Blog by Tag: Personal Social Development and Life Skills

This week in 8A we continued to learn about Superflex with Miss Della Fera.

We had a recap on last weeks work where everybody had remembered the parts of the brain we had discussed previously, including the brain stem, thinking brain, emotional brain and ways we could help to stop us from…

Welcome to the new 10A

It was great seeing all the learners coming into school in their new uniforms. They looked so grown up. Miss Hendy has worked so hard over the holidays and made the classroom look amazing and looking like a Key Stage 4 class. 

We now have a hot and cold…

Well our last week in 7A!!!!

This week 7A have been reminiscing about their year.

They have all remembered some fantastic things they have done during the year, especially Residential at Bendrigg Lodge! 

This week 7A have throughly enjoyed making a memory book of all the things they did,…

9P have had a fantastic sports week! With activities such as,

. Yoga 

. Circus skills

. Dance syndrome 

. Crazy golf

. Zorbing 

. Indian Dancing

. Balloon Tennis 

. Boccia 

. Archery 

We all enjoyed the sports day yesterday together too! 

Today we have been on our…

Primary and Secondary have had an absolutely fantastic Sports Week! It’s been an absolute pleasure planning Sports Week to see the joy on the pupils’ faces as they have enjoyed all of the activities. Here are the activities that we have done this week:  

Monday:  

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Welcome back!

7A have settled back into school life exceptionally well after the holidays.

On Monday, they got back into their swimming lessons at Hindley swimming pool. 

In music, in the afternoon, Miss Troughton introduced us to a new song, ‘Three little birds’ by Bob Marley.…

Children's Mental Health Week 2025 took place at Astley Park School between the 3rd -9th February 2025. This year, one of the themes is Know Yourself, Grow Yourself and aims to raise awareness and support and empower young people.

The learners watched a couple of PowerPoints to help them to…

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week - “Know yourself - Grow yourself” During this week we’ve talked about how we feel when we our bodies are dysregulated and what we can do to help us feel calm, happy and regulated again. The learners had lots of ideas and we discussed how things work for…

This week year 11 have been thinking about our mental health. We discussed about what emotions we feel, how we might deal with that in a college setting and what we could do to help ourselves. Who can we talk to, what activities might make us feel better and how important it is to share your…

On Monday in Our creativity we made colourful jellyfish which we got to take home. We enjoyed cutting tissue paper and sticking it all together then making the dangly tentacles. They looked great.

In PHSE this week we looked at how we look after ourselves. An in depth conversation began about…

What a week Willow class has had! Our learners have enjoyed swimming, PE, food technology  a visit to the supermarket and much more! We are so happy with our learners engagement and attainment during activities and tasks, they are all super stars. Our sensory story of Supertato ties in with our…

That’s it folks, last week of school in 2024 and boy has it been busy!!!

On Monday our learners performed twice in our Astley Park’s got Talent show. Everyone had a great time and we hope you agree that they all did an amazing job!!!! Well done 7A.

On Tuesday we had our community visit to…