Willowbank School, Kilmarnock
This week has been a super busy and super fun week. We started our literacy streaming for the first time which went well and made did lots of Halloween activities. We decorated our class pumpkins like Woody from Toy story and a mummy. We made Dracula pictures with our hand prints and had fun dressing up on Friday and loved Singing Hands being at our school. It was super exciting. 
This week we had fun creating our fund raising Christmas Cards.
In Home Economics we melted chocolate and mixed in rice krispies and turned them into Halloween Spiders – hope you enjoyed them.
SQA Classes started this week – so we have all been really busy.
Now we are off for some FUN with Singing Hands and Hallowe’en!!!!!!
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS *
The Bluebells class loved carving our Halloween pumpkin. As a class, we brainstormed some ideas of what we could carve into our class pumpkin and finally agreed on a ghost. We all enjoyed exploring what was inside the pumpkin, some pupils choosing to do this using a spoon or some being brave enough to scoop the pumpkin seeds out using their hands.
This week we have enjoyed creating a variety of different designs on our pumpkins. We have a Spiderman, Harry Potter, Scary teeth & hedgehogs with jaggy spikes.
We all were effective contributors when making our skeleton biscuits in our cooking lesson.
We are very confident individuals when bouncing on the trampoline, we demonstrated great listening and core strength and control. Looking at our smiles it is clear we all had great fun, whilst working on skills and improving our fitness.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Bluebells class enjoyed making bat cupcakes during our cookery session. We also used dairylea triangles to create ghosts! We had great fun!
Effective Contributors/Responsible Citizens
The Snowdrops have been thinking about the world of work through pretend play shopping activities. We created a shop in our classroom, selling different fruits and vegetables. We all took turns to take on the role of a shop keeper or a customer wanting to buy some foods. Everyone made good choices of foods to buy, carrying our basket or pushing a trolley. The Snowdrops used pretend coins to buy their shopping at the check out. Being the check out operator was definitely a favourite role and everyone enjoyed scanning the foods!
Today the boys and girls in the Bluebells class made these super 3D pumpkin models. We discussed Hallowe’en and there was a lots of sharing and teamwork on display during the activity.
Well done to our successful learners.
The Sungazers were ‘Confident Individuals’ as they explored a variety of equipment at P.E with their buddies.
Effective Contributors/Confident Individuals
The Snowdrops explored and handled different bread textures and dough mixtures. Everyone helped to add and mix ingredients, pushing their fingers and hands down into our dough. We all managed to create different bread shapes and added raisins to give some facial features. The results were yummy!
