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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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Lomond Term 1

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These dark nights and dark mornings are creeping up on us citing the end of Term 1.

It has been a term for trying different activities out and seeing where we can fit everything we want to do into our timetables. We are settling down now and have good plans in place moving forward into next term when we will continue to work on our targets as well as trying new experiences.

We have been enjoying the farm topic with lots of songs, art and messy play activities. Night time is our other topic which we have started and will continue onto December.

Horse riding was fantastic fun and all experiences either riding the horses or the sensory experience of looking after a horse – thank you to RDA for a wonderful experience.

Lomond is most definitely an outdoor class and we are loving using the wheelchair bike, drive deck, trikes and all the playground equipment for fun as well as developing independent skills using walkers,  playing with others and communicating needs and wants. Lets hope it is a good autumn to allow us continue.

Thank you for all the support throughout the term and look forward to seeing you all for parents night and our Christmas event.

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Lomond 2024 – 2025

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I cannot believe that the end of the school year is upon us again – it has passed in a flash but such good memories and achievements along the way!

I am so proud of the achievements the children have made and the support the team have provided to ensure they have had the best time exploring, trying new things, communicating, relaxing and generally having so much fun!

We have enjoyed getting out and about in the community – especially this term visiting all the different country parks but also our community walks, litter picks and bear hunts! The class have also enjoyed the use of bicycles, wheelchair bike and drive deck out in the playground and confidence has grown to try out different resources such as the swings, roundabout, bridges and climbing apparatus.  We have also made good use of all the indoor resources too with the favourite being the hydro and rebound.

Thank you and well done to class of 24/25. We look forward to next year and welcoming our new friends  as well as wishing those moving class the best of luck.

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Lomond Term 3

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Spring is Here, Spring is Here…..

Can you believe it – how time flies when you are having fun and that is what we have been doing in Lomond.

What a fantastic term we have had from looking after ourselves to looking after babies and lots of other life skills in-between!

We have enjoyed all the whole school events such as the ceilidh, mental health week and the up-cycling event as well as red nose day, science week, World Book Day and Spring Clean Week.

Our topic this term has been: ‘Looking after my body’ and we have been really enjoying the experiences. All of us had fun bathing the baby dolls – although we ended just as wet sometimes! We also had fun listening to and participating in body awareness songs – especially when we got the parachute out for the last song! We got to have some sensory experience with our sensology which got us all using different care products and smelling lovely scents to relax.

You will see from the photos that we have been loving our outdoor activities – going on the drive deck, bikes, swings, walking and meeting the ponies. We have also been enjoying visits to the yard, Bathgate swimming pool and Community walks. Some of us have also been making great progression on the Innowalk, Hydrotherapy and Rebound as well as our Independent work tasks.

Such a jammed packed but most enjoyable term. Now looking forward to our new topic and new challenges for our summer term.

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Lomond Term 2

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Another term goes past in a flash!

What a fantastic term we have had in Lomond going on a bear hunt and experiencing lots of different sensories.

It has been such a fun topic for all of us and the children have enjoyed participating in all the different activities. We finished up with a sensory walk going through different materials in our bare feet – fabulous fun!

We have also been busy with the run up to Xmas and have allbeen enjoying our PE activities – especially the sleigh rides on our sheets!

All the children have made great progress with all their individual targets and welook forward tocontinuing the good work as we go into 2025.

Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and look forward to seeing you all again when we return.

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Lomond Class Term 1

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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.

 

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

Harvest Cafe and Foodbank

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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

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Summer term in Lomond

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What a fantastic end to the first year in our new school. We have had so much fun exploring everywhere. The weather has been a little bit nicer so we have made the most of being able to get out and about. We have had some very exciting walks and we even met a tractor with a very friendly driver who stopped to let us come close and see his tractor.

We have had lots of fun inside school as well, with our teddy bears picnic and clown doctors party both happening on nice sunny days. Even when it has not been as nice, we have still managed to make the most of our lovely new gardens, who knew that a poly tunnel was a great place to have a dance!

We finished our term with a lovely trip to Lochore Meadows country park where we had great fun in the play park then we had our picnic lunch, we even managed to have an ice cream before getting on the bus and coming home.

We hope everyone has a lovely summer and comes back to school looking forward to all the adventures we have in store for next year.

Duntarvie, Glendevon, Hopetoun, Lomond, Ochiltree, Pentland

Summer Music

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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.

 

 

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Spring term in Lomond

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What a busy term we have had! some of our highlights have been swimming for some of our children as well as continuing to explore our new school and gardens. The new willow sculptures are very exciting.

We have continued to enjoy activities like visiting the multi-sensory room and some of us are getting very good at activating the interactive floor.  We have enjoyed activities like our Burns day ceilidh and having two cafes this term has meant plenty of opportunities for cooking and baking as well as seeing lots of people coming into the school.

We continue to enjoy a weekly visit from the clown doctors and our cross class PE groups have been a big success. It’s always nice to be able to see friends from other classes.

We are looking forward to the summer term when hopefully the weather will be a bit nicer and we will be able to get out a bit more.

Have a lovely Easter holiday and we look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks.