We can’t believe it’s nearly the end of the first year in our amazing new school!
We’ve had another very busy term, working hard to develop our individual skills and abilities…
Once again we have also enjoyed getting out and about to horse riding and swimming…
Pentland would like to wish everyone a happy and well earned holiday.
Lots of our activities in term 4 have focused on Duke of Edinburgh. Working on our skills, physical developments and volunteering. Pupils have been:
As well as our weekly Duke of Edinburgh work we also took part in our Duke of Edinburgh expedition. We all had brilliant fun – check out our video.
We want to say a big farewell to our S6 pupil leaving in the next couple of weeks and wish him all the best in his new adventures utilising adult services – he has been sneaking all his Nerf guns slowly over to Eilburn during his transition days! We can’t wait to share all his ‘best bits’ photos and a funny story or two at his leavers assembly this week.
What a lovely day we had for our teddy bears picnic, thankfully the rain stayed off and we were able to enjoy some fun and games in the garden with our furry friends!
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.
This term the children have enjoyed experiencing seasonal and Scottish music through songs and games.
In our Scottish topic, we focused on the Three Craws, with body percussion and sensory input for the calls of the birds. When the opportunity arose, we transferred the body percussion to hand held instruments to accompany the song. We used the giant scrunchie to help us move to ceilidh music and had great fun using the Circassian Circle as inspiration for our movement, passing it around and moving it in and out, up and down to the beat and where the music changed.
Across the school, Primary classes continued to build on choosing Nursery Rhymes to sing together, always a favourite activity, with the rhymes changing regularly to expand the choices.
In January, everyone sang All the Snow is Falling Down, using story massage techniques to reinforce the structure of the song and meaning in the words, in a relaxing and calming way.
As we moved into Spring, we played drums, and learned to hold beaters and keep time to When the Band Comes Marching In. The soft beaters provided a safe way to feel the beat by tapping on the arms, feet and tables.
Duntarvie and Ochiltree worked towards creating music to accompany the story of Tam Lin, choosing different instruments to play along to the Border Ballad. It’s all beginning to take shape and there will be more news on it next term.
Another wonderful term for The Glendevon Class. We have all been learning, exploring, playing and experiencing lots of exciting things this term and as always we have been absolutely amazing!
We have loved getting out to Horse Riding this term and we all love our horses so much. We have increased in our confidence and strength when riding the horses and will miss them next term.
We also really enjoyed some cross class groups this term including story telling week and PE groups. It has been nice seeing all of our friends from across the school and visiting some new classes.
In class we have had our weekly visits from the Clown Doctors, baking, arts and crafts, attention and listening games, messy play, singing, stories and games – we have had a ball and continue to succeed in all we do.
Well Spring is here (hopefully when the rain stops!) And what a quick term it has been in the senior class. We have all been busy working on our individual SQA awards including completing a charity upcycle project as well as S6 finishing bronze Duke of Edinburgh volunteering to organise and run a coffee morning.
We have particularly enjoyed opportunities to experience and participate in lots of different groups this term. Just check out our photos:
We hope you have a wonderful Easter break and are well rested for a busy last term.
I can’t believe that we are approaching the last term in our brand new Beatlie building. This year has been a whirlwind!
I want to thank our amazing staff who have embraced all sorts of new training and different ways of working in order to ensure we are maximising the use of all the new resources and learning environments we have available to us.
In terms of using all the technology we have, there has been a great deal of work and collaboration with trying to get this all up and running. What we have achieved so far:
We also had a visit this week from an inspector as we were selected to be part of the national thematic inspection by Education Scotland looking at provision of mathematics. This went well and the lead inspector cited very positive relationships between staff and pupils that is leading to high quality, motivating learning opportunities for all pupils across the setting from ELC to senior phase.
I would like to wish you all a very happy Easter and look forward to the summer term when we can really make use of our fabulous outdoor spaces.
Debbie Green(Head Teacher)
What a busy term we have had! some of our highlights have been swimming for some of our children as well as continuing to explore our new school and gardens. The new willow sculptures are very exciting.
We have continued to enjoy activities like visiting the multi-sensory room and some of us are getting very good at activating the interactive floor. We have enjoyed activities like our Burns day ceilidh and having two cafes this term has meant plenty of opportunities for cooking and baking as well as seeing lots of people coming into the school.
We continue to enjoy a weekly visit from the clown doctors and our cross class PE groups have been a big success. It’s always nice to be able to see friends from other classes.
We are looking forward to the summer term when hopefully the weather will be a bit nicer and we will be able to get out a bit more.
Have a lovely Easter holiday and we look forward to seeing you in a couple of weeks.
