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Victoria Hough is an artist who specialises in working with groups of children to create exciting pieces of art. We invited her into Astley Park School to help us create a masterpiece to incorporate our new school values of Kindness, Respect, Honesty, Positivity and Teamwork. Victoria worked with…

Today in Willow class we were learning all about Divali! We looked at what Divali actually means- what is it and how is it celebrated? The children enjoyed talking about the special celebration and ways it is celebrated using special food, music, decorations and lights. Some of the children drew…

In October Willow Class learnt about why we have black history month, celebrating the achievements of black men and women. We have had lots of good conversation about wrong it would be to be be treated differently for how you look or where you come from with learners relating this to our own class…

Today we are celebrating Diwali in school. 8A thought about what we had learnt last year about Diwali as part of our Year 7 “celebrations” theme. We could remember that Hindus celebrate Diwali and that they get presents at Diwali. Mrs Crouch reminded us that Diwali was the festival of light and we…

7P have celebrated Black History Month on the last week in class. 

We listened to a book called M for Melanin, where each letter of the book spoke about something to proud of about yourself and your skin colour. We learnt some Black History through this.

We then used mirrors and iPads to…

My Communication 

We have continued looking at being a good friend in 9G. We spoke about what a compliment was. It was nice to hear some of the pupils complimenting each other. 

We have used the class iPads today, looking at days of the week. The class worked in small groups and used…

What a wonderful few weeks we have had in 7P! 

We have taken part in lots of different activities to show our skills to the adults in class. This has included craft activities, fine motor, writing and turn taking games. 

7P had a very successful Coffee Afternoon for Macmillan, where family…

 

What a lovely day to go down to the park. Alex and Mason had the big responsibility of getting us all to Astley Park and back safely.  They took it in turned to stop at the curb, look for traffic and then make the big desion if it was safe to cross the road. Well done, you got us all to the…

We had a wonderful afternoon celebrating Macmillan coffee afternoon. We worked together to get the classroom ready yesterday, decorating cakes and biscuits, hoovering up and making bunting to decorate the room. We then made drinks for our family members and enjoyed a brew and cake with them before…

This week Willow class have been learning all about our own feelings and our friends’ feelings.

We have been looking at when to ask for help if we feel cross and that sometimes our friends might needs different things- some of us said we want space if we are sad, some of us would want a walk…

This half term Rowan class have been learning all about the Vikings.  

Vikings lived in a long, narrow building called a longhouse. Most had timber frames and thatched roofs. Viking jewellery was beautifully made, using materials ranging from gold to simple animal bones. Both men and women…

This week we have had so much fun exploring all different types of sports with our class and celebrating Miss Curry’s birthday!

Every morning we have started our day with a dance class. Everyone has had so much fun joining in and learning new moves, even the teachers have been having…