Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe 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’.
In Transition class we have been looking at the book ‘Jump!’ for LGBT awareness. It’s about a boy who likes to jump but his mum wont let him take part in ballet. The boys were Responsible Citizens when we discussed why the mum might have stopped her boy dancing.
The boys recreated some of the scenes from the book including jumping and plié-ing and using their jumping skills for basketball.
Today is Purple Friday. We are having whole school activities. This morning all the primary classes came together in the hall to share their learning and activities completed about their LGBT book. All classes also shared their song/jingle about family. Some classes shared a video and some classes performed it live. The Sunflowers had made rainbow pizzas and shared this. The Daisies shared similarities and differences from their book Giraffe’s Can’t Dance. The Snowdrops performed their family jingle live with makaton signing. The Bluebells performed their song live. The Sungazers class has symbols to show the audience so we could participate too. The Stars showed a video of their song as some of their friends were on their outing. The Moonbeams had a board to share their learning and have used technology to complete their rainbow flag.
The secondary this morning completed the purple activities in the atrium. Some of the activities included sensory colour find with water beads and purple rice. This was a favourite. The Oak and Transition prepared a purple string art activity which looked amazing. The Sunflowers and Daisies made some purple lacing picture for their friends to enjoy.
Have a look at what we got up to on Purple Friday! We celebrate the LGBT community in style here at Willowbank! We were all very effective contributors this morning, well done!
Some of the Beech class enjoyed a trip to ASDA yesterday on the public bus! We used excellent communication skills to ask for our bus ticket, Finlay used an AAC device to make sure she is understood. We used great money handling skills independently to pay for our ticket and then again to pay for items in the shop. Very responsible citizens on our outing!
We found the colours of the LGBT flag and made a human rainbow!
The Signs in the Community group used our knowledge and understanding of some LGBT signs and logos to recreate the Willowbank logo! We were very creative and effective contributors as we brainstormed our ideas.
The Beech class have thoroughly enjoyed our week of LGBT activities. We read a book called ‘Hello, Sailor!’ and took part in lots of different activities. We were very responsible and successful learners as we learned about sometimes difficult concepts.
Nicole made a themed lighthouse for our book!
We made nautical flags in using LGBT colours
We took part in a special assembly.
And had a blast on ‘Purple Friday!’
Gemma and Skye were excellent at showing us what makes us be a good friend.
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 Oak boys have been working hard on our communication skills and interacting with our friends. They have all been confident individuals when communicating with adults and their peers.
Jack has been enjoying have the responsibility of asking all his friends what they would like for lunch then working on his memory skills to remember the order and record it.
Nathan has been taking messages to people around the school and using his signs.
We started our LGBT book this week and started to complete a book study record. Blake and Angus completed their work and then compared answers to see if they were the same.
Angus has been excellent this week and has really enjoyed the treadmill, he has now increased his to time to 25 minutes!
