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.
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.
Hi everyone and welcome back to the new school year – I know it is going to be an amazing year. We have lots of exciting activities planned including being back at RDA for horse riding and sensory sessions with Tonto. Sensology and topic time as well as multi-sensory drama and lots of messy art activities to start the term off.
I look forward to popping some photos showing all our adventures in learning journals and will give an update every term to share our learning.
Just a wee reminder that staff working in Glendevon this year are:
Julie, Kerri, Millie, Linda, Rowia and Hazel. We hope to meet all our families throughout the year at special events and cafes.
I can’t believe we only have a few days of term together, and we will be turning the last page of one chapter, and starting another.
Two of our senior pupils are soon off to pastures new. We wish them a very fond farewell, and all the best of everything for the future. While we will miss them both dearly, we know we have so many memories to cherish, and we are so very proud of them, for the wonderful young adults they have become, and for all their many, many achievements!
This term, our two S6 pupils completed their Duke of Edinburgh Awards, as well as SQA awards in Preparing for Adult Life, and – alongside two of our S4 pupils – an SQA award in Nature and the Environment. We have been incredibly busy planting, growing and nurturing, completing this qualification, and working in partnership with our other local schools for the ‘Growing Together’ community garden project. We’ve produced some beautiful flowers, plants, fruits and vegetables and we’ve made many new friends along the way. It’s helped that we’ve had so many sunny days, which has meant that we’ve had some lovely outdoor long walks too.
As part of transition into young adult life, our leavers have also been having lots of fun out attending young adults’ social groups in Broxburn, at the Albyn football club, and at Craigsfarm cafe. We’ve also had a ball as usual at Musically Active Dudes, and one of our S4 pupils even had a wee taster session here too. It’s been brilliant forging links with young adults from Pinewood and Ogilivie schools. We’ve supported each other along the way, and Pinewood even invited our leavers along to Prom, which was an honour for everyone involved. We also got to see Pinewood’s summer fayre and senior school pop up shop in action, and watch our new friends do a sterling job! What’s lovely too, is that we realised some of our S6’s, and some leavers from Ogilvie, had actually been at nursery together, so it’s so fitting to be coming together again as we support our young adults to embark together on their new adventures!
Our two S4 pupils have been super busy out in the community, working towards their award for learning in new environments. We’ve been practising communication skills and gaining independence at the library, the local gym, the swimming pool, and the nearby supermarkets. Our S3 pupil has also attained her ASDAN Transition Challenge award, so we have all had a very successful term of attainment indeed!
The end of this term also marks the end of a very special lady’s time at Beatlie school. One of our wonderful APSWs, the lovely Jacqueline, who has touched the lives of so many during her time here, is retiring. Jacqueline, it will simply not be the same without you, but you have taught us all so much, adults and young people alike, that you certainly won’t be forgotten, and we will carry on with the same warmth and love that you have brought to the Beatlie family over the many years you have been here.
A big thank you from team Duntarvie to all our amazing families for making our job ever more rewarding, and for your fabulous young people. As ever, a huge thank you to all our nurses for keeping us safe and well, to all our therapists, to our awesome clown doctors and our much loved dance therapist, Charan. Thank you also to the adults at Eliburn Day Centre and New Directions, who will soon be welcoming our two S6 learners – you have been working so very hard to get to know our absolute stars and we know they are in good hands.
Congratulations to our Grads! Good luck, and keep in touch!
And lastly, a very warm welcome to our three new Duntarvie senior students. We are so excited to learn and make new memories together!
I can’t believe that we are almost at the end of the school year – what an amazing year it has been.
The boys had an amazing time rounding up our seaside topic with a visit to a beautiful Fife beach – Burntisland.
We all had fun exploring in the sand and building sandcastles with plenty of volunteers to knock these over.
Everyone splashed and paddled in the sea and was able to communicate through vocalisations, body tone and facial expression how cold it was (at first we soon got used to it).
We had a fish and chip lunch and had plenty of seagull eye watching for a stray chip and just like our sensory story we had a dog at the beach (Poppy) who came to join our picnic and stole Matthew’s pizza! Just as well we had bought more than one 🙂
We even had a chance to win a prize playing hook a duck at the funfair.
And a trip to the beach wouldn’t be complete without a taste of melted ice cream (Glendevon made of course).
Check out some of our best bits in the video below and hope everyone has a wonderful sunny break.
I can’t believe we are so close to the end of term. What a busy term it has been! We have been focusing on our community this term. We have had lots of opportunities to get out and about on local walks, looking for signs of spring, visits to xcite cafe, Pumpherston park, Craigmair nursing home, Jaks’ Den and Almondale farm! The children have really enjoyed these new experiences and have got lots out of the different visits.
The parks proved popular with everyone, the swings, trampolines and sand pits were definitely favourites. We also really enjoyed our own garden and playground and have been making the most of the nice weather by splashing in our paddling pool too!
We enjoyed making cards for people in the community that help us and we also raised money for a local charity, Jaks’s den by baking sweet treats and selling them in school. We raised a whopping £300!
I have been so impressed by all of the children’s progress this term too. Each and everyone of them has worked so hard on their targets and made really positive steps. I hope everyone has a well earned rest over summer and we look forward to seeing you all soon!
We have had another super busy term in Ochiltree, it’s absolutely flown in and we can’t believe it’s already the end of another school year. We’ve had lots of fun this term, some of our favourite activities were completing our mini marathon and getting stuck into our gardening project. We went for a visit to Dobbies to choose some plants and we loved looking at the fish in the aquarium. We’ve also been really enjoying exploring all the different recreation opportunities out in the community such as golf, yoga, bowling, shopping and art and we had a super end of term trip to the farm where we enjoyed seeing all the animals and having fun in the outdoor play areas.
Team Ochiltree wish you all a safe and healthy summer!
