Category Archives: Whole School

We had a visit from Fischy Music on Friday as part of our Family Fun Sessions this year. Thank you so much to the pupils, staff and families who came along and took part. There was lots of dancing, singing, signing and definitely plenty of fun! We hope to welcome Fischy back soon.

Ochiltree, Whole School

Pre-loved clothing event

February 28, 2025 Mrs Kerr Leave a comment

Last term Ochiltree took part in lots of upcycling projects and today was their final project as they hosted a pre-loved clothing event. They worked very hard to sort and lay out all the clothes, then today everyone had a job to do such as greeting the visitors and manning the stalls. This event also helped us mark the launch of our non school uniform clothing bank.

Handing out reminders about our food bank

Some pupils and staff came along for a browse too!

Caroline from the Advice Shop also came along to support families with any questions.

Whole School

Boccia & Curling Festival

February 5, 2025 Mrs Kerr Leave a comment

Last week 3 of our pupils attended the ASN Boccia and Curling Festival run by Active Schools with the college students at West Lothian College.

We took part in lots of different stations to develop our throwing and rolling skills, and had lots of fun!

Whole School

Christmas Garden donated by Community Payback Team

December 19, 2024 Mrs Green Leave a comment

We just want to give a huge thanks to the West Lothian Council Community Payback Team. They donated us a beautiful Christmas garden that they made themselves from scratch. We are so grateful and appreciative of the amount of work that went into this.

This has made our lovely outdoor grounds even more special this Christmas!

Whole School

Drama in Hopetoun

November 27, 2024 Miss Sweet Leave a comment

We have had a great time in drama this term, especially with our horse riding sessions. Thanks to all our parents for getting involved and helping to think of names for the children’s horses.

Clopper, Sir Trot a lot, Shug, Stumpie and Bam Bam!

We all had fun trying to control these naughty horses. They would try and run away and we would have to try and tie them up. Freya had to tie Shug the Thug to her leg one week!!

Jackson had a hard time with Bam Bam throwing the hay everywhere. He made such a mess. Indianna’s horse was very greedy and tried to eat all the carrots and apples. Then Thea’s horse would not let her brush his mane. She found this very funny. Lewis loved switching the angry farmer who shouted at the horses for the mess they made of his field. Everyone enjoy racing each other too. Lots of hilarity, wonderful focus and fabulous interaction from our amazing children in Hopetoun with their horses and staff.

Will keep you all posted about our next drama sessions!

Whole School

Music with Gordon Term 1

October 10, 2024 G Turnbull Leave a comment

The children have enjoyed a term of settling into their new classes and routines.

In Primary, there has been a focus on choosing from a range of songs and instruments to play and explore, plus a movement and relaxation end to the lesson. When the weather was kind, we were also able to take our music lessons outside.

A big group from Ochiltree and Duntarvie has focused on following musical instruction and instrument types. We have taken turns to wear a crown and conduct an orchestra of Tappers, Scrapers and Shakers, the musicians playing instruments in different ways. The group also explored volume control and followed instructions from the monarch to be loud or quiet.

A small group from Duntarvie explored guitars, learning to strum and pick the strings to both uptempo and more downbeat blues backing tracks, enjoying the vibrations that the strings make.

Have a great break and I look forward to making more music together after the holiday.

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

Harvest Cafe and Foodbank

October 8, 2024 Mrs McLean Leave a comment

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

Whole School

Globl Goals Week 2024

September 30, 2024 Miss McNaughton Leave a comment

Global Goals Week is an annual week of action, awareness, and accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals.

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of global priorities for ensuring that economic, environmental, social and cultural wellbeing is achieved for everyone around the world. They are ambitious goals for governments across the world to achieve, but there is a lot we can do at school and at home to support them.

Why are the goals important?

The goals aim to end poverty, protect the planet and try to make sure that everyone around the world is living comfortably. All very important and worthwhile goals to work towards! Each goal has specific targets for governments to achieve over the next 14 years. In schools, we can help to support the meeting of these targets.

How can we play our part in achieving these goals?

In our school we already do lots of excellent work to make the world clean, green and more sustainable! We have also made links between our Climate Action Schools projects and the Sustainable Development Goals so we will be able to record, monitor and evaluate our progress in helping achieve these goals.

This year we will be highlighting the following goals and this week was an introduction to these goals:

Global Goal 3: Daily Walking Club, Joint Healthy Snack

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Global Goal 12: Paper recycing projects

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Global Goal 15: Natural Art projects, Outdoor Music

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Whole School

Beatlie Fairtrade Fortnight 2024

September 18, 2024 Miss McNaughton Leave a comment

Beatlie have had a fantastic Fairtrade Fortnight.

I know we did not have our traditional cafe but hope you all managed to enjoy some of our fab baking at your meet the team events or at home.

All classes participated in several different activities over the week including making a 30th Birthday card for Fairtrade, Story Massage, Cooking, Messy Play and Art making bunting.

Enjoy looking through the videos of all the classes enjoying Fairtrade Fortnight 2024

Duntarvie

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