Here are first set of successful MOVE champions! Well done ladies!
Miss Aitkin, Mrs Logan, Mrs McLaughlin and Mrs Wilson
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Fairtrade Bake Off
Everyone had fun getting involved and being an effective contributor when making our Fairtrade tray bake.
We enjoyed tasting all the ingredients and the final piece tasted even better, we hope the judges think so too!
Sean helping to break up all the biscuits….. ready steady…..
WHACK!!!!! they went everywhere!
Everyone including Sean thought this was funny!
Jack was responsible for making the caramel.
Anthony prepared the topping of melted chocolate..
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FAOL – Aboriginal Dot Art
The boys in the Oak class have been investigating aboriginal art as part of their class topic. Aboriginal art is art made by the indigenous people of Australia.
The pupils used paint and cotton buds to recreate dot art. They also evaluated and self assessed their work through emoji emoticons. Super successful learners today!
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LGBT Purple Day
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.
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LGBT – Purple Friday
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.
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Getting Active
Our PE group enjoying getting active first thing on a Monday morning, We are successful learners when take part in individual and partner dances. Then we go to the fitness suite and take part in more exercise. A busy fun and active Monday morning.
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LGBT in the Oak room
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.
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Interacting with Others
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!
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Theme Work – Thistle Street
Angus listened to instructions well to make his bird cake.
This week we were making bird cakes to feed the birds, with all the snow and the cold weather we have been having we need to help our bird friends find some food.
We added raisins, oats and seeds to our bird cake mixture. All boys were effective contributors taking part in making these bird cakes.
Anthony sneaked more raisins in his mouth than he put in the mixture!
We then went and placed them in our sensory garden, the birds will have a good dinner tonight.
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Activities this week
We made a variation of Pigs using paper and milk cartons. This year it is the year of the PIG for Chinese New Year.
We have been confident individuals when carrying out our jobs within the class. Jack was excellent at using full sentences when asking is his friends what they would like for their lunch.
Patrick came to pay us a visit at snack time, I think he could smell the toast. Anthony cleaned the table after snack, whilst Jack washed the dishes and Blake dried them. Very effective contributors working together to tidy up after snack times.
We created our own clocks to help us understand how to tell the time, using analogue and digital formats.
The Oak boy band are still working hard and being successful leaners when learning new songs to play on the keyboard and their other chosen instruments.
