Aston Hall English Careers Month
We’ve had a busy careers month for English this September. KS1 and LKS2 pupils enjoyed live zoom sessions with author Swapna Haddow earlier this week. KS1 pupils joined in with drawing the bear from My Dad is a Grizzly Bear. LKS2 pupils engaged in a story planning session with the author linked to the Dave the Pigeon series.
Welcome to our new WMIM Ambassadors!
Welcome and congratulations to our newly appointed WMIM school Ambassadors. Billy, Eliza, Beatrice and Eve met with Gemma, from WMIM this week. After a welcome induction our Ambassadors were presented with their welcome packs and excitedly awaited for, WMIM pin badges. Our Ambassadors are eager to get started on promoting positive wellbeing throughout our school and have […]
EYFS ‘Mystery Reader’ Project
EYFS have started a ‘Mystery Reader’ project. Each week on a Friday afternoon, a family member to someone in our class comes into school to read everyone a story. We don’t know who it is, so before they enter we have to figure out some clues to see if we can guess who it is. […]
Y3PB Online Author Event
This week, we had an online meeting with Swapna Haddow, author of the Dave Pigeon and Bad Panda books. She shared some of her stories with us, tips for writing and how to plan our own stories using 3 objects found around the classroom.
Welcome to Aston Hall EYFS!
EYFS have had a fantastic first few weeks at school! They’ve all settled in brilliantly and are following the Aston Hall Way already. We’ve enjoyed getting to know each other, making new friends and choosing to play in many areas. Well done FS2!
Year 5/6 Online Author Event
Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to meet the author Annelise Gray via video chat last week. We really enjoyed learning about her novels and how her interest in history and horses has inspired her stories.
Year 2 work on their reporting skills
Over the last week Y2GD have been researching meerkats and learning about the features of non-chronological reports. We sorted facts into different sub headings by using our amazing reading skills and came up with our own question sub headings, such as “where do they live?”. We also played a vocabulary game that helped us to learn technical […]
BeeBot Computing
The children in Y1AP enjoyed have really enjoyed their recent computing lessons. They have been learning to programme BeeBot to travel across the mat.
Jeans for Genes Day 2023
On Friday 22nd September, pupils and staff at Aston Hall took part in Jeans for Genes day, raising money for this great charity. The Jeans for Genes campaign raises awareness of the daily challenges faced by those living with a genetic condition and raises money to fund projects that make a tangible difference to the lives […]
Rotherham Schools Inclusive Cross Country Event
The children in LKS2 had an amazing time at our Rotherham Schools Inclusive Cross Country Event last week. We even had a winner in the boys 8 and under medium distance race. Well done everyone! https://www.astonhallschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_0993.mov
