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We chose to make banana loaf using some Fairtrade bananas and sugar this week.  Our community café workers were delighted to take our loaf to sell on at café

We made bookmarks to take home, masks of our favourite book characters and some of us dressed up to celebrate World Book Day.  Other activities we took part in included group ‘story telling’ using just pictures and reading our favourite stories brought from home with a buddy.

The Prom committee was hard at work this morning as we continued preparing for our 2020 casino themes prom!  We tested out some of the casino games we have acquired, designed our invites and finished off some of our centrepieces.  We were very responsible citizens and worked hard to follow all instructions during each activity.

We had the most colourful afternoon celebrating the LGBT community during our ‘Purple Day’ activity afternoon.  We went round the different stations and took part in purple or rainbow themed activities.  We were effective contributors as we all took part and engaged well

We celebrated shrove Tuesday this week by making our own pancakes!  We enjoyed learning about the ingredients, making a shopping list and sequencing the recipe card the day before.  On the Tuesday we had fun mixing all the ingredients and following the recipe card.  We then practised our money handling skills and communication by ordering our toppings and paying for them using a price list!  We were successful learners and effective contributors throughout the morning.

The Beech class worked hard today during our active numeracy session.  We are experiencing the different number processes and today we focused on subtraction.  We learned by playing different games.  we played Skittles, Lego towers, switch-it and dice games and focused on our counting skills and the different mathematical words we use like; “how many more/left”.  We were very successful learners.

As part of our communication SQA, we used a variety of sensory materials to practise our writing and fine motor skills to create images, marks or messages for someone to read.  We also incorporated a rainbow theme to the activity in honour of LGBTQ Month   The full class worked really hard and showed excellent concentration skills! We were very successful learner’s.

Skye, Nicole and Milly were lucky enough to be invited along to our community café this morning.  Our café is hosted by some other secondary pupils, including our very own Beech girl, Gemma.  Gemma used her number knowledge to work the tills and communicated effectively.  Nicole and Skye very much enjoyed the café experience and used excellent verbal communication to order and then use good manners after they finished.  A lovely morning had by all – very responsible citizens!

The Beech class looked at different newspapers and TV guides this week to try and find pictures, logos or words that we recognise.  We then generated a group or paired discussions about the things we like and dislike and what we watch on television at home.  Through our discussions we managed to create our own personalised TV guide showing what our favourite programmes and what day they are on TV.  The group were successful learner’s and showed great communication by recognising and responding to a variety of images and words.

Some of the Beech pupils enjoyed an outing on the public bus to our local café.  The focus of our outing was communication and choice.  Every pupil used their voice or a communication device to ask for a bus ticket and effectively use their bus pass.  We then safely walked through town to a café and made our choices for food and drink, remembering to use sentences and a clear voice.  We then each paid for our snack independently, listening and responding to the waitress.  We were very successful learners!

Well done, guys!