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.
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.
We had a busy fun day on Friday for Purple day to raise awareness on LGBT.
In the morning we were effective contributors and each class joined up with another class to create a purple activity for everyone to take part in. Here are some of the activities.
The press up competition was as an added extra that Blake decided to add in.
In the afternoon the secondary department all came together to showcase our learning on LGBT.
Firstly each class paraded around the hall with their LGBT flags.
The Oak boys were confident individuals when standing to present in front of their peers.
Jack and Blake took part in an interview based around their book ‘Tango Makes Three’. Everyone took part to perform to the song ‘This is Me’ and letting everyone know to be proud of who they are.
Nathan played the bells, Anthony, Jack and Blake played the chimes, Sean was on the tambourine and Cameron sang along using his Makaton signs.
The Stars class did lots of LGBT activities this week. We read the book, ‘Together’, and discussed friendship. We explored different families and how to be a good friend then chose what activities we would most like to do with our friends. Parachute games was very popular! We created rainbow flags, a friendship poster and made rainbow cakes at HE. On Purple Friday we had a showcase of our learning in the hall where we showed a video of us singing, ‘I Love You’.
This week we are exploring our mini topic about LGBT, we have enjoyed reading our book ‘Tango Makes Three’. The boys have completed a story board using symbols and words to retell the story. We have had a good group discussion around the book.
Blake is signing ‘boy’ as our book was about two male penguins.
Jack is signing ‘love’ as our two male penguins fell in love and wanted to have a family. We discussed that boys can not have babies so our two male penguins adopted a baby penguin to make their family complete.
It was our LGBT assembly this week and all the secondary created a fingerprint love heart to represent our Willowbank secondary community. We used our fingerprints as this is unique to us and everyone’s fingerprint is different. We celebrate difference at Willowbank.
The Oak band were confident individuals and played ‘This is Me’ on the chimes and bells to represent be proud of who you are.
MOVE group were confident individuals today, we listened to our LGBT book ‘Tango Makes Three’, we then created a penguin family piece of art work using our fingerprints. Making our painting unique to us! We listened and sang ‘This is me’ whilst taking it in turns to play our instruments.
Adam was very lucky and got to try out a new walker for comfort and size.
The Stars class explored the problem of poverty and the unfortunate need for food banks. On our class outing we chose non-perishable cereal to buy and donate to the food bank collection box in Tesco’s.
On Thursday the Transition Boys were given a photograph of a shop front and a shopping list. Their task was to find the correct shop in the Burn’s Mall and then to find their own items from the list and buy it with the correct money. Some of the boys went by bus and the others walked into town. They all showed that they were Responsible Citizens and Confident Individuals
The Transition boys were Effective Contributors and Confident Individuals when they made a Chinese envelope by folding and stick and putting chocolate coins inside.
This week the Stars and Pine classes organised a Chinese New Year sensory assembly together. Everyone seemed to enjoy the activities and had a good time.
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