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Term 3 Swimming 🏊

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Wow! Wow! Wow!

Our swimmers have been working incredibly hard at Bathgate Xcite this term, and their progress has been amazing to see!

On Friday mornings, our Group 3 and 4 swimmers — Sean, Muhammad, Freddie, Frankie, Jaxson, Denny, and Ruaridh — smashed it with 2 Aqua Bronze Awards and 5 Progress Awards achieved between them! Fantastic effort from everyone.

On Thursday afternoons, Fletcher continued his brilliant development towards his Aqua Silver Award. He was joined by Ethan and Stanley, who also made excellent progress towards their Silver Awards, and Alex, who proudly achieved his Aqua Diamond Award!

Well done, everyone — we are all super proud of you! 🌟

Whole School

World Book Day 2026

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The pupils of Beatlie had fun celebrating World Book Day this year focusing on two books from this year’s selection – One Big Family and Chaos at the Chocolate Factory.

There were:

  • Visits to the library for story time
  • Story massage and individual story times
  • Sensory exploration and art using chocolate
  • Book hunts in the garden finding some of our other favourite stories hidden away
  • Drama, imaginative play/dress up and sensory story time
  • Making picnic foods and blankets
  • Team games
  • Milkshake and smoothie making

Check out our best bits video.

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Of course we couldn’t read Peppa’s One Big family without spending some time jumping in muddy puddles too.

 

 

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ASN Boccia and Curling Festival

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Today 8 of our athletes represented Beatlie at the ASN Boccia & Curling Festival at West Lothian College.

Everyone had lots of fun and coped so well with the big, unfamiliar and very noisy hall!

Well done everyone, we are super proud of you 🌟

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Term 2 Swimming 🏊‍♂️

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More swimmers have been making a splash at Bathgate Xcite this term. Our second Friday morning group recently completed their 5 week block with Ethan, Hira and Madison achieving their Aqua Bronze Award and Teddy receiving a progress award.

2 of our senior pupils have also been swimming on a Thursday afternoon. Fletcher achieved his Aqua Bronze Award and Alex achieved his Aqua Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Awards!

Well done everyone, we are all super proud of you! 🌟

Whole School

World Childrens Day 2025

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World Children’s Day 2025

‘my day…. my rights’

‘From the moment the sun rises, children wake up to a world shaped by choices they didn’t make. But every child, everywhere, also wakes with rights. Including the right to be protected, to learn, and to have their voice heard’ (UNICEF)

To celebrate World Childrens Day we explored some of our rights through stories, games, food and sensory play. We hope you enjoy our video of some of the fun we had!

Whole School

Group 1 Swimming 🏊

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Well done to our first group of swimmers who just completed their block at Bathgate Xcite.

They worked so hard, gaining confidence and developing skills in the early stages of buoyancy, co-ordination, spatial awareness, breathing, and entering and leaving the pool safely.

3 swimmers achieved their Beatlie Aqua Bronze Award and 1 swimmer was presented with a Beatlie Swimming Progress Award. Well done everyone ⭐ we are so proud of you 😊

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Global Goals Week @ Beatlie

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Last week we held our Global Goals Week highlighting the 3 Goals we will be working toward over the year.

This year we will be highlighting the following Global Goals:

GG3: Good Health & Wellbeing

Some of us made smoothies and/ or fruit salads, we all participated in physical activities and daily story massage.

GG12: Responsible Consumption

Beatlie display great responsibility with their consumption and we daily participate in recycling daily recyclables and through our art and craft activities we enjoy upcycling something from school to make something new. Some of us had fun taking part in these activities over the week.

GG15: Life on Land

We enjoyed fun participating in a Biodiversity Hunt in the garden finding bug hotels, hedgehog house etc. We also got messy making Bird Feeders and doing some gardening as well as making the most of the weather and observing nature all around us while going on community walks.

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Pentland

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ASN Fun Run

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Today 4 of our athletes represented Beatlie at the ASN Fun Run at Cedarbank School.

The boys took part in the 0.5km walk/run  🏃‍♂️‍➡️ and placed 4th, 9th and 12th out of 20 competitors.

In the 1km wheelchair race our female athlete came 1st!! 🥳

We are super proud of them as this was a really busy event with lots of new faces and an unfamiliar route.