Willowbank School, KilmarnockEffective Contributors/Successful Learners
We have heard about Gruffalo crumble from our Scottish theme story and decided to bake some for ourselves. Everyone contributed really well in lots of different ways – touching, tasting, smelling and exploring different crumble ingredients. We used lots of self-help skills, cutting, mixing and pouring in different ways. It was very tasty!
Monday morning started with our morning group where we write our day, date and month as well as come together to sing and dance in our seasons song. The boys enjoy using props to dress up as each season and can identify the current season which is winter. After morning group Reece sets up our snack shop and invites his friends one by one to select the correct coins to pay for their snacks.
*Responsible Citizens* *Confident Individuals* *Successful Learners*
The Moonbeams have been busy preparing for and making Pizza this week. They created posters to show what flavours of Pizza they were selling and made a shopping list of ingredients to take to Tesco. On Friday afternoon the children very responsibility made the Pizza and then visited the Comets class to sell for 10p per slice. The children used their maths skills to recognise the coins and numbers on the till. They were very happy as we had some left over to take home to their families.
Pupils from the Stars class visited the Dick Institute today. We chose books to read and enjoyed a lovely sociable snack in the cafe.
Our new theme is based around Scotland. We have been reading Hamish McHaggis and the great Glasgow treasure hunt. We then matched images from the book. They included places like Pollock park, Kelvingrove Museum and Riverside Museum, It was great fun. We looked at each of these places and the different things we would see if we went there.
Our Prom 2020 committee was hard at work this morning getting prepared for our special event in June. Ethan and Hayden were creating personalised placemats, Milly and Oliver were helping to create a shopping list of decorations and the girls were busy making some of our own decorations!
We were effective contributors as we all took on special roles and responsibilities.
Today the Sunflowers were invited to the Willowbank café run by some of our secondary pupils as part of their enterprise groups. The children were confident individuals going to the lunch hall at snack time which is very different to our usual routine. They were able to look at the menu and choose what they would like to eat and drink. They all sat really well and waited for their food. We also sang good luck to Miss Campbell who is leaving the Sunflowers today. Good Luck Miss Campbell in your new adventure. The pupils working at the café also did a lovely sing and sign to the music that was playing. It was really good. I think the Sunflowers will be super excited when we get an invitation to go again. 
The Beech class have been working on different communication skills this week. Sean and Skye worked on their listening and responding skills by completing a sensory cookery session using picture prompts to help follow instructions.
We also worked as a class to explore and identify the different signs and symbols around our school and decide what the signs were telling us to do or think about and how we would respond. We were very responsible citizens when thinking about the safety signs especially.
As part of our Glasgow theme we decided to learn why it rains so much in Glasgow. We learnt all about the water cycle and then completed 2 science experiments. We recreated the water cycle in a bag, then made a rain cloud inside a jar. It was awesome!
We continued our Glasgow theme learning all about the Glasgow underground. We took our own pretend trip all around and even learnt a song we could sing all about the subway!
“The Beech class have enjoyed organising and preparing for our annual Burns event this year! W£e helped to make the menu’s, programmes and some of the decorations. We have been successful learners as we learned about the life of Robert Burns and explored his poetry through song. We have created a giant, sensory red rose, to commemorate the poem “A Red, Red Rose”.
