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Glendevon end of term!

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What a busy term it has been! Our topic this term has been Emergency Services.  All our children have enjoyed exploring the Topic box.  We have had Doctors, Nurses, Fire fighters, Ambulance drivers and Police officers.

Tommy favoured being a policeman and enjoyed looking at himself in the mirror! Hira happily explored the police cars and fire engines while Angel loved looking though all the doctors’ bags and trying out some of the equipment.  Peter liked listening to everyone’s heart beats with the stethoscope and also enjoyed the matching game. Hafsa and Matthew both enjoyed dressing up as well and they both found it funny being part of the role play with members of staff too.

This term we have been working really hard on our MATP activities each week with Louise  and we all did really well at our performance in the hall for all the parents and carers.  We have all been learning new skills and we look forward to extending these skill next term too.

We have all been enjoying outdoor play in various forms this term too.  Peter has been doing really well on his bike and working on navigating some road signs such as stop and go.  Tommy has been having a blast playing with the football, passing it to a member of staff and scoring goals. Angel enjoys exploring the playground and loves to spin on the basket swing and has also been working on bike skills  too. Matthew and Hafsa have been using the drive deck to get around by using a switch to make it start and stop. Hira has been using her walker outside at times but also likes going out in her wheelchair and seeing everyone and using some of the equipment and loves singing songs on sunny winters day in the colour tunnel.

Glendevon went for a day at the football too to celebrate Scotland progressing in the Fifa World cup.  We had the smells of the grass, the strip to wear,  noises of the crowd cheering and of course the goals themselves.

We have had lots of different art activities to do this terms too, our themes have been around fireworks, Remembrance day, our topic – Emergency services and Christmas.  This have given us the opportunity to explore a variety of materials much as paint, glue, pens, and lots of glitter! We also had the Clown Doctors in to help us during one of our art sessions – you can imagine how much glitter that day!

We have been spending time exploring games and stories in different group settings and enjoyed some pop up pirate and also exploring the immersive 3 little pigs story as part of storytelling day across the school.

We have all had individual tasks that we have been working on throughout our week and we  have been doing really well.  Some of us have had hydrotherapy, horse riding, swimming, Innowalk, music therapy and rebound to mention just a few of the exciting things we have been up to. We have enjoyed sessions with the clown doctors individually and also as a group too and some of us have had sessions with Charran as well.

We have also been in full Christmas mode from November with Tommy starting us off by signing for Jingle bells to be sung most days! We have been Christmas crafting and preparing for our show and parties too. We are looking forward to a well earned rest over the Christmas break. We hope everyone enjoys the festivities and we look forward to the new term ahead in 2026!!

 

 

Glendevon, Hopetoun, Lomond, Pentland

MATP Challenge Event 🏅

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This term we hosted our very first Special Olympics Motor Activity Training Programme (MATP) Challenge Event.

Athletes in Hopetoun, Lomond, Pentland and Glendevon had the opportunity to showcase the skills they had been working on during training for their family and friends.

Every athlete did absolutely amazing and handled the spotlight so well! 👏 🌟

A HUGE thank you to everyone who came along to support our athletes and make the event such a success. I loved all the cheering, signs, posters and t-shirts ❤️

We asked for some feedback and this is what our parents said…

 

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Halloween activities Glendevon 2025

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We have had fun over the last couple of weeks in the run up to Halloween.  We have explored the changes happening around us and made Autumn leaf pictures.  we have explored slime, zombie brains and pumpkin inners in messy play – we had to rescue all the eye balls from the slime! We have experienced spooky stories and made our own Halloween ghost biscuits. As well as carving our class pumpkins.

Here are a few of our photos to enjoy.

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Glendevon, Hopetoun, Lomond, Pentland

Term 1 Primary PE

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Our athletes in Hopetoun, Lomond, Pentland and Glendevon have been working hard, training towards our first ever MATP Challenge Event on Monday 1st December. They can’t wait to showcase their unique achievements to family and friends (more details will be shared closer to the time, but I am excited to see everyone supporting their athlete with posters, banners or maybe even personalised t-shirts!).

What is MATP?
The Special Olympics Motor Activity Training Programme (MATP) is a unique programme specifically designed for athletes of all ages with Profound and Multiple, Physical and Intellectual Disabilities and/or Complex Support Needs.

It focuses on developing individual skills and abilities rather than direct competition, ensuring each athlete can achieve personal bests and celebrate their achievements.

It is made up of 4 core sport specific MATP skill areas:
• Mobility (gross motor skills)
• Dexterity (fine motor skills)
• Kicking (lower body skills)
• Striking (upper body skills)

 

MATP enables our athletes to increase physical activity, improve motor skills, build confidence, increase participation in sport activities and foster a positive self-image.

