Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe are learning about Scottish Islands for our IDL work this term. We are exploring island life, the type of work done on the island and sorting photos of busy mainland life compared to quieter island life. We have been successful learners when taking part in class discussions.
Everyone in the Oak class are being confident individuals and responsible citizens whilst working towards our Duke of Edinburgh award.
The physical section is where we are learning to improve and evaluate our performance through curling sessions.
The skill section is where we are learning how to create a tune and work with others to create some music together.
The Volunteering section we are cleaning up our community by taking part in weekly litter picking trips.
This week in the Oak class we have been confident individuals and successful learners in all hard work tasks set across the curriculum.
Everyone has returned to school and completed the first full week back with a motivated frame of mind. We have had many great personal achievements this week, a great start to 2022! Keep this up team Oak!
Everyday before lunch we take part in some active movement, this is us showing our flexibility during yoga, using our foot as a telephone. Then we all enjoy a relaxing meditation story before lunch comes.
We worked hard during numeracy work, theme was sorting and ordering coins, months, days, seasons and special seasonal events.
Independence and confidence during cooking lessons is improving well. This week group 1 enjoyed making toast and scrambled egg. Everyone really enjoyed it despite the pepper lid falling off and falling into the mixture.
We had great fun this morning taken part in our virtual music lesson with Drake music. We were all successful learners whilst being effective contributors and working well together to make some music. We can’t wait until next week.
We have enjoyed fun games at our class Christmas party, elf twister, some monkeying around and find the hidden sweet.
We shared gifts, celebrated a birthday, and more Christmas themed art activities. We were confident individuals in all activities and we have had a lovely week together. We love Christmas!
Santa came to Willowbank, we were all very happy to see him and he gave us lovely gifts. We enjoyed toasting marshmallows and some chocolate at the treat table after visiting Santa. We were all responsible citizen when following the safety rules around the fire pit to toast our marshmallows.
We have all had a lovely Friday celebrating Christmas Jumper Day 2021
We were all confident individuals taking part in our class activities which were literacy based with a Christmas jumper theme. Then we enjoyed a mini photo shoot with a photo bomber present!
We had fun this week making our Christmas Enterprise craft, we made hot chocolate Christmas baubles and a cane cane gingerbread person to go along with our hot drink with a marshmallow surprise hidden in the bauble.
We were all confident individuals following the verbal instructions to make our enterprise items.
We were successful learners writing our letters to Santa and then we enjoyed a walk in the sunshine to post them.
Our work this week for our SQA signs in the community has been looking and identifying if places are ‘safe’ or ‘unsafe’ to cross the road. We were successful learners and used our gestures to share opinions on places to cross the road.
We all agreed the pelican crossing was a safe place to cross, we waited on the red person turning to green and listened for the beep to tell us it is safe to cross.
We have been in the festive spirit in the Oak for a few weeks now. Everyone has been confident individuals during our class performance rehearsals.
We have been taking part in a variety of different Christmas arts and crafts.
Everyone is looking very proud of their art work, and rightly so, successful learners all round.
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