Willowbank School, Kilmarnock*Responsible Citizens* *Confident Individuals*
As part of their Food and Technologies theme, this week the Moonbeams enjoyed working together and being responsible while cooking spaghetti and toast and making milkshakes in the cookery room. They demonstrated that they were confident while enjoying some exploratory art with food and kitchen utensils.
On Wednesday, the Transition Class got a visit from Cooper the therapy dog. There was lots of fun had and lots of doggy drool to go with it. Copper brought his favourite ball for all the boys to throw for him and everyone loved it. Cooper even gave out some cuddles to our boys and made their day.
The boys in Transition have been practicing their money this week and have been doing excellent with it. From sorting coins into correct ascending order to playing a shopkeeper game and buying items at the listed price. All boys were successful learners and thoroughly enjoyed the activity.
team building!
Chill time and sensory ICT
Making our superhero themes class charter!
Our posh London tea party to start off our new topic which explores food around the world. This week we are in London!
Banksy project. 
Lyle and Gemma hosted a tuck shop for the primary department! We made our own freshly squeezed lemonade. 
Music lessons have started in the Beech class – Sean is our lead musician! We are learning to play a tune on the bells this week.
The Stars class used potatoes and onions we grew in the garden to make vegetable soup at H.E. We worked really hard to prepare and chop the vegetables. It tasted delicious.
* RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS, CONFIDENT INDIVIDUALS *
The Bluebells class enjoyed visiting the Secondary Department’s tuck shop today where they got to choose a biscuit and have some lovely lemonade.
* SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS, EFFECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS, RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS *
The Bluebells class have been very busy since we came back to school. We are all aware of our new morning routine. When we come into class, we write our name and “sign in”, we practise singing and signing the days of the week and months of the year. We also have written calendars where we overwrite or independently write the date.
Finally, we participate in sensory weather activities which we really enjoy!
Everyone enjoyed creating these Superhero pictures to go alongside our class charter! We are all effective contributors within our class.
It is our right to be heard, to grow, to have fun, to be safe and to learn.
It is our responsibility to take turns, help others, be active, be kind, take part, listen, make good choices, eat healthy and TRY EVERYTHING.
This week we have continued with our theme ‘Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs’ and made some fantastic stained glass umbrellas in Art for our display. Also, cupcakes decorated like plates of spaghetti and meatballs – we all liked pressing the switch to make the mixer work!!
In Literacy we enjoyed Jolly Phonics and matched our props with the songs and actions.
We have had fun with our sensory activities and MOVE, and we love singing, signing and dancing to Baby Shark – it makes us all really happy!
Yesterday the Sunflowers went to the cookery room for the first time. They listened well and were able to sit at the table. We then all washed our hands so we were clean and ready to touch the food. All the children were confident individuals and were able to come and choose a piece of bread and put it in the toaster. We then used a knife to spread butter on the toast. 
