Willowbank School, KilmarnockMade pancakes last week in cooking and today during snack we had fun seeing who could be the most successful pancake flipper!
Many were successful learners and managed to flip the pancake and catch it again, a few landed on the floor.
Then we ate some pancakes and syrup for snack, Cameron ate two pancakes with syrup and said, ‘Mmmmm, delicious’.
The Stars class made a recycling poster and discussed how we can recycle at home. We decorated a canvas bag so that we can use it every time we go on outings to save using throw away plastic bags. On a supermarket outing we recycled used batteries from the school.
Next Friday we will celebrate LGBT and the acceptance of who you are, ‘Proud To Be You’. This is our class theme for the month of February.
We tried and tested our activity that will be completed on LGBT Purple Friday. We are making a rainbow canvas wall art, with the phrases ‘LOVE’ or ‘PROUD’. We will post the finished design next week.
We were successful learners in listening and following the instructions to create our rainbow design.
We have had two blocks at the Galleon for swimming lessons. Everyone worked very hard and were successful learners as well as being confident individuals.
Ethan, Blake and Jack have been swimming lengths of the pool from the shallow end down to the deep end!
Fantastic determination and concentration when taking part in their lessons.
Blake started to learn how to dive in at the deep end and Ethan has made great progress with his front crawl technique.
Jack has made amazing progress! He finished his final swimming lesson by swimming six lengths of the pool with only the support of a pool noodle! He was so confident!
Well done everyone!
As part of our Eco topic, Responsible Consumption and Production, we have been making piggy banks out of recyclable materials. All the children really enjoyed painting their bottles.
The Transition boys were Successful Learners when they studied the role of a flight attendant for their Hospitality SQA. The boys watched short videos about each aspect of the job and then recorded it into their workbooks for a future test. Good work all round.
The Transition boys were Successful Learners when they used their Literacy skills. The boys matched descriptions of witches from their class book to the sensory art that they all made. They all listened very well to each description then found the witch on the board.
We finished off this week with a cookie bake off, we had two teams, two different recipes. Bring it on!
Healthy competition between the two teams, green team against the black team. No pupil wanted to be in Mrs Murray’s team, they have seen her baking skills!
We were all successful learners and followed the instructions to make the cookies. They tasted lovely but we need more practice on working the appearance of our cookies.
The Sungazers have been enjoying their theme story called ‘No Such Thing As Nessie!’ They are good at picking out some of the characters and key words in the story. We have also been having great fun with bubbles as part of our 50 Things Challenge.
The Transition boys were Successful Learners in their SQA Residential class. They used the computer to find out about Dumfries House and print extracts of what they found. The boys went even further and used their literacy skills when they asked if they could type up short summaries or titles for each photograph they selected. They worked extremely hard!
