That’s another term almost over. Wow, doesn’t time fly!
We have been very busy in Lomond exploring lots of seasonal themes and taking part in Children in Need, Book Week Scotland, World Smile Day and the UNICEF Outright Campaign. We definitely deserve our holidays. Have a look at a few photos of some of our learning….
We wish you all a safe and happy Christmas and look forward to welcoming the pupils back again in January.
I can’t believe it’s almost the end of another term!
We have been VERY busy in Hopetoun exploring lots of seasonal themes, raising money for Children in Need and Save the Children, and celebrating Book Week Scotland and the UNICEF Outright Campaign. Phew!!!
Here’s a few snapshots of our learning….
And here’s what we got up to for Children in Need…
We would like to wish all our Beatlie families a happy and safe Christmas and we will see you in January 2022!
What a year it has been so far – lots and lots of fantastic achievements made in 2021! There are so many memories I wanted to share that I have made a Sway for each of the children!
We have also been enjoying sharing our good work each week when we are sending home our baking, craft work and plants – I think the escorts are beginning to wonder what will come next!
We are truly grateful that we have had the opportunity to participate in so many great activities this year both in our own class and with Duntarvie! Lets keep our fingers crossed that we will continue in the new year!!!
Christmas Wishes to you all from Ochiltree xcx
This year, the UNICEF outright campaign focused on Mental Health. All children have the right to a healthy mind!
One of the tasks we completed was to think of something for another class that would make them feel happy! Here is what everyone came up with:
Lammermuir – received some lovely toys from Ochiltree that the pupils enjoyed exploring.
Hopetoun – Organised the Children In Need and made everyone very happy!!
Lomond – Received a list of favourite songs and lots of lovely instruments from Duntarvie. These went down very well!
Pentland – They had fun playing games in the gym hall using resources lent to them by Glendevon, Duck, Duck Goose was a favourite.
Glendevon – enjoyed making some very yummy Pudsey Bear biscuits with ingredients given to them from Pentland.
Ochiltree – received some lovely messy play resources to explore including bubbles and slime from Lammermuir.
Duntarvie – felt very pampered with a ‘spa in the classroom’ box from Lomond.
Thank you to everyone who made our event a HUGE success! Watch our video to see all the fun activities we took part in and how much money we raised…
BBC Children in Need – Together we can change young lives across the UK
Secondary Assembly for World Children’s Day
Blue is the colour for World Children’s Day 2021
We had a story massage about Paddington
Then we talked about how we felt when he came to London and how he feels when people are not nice to him.
We learned how to do the ‘Hard Stare’ when people are not nice!
Duncan was fantastic at this and as also able to show his friends different emotions too!
We made blue prints for a display in the school too.
Please have a look at how we made them and a look at how Paddington does the hard stare! Can you do it?
https://youtu.be/aS4w0Y1Kif4
World Food Day was highlighted and celebrated on the 16th October. As part of our learning here at Beatlie we looked food journeys and how/why we can and should do better.
To share our learning we all participated in a poster competition – please have a look at the great work we all had fun making! Some more photos may also be shared on their Learning Journals.
It was great to see everyone happy to return to music and to welcome some new faces joining us for musical fun too.
We began the term with some familiar songs and activities to help settle everyone in before focusing on silly Mr. Macarella. This clapping song tells us how he didn’t use his umbrella to keep dry and how 8 raindrops fell on him. Then we all count and clap while learning about the different parts of the body where the rain fell. We then moved onto playing the rain sounds and the 8 raindrops on different instruments as the rain drops fell on his musicians.
This term we also have some smaller Music groups with Lammermuir and early Primary children focusing on musical play and exploration, intensive interaction, movement and nursery rhymes.
Secondary had two cross-class music groups and some also have 1-1 sessions this term. One group began working on choosing and playing instruments that will help tell the story of a journey into space. This will help them work as a group with solo spots on their chosen instruments that will go towards their SQA awards. The other group are enjoying playing and moving along to music from different genres as they work towards their ASDAN awards.
We will continue the fun into next term, adding in seasonal songs for Halloween and Christmas. Have a great October break!