Hopetoun Athletes

Lomond Athletes

Pentland Athletes

Glendevon Athletes

 

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Glendevon Term 1!

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We have had a very busy term.  We have been settling in and getting to know each other and getting into a routine with all our activities. We have been learning about night and day for our topic. We  made some night time sensory bottles using food colouring, glitter and stars and also painted some day and night pictures using paint. All the children have enjoyed some stories about day and night and also some multisensory sessions with a day a night theme.

We have also been looking for signs of Autumn by going on local walks to collects leaves.  We used our leaves to make a collage in art and we also enjoyed multisensory Autumn themes too. We have  been getting into the Halloween spirit a little early with the upcoming break.  We have had messy play with pumpkins and slime and also made pictures using Halloween stickers!  We have some more Halloween fun when welcome back to look forward to as well.

What a busy start to the year! We are looking forward to a rest and reset, ready to start back for another action packed term!

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Welcome back Glendevon

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Hi everyone and welcome back to the new school year – I know it is going to be an amazing year.  We have lots of exciting activities planned including being back at RDA for horse riding and sensory sessions with Tonto.  Sensology and topic time as well as multi-sensory drama and lots of messy art activities to start the term off.

I look forward to popping some photos showing all our adventures in learning journals and will give an update every term to share our learning.

Just a wee reminder that staff working in Glendevon this year are:

Julie, Kerri, Millie, Linda, Rowia and Hazel. We hope to meet all our families throughout the year at special events and cafes.

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Term 4 in Glendevon our end of topic Burntisland trip

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I can’t believe that we are almost at the end of the school year – what an amazing year it has been.

The boys had an amazing time rounding up our seaside topic with a visit to a beautiful Fife beach – Burntisland.

We all had fun exploring in the sand and building sandcastles with plenty of volunteers to knock these over.

Everyone splashed and paddled in the sea and was able to communicate through vocalisations, body tone and facial expression how cold it was (at first we soon got used to it).

We had a fish and chip lunch and had plenty of seagull eye watching for a stray chip and just like our sensory story we had a dog at the beach (Poppy) who came to join our picnic and stole Matthew’s pizza! Just as well we had bought more than one 🙂

We even had a chance to win a prize playing hook a duck at the funfair.

And a trip to the beach wouldn’t be complete without a taste of melted ice cream (Glendevon made of course).

Check out some of our best bits in the video below and hope everyone has a wonderful sunny break.

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Term 3 in Glendevon

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The Glendevon boys (and staff) can’t believe that we are nearly at the end of term 3 – it has been such a quick term. Here are some of our best bits.

We all particularly enjoyed utilising the multi-sensory room during our story time which was about a wet walk when we got lost and had to find our way back.  In science week we enjoyed exploring adapting animals in our multi-sensory time.

We continue to have opportunities for pupils to work with specialists who come in to school as well as utilise resources and groups around the local and wider community.

Exploring the Yard adventure playground interacting with unfamiliar peers and staff and developing our gross motor skills.

Happy Hoofbeats caring for an animal and tactile exploration.

Charan, Barrowland Ballet Theatre and Live music now exploring music and movement through music encouraging independence and interactions.

Ensuring that we have regular sessions exploring our sensory development is crucial and the boys enjoy sessions of tac pac, sensology, soft play, bikes and new sensory experiences this term including the zorb balls and hammocks which have been firm favourites.

We hope everyone has a lovely Easter break when it arrives and we are looking forward to some lovely sunny days when we come back in term 4.

 

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Term 2 in Glendevon

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Sorry we are a bit late putting our review of term 2 on the blog and hope that all our families and friends had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Glendevon enjoyed all of the additional festive experiences including the performance, parties, Christmas garden and winter musical parade.

As always we have been working hard throughout term 2 and continue to use our multi-sensory space for a wide variety of purposes including:

  • to explore relaxation
  • to immerse ourselves in our topic story (which this term has included some of the beautiful items made through exploring materials in art time)

  • songs and singing utilising pupils different communication styles and methods

We hope to put together a wee video showcasing all the ways that we use the 4D room for the end of the year to share with all our parents.

Glendevon took on the roles and responsibilities of our facilities management team (Calum, John & Sandy) for International Children’s day and made sure pupil’s got their lunches, ensured paths were cleared and safe to use and daily school checks for security were carried out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glendevon’s eco representative has been hard at work in whole school groups throughout term 2 and focused on smaller garden spaces for Winter planting.

Glendevon boys have been exploring science concepts in messy science linked to our fashion and materials topic including; what materials to make our clothes from  and what would happen to different materials when placed in water.  Skills of predicting, showing preferences, retesting theories were all on display – brilliant work boys.

We are all ready for another fun filled term.