Well folks, it’s nearly the end of another term as well as the end of the school year and our time in the old Beatlie School campus!
It’s been another fun and busy term with lots of activities and we have put together a short video of our 2 favourites…
We would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy summer 🌞, hopefully we’ll see lots of you at the Beatlie Bash on Friday 🥳 and then it’ll be time for lots of new adventures in our amazing new school! 😊
I think I say the same thing every time … but how is it the holidays again already?!?!
We’ve had another very busy term and especially enjoyed our families coming in to join us for a Clown Doctors session, Burns’ Ceilidh, Fairtrade cafe and Red Nose Day cafe!
Our current topic is Spring which we will be continuing next term. We have also taken part in Chinese New Year, Valentines, ECO and British Science Week activities. Phew!!!
Two of our favourite activities were making Mr Nonsense (now our new class mascot) for the Red Nose Day cafe and throwing our wildflower seed bombs around the woodland to help the local wildlife…
We’ve had another very busy term in Pentland with lots of new learning and fun celebrations including World Smile Day, Diwali, Halloween, Bonfire Night, Scottish Book Week, St Andrew’s Day and, of course, Christmas!
We have really enjoyed having our families back in school to take part in the Live Music Now café, watch our Christmas performance and see us meet Santa.
Our topic this term was ‘Day & Night’. We had fun creating day and night skies in art, bathing and dressing baby dolls for daytime and night time activities, and taking part in some day and night drama activities, including putting on our PJs and then snuggling up with a teddy for a bedtime story! We also explored dancing to lively and calm music and played some time games including ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf’ and ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush’. Some of our boys also explored day and night sequencing, sorting and opposites during our weekly maths group.
Here are a few photos of our topic work…
Giving baby a wash
Dressing baby for bed
Collage art to create a day time sky
Wax resist art to create a night time sky
Sorting day and night objects in maths group
Making some delicious breakfast porridge
Bedtime!
Our completed art gallery…
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to all our families from Team Pentland.
What a busy (and quick!) first term here in Pentland. We started the year with a Pirate theme which we explored through various activities including art, cooking, sensory play, stories, dressing-up and physical games and activities…
Pirates was also the theme for our Class Charter…
We had a visit from Cool Creatures…
We looked for signs of Autumn during an Autumn Scavenger Hunt and used our senses to explore autumnal objects…
But our highlight has definitely been horse riding…
Our art wall so far with boats, treasure maps, treasure chests, leaf hedgehogs and shaving foam art…
Hope everyone has a great holiday and we’ll see you next term for the countdown to Christmas!!
What an amazing response to our appeal – we even had donations from members of the local community and our neighbour Letham Primary!
Yesterday I filled my car, so today I brought my big car…..and I still ran out of space and had to call on help!
We had so many donations of wipes and nappies, plus some baby powder and food, so we have donated some of these to a charity preparing baby boxes to make sure everything gets to where it is needed the most.
Yesterday…
Today…
Thank you again to everyone who donated, you are all amazing!
I can’t believe it’s almost the end of another term!
We have been VERY busy in Hopetoun exploring lots of seasonal themes, raising money for Children in Need and Save the Children, and celebrating Book Week Scotland and the UNICEF Outright Campaign. Phew!!!
Here’s a few snapshots of our learning….
And here’s what we got up to for Children in Need…
We would like to wish all our Beatlie families a happy and safe Christmas and we will see you in January 2022!