Willowbank School, KilmarnockThis week we enjoyed the opening of our Oak Tree Cafe (within class) as part of our class Enterprise. Everyone had to choose lollipop sticks to reveal their role within the cafe. We had some customers, front of house, waiter, dish washer and cashier.
We all were effective contributors to make the cafe successful, we will change the roles and continue to develop or independence within a cafe setting.
Our IDL work this term is based on Beauty and the Beast. We have been working hard on identifying personality qualities in our self and our friends.
We have been discussing the important people in our life and who is around us that care and provide us with helps.
Everyone took part in lessons with confidence and were effective contributors sharing this information with their friends.
As a class we enjoy looking through our photos and remembering the activities that we have taken part in. We had great team work between two pupils, who worked together to sort all our class photos for the full class.
We cut out the pictures of the story and put them in order to re tell the story. Everyone’s story had a slight variation, but everyone’s made sense.
Over the past two weeks we have enjoyed going out a walk in small groups. We have had great conversation, interaction with our friends and played ‘I Spy’ to take in what we could see around us.
Confident individuals when working on communication, everyone initiated conversation with their friends and adults.
Whilst we were out our walk the route was to cross as many roads as possible to give us the opportunity to work on road safety and awareness.
As part of our IDL topic work we were engaging in ballroom dancing. We were rein-acting the scene from Beauty and the Beast, ‘Tale as Old as Time’.
We were working on our movement and coordination whilst working with a partner. We have some very confident individuals and elegant dancers within the Oak room.
Everyone responded well and were effective contributors to our ‘Body’ lessons. We were discussing and looking at visuals to the physical changes that happen to our bodies during puberty.
Confident individuals all round when answering questions in a very mature manner.
This week in the Oak class we have been participating actively in our outdoor PE lessons. We have been confident individuals and working on improving our speed and agility through different games.
We are starting to prepare for Sports day and will be taking part in more running and athletic events over the next few weeks.
We all discussed the agenda for the pupil council and voted for our end of term party theme and ideas for activities for POLO day.
Everyone had their vote and were effective contributors and actively engaged in the conversation.
The vote decided a football theme and taking part in water activities then a BBQ for POLO day.
Our IDL theme work this term is based on Beauty and the Beast, accepting everyone and not judging someone by the way they look.
We looked at the main characters and discussed how they looked at different sections of the story.
Our theme is do not judge someone but take the time to get to know them first. Be confident individuals and celebrate what makes us a good friend.
We discussed what qualities are in a good friend, then thought about what is our own best quality is. We shared this with the class and then told everyone who our best friend is. We then took part in some activities that our friends like to do.
We planted our very on rose seeds and made some flowers from a variety of shapes.
Everyone chose their favourite character and everyone wanted to be the Beast.
We discussed Global Goal 17 in class this week, coming together to work in partnership with others. Helping people and joining together as a group.
We took part in some team games to demonstrate that at times problems can be solved if we all work together as a team and be effective contributors.
We were working against the clock to take puzzle pieces to our champion puzzle problem solver then as a full team we just made it to put the puzzle together before the time was up. Great team work Oak!
Our next job was to get the ball into the basket but we were not allowed to move with the ball so again as a team we worked together to pass the ball along to the team mate closest to the basket.
In the Oak class we have worked hard on our literacy, listening and talking skills. We have all been confident individuals when looking and describing what we see in pictures. We enjoyed looking at our self in the mirror, we have a class who really enjoy admiring themselves.
Everyone had to complete a portrait of themselves and then confidently stand and share their features of hair colour and eye colour to the class. We were very proud of the loud clear and confident voices used when talking to their friends.
We have been working on improving our reading skills and recognising the sound two letters make when they are put together. We were successful learners working on our own sounds and could roll and read the words.
We have had effective contributors working well with a partner to complete a jigsaw puzzle with some gestural support from an adult. Lots of great team work and problem solving whilst working against the clock to complete.
