We have had a very busy term in Lammermuir – we have been growing strawberries and rhubarb in our garden along with some parsley we planted as part of Earth Day activities. Our highlights have included Clown Doctors, learning to go on the trike and graduating from Nursery to P1.
Lammermuir staff would like to wish everyone a lovely summer holidays!
Roll up, Roll up and welcome to the circus!
In drama Glendevon, Lomond, Lammermuir and Thea and Indiana from Hopetoun have been at the circus developing their independence skills over the past few months.
They have been exploring the big top tent, helping the rocket man zoom up high, taking a risk on the tightrope and taking part in a wonderful light show. Well done everyone!
Earth Day 2024 Happy Earth Day 2024! Every year on April 22, we celebrate Earth Day. This annual event is a time to focus on the environmental issues we have across the planet and highlight the efforts being made so we can continue to protect it.
Earth Day is a reminder of the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability, encouraging us to come together and take action for a healthier planet and brighter future.
I just want to take this chance to give another little update on all the great work that has been happening to develop our school.
Since my last update in October, we have continued to work together to develop different aspects of the school. All of our Advanced Pupil Support Workers are part of working groups looking at different activities and sharing ideas and resources to promote high levels of engagement for all pupils. These include PE, effective use of the promethean panel, cooking, singing and messy play groups.
We are continuing to develop hydrotherapy and are starting to widen out the use of rebound therapy to more pupils across the ELC and school.
We have also been continuing to develop activities and resources to promote children’s rights and are planning to apply to sustain our Gold Award status later next year. Some pupils attend a regular Learning for Sustainability group where they have fun and look after the environment at the same time! We have had lots of donations for the West Lothian food bank and toy appeal this year so thank you to everyone who donated. We have also celebrated a number of national days including World Food Day, Children in Need, World Children’s Day and International Day of People with Disabilities (see blog posts for more info).
We had our first curriculum evening in November. Although we didn’t have lots of parents who managed to make it along this time, those who did gave great feedback and really enjoyed the opportunity to speak to staff about different areas of our curriculum. We plan to continue developing our life-skills framework next term focussing on strategies to develop functional communication and cognitive (including earl numeracy) skills for our pupils.
Our Christmas show was very well attended and I think those who made it along will agree that the pupils and staff were fantastic! Everyone had a great time. The feedback so far seems to be that people liked the new lay out and format although possibly cakes and drinks at the start next time!!
Next term we plan to develop further opportunities for PE, and are planning to introduce an activity afternoon where pupils will split into different cross class groups focussing on developing physical skills. We are also continuing to develop consistent use of all the facilities and technology that we have in our new building.
I would like to wish you all a fantastic Christmas and happy New Year and look forward to seeing you at our parents’ evening in January 2024 (Wednesday 17th Jan 3-6 and Thursday 18th Jan 6-8).
Debbie
What an amazing experience we all had last week when we welcomed Oily Cart back into Beatlie. The performance team engaged our children and young people in a fully immersive sensory spectacular with ‘When the World Turns’. We had some very posiitve feedback form our staff and parents throughout the week and the reactions form our pupils just had to be shared!
World Cerebal Palsy Day: Saturday 6th October We look forward to seeing you at the coffee morning on Friday to highlight this charity. Glendevon would like to raise funds through the sale of our green ribbon bath/shower jellies @ 50p for a bag of lovely fresh minty smell! #BEECPD
What a great first term we have had in our amazing new school. We have all settled in so well into our new environment and have been so excited to use all of the wonderful areas of our new school. In Glendevon we LOVE our outdoor area – we would spend all day out there if we could! We have also loved exploring our new sensory room and soft play areas.
In class we have been busy with a variety of art, messy play and cooking experiences and we have all rolled our sleeves up and got involved in all the mess!
We hope you enjoy having a wee look at our video of all the different things we have been up to this term. We hope you all have a great holiday and we are looking forward to our next term of fun in Glendevon.
Well that was certainly a VERY busy and fast first term in our new school!
We have some new pupil and adult faces in Team Pentland this year and have been enjoying making friends and getting to know each other better.
Team Pentland this year:
Class Teacher – Louise
Advanced Pupil Support Workers – Alison, Caroline, Julie, Linda & Louise (yes, 2 Louises!)
Our pupils
We also have Linda (yes, another one!) for art, Gordon for music and Catherine for drama
Here are some of our highlights…
We have also been busy creating our Class Charter and Global Goals displays…
Hope everyone has a fun and well deserved holiday.
We have had some great fun during our exploratory art sessions. Lots of classes have been coming along each week to try out different ways to mark make on paper. This term we have focused on paint! We have explored various methods of mark making using paint.
The first week we used stampers in paint, we had all different kinds of stamps and made different marks and patterns. Some children enjoyed using their hands to mark make too.
On week two we used a salad spinner to spin the paint around and make lovely patterns. We also did some splat painting, which was messy but fun!
The third week we made the first letter of our name using masking tape and then used various colours of paint and paintbrushes to paint all around it. It looked really cool when we peeled of the tape when they were dry to reveal the letter!
Week four we used string to dip into paint and drag along the paper. Everyone’s picture looked different and really effective.
Last week we used cars and animal toys to make tracks and prints on paper and everyone really enjoyed it.
Well done to all the boys and girls who came along and participated so well in the sessions. Some fabulous art work was created in the process!
Linda
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