Blog by Tag: Personal Social Development and Life Skills

Willow class have had a brilliant week. We have been learning about different habitats and did a fun attention autism session on super worm. We talked about the habitats that worms live in and we did a fun worm splat. We have been discussing kindness too and we had a group discussion on what makes…

Everyone in 9P were getting in the Christmas spirit this week.

We have been practicing hard for our Christmas production, which I’m sure you are all looking forward to.

On Wednesday afternoon we had a visit to Birkacre Garden Centre to see all the fantastic Christmas displays, trees and…

Thank you for being a friend in 8A

This week has been “Friendship week” at Astley Park. 

We have been looking out for our learners being kind towards other. 

We have seen learners looking after their friends whilst out walking to and from Asda in the high winds. We have also seen…

9A’s blog in the learners own words. 
 

On Monday morning we did some different number work in maths. Afterwards we had break time outside, it was windy and rainy but we still had fun catching the leaves. After break we planned some more of our planet stories in my communication. We looked at…

We’ve had a fantastic week in 8P! The children have enjoyed: 

- Phonics lessons 

- carousels of activities in most lessons

- watching “We’re going on a Pumpkin Hunt” story again 

- discussing weekend news 

- going to the Café 

- going to…

This week classes at Astley Park have been focussing on smashing stereotypes. Stereotypes restrict the ways in which we see ourselves, others and the world around us. They make us jump to conclusions, which can stop us from getting an accurate picture.  We have been learning…

In Willow class this half term we have been reading the story ‘What the ladybird heard.’ We planned our own party for the end of term. We dressed as animals or in our favourite colours, we had our face painted, we decorated biscuits with red and black icing to make ladybirds, we played pin the…

9A celebrated Rainbow Day by completing a carousel of activities in class linked to learning about different families. These tasks included: 

- being taught about different families by Miss Buck 

- researching rainbows 

- rainbow crafts 

We also participated in the parade on the…

Astley Park School have a had a very colourful week as they explore rainbows, families and diversity as part of Rainbow Week celebrations! 

Rainbow week is a joyful and colourful display of love, unity, and respect, with lots of activities to promote inclusivity, opportunities to educate, and…

This week we have continued to look at healthy living and we have all increased our daily step target from 7000 to 7500. This is 37,500 steps at school each week and I am proud to say that all children and staff completed this target. Everyone has pushed themselves daily, completing more than…

This week was very exciting in 7A… we were decorating our Coronation cakes in our Bake Off competition!

Everyone found their designs and got to work on their masterpieces. We rolled out icing (some may have been eaten along the way!!) and cut out pieces to make the designs. We had different…

Today in 8P we have been working on communicating instructions. 
 

The children needed to give precise instructions to Mrs Chaloner on how to make a jam sandwich. 
The children started at basics - get the bread out of the bag , use the knife spread the butter etc 

When the children…