Pupils from the Stars class visited the Dick Institute today. We chose books to read and enjoyed a lovely sociable snack in the cafe.
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Theme work
Our new theme is based around Scotland. We have been reading Hamish McHaggis and the great Glasgow treasure hunt. We then matched images from the book. They included places like Pollock park, Kelvingrove Museum and Riverside Museum, It was great fun. We looked at each of these places and the different things we would see if we went there.
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Enterprise Work
Our Prom 2020 committee was hard at work this morning getting prepared for our special event in June. Ethan and Hayden were creating personalised placemats, Milly and Oliver were helping to create a shopping list of decorations and the girls were busy making some of our own decorations!
We were effective contributors as we all took on special roles and responsibilities.
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Visit to the Willowbank Café
Today the Sunflowers were invited to the Willowbank café run by some of our secondary pupils as part of their enterprise groups. The children were confident individuals going to the lunch hall at snack time which is very different to our usual routine. They were able to look at the menu and choose what they would like to eat and drink. They all sat really well and waited for their food. We also sang good luck to Miss Campbell who is leaving the Sunflowers today. Good Luck Miss Campbell in your new adventure. The pupils working at the café also did a lovely sing and sign to the music that was playing. It was really good. I think the Sunflowers will be super excited when we get an invitation to go again. 
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Communication SQA
The Beech class have been working on different communication skills this week. Sean and Skye worked on their listening and responding skills by completing a sensory cookery session using picture prompts to help follow instructions.
We also worked as a class to explore and identify the different signs and symbols around our school and decide what the signs were telling us to do or think about and how we would respond. We were very responsible citizens when thinking about the safety signs especially.
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Burns Supper Preparations!
“The Beech class have enjoyed organising and preparing for our annual Burns event this year! W£e helped to make the menu’s, programmes and some of the decorations. We have been successful learners as we learned about the life of Robert Burns and explored his poetry through song. We have created a giant, sensory red rose, to commemorate the poem “A Red, Red Rose”.
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Enterprise – Café Time
Our café opened today for the first time of 2020, Sunflowers were our first customers.
All pupils had a role within our team, they were all effective contributors and fulfilled their roles to ensure we had very happy customers.
We sang a ‘Good Luck’ song for Miss Campbell and then our café workers entertained their customer by singing and signing ‘Shotgun’.
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Scottish Dancing
We have been enjoying learning all about Scotland through our theme. On Monday, we were effective contributors and took part in a ceilidh with our peers and class staff.
We did very well to take turns, enjoyed experiencing the music, and copied new dance moves.
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Hospitality Training
The Transition boys were working hard on their hospitality skills this week. The boys were Effective Contributors when setting tables and ironing items. As part of their SQA course the boys have to prove that they can follow instructions, they practiced this by following table settings to check our Burn’s supper layout was correct. The boys also have to carry out tasks that would be included in the hospitality industry. The boys proved they can handle an iron safely before ironing items with the hot iron. Maximum effort by all!
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Community travel
The Transition boys were Responsible Citizens this week when half of them travelled on the bus checking the bus times and then using their passes when they got on the bus. The rest of the boys walked into town using the crossing and looking for traffic before crossing the road, when they saw the bus pass they waved to their friends. The boys went to the shops where they purchased toiletries then had their snack before returning to school.
