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The Moonbeams class have been very lucky in that they have enjoyed a year of weekly horse riding sessions at West Loudoun. The pupils have loved getting to know Gail and her team of volunteers and built relationships with 5 horses – Betsy, Elsa, Hamish, Minstrel and Kitty.
The pupils showcased their skills in front of their parents yesterday and it was an afternoon enjoyed by all.
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The Moonbeams loved yesterday’s prizegiving celebrations where we got to celebrate our successes and achievements throughout this year. We were delighted with our awards with a special mention going to Alysse for receiving the Gilmour Award. We also loved our Friends of Willowbank hats.
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The Moonbeams class had to make bird food as part of today’s challenge. We used apples and seeds and made small bowls for the birds.
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The Moonbeams class enjoyed today’s 30 Days Wild challenge where they had to gather a range of outdoor materials and make funny faces. They loved this task and had lots of fun!
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The Moonbeams class loved today’s 30 Days wild challenges. They had to work in teams and use an iPad to find blue items outdoors. They had to find as many as they could and they all took this task very seriously snapping blue cars on the way past as well as zooming in on blue logos on the nearby bus etc!
We also had to pick flowers and then use the internet to help us find the same. Today we found buttercups, daisies, dandelions and marigolds.
Finally, we enjoyed an outdoor wild themed story where we were enjoyed reading a Wildlife Trust magazine that Ewan had brought into school.
Hi, can I just apologise for the lack of pictures this time? I have been in Class covering and we are so hands on its really hard to get the pictures. The Moonbeams are at the end of the day when the film is full and won’t take any more. I’ll do my best to blog some soon if possible.
I just wanted to tell you how marvellous it has been working with the Moonbeams and the staff. We have over the years worked on different skills. We keep working to perfect those skills but on top of that the pupils have been very creative in selecting their own order of sequence to perform; how many jumps they like to do of each skill; what kind off rhythm is used in between skills; while staying at the same time focused on a safe performance as much as possible. I am so proud of them all, and thank all staff for making this possible with me.
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The Moonbeams class were very successful learners during a numeracy task where they had to split pizzas and share them between customers. They made play doh pizzas and cut them into halves and quarters. Well done!
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The Moonbeams class have enjoyed listening to stories and watching animated clips then sorting the characters into hero and villain categories.
We looked closely at the villains and described them in our own words, what they looked like, where they lived and what they did to be villains.
Then, we created our own villain stories and read them aloud to our friends.
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The Moonbeams class have loved our recent ’30 Days Wild’ challenge. For the month of June, we are going to complete daily challenges involving the great outdoors.
So far, we have explored outdoors with our bare feet, looked at shapes we can see in the clouds, made daisy chains, found minibeasts and found materials for a nature table.
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The Moonbeams class loved our recent theme challenge where we had to try and create ice cream in a bag. We decided to make vanilla flavoured ice cream and used zip lock bags, salt and ice to help it freeze.
We all loved making ice cream and most of us tasted the ice cream and enjoyed it!
