Willowbank School, KilmarnockConfident Individuals Effective Contributors
The Snowdrops enjoyed a sensory assembly all about the Chinese new year. Everyone experienced Chinese foods through food sensory tasting and handling activities. There were also craft activities, making a Chinese fan and lucky money envelope. The Snowdrops took turns to move around all the activities with all their peers.
*Successful Learners* *Confident Individuals*
The Moonbeams have enjoyed listening to a story about families this week. The children explored how families are all different; some large, some small, different races and genders. The children learned that even though families are different; they all love each other and want the best for each other and enjoy doing fun things together.
The children had fun making up different families with cut out characters and identifying who they were and then they drew the family who they lived with.
We worked hard on our enterprise project this term and have been choosing some lovely gifts to make out loved ones for valentines day. We were very careful to not waste any resources as we made each project, and shared whether or not we were happy with the finished product.
We have been learning all about Scotland through out theme and have been investigating the weather. We explored rain through creating our own cloud inside a jar. We made predictions about what might happen, then loved watching the ‘rain’ fall through the cloud.
We have been learning all about Global goals 8 this term. We have been exploring the different jobs people can do and have been enjoying role playing as different people in the conservatory.
We also learned lots about Global goal 12- responsible consumption and production. We have been very responsible citizens and learned all about different kinds of pollution and how this affects the environment, humans and animals. We watch some videos about global warming before sharing our feeling with out peers, and made eco promises to walk on outings more regularly, recycle paper and plastic each day, and to litter pick to keep our school and local park clean and tidy.
We finished off this week with a cookie bake off, we had two teams, two different recipes. Bring it on!
Healthy competition between the two teams, green team against the black team. No pupil wanted to be in Mrs Murray’s team, they have seen her baking skills!
We were all successful learners and followed the instructions to make the cookies. They tasted lovely but we need more practice on working the appearance of our cookies.
At Willowbank we get a wide variety of learning experiences and a quality education. We looked at out timetable symbols to choose some of our favourite activities. We also practised our pencil control colouring in the school badge with green and then adding the tree.
To follow on from our friendship assembly and because February is Friendly February. We made out own kindness cups. We decorated them with stickers and stampers and then picture a symbol of how we are going to be kind. We chose sharing, helping, listening and hugging. We added these mugs along with some of our friendship assembly to our display and will continue to look at different ways to be friendly and kid throughout the month of February.
We love to sing, dance, sign and play music in the Oak class, we have been effective contributors when taking it in turns to perform our songs in from this years playlist.
Here we are performing to ‘Million Dreams’ Make your Own kind of Music’, ‘I love my Life’.
We enjoyed sensory assembly this week, thank you Snowdrops and Stars class. We were experiencing Chinese New Year.
We have had a fantastic week with lots of magical moments that has made us very proud. It was far too difficult to pick one star of the week, so I gave it to the full Oak class. They were all confident individuals and successful learners when working towards their own targets.
Here are the reasons for achieving star of the week
Jack – Taking part in a two way conversation with an adult and giving a lot information without prompting questions
Cameron – For singing and signing full songs and having the confidence to complete the song
Blake – Independence and being caring towards his peers
Ethan – Increased concentration during swimming and improvement in swimming technique
Sam – Improvement in communication and using full sentences when asking an adult a question
Anthony – Using spontaneous phrases when having a conversation with adults
