Refugee Week 2023 Recommended Reads
Books can be powerful tools to help us understand the world. For thousands of years, stories have been our way of making sense of the world and our place in it. They help us better understand other people, and ourselves too. Today, we have almost an infinite number of incredible stories at our fingertips. Books by […]
Pride Month
As the country / schools celebrate Pride Month, we want to highlight the importance of teaching children to embrace different families. 🥰🌈 We will be utilising some great resources from the BBC’s ‘Tiny Happy People’ alongside our curriculum documents and sharing these in an age-appropriate way to specific year groups in school. The link to […]
Y2GD Focus on Refugee Week
This week in Year 2 as part of our work focusing on Refugee Week we have been reading ‘The day war came’. On Monday we created feelings maps focusing on how the little girl felt at different points during the story. On Tuesday, we role played the part of the book where the school doesn’t […]
Y3LD Enjoy National Sports Week
For National School Sports Week, Y3LD had an action packed PE lesson using lots of new equipment. As you can tell from the pictures it was lots of fun! #nationalsportsweek #sportsslam
Simple Acts – Refugee Week at Aston Hall
Aston Hall have been taking part in ‘Simple Acts’ as part of Refugee Week. Our first Simple Act was to “Listen and share”. On Monday different classes across school watched a live read of the story “A child like you” read by the Author Na’ima B. Robert and learnt about how to illustrate from the illustrator […]
Money Matters – Maths Learning
In Maths Y1AP have started learning about money. We have learnt to identify coins. We represented each coin with base 10 to show understanding of the value of each. Then, we bought items from a pretend shop using money. The children had to find combinations of coins to make the correct amount for each item. They […]
Aston Hall Wellbeing Charter
The Wellbeing Charter, which has been produced by our Ambassadors will be promoted throughout school by students and staff. 💚🧡 Jas and Maia played a key part in the content, wording and overall design of the charter and they should be really proud of themselves. 👏
Aston Hall Recommends
Miss Ellis recommends… Land of Roar by Jenny Mclachlan If you love adventures, magical characters and a hint of danger, then this is a book that you will love! In this story, twins – Arthur and Rose – visit their Grandad’s house and whilst staying there he mysteriously disappears. To find him, they have to travel […]
National School Sports Week 2023
National School Sports Week 2023 runs from the 19th June until 23rd and this year the Youth Sports Trust wants to make sure that all children in the UK are active for the Chief Medical Officers’ recommended minimum time of 60 minutes a day. So they’re asking us to ‘play for fun, play for 60’! […]
Freestyle Football World Record Holder Visits Aston Hall
Aston Hall was lucky to receive a visit from Ash Randall, a world record holder in freestyle football. ⚽🏆 He talked about the importance of persevering, being resilient and working hard, as he always had a football in his hand and would practice every moment he could. It was great to hear about his journey to […]
