Term 1 Primary PE

October 16, 2025 Mrs Kerr Leave a comment

Our athletes in Hopetoun, Lomond, Pentland and Glendevon have been working hard, training towards our first ever MATP Challenge Event on Monday 1st December. They can’t wait to showcase their unique achievements to family and friends (more details will be shared closer to the time, but I am excited to see everyone supporting their athlete with posters, banners or maybe even personalised t-shirts!).

What is MATP?
The Special Olympics Motor Activity Training Programme (MATP) is a unique programme specifically designed for athletes of all ages with Profound and Multiple, Physical and Intellectual Disabilities and/or Complex Support Needs.

It focuses on developing individual skills and abilities rather than direct competition, ensuring each athlete can achieve personal bests and celebrate their achievements.

It is made up of 4 core sport specific MATP skill areas:

• Mobility (gross motor skills)

• Dexterity (fine motor skills)

• Kicking (lower body skills)

• Striking (upper body skills)

MATP enables our athletes to increase physical activity, improve motor skills, build confidence, increase participation in sport activities and foster a positive self-image.

Hopetoun Athletes

Lomond Athletes

Pentland Athletes

Glendevon Athletes

Duntarvie, Uncategorized

Duntarvie Term 1!

October 16, 2025 Mrs Rankin Leave a comment

Wow – our first term together is almost complete!

The last few weeks have gone by in a flash, with so many fun and varied activities both in school and out in the community.

We’ve been working hard in class on our targets, and coming together for groups exploring our senses, enjoying music, story and song, and learning about looking after our bodies as we grow up too.

Keeping active has been very important both in and out of school as well as increasing our independence and developing skills in communication, and growing in confidence. Cross class PE groups have been lots of fun, working together with friends and adults from across the secondary school, and learning new skills. Some pupils have also been back on the Innowalk, and quite literally making great strides in progress here!

We’ve also contributed to whole school celebrations and events including Global Goals Week and Fairtrade Fortnight. We’ve been cooking up a range of healthy snacks, meals, and tasty treats in the pupil kitchen, and enjoying trying hard with some messy, bold art creations too.

Many of our pupils have been very happy to welcome back our clown doctor friends as well as our fabulous music therapists, Ellie and Sophie – who have led some really lovely sessions with our pupils – and our dance therapist, Charan.

We’ve definitely made good use of our busses this term, and have also enjoyed some lovely walks in this lovely Autumnal sunshine. We’ve enjoyed collecting items to explore as well as visiting local shops, cafes, the library, and attending a range of community groups including Musically Active Dudes, the Young Adults’ social group at Broxburn United Sports Club, and Gentle Exercise classes in Polbeth. These are brilliant opportunities to develop our life skills and meet new peers and adults too. One pupil has been particularly delighted to get back to his much loved gym visits too, and is working exceptionally hard!

I look forward to what’s in store in the times ahead with our fabulous Duntarvie stars!

Thanks to everyone for a brilliant start to the school year!

Lomond

Lomond Term 1

October 15, 2025 Miss McNaughton Leave a comment

These dark nights and dark mornings are creeping up on us citing the end of Term 1.

It has been a term for trying different activities out and seeing where we can fit everything we want to do into our timetables. We are settling down now and have good plans in place moving forward into next term when we will continue to work on our targets as well as trying new experiences.

We have been enjoying the farm topic with lots of songs, art and messy play activities. Night time is our other topic which we have started and will continue onto December.

Horse riding was fantastic fun and all experiences either riding the horses or the sensory experience of looking after a horse – thank you to RDA for a wonderful experience.

Lomond is most definitely an outdoor class and we are loving using the wheelchair bike, drive deck, trikes and all the playground equipment for fun as well as developing independent skills using walkers, playing with others and communicating needs and wants. Lets hope it is a good autumn to allow us continue.

Thank you for all the support throughout the term and look forward to seeing you all for parents night and our Christmas event.

Glendevon, Uncategorized

Glendevon Term 1!

October 14, 2025 Mrs Halliday Leave a comment

We have had a very busy term. We have been settling in and getting to know each other and getting into a routine with all our activities. We have been learning about night and day for our topic. We made some night time sensory bottles using food colouring, glitter and stars and also painted some day and night pictures using paint. All the children have enjoyed some stories about day and night and also some multisensory sessions with a day a night theme.

We have also been looking for signs of Autumn by going on local walks to collects leaves. We used our leaves to make a collage in art and we also enjoyed multisensory Autumn themes too. We have been getting into the Halloween spirit a little early with the upcoming break. We have had messy play with pumpkins and slime and also made pictures using Halloween stickers! We have some more Halloween fun when welcome back to look forward to as well.

What a busy start to the year! We are looking forward to a rest and reset, ready to start back for another action packed term!

Lammermuir

Lammermuir Term 1

October 13, 2025 Catherine Garnett Leave a comment

We have had a busy start to our year in nursery. We have been to Space with our topic where we shared interactive stories, used our sensory tuff tray and made some space themed goodies during cooking activities. In art we made some flying saucers and decorated our own planets using a salad spinner.

We went for an autumn walk to collect some pinecones, fallen leaves and twigs to use in class as part of our autumn theme. In cooking we made some muffins and some shortbread biscuits which we cut into pumpkin shapes. We also explored our sensory tray with some scented oranges and cinnamon sticks.

Whole School

Group 1 Swimming 🏊

October 10, 2025 Mrs Kerr Leave a comment

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 😊

Duntarvie, Ochiltree

Term 1 Secondary PE

October 9, 2025 Mrs Kerr Leave a comment

On Monday afternoons athletes in Ochiltree and Duntarvie have been coming together to develop their physical activity and motor skills.

After a fun warm-up altogether, we split into 3 groups:

Striking & kicking activities (based on the Special Olympics Motor Activity Training Programme) with Louise
Music & movement (using activities from Physiobods and the MOVE programme) with Jill
Boccia & New Age Kurling (focusing on teamwork) with Rachael

Then we finish off with a whole group cool down and relax.

Striking & Kicking Activities

Music & Movement Activities

Boccia & New Age Kurling

Glendevon

Class Charter

October 8, 2025 Hazel Swanston Leave a comment

We have been busy working on our Glendevon 2025 class charter this term. We felt it was important to demonstrate how fulfilling and maintaining each of the articles will look for each member of Glendevon as we are all unique whilst supporting the development of a happy and fun classroom. We are looking forward to adding to our photo collage throughout the year.

Whole School

Global Goals Week @ Beatlie

September 26, 2025 Miss McNaughton Leave a comment

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.

Lammermuir