Glendevon Term 1

October 24, 2024 Hazel Swanston Leave a comment

We can’t believe that’s term 1 over and what a busy term it has been.

We have enjoyed exploring technology this term including using the life skills area and through our topic of taking care of ourselves.

We made the most of our good weather by getting back on our bikes and using the drive deck to explore independently.

On the theme of health we have been making healthy foods and snacks in term 1 developing skills in chopping, mixing and weighing ingredients. Our Harvest healthy muffins went down a treat at café.

We have enjoyed taking part in messy art activities to make resources for our class charter and had fun with a food messy play for Fairtrade fortnight involving chocolate.

We are looking forward to lots more opportunities to explore our new topic of fashion through our playboxes, sensology and multi-sensory sessions this term.

Lomond

Lomond Class Term 1

October 16, 2024 Miss McNaughton Leave a comment

It has been an absolute pleasure getting to know the children and the staff team for our new Lomond class.

We are all getting to know our likes and dislikes and making our timetable work for all.

This term we have been enjoying the topic of the 3 pigs – we have enjoyed experiencing this through art, messy play, sensory play and story time.

We have also been making the most of all the resources in and around school and ensuring we all get to experience Rebound, bikes, drive deck and outdoor play.

Looking forward to further challenges and experiences as we move into the new term.

In the meantime have a wonderful break and look forward to seeing the children on our return.

Pentland

Pentland Class

Gallery October 11, 2024 Miss Millar Leave a comment

Well what a quick term this has been in the Pentland Class. We have all settled into our new class so well and made lots of new friends so far this year. We are all loving each others company and have lots of good fun and laughs together. We have been working hard on all of our activities in class and have been enjoying all the amazing parts of our school like the multi sensory room, soft play, rebound and hydrotherapy pool. We have also been taking part in lots of cooking, art and crafts and even some fashion shows while we have been working on our fashion topic. Here is a little snap shot of our term so far!

Whole School

Music with Gordon Term 1

October 10, 2024 G Turnbull Leave a comment

The children have enjoyed a term of settling into their new classes and routines.

In Primary, there has been a focus on choosing from a range of songs and instruments to play and explore, plus a movement and relaxation end to the lesson. When the weather was kind, we were also able to take our music lessons outside.

A big group from Ochiltree and Duntarvie has focused on following musical instruction and instrument types. We have taken turns to wear a crown and conduct an orchestra of Tappers, Scrapers and Shakers, the musicians playing instruments in different ways. The group also explored volume control and followed instructions from the monarch to be loud or quiet.

A small group from Duntarvie explored guitars, learning to strum and pick the strings to both uptempo and more downbeat blues backing tracks, enjoying the vibrations that the strings make.

Have a great break and I look forward to making more music together after the holiday.

Ochiltree

Ochiltree Term 1

October 9, 2024 Mrs Ramos Leave a comment

We’ve had such a busy start to our new school year, here’s a sneak peak of just some of what we have been up to!

We hope everyone has a healthy October break and we look forward to seeing you all soon.

Team Ochiltree

Duntarvie, Glendevon, Hopetoun, Lammermuir, Lomond, Ochiltree, Uncategorized, Whole School

Harvest Cafe and Foodbank

October 8, 2024 Mrs McLean Leave a comment

Last week we celebrated harvest time by hosting a cafe for all our friends and families. There were lots of visitors. The pupils made some delicious autumn treats to share with everyone. There was also a collection for the foodbank and a raffle. In total we made £134 and also had lots of donations of tins and packets of food. The secondary pupils are looking forward to visiting the shops to spend the money buying other essential items for the foodbank. Great work everyone!

Global Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing

Global Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Whole School

Globl Goals Week 2024

September 30, 2024 Miss McNaughton Leave a comment

Global Goals Week is an annual week of action, awareness, and accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals.

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of global priorities for ensuring that economic, environmental, social and cultural wellbeing is achieved for everyone around the world. They are ambitious goals for governments across the world to achieve, but there is a lot we can do at school and at home to support them.

Why are the goals important?

The goals aim to end poverty, protect the planet and try to make sure that everyone around the world is living comfortably. All very important and worthwhile goals to work towards! Each goal has specific targets for governments to achieve over the next 14 years. In schools, we can help to support the meeting of these targets.

How can we play our part in achieving these goals?

In our school we already do lots of excellent work to make the world clean, green and more sustainable! We have also made links between our Climate Action Schools projects and the Sustainable Development Goals so we will be able to record, monitor and evaluate our progress in helping achieve these goals.

This year we will be highlighting the following goals and this week was an introduction to these goals:

Global Goal 3: Daily Walking Club, Joint Healthy Snack

Global Goal 12: Paper recycing projects

Global Goal 15: Natural Art projects, Outdoor Music

Lammermuir

Elmer

September 27, 2024 Mrs Halliday Leave a comment

Our topic is Elmer the Elephant this term. We have been doing lots of fun activities linked to the book. We read an interactive version of the story and all the children enjoyed feeling the animals and using the switch.

We have done some messy play activities with colourful rice, ice cubes and pom poms! Everyone explored the different textures and colours really well. In art we made our very own Elmer using milk cartons and tissue paper, we also used colourful paint in lots if ways to make some wonderful pieces of art. We explored paint, pens and crayons in theses activities.

We did a little science experiment with skittles and watched all the colours spreading around the plate and we played with coloured ice cubes and watched the colour mixing as the melted too! We have been exploring colour in our colour group too, the children enjoyed choosing different items to explore in this group.

What a fun topic this has been!

Whole School

Beatlie Fairtrade Fortnight 2024

September 18, 2024 Miss McNaughton Leave a comment

Beatlie have had a fantastic Fairtrade Fortnight.

I know we did not have our traditional cafe but hope you all managed to enjoy some of our fab baking at your meet the team events or at home.

All classes participated in several different activities over the week including making a 30th Birthday card for Fairtrade, Story Massage, Cooking, Messy Play and Art making bunting.

Enjoy looking through the videos of all the classes enjoying Fairtrade Fortnight 2024

Duntarvie

Glendevon

Lammermuir

Lomond

Ochiltree

Pentland

Hopetoun

Ochiltree

Welcome back from Ochiltree!!

August 21, 2024 Mrs Ramos Leave a comment

It’s been lovely to welcome everyone back after the holidays, all our Ochiltree pupils have settled in brilliantly and have been enjoying getting to know their new peers and staff. We’ll be sharing lots of our learning with you soon but for now we wanted to say welcome back and introduce you to the team!