Willowbank School, KilmarnockThe Sunflowers have been investigating the work of famous French artist, Henri Matisse. The boys used a variety of brightly coloured solid and fluid shapes to recreate some of his famous work.
The pupils used the ‘thumbs up, thumbs down’ cards to self assess their own designs. Successful learners all round!
The boys in the Oak class have been investigating aboriginal art as part of their class topic. Aboriginal art is art made by the indigenous people of Australia.
The pupils used paint and cotton buds to recreate dot art. They also evaluated and self assessed their work through emoji emoticons. Super successful learners today!
We started off Fairtrade week with a look at what Fairtrade means and who it helps.
We then wrote a story based on what we had learned.
Later on in the day we got a chance to look at some Fairtrade chocolate and
even got to try some…….don’t think Tyler or Ewan were too impressed!
We had a busy fun day on Friday for Purple day to raise awareness on LGBT.
In the morning we were effective contributors and each class joined up with another class to create a purple activity for everyone to take part in. Here are some of the activities.
The press up competition was as an added extra that Blake decided to add in.
In the afternoon the secondary department all came together to showcase our learning on LGBT.
Firstly each class paraded around the hall with their LGBT flags.
The Oak boys were confident individuals when standing to present in front of their peers.
Jack and Blake took part in an interview based around their book ‘Tango Makes Three’. Everyone took part to perform to the song ‘This is Me’ and letting everyone know to be proud of who they are.
Nathan played the bells, Anthony, Jack and Blake played the chimes, Sean was on the tambourine and Cameron sang along using his Makaton signs.
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!
The Stars class did lots of LGBT activities this week. We read the book, ‘Together’, and discussed friendship. We explored different families and how to be a good friend then chose what activities we would most like to do with our friends. Parachute games was very popular! We created rainbow flags, a friendship poster and made rainbow cakes at HE. On Purple Friday we had a showcase of our learning in the hall where we showed a video of us singing, ‘I Love You’.
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.
This week we have been reading and signing our book ‘We are Family’, learning about different families, different relationships and our community. We have made LGBT Flags, decorated heart biscuits with purple icing…apart from Adam who ate most of his – they must have been good!!! Made a PowerPoint with photos of people in our community, made coloured sensory bags and attended a secondary showcase of good work. Busy, busy week!!!
