Blog by Tag: The World About Me

This term Chestnut class are learning all about the seaside. This week we have enjoyed lots of creative tasks linked to our topic area- printing including bubble wrap print, lids and other household items to make repeated patterns and we will be continuing to explore printing over the coming…

Wow, Spring Term flew by for 7A!

During the Spring Term, we did lots of fantastic learning - working on our functional life skills, our Aspirational Learning Goals and our Curriculum Learning Goals.

In My Communication based lessons, we learnt about Acrostic Poems in Spring 1 and Postcards…

We have finally made it to our last day before the Easter break. 

8P have had a lovely week.

We have been to the supermarket, where we bought items for our food technology lesson.

We have made a variety of sandwiches which we ate this morning, before making some really nice Easter…

This week Chestnut class have been busy getting ready for Easter!
In Food tech we have enjoyed practising our spreading skills by preparing hot cross buns for snack time. During creative tasks we made egg shell cards using primary colours and repeating patterns and decorating foam eggs. In…

7P have had another lovely week. Part of this week was learning about World Down Syndrome day. 
 

7P spoke about what this means and how just because someone has Down Syndrome they can do the same things that we can. We are all unique and special and that is okay. 
 

We explored this…

It has been a lovely week in 8P and we have all been busy taking part in lots of different activities. 

To help us with our maths, we had a trip out to a local supermarket where we chose things from our  shopping list. We each took turns to pick items up from the shelves, but the best part was…

World book day in 8A

Thursday was World Book Day at Astley Park School and 8A joined in with the fun.

We had Black Panther, Harry Potter, Cat Women, Incredible Hulk, a Police person just naming a few. 

Even staff joined in. (Ms Carter was wearing her Captain Carter cape).

We…

On Friday 1st March, pupils across school enjoyed learning all about St David’s Day! 

Classes engaged with lots of fun activities related to St David’s Day, some enjoyed Attention Autism sessions and creating daffodils! The pupils enjoyed listening and learning all about St David and Welsh…

This week Chestnut learners have enjoyed learning all about recycling and exploring and sorting different materials which we throw away as part of our recycling topic. We have made Angel Delight, focussing on using equipment to pour and mix, expressing our choices and working out what we need…

Maple class have had an exciting week back!

We have explored jungles in our theme of habitats. We have engaged with lots of fun activities within the classroom such as fine motor activities making elephant trunks, matching animals and words, animal jigsaws, jungle role play and lots more!

We…

Welcome back to spring 2, hope you’ve all had a lovely break. We’ve got a very busy half term again and lots of things to look forward to. 9A welcomed a new pupil into class, they have all been very friendly and we look forward to getting to know him. 
On Monday morning as the learners came into…

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…