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On Tuesday we held a poignant Remembrance Service. Thank you to Mr Dart for playing ‘The Last Post’ and for all of your kind donations to our fantastic Year 5 poppy sellers, Edie and Lottie!
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7th November 2025
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We have loved being back and have spent this week recapping our ACE Expectations – ‘Be Ready, Show Respect, Try Your Best’ and how we can maintain these high standards in and around school. We have also been recapping the British Values and discussing how important these are to our everyday lives.
23rd October 2025
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We have had a super last week of the half term, with our lovely Bears treating us to their class assembly. We are very proud of them all and their developing confidence and ACE skills. School Council also held a fantastic whole school assembly on Monday, teaching us all about the British Value ‘Tolerance.’ Well done School Council!
17th October 2025
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Well done Tigers class for a fantastic class assembly this week! We all thoroughly enjoyed it and we are so proud of you all and the joy you brought to the stage – well done!
10th October 2025
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A big thank you to Mr Dart and team for yet another fantastic Astley Apple Day; the perfect start to the week! It was a superb showcase of our wonderful community, thank you to all those who attended and supported.
3rd October 2025
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We have had a super week of learning here at Astley! Our Sharks are having a fantastic time at Hilltop on their residential and are making so many memories together, whilst challenging themselves and enjoying a range of experiences; we can’t wait to hear more when they are back. Thank you to our Penguins this week for stepping up and taking on some important roles and responsibilities.
26th September 2025
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Happy European Day of Languages (EDoL)! Today we celebrate EDoL through the theme – ‘Languages open hearts and minds.’ Mr Dart has planned an exciting day exploring how languages can empower us and enable us to communicate and understand other cultures. Classes will spend all day completing various activities using a range of skills through art, music and more!
19th September 2025
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On Monday Miss Wreford spoke to the whole school about ‘British Values’ - Democracy, The Rule of Law, Individual Liberty, Mutual Respect and Tolerance.
12th September 2025
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Our learning theme this week is ‘supportive’; I have been so impressed with the children and how they have been working together this week, helping each other and showing such ACE learning behaviours. All classes have settled in really well, which is so lovely to see.
5th September 2025
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A very warm welcome back to you all; to our existing families, to new families joining us part way through their school journey and to our lovely new Bears. I hope you all had a great summer! It is exciting to welcome Mrs Borley and Miss Edgeley to our teaching team, and Mrs Cleall to our support staff team.
6th June 2025
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Welcome back to the last half term of this academic year! We have a busy one lined up with lots of exciting events happening – please ensure you are familiar with the dates overleaf. We welcomed the Soul Space team into school this week and our classes had a fantastic experience immersing themselves in reflection and thought.
23rd May 2025
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We had a fantastic Maths ACE Day on Monday! So many important skills were learnt and developed and lots of fun was had across the school. Thank you to those of you who joined us for Open Morning. Please see overleaf updates to the calendar, including when the mobile library van will be visiting Astley. This is a great chance for children to choose and share books, as well as the books they read in school.
25th April 2025
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Welcome back - we are really excited to be back for the start of the summer term! I hope you had a lovely Easter and spent some quality time with family and friends; we have loved hearing all about what the children got up to.
4th April 2025
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We have had a fantastic and very busy last week to round off the Spring Term. It has been great engaging with families in our Parents Evenings and we hope you have found these useful. Also, it was wonderful to see so many families joining us for our Forest School Open Sessions this week; we hope you enjoyed them, and the sunshine!
28th March 2025
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Thank you so much for your generous donations to Comic Relief last week – we raised an impressive £182.20! We are so proud of our Bears for their fantastic class assembly on Wednesday – a wonderful showcase of how they are growing and developing.
21st March 2025
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It is Red Nose Day today and we are proud to be raising money for Comic Relief; thank you in advance for your kind donations. There will be a red nose out in the playground morning and afternoon for you to put pennies on if you can.
14th March 2025
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It has been a busy week this week! We were delighted to invite our Governors into school on Tuesday to keep up to date and get involved in life at Astley. They really are an asset to the school, and the children were fantastic in welcoming them in and sharing their learning.
7th March 2025
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What a beautiful week! Not only has the sun been shining - we have had such a jam packed week full of activity, learning and enrichment. Turtles and Dolphins had a great cricket session on Tuesday, led by our friends at Active Education, and they rounded off the day with some pancake flipping fun!
28th February 2025
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We have had a great first week back and start to Spring Two. Turtles’ first swimming session was a success and we look forward to seeing their progress this half term. Clubs have been back in action and it has been great to see an array of extra curricular activity happening around school.
14th February 2025
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Well done to our Sharks for completing their Bikeability course over the past few weeks; they have showed fantastic cycling kills and road safety ability – we are proud of you all! They also performed a super class assembly on Wednesday, including a very special sign language performance.
7th February 2025
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It has been lovely to see the sun shining this week and lots of fantastic learning across the curriculum. A group of Penguins and Sharks went out on a Sports Event on Monday and had a great time, taking part in a variety of events.
31st January 2025
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Well done to our Penguins for their class assembly this week; they shared their learning in lots of creative ways. It is great to see how Penguins are developing and thank you to the families that joined us.
24th January 2025
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Clubs have been back in action this week, and it has been great to see so many pupils getting involved. Remember – please do let us know if your child can’t attend for any reason.
17th January 2025
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Happy Friyay – it has been a super first full week back! Our Turtles and Dolphins loved their first Forest School sessions of the year and getting stuck in to their Science topics in the woods!