Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Transition class were Confident Individuals this week when taking part in outdoor numeracy. The rolled a die and were sent on a hunt to find the same number of things within different categories. Some examples were ‘four things that are different’ and ‘one thing that has a smell’. The boys worked very hard and were very confident of their answers – well done!
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The school has just received this wonderful bicycle and two of the Stars class boys had their first shot on it today. It was fantastic! What fun they had. Lots more goes to come!
Our IDL work this term is based on Beauty and the Beast. We have been working hard on identifying personality qualities in our self and our friends.
We have been discussing the important people in our life and who is around us that care and provide us with helps.
Everyone took part in lessons with confidence and were effective contributors sharing this information with their friends.
As a class we enjoy looking through our photos and remembering the activities that we have taken part in. We had great team work between two pupils, who worked together to sort all our class photos for the full class.
We cut out the pictures of the story and put them in order to re tell the story. Everyone’s story had a slight variation, but everyone’s made sense.
The Transition boys took time out this week to reflect on their enjoyment of their SQA topic Hobbies and Interests. They were Confident Individuals communicating their likes and dislikes and giving a reason for them. Well done boys, some very good answers given.
The Transition boys washed their delicates this week. Due to COVID they can’t access the laundry room as it’s out of their bubble. The boys chose to wash some of the props they had been using for their group performance. The boys were Confident Individuals choosing the correct washing liquid, washing the delicate scarf in warm soapy water, rinsing in fresh water and wringing out before hanging it somewhere appropriate to dry.
The Transition class managed to plant their potatoes this week. They were Confident Individuals having chitted the potatoes before planting out. The boys dug a trench and spaced out the chitted potatoes before covering up and watering in. Fingers crossed for a bumper crop!
During Health and Wellbeing time in class the Transition boys were Confident Individuals when looking at food labels and selecting healthy foods. Some boys played top trumps with the labels trying to select foods that had the best salt, fat and sugar content. The rest of the class helped plan a celebration menu but tried their best to make it balanced and mostly healthy. I think fizzy juice was snuck onto the list!
Over the past two weeks we have enjoyed going out a walk in small groups. We have had great conversation, interaction with our friends and played ‘I Spy’ to take in what we could see around us.
Confident individuals when working on communication, everyone initiated conversation with their friends and adults.
Whilst we were out our walk the route was to cross as many roads as possible to give us the opportunity to work on road safety and awareness.
For Mother’s day we made cards. We were confident individuals and were able to choose from a choice of three images on the SMARTboard. We then counted the votes to see which card had the most votes. We were able to choose the materials we needed and stick the pieces together to create the card to be sent home.
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All the pupils were able to help fill a bottle a quarter of the way with water. Most pupils were able to carefully add vegetable oil to the bottle and some pupils were able to use a dropper to add some food colouring to the mix. It was lots of fun seeing the reaction it made and watching the movements within the bottle.
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