Category Archives: Glendevon

Welcome back Glendevon

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.

Term 4 in Glendevon our end of topic Burntisland trip

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

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.

 

Term 2 in Glendevon

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.

Glendevon Term 1

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.

Harvest Cafe and Foodbank

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

Glendevon staff 24-25

Welcome back to Glendevon 24-25

It was fantastic to see all the boys back in their new class – Glendevon this week getting to know one another and all the new staff that they will be working with.

Below you can get to know the staff too and I look forward to speaking to you all during check in calls and at the ‘Meet the Team’ opportunity in September.

Have a lovely weekend and get ready for another busy week with lots of learning and fun next week.

Summer Music

It has been a busy Summer term in Music. In particular, secondary classes have focused on the culmination of a year-long project, with some of our young people working towards SQA National 1 Producing a Sound (alternative context).

For this, we have been choosing instruments and playing them correctly, then using our skills to tell a musical story. The story was a traditional tale from the Borders, that of Tam Lin and how Janet saved him from the Queen of the Fairies in the enchanted forest.

Ochiltree and Duntarvie had been working separately on the skills, but this term they came together  to create the sounds. We had a star guest as Carol Robbie came back to narrate the story.

It was a great success and has opened up options for other musical stories together and with others. We will certainly we doing this again, hopefully at a time that will be easier for friends and families to participate.

Meanwhile, primary classes have been having fun continuing to choose favourite songs to sing and play.

 

 

Term 4 in Glendevon

What a great end to a brilliant year in Glendevon.  We have all had such a great year at school, we have loved our year together in the Glendevon class, we have made new friends, shared lots of lovely experiences together, learned lots, made lots of mess and shared in lots of laughs and fun along to the way!

We hope you all have an amazing summer holiday and we are looking forward to everything the new school year will bring!