What a busy week we had last week on the run up to Comic Relief, we all worked really hard in art and cooking to prepare for our cafe. It was lovely to see everyone who came along and there was lots of games, music, prizes and delicious cakes and bakes. To top it off we managed to raise £501.75 so a huge thank you to everyone who contributed.
We had a visit from the Barrowland Ballet Company on Thursday. They explored their ‘Poggle and Me’ story with some of our pupils over two sessions. Their imaginative production really caught the attention of our pupils and the interactions during the show were amazing to watch!
Everyone had a wonderful time exploring different stories around the school
Bedtime stories, silly puppet shows, fairy tales and linking music to stories through a book hunt in the garden.
We have also made a whole school story massage which we carried out altogether at assembly. This will live at reception for anyone to look through.
Lammermuir have been busy bees since coming back from the Christmas break. We have had lots of fun activities arranged around our topics of Winter, Robert Buns, Chinese New Year and Valentines.
For our Winter topic, we made snowman sensory bags, played with real snow in the garden, made our own snow and also explored some hot chocolate powder and marshmallows in our messy play sessions. We made igloo paintings and melted snowmen in art, using white paint. We used lego bricks to print our igloo pictures. We explored winter treasure baskets and also enjoyed playing games like building up a big snowman made of boxes and trying to knock him down. This activity was one of our favourites and we were all really good at turn taking.
For Chinese New Year we enjoyed listening to Chinese music, exploring the treasure baskets and playing Chinese restaurants with the home corner materials. We made Chinese lanterns in art and explored some rice and noodles in messy play.
We had good fun learning about Robert Burns too. We made our own tartan pictures using pieces of paper and done some mark making to colour in our Robert Burns picture. We dressed up in tartan items and enjoyed our whole school ceilidh and Linda’s son, Isaac came in and played the pipes for us too. We really enjoyed it. Some of us tasted porridge for snack and some of us explore it with our hands for messy play too.
We explored some red jelly and angel delight for valentines messy and play also red water play with heart shapes. We made some canvas pictures and sun catchers for Valentines too.
We are all looking forward to the February break for some well earned rest, ready to tackle the next term!
We have been really busy this term doing lots of fun things for Christmas. We have all worked so hard on our Nativity performance. Everyone look fantastic in their costumes and they all used their switches independently at the appropriate time too! We have been doing lots of Christmas crafting and Christmas cooking. We made truffles, Christmas bark, melted snowman biscuits in our cooking groups. We made some lovely decorations, calendars and Christmas cards and coasters in Art. All the children enjoyed our Christmas music and movement group, everyone liked the Christmas songs, ribbons, bubbles and the parachute. We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy and healthy New Year. See you in 2025!
As always Duntarvie have had a jam packed and fun term and we can’t quite believe it is almost Christmas already! After our harvest fundraising cafe we have been busy shopping every week to buy items for the West Lothian foodbank. We delivered it all last week and managed to collect a whopping 62.2kgs in total! Thanks again to everyone who donated items or money.
We have also enjoyed lots of time out and about in the community including Swimming, Potter Around, Gentle exercise, Musically Active Dudes and Growing Together gardening project.
Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and New Year and we look forward to welcoming all the pupils back in January.
Love Team Duntarvie
What a fantastic term we have had here in Pentland! The pupils have been exploring hydrotherapy and pool play sessions and have increased in confidence and skills while having so much fun. We have also been busy with our fashion topic and have loved exploring all the different costumes and materials. We engaged well with all of our activities including lots of singing, music, drama and listening and attention activities.
We have also been working hard on our body awareness and co-ordination skills during our PE sessions, we were working hard on balance, jumping, crawling and sliding.
Another of our favourite activities this term has been our session with the Clown Doctors – we love to play and interact during our sessions and are always so excited to see the Clowns.
Merry Christmas to all our lovely families when it comes!
We have been very busy over the last few weeks in Lammermuir. We have been collecting toys for River Kids toy appeal so that children all over West Lothian will have a toy to open this Christmas. Thank you to everyone who kindly donated. Our class went and delivered all the toys this week and then went to Dobbies afterwards to look at all the decorations. We enjoyed looking at all the lights, smelling all the festive scents and feeling lots of different textures.
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
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!
