Willowbank School, KilmarnockThis week the Stars class have learnt about Fairtrade and made tasty mars bar cake for the Willowbank Bake Off. We heard about Pablo the Banana and his banana journey. On Friday we played Fairtrade games in the hall with the Sungazers and Moonbeams and enjoyed a Monkey Hunt. On outings we sourced produce with the Fairtrade logo on.
The Bluebells have been successful learners this week as they have taken part in many activities about Fairtrade. They watched videos to learn about where bananas and chocolate comes from and learned a bit about the process they go through to get to our shops and they learned about how hard the farmers in other countries work. The children enjoyed playing a shopping game where they had to choose Fairtrade products by looking out for the Fairtrade logo, they listened to an Assembly about Fairtrade and today they were effective contributors during a Monkey hunt. They also enjoyed some games in the gym hall with other classes.
We also entered a bake off and came in second place! What a successful week!
All the boys joined up with other classes in the secondary department and had a lot of fun to end a great Friday. over the course of the week everyone in transition have been Successful Learners and deserved some time to have a lot of fun keeping the Fairtrade theme going. The afternoon was rounded off with a conga, just the perfect way to end a Friday. Have a good weekend everyone.
Continuing the Fairtrade theme, the boys in Transition participated in a hunt for a monkey that had been spotted in the school. They followed a set of clues and were Responsible Citizens going around the school working as a team. In the end they found the monkey in the sensory room (some less keen than others) and were all given a Fairtrade banana for their snack.
All boys in Transition were Effective Contributors on Thursday making some millionaires shortbread to enter the Fairtrade Bake Off competition in school. Unfortunately we didn’t win but we all certainly thought it was worthy of a medal.
It was the turn of the Transition boys to present their assembly to the rest of the secondary department. They were all Confident Individuals when carrying out their own tasks to make their assembly the best it could be. Here you can see Oliver passing out Fairtrade chocolate to all his friends at assembly on Wednesday.
In Preparation for world book day, the Transition boys have been choosing some books to read and review. All boys have written their own reviews. Patrick has started writing his own story and Hayden has done a presentation on his favourite book as well. Well Done Boys
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We loved today’s fairtrade monkey hunt. We had to follow ‘I spy…’ clued that led us around the school and we found 10 different fairtrade items. At the end of the hunt, we were very surprised to find a cheeky monkey hiding in our sensory room!!! The monkey looked cheeky but was kind enough to share some bananas with us.
…make Fairtrade lemonade!
The Beech class enjoyed another fab day of Fairtrade fun. We went on a monkey hunt, make our own Fairtrade lemonade and played Fairtrade games with our secondary friends.
Here are our favourite photos from today. We were effective contributors as we all took part!
We’re going on a monkey hunt…
We love our Willowbank monkey 
We shared our lovely home made lemonade with the Transition boys – it was a hit! 
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We loved playing lots of fairtrade themed games to celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight. We played fairtrade themed corners, completed a fairtrade jigsaw race and played a pass the banana relay.
