrated Rainbow Day by wearing bright clothes to create a class rainbow and learning all about how people are different.

We discussed how rainbows have lots of different colours that all come together to make something brilliant- just like all our friends making one…

14 Feb

8R's Rainbows

As part of the LGBT+ celebrations we decorated our own rainbows that we are going to display in our classroom. 

We had a a very grown up discussion about how we are all different and the world would be a very boring place if we were all the same. Some of us could even tell me what LGBT stands…

14 Feb

Rainbow Day Circle Time in 7R!

Today we all came in different coloured clothes for Rainbow Day but we didn’t really understand why. We had a discussion about LGBT History Month and why it is important that we celebrate Rainbow Day. We learnt what LGBT stands for and what the words mean. We then played a circle time game,…