Check out these fabulous collage eagle faces created by the pupils in the Beech class. Excellent team work from these successful learners and confident individuals.
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African Five
We have been learning all about the different animals that live in Africa. we explored the types of animals, where they live and even watched some animals live in their zoo habitats. We recreated the infamous African Serengeti sunset with our chosen African animal.
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Summer Outing
The Beech and Transition class enjoyed their summer outing to Dumfries House this week!
The weather wasn’t the best but the young people thoroughly enjoyed their experience. We explored the grounds, interacted and experimented with the equipment in the engineering garden, adventured in the play parks and competed with each other in the garden maze. We even made hot dogs for lunch!
All pupils were extremely responsible citizens throughout the day and had a fantastic time.
Here are our ‘best bits!’
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Sports Day with the Beech class
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Sign of the week: hospital
Well done to our six signers of the week:
Ewan
https://youtu.be/pqh5jSoLaBE
Tyler
https://youtu.be/iBiCg2d9Ywo
Amber
https://youtu.be/cHz-v_S5bkg
Alysse
https://youtu.be/xneS0bzrfiA
Gemma
https://youtu.be/kqs_n-pRmjc
Matthew
https://youtu.be/cdwU_ozr_Yw
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Final café of the Year
We had our final café shift this week and what a year it has been! massive well done to all the young people who worked hard to fulfil their responsibilities within our café and tried hard each week to be the best they can be. You were all responsible citizens and represented Willowbank brilliantly. 
Thank you to the Stars and Sungazers for coming this week.
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African Art
we attempted our own version of Ndebele Art by making Maasai style jewellery! We had to concentrate really hard to create the correct patters and choose our colours wisely.
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Cookery African Style!
The Beech class attempted to cook a famous African dessert this week! South African’s answer to sticky toffee pudding is called Malva pudding. We were effective contributors as we worked out the recipe together and each took turns to prepare the ingredients and follow the instructions to make our pudding. It was absolutely delicious!
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Beech Outing to the Park!
We had our very first whole class outing to the Kay Park this week! We were very responsible and safe out in the community and took care to observe the rule of the road on our walk. The girls in particular looked after each other, which was lovely to see.
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Amazing Africa!
The Beech class are learning about poverty as part of our ECO topic. This has lead us to learn about different countries in Africa. So far, we have explored where Africa is and some aspects of the different cultures. We used Google translate to hear what our names sound like in Swahili and Afrikaans, explored African music and dance, made our own version of the South African flag, culture and finally learned a bit about what life is like in parts of the world that don’t have technology.
We were very responsible trying to think about what aspects of life are represented in each photo taken in Africa. All of the photos represented an aspect of life without technology such as plumbing, TV, a cooker or a washing machine. 
Exploring African culture through a music listening exercise.
Our South African flag!
After learning about how African life is different to life in Scotland we decided to try to design our own toys, just like they do in Africa, using only natural or recycled materials. We made a boat and a car! We decided though that we much prefer having technology. we are very lucky!
Starting to make Maasai warrior shields for our boys while the girls explored African jewellery and dress!
