Today we had our first Ceilidh in the new school and it gets a thumbs up for a great place to get your kilts on and dance your socks off!
Have a look at our video of some of the children enjoying the music, the company and the dancing!
Unicef World Children’s Day 2023
Today marks World Children’s Day on the calendar and to celebrate the rights of the child we participated in all things blue.
Lots of pupils and staff wore blue in support and all pupils used blue materials to make a giant blue collage.
Take a look at how it came together.
Oily Cart!
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!
Alice in Wonderland
World Food Day
This week in Beatlie we recognised World Food Day by making sensory bottles with the focus ‘Water is Life, Water is Food. Leave No One Behind’
World Food Day takes place annually on 16 October and promotes awareness of hunger and action for the future of food, people, and the planet.
Take a look at how much fun we all had making the bottles and how great they all look now they are finished.
#WorldFoodDay
#ZeroHunger
#FoodSecurity
#SustainableAgriculture
#EndHunger
#NutritionForAll
#GlobalFoodChallenge
Debbie Green (Acting HT)
Progress so far!
As you will be able to tell we are delighted with our new school and the amazing resources that we have access to. As part of our school, improvement plan this year we are working to maximise the use of these different areas and resources ensuring all pupils are safe, included and achieving. The outdoor space is fantastic and we have been making great use of all areas to learn through play and exploration. Staff have been trained in the use of our new Drive Deck which allows our wheelchair pupils to independently travel round the garden using a switch. We plan to explore how to make use of this within the school next. The multi-sensory room is being used to great effect, with pupils being immersed in different exciting stories and able to explore the images and lights with their bodies and through switch use. Pupils are also enjoying regular rebound sessions supported by trained staff and attending regular art, cooking and messy play sessions in our new art and cooking space. Staff are working hard to develop new and innovative ways to use the life skills technology to allow our children to control their environment.
After the October week’s break, we will be starting up with our swimming and horse riding sessions. We will also be starting to use our hydrotherapy pool which is very exciting. We are working alongside one of our physiotherapists to ensure the benefits of this therapy can be maximised for each individual.
We have started working on the communication section of our new life skills framework. We asked our teachers to describe their thoughts (in three words) on this new curricular framework:
I will keep you informed of further progress throughout the rest of this year. It was lovely to see those of you who were able to make it along to the café this morning and look forward to seeing you at events across the year.
Have a lovely October week.
Debbie Green
Acting HT
World Cerebal Palsy Day October 2023
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
Beatlie Scarecrow Festival 2023
Our first cafe in our new school and what a lovely morning we had joined by some strangers………..
Thank you to all who came and enjoyed the lovely baking the children prepared over the week.
Thank you to all the children and staff for decorating the hall and making fantastic scarecrows.
Everyone had the opportunity to vote for their favourite – although everyone is a winner, Peat was the peoples favourite on the day.
Enjoy watching the videos of us all preparing for the day and a second one showing us all enjoying the morning.
See you all again for our Children in Need cafe on 17th November.
Music Term 1
This term we have had fun settling into our new space in Music. Some of the lessons, the1-1 and small group sessions have taken place in the new GP room while other lessons have been taking place in the classrooms.
Lammermuir have sociably been joining Hopetoun in their classroom and have had fun choosing nursery rhymes to sing together. Lomond and Glendevon had more relaxed afternoon lessons to meet the children’s needs at that time of the day.
Pentland used the giant scrunchie to sing about The Great Big Turnip at the Bottom of the field and it became a big favourite. Tommy and Matthew found it hilarious when the different characters shouted for help and that the mouse had the biggest muscles.
All of the Primary classes also enjoyed the The Wheels on the Bus. This turned into something bigger, with everyone taking turns choosing the different things that are on the bus from a range of choices on cards. The result was like a different remix of the song each time as the order kept changing.
As we approached Scarecrow Festival time, all of the Primary classes of course enjoyed singing the old favourite Dingle Dangle Scarecrow.
In Secondary, the groups focused on playing tuned percussion instruments to rock backing tracks and there has been lots of interaction and engagement, which bodes well as we head into a musical project together. More will be revealed in due course!
Glendevon Term 1
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.
