Walking Month Week 4

May 30, 2025 Miss Millar Leave a comment

A little bit of rain hasn’t stopped us from getting out there on our walks this week! For our final week of walking week, each class went on a walk and collected some natural materials in the environment, experiencing all of the sights, smells and feelings of all of our findings. When we got back to school we put our materials to good use and made a lovely display board at the front of the school with our wonderful creations! What do you think? We think it looks great!

Well done everyone on another successful walking month of May!

Whole School

Walking Month Week 2

May 16, 2025 Miss Millar Leave a comment

Another busy week for all the children in Beatlie getting out and about this walking month. This week we went on a sound walk – we found all the pictures of the rainforest animals and used our talking buttons to play the sound that they make. This was lots of fun and some of the animals sounds made us laugh! Lots of nice sunny weather for us this week too – hopefully it keeps up for us into next week!

Whole School

Football Festival

April 25, 2025 Mrs Kerr Leave a comment

Today some of our learners attended the ASN Football Festival at Broxburn Athletic FC. They had a fantastic time, working on kicking and dribbling skills, and especially enjoyed playing a a giant game of hungry hippos!

Lammermuir

Term Three in Lammermuir

April 4, 2025 Mrs Halliday Leave a comment

We have had a busy term in Lammermuir. We have had lots of events such as World Book Day, Science week and Red Nose Day. We have enjoyed exploring all these themes with fun messy play activities, art Activities, baking and Sensory stories.

For world Book Day we enjoyed the Hungry Caterpillar story and activities in class and we enjoyed an outdoor book hunt and the Goldilocks and three bears story and some puppet shows!

The Red Nose Day cafe was great fun we loved baking our empire biscuits and using the photo booth. We also danced along to the Red Nose Day song.

For science week we made some seed bombs and gave them to our mums for Mothers Day and we also made a grass head which we water in class.

We have been getting some new things for our garden and have enjoyed exploring them. We got some new outdoor chalk boards, some musical toys and mirrors and also some mud kitchen toys. We have been enjoying some nicer weather and making the most of it in our outdoor space.

We have been learning about spring and Easter too. We enjoyed an egg hunt in the garden and also decorated some Easter eggs.

What a busy term, the children have all worked so hard on all their targets this term too and we have seen lovely progress! We hope everyone enjoys their well earned break!

Hopetoun

Spring term in Hopetoun

April 4, 2025 Mrs Devlin Leave a comment

What a busy term we have had, Christmas seems like a long time ago now! We have been very busy with lots of different activities since then. Our topic has been Looking After My Body- Hygiene and everyone has been involved in this through learning about our bodies and how to look after them. We have also taken part in lots of different activities for things like Red Nose Day, Numeracy Day and World Book Day as well as having visits from Happy Hoofbeats therapy ponies and live music now. Some of the pupils have also been to visit the Yard in Edinburgh and have been swimming at Bathgate pool. Hydrotherapy has also continued this term. We are looking forward to another busy term after the holidays. Have a lovely Easter and fingers crossed the sun continues to shine.

Whole School

Spring Clean Week 2025

April 4, 2025 Miss McNaughton Leave a comment

This week Beatlie got to experience and participate in Spring Clean Week. A chance to tidy up the garden areas and local community before we break for the holidays!

The weather was perfect for us all to get out and about in the gardens and local community for all to litter pick.

This all helps our environment too!

Ochiltree

Term 3 in Ochiltree

April 2, 2025 Mrs Ramos Leave a comment

Well what a busy term this has been in Ochiltree! We’ve had some really important responsibilities this term including planning, preparing and running our pre-loved clothing event and Comic Relief cafe and we’ve been making the most of having our school buses to get out and about in the community. We’ve been shopping, testing out some cafe’s and a definite favourite has been our trips to the duck pond and the library at the Lanthorn. We also had lots of fun during Science week exploring animals and how they adapt and we’ve had an absolute blast with our Space topic! We were also lucky enough to make some new furry four legged friends during our Theraponies sessions. Happy Easter to you all!!

Glendevon

Term 3 in Glendevon

March 31, 2025 Hazel Swanston Leave a comment

The Glendevon boys (and staff) can’t believe that we are nearly at the end of term 3 – it has been such a quick term. Here are some of our best bits.

We all particularly enjoyed utilising the multi-sensory room during our story time which was about a wet walk when we got lost and had to find our way back. In science week we enjoyed exploring adapting animals in our multi-sensory time.

We continue to have opportunities for pupils to work with specialists who come in to school as well as utilise resources and groups around the local and wider community.

Exploring the Yard adventure playground interacting with unfamiliar peers and staff and developing our gross motor skills.

Happy Hoofbeats caring for an animal and tactile exploration.

Charan, Barrowland Ballet Theatre and Live music now exploring music and movement through music encouraging independence and interactions.

Ensuring that we have regular sessions exploring our sensory development is crucial and the boys enjoy sessions of tac pac, sensology, soft play, bikes and new sensory experiences this term including the zorb balls and hammocks which have been firm favourites.

We hope everyone has a lovely Easter break when it arrives and we are looking forward to some lovely sunny days when we come back in term 4.

Lomond

Lomond Term 3

March 31, 2025 Miss McNaughton Leave a comment

Spring is Here, Spring is Here…..

Can you believe it – how time flies when you are having fun and that is what we have been doing in Lomond.

What a fantastic term we have had from looking after ourselves to looking after babies and lots of other life skills in-between!

We have enjoyed all the whole school events such as the ceilidh, mental health week and the up-cycling event as well as red nose day, science week, World Book Day and Spring Clean Week.

Our topic this term has been: ‘Looking after my body’ and we have been really enjoying the experiences. All of us had fun bathing the baby dolls – although we ended just as wet sometimes! We also had fun listening to and participating in body awareness songs – especially when we got the parachute out for the last song! We got to have some sensory experience with our sensology which got us all using different care products and smelling lovely scents to relax.

You will see from the photos that we have been loving our outdoor activities – going on the drive deck, bikes, swings, walking and meeting the ponies. We have also been enjoying visits to the yard, Bathgate swimming pool and Community walks. Some of us have also been making great progression on the Innowalk, Hydrotherapy and Rebound as well as our Independent work tasks.

Such a jammed packed but most enjoyable term. Now looking forward to our new topic and new challenges for our summer term.