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Climate Change Conference

All school in East Ayrshire took part in a Climate Change Conference.  The Transition and Oak class had their own Climate Change Conference.

We had lots of successful learners and effective contributors throughout the full day.  We meet virtually to discuss our day and enjoyed sharing a video on climate change.  We had an action and got stuck straight into bringing our action plan to life.

Work will continue over the next few weeks and preparations are under way for our whole school assembly on how Willowbank are going to do their bit to help towards climate change.

We looked at energy, waste and the natural environment.  The oak class were responsible for making new bright attractive posters for each classroom within the school.  These are to remind everyone about turning off all electrical devices when not in use.

Our classes enjoy walking outings, so we are proposing that on each class walking outing, we take part in a ‘clean up my community’ by litter picking whilst out our walks.

Willowbank will be making use of old materials and turning them into a festive decoration surprise, that can used again each year.

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50 things in the Outdoors – Bird Watching

As part of the 50 Things to do in the Outdoors, the Transition class learned about geese and their flight formations. We spent some time outside with our eyes to the sky looking for them. Hopefully we will see more over the coming weeks!

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Halloween Themed Party Games in the Daisies Class

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The Daisies class were celebrating a birthday in class today.  We completed some Halloween phonics activities on SMARTboard and played some Halloween themed party games including Halloween Corners, a movement game involving a Halloween dice and a pumpkin beanbag toss game. We had lots of fun!

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Daisies planted cress seeds

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The Daisies class enjoyed planting a range of cress seeds. We are hoping over the next few weeks that if we keep watering them, the cress will grow and make our photograph plant pots look like they have crazy hair!

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Literacy, Art, Science and Dominoes in the Pine Class

 

We have been successful learners and continued working on out Alphabet books – we made some lovely Caterpillar pictures using green and yellow paint and different brushes – great concentration.

In our SQA Communication Unit, we listened to the ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What can you see?’ story and the rap again and chose your favourite animal – although some of us just could not decide!

We listened to the Singing Hands telling the story and practised our Makaton signs.

Mrs Mac organised a great activity for Diwali, we made clay elephants with jewels, the clay feels lovely to work with , a great sensory experience and good for exercising our hands.

WOW!!!!

On the MOVE!

Disco Time!!!

We have been working on our IDL Unit and trying to regrow some vegetables – progress report next week!

Smelling and touching the different vegetables.

All ready – fingers crossed!!

These confident individuals continued to work on these IDL and Eco work, using their Art skills and made ‘leftover sandwiches’ for our Display Board.

A word from your Vice Eco Captain use up all your leftovers in a sandwich or a frittata – yummy!!!

Using or Rain Spray during the ‘What is the Weather’ this Morning – great fun!!

FRIYAY DISCO!!!!

Ready for IDL Science looking to change the colour of the celery and lettuce.

Numeracy Dominoes

Have a great weekend everyone.

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Diwali

As part of our preparations to celebrate Diwali on Monday, the Transition class chose and designed their own Rangoli. They were all Effective Contributors

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Responsible Citizen – Eco Captain

Our Eco captain was hard at work in his post. He was a Responsible Citizen wheeling the recycling boxes round and ensuring that each item went into the correct bin.

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Responsible Citizens – Climate Change Conference

The Transition class had a wonderful Climate Change Conference day on Thursday. We joined with Oak class online to discover what Climate Change is. We then shared some tasks to do throughout the day to help prevent Climate change. Transition class were responsible for issuing an Energy Audit using our literacy and numeracy skills. We also discovered the food miles involved in our lunches using our numeracy skills.  Our last task was to prompt upcycling where we made some templates for a forthcoming whole school project. We met again in the afternoon to share our progress with Oak class. What a fun and busy day.

Delivering our Energy Audit

Online with our Oak friends

Placing food miles on our number line

Creating our Energy Audit

Starting our Upcycling project

Discovering food miles using Google Maps

Upcycling

More Google Maps

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Confident Individuals – SQA Healthy Eating

Continuing their excellent healthy eating work, the Transition class were Confident Individuals when working hard to discover the names and sources of different meats. The answers were spread out round the class and there was lots of discussion and fun to try and match meat to the correct animal!

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Effective Contributors – SQA Healthy Eating

As part of the Healthy Eating unit, the Transition class were all Effective Contributors when they worked together to discover where common fruits and vegetables grow. The class had to chose different fruits or vegetable and match them to trees, bushes, vines or under the ground. The class completed the task and their own sheets. Well done!

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