Willowbank School, KilmarnockWe had our final café shift this week and what a year it has been! massive well done to all the young people who worked hard to fulfil their responsibilities within our café and tried hard each week to be the best they can be. You were all responsible citizens and represented Willowbank brilliantly. 
Thank you to the Stars and Sungazers for coming this week.
we attempted our own version of Ndebele Art by making Maasai style jewellery! We had to concentrate really hard to create the correct patters and choose our colours wisely.
The Transition boys were Successful Learners when doing some digital numeracy on the Promethean board. By completing the addition they fuelled the ship to take off.
The Beech class attempted to cook a famous African dessert this week! South African’s answer to sticky toffee pudding is called Malva pudding. We were effective contributors as we worked out the recipe together and each took turns to prepare the ingredients and follow the instructions to make our pudding. It was absolutely delicious!
The Transition boys were Effective Contributors when they were outside finding items matching the given letter.
The boys and girls in the signing group and learning new signs and developing their signing skills weekly. We focus on hand shape and placement of the sign and the boys and girls are confident individuals trying all the signs throughout the afternoon. This week we focussed on the colours.
Please click the link to see the super video of us sharing our knowledge of colours.
Today we were developing our spreading skills making pizza. We spread the sauce on the base and then grated cheese and sprinkled the cheese on top. The boys were confident individuals using the cheese grater and listened to all the instructions given by staff. The boys were able to choose pepperoni if they wanted it too.
We have been enjoying the nice weather and have been taking parts in water play.
We were Successful Learners and explored the properties of water by moving and pouring water from one container into another. We also enjoyed applying our maths skills to count how many jugs of water it took to fill a fish bowl.
We have been responsible citizens during term three and have been learning about countries of the world. We have been exploring Mexican culture through watching the movie ‘Coco’ and enjoyed creating our own versions of a Mariachi guitar.
We used recycled materials the build a guitar shape, then added lots of colour to personalise them. We were very proud of the final results!
As we have had such lovely weather we decided to make ice cream in bag – which worked really well.
Continuing with our Australian theme we have been making koala art work with newsprint.
Being responsible citizens we have been making sure that our garden area has been well ‘hydrated’ and our plants are looking good.
