Willowbank School, KilmarnockGlobal Goal 16
Peace, justice and strong institutions.
We voted for a class president and vice president to help with some helper jobs and be effective contributors in the class. We were able to make posters saying vote for and our name. We chose pictures for them and were confident individuals able to hold then up for all the class to see. We voted using a ballot paper with pictures of everyone on it. We then counted the votes to see who won.
We have been completing lots of great outdoor learning activities for POLO day. We enjoyed exploring the water wheel for science and playing games with water balloons. We also had our snack outside and had fun with the parachute and making dens.
Successful Learners
To end our fairytale theme, the Sunflower’s have engaged in a variety of character games to consolidate their learning. Whilst practicing using our SMARTboard, everyone took turns at selecting the correct character. Each child, demonstrated excellent listening skills and were able to point to or name the character they heard.
The Snowdrops have enjoyed taking part in POLO day.
This morning we were scientists and we were investigating whether different objects were able to float or sink when they were placed in water. We tried to guess what would happen and recorded our guesses and what actually happened, on our worksheet.
This afternoon, we were making some outdoor cuisine using recipe cards! With some help we used good looking skills to collect ingredients and then practised following instructions to make our dishes.
Lots of outdoor fun was had!
Friday was POLO day and the Transition class threw themselves right into it. They were Confident Individuals taking part in a variety of activities. In the morning there was water play which involved throwing water balloons and spraying water onto a target. The target quite quickly became each other and the boys took part in a fun water fight. A water fight was one of their 50 Things to do in the Outdoors outcomes and each boy completed it well! Mr Nicoll was a major target throughout the battle!! The boys were also Responsible Citizens by ensuring that the area was tidy after all the water balloons had been thrown. The afternoon was much more calm when we turned our hand to Croquet and practiced hitting the ball towards the target. It turned out to be harder than we thought to hit the ball with a wooden mallet.
*Confident Individuals *Effective Contributors
We did some activities this week ahead of POLO Day. We painted patterns with water and watered our planter where we are growing onions, potatoes, carrots, strawberries, nasturtiums and sweet peas. Our gladioli bulbs are starting to grow too. We made symmetrical butterfly pictures in anticipation of making a large symmetrical floor pattern today. Today we also made a water wheel (which worked really well!) and created nature’s crowns.
As is traditional at the end of every term, the Transition class applied their literacy skills to evaluate their learning. The boys were Confident Individuals filling in their forms and giving their opinions on different learning tasks. Thanks for the feedback boys.
The Transition class were Successful Learners when they extended their numeracy task by sending each other for different amounts of fruit. The boys had to be careful and check they had the correct number of items before delivering it to their classmates.
Our two leavers spent time this week completing their artwork that will be displayed in the school corridor. They were Effective Contributors by making artwork for the school that will remind us of them, once they have left.
During Health and Wellbeing time the Transition class were Confident Individuals when we discussed what to do when you get lost. The boys confidently listed trusted people including the Police and Fire Brigade. The class studied identification badges, uniforms and different emergency vehicles as different ways to identify trusted adults.
