Willowbank School, KilmarnockIt was the turn of the Transition boys to present their assembly to the rest of the secondary department. They were all Confident Individuals when carrying out their own tasks to make their assembly the best it could be. Here you can see Oliver passing out Fairtrade chocolate to all his friends at assembly on Wednesday.
In Preparation for world book day, the Transition boys have been choosing some books to read and review. All boys have written their own reviews. Patrick has started writing his own story and Hayden has done a presentation on his favourite book as well. Well Done Boys
On Friday the boys were Effective Contributors when they took part in Purple Day. In the morning they spent time on purple sensory activities and in the afternoon we shared our learning in the assembly hall. The boys showed their LGBT flags and their pictures of scenes from the ‘Jump!’ book. The sharing ended with a balletbody popping performance!
In Transition class we have been looking at the book ‘Jump!’ for LGBT awareness. It’s about a boy who likes to jump but his mum wont let him take part in ballet. The boys were Responsible Citizens when we discussed why the mum might have stopped her boy dancing.
The boys recreated some of the scenes from the book including jumping and plié-ing and using their jumping skills for basketball.
The Transition boys decided to try cooking eggs in different ways to pick a favourite. They had an eggs-cellent time! They were Effective Contributors with all tasks; setting the table, making the toast, cracking the eggs, adding eggs to a hot pan, taking the tea order and waiting until everything was ready so the class could share their meal. The boys were sensible – no yolking around!
The boys made scrambled, poach, boiled and fried eggs. The boys really looked forward to it and fortunately it was all it was cracked up to be. They were all eggs-hausted once all the washing up was finished.
The Transition boys took a morning to update their diaries. They were all Successful Learners, choosing words to connected to activities they undertook on their week off. The chosen words were used to construct short sentences to describe the activities. Some boys had a very interesting time!
This week the Transition boys were given the chance to take part in sensory circuits. This was an opportunity to make different body movements with different equipment to reduce stress and tension. The boys were Effective Contributors in this class and seemed to really enjoy themselves.
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.
On Thursday the Transition Boys were given a photograph of a shop front and a shopping list. Their task was to find the correct shop in the Burn’s Mall and then to find their own items from the list and buy it with the correct money. Some of the boys went by bus and the others walked into town. They all showed that they were Responsible Citizens and Confident Individuals
In Numeracy the Transition class learnt and identified different times to catch a bus. The boys were Successful Learners and were able to decipher the bus timetable not forgetting about the return journey.
