We had a visit from Fischy Music on Friday as part of our Family Fun Sessions this year. Thank you so much to the pupils, staff and families who came along and took part. There was lots of dancing, singing, signing and definitely plenty of fun! We hope to welcome Fischy back soon.
Everyone had a wonderful time exploring different stories around the school
Bedtime stories, silly puppet shows, fairy tales and linking music to stories through a book hunt in the garden.
We have also made a whole school story massage which we carried out altogether at assembly. This will live at reception for anyone to look through.
Last term Ochiltree took part in lots of upcycling projects and today was their final project as they hosted a pre-loved clothing event. They worked very hard to sort and lay out all the clothes, then today everyone had a job to do such as greeting the visitors and manning the stalls. This event also helped us mark the launch of our non school uniform clothing bank.
Some pupils and staff came along for a browse too!
Caroline from the Advice Shop also came along to support families with any questions.
Lammermuir have been busy bees since coming back from the Christmas break. We have had lots of fun activities arranged around our topics of Winter, Robert Buns, Chinese New Year and Valentines.
For our Winter topic, we made snowman sensory bags, played with real snow in the garden, made our own snow and also explored some hot chocolate powder and marshmallows in our messy play sessions. We made igloo paintings and melted snowmen in art, using white paint. We used lego bricks to print our igloo pictures. We explored winter treasure baskets and also enjoyed playing games like building up a big snowman made of boxes and trying to knock him down. This activity was one of our favourites and we were all really good at turn taking.
For Chinese New Year we enjoyed listening to Chinese music, exploring the treasure baskets and playing Chinese restaurants with the home corner materials. We made Chinese lanterns in art and explored some rice and noodles in messy play.
We had good fun learning about Robert Burns too. We made our own tartan pictures using pieces of paper and done some mark making to colour in our Robert Burns picture. We dressed up in tartan items and enjoyed our whole school ceilidh and Linda’s son, Isaac came in and played the pipes for us too. We really enjoyed it. Some of us tasted porridge for snack and some of us explore it with our hands for messy play too.
We explored some red jelly and angel delight for valentines messy and play also red water play with heart shapes. We made some canvas pictures and sun catchers for Valentines too.
We are all looking forward to the February break for some well earned rest, ready to tackle the next term!
Last week 3 of our pupils attended the ASN Boccia and Curling Festival run by Active Schools with the college students at West Lothian College.
We took part in lots of different stations to develop our throwing and rolling skills, and had lots of fun!
Sorry we are a bit late putting our review of term 2 on the blog and hope that all our families and friends had a wonderful Christmas and New Year.
Glendevon enjoyed all of the additional festive experiences including the performance, parties, Christmas garden and winter musical parade.
As always we have been working hard throughout term 2 and continue to use our multi-sensory space for a wide variety of purposes including:
We hope to put together a wee video showcasing all the ways that we use the 4D room for the end of the year to share with all our parents.
Glendevon took on the roles and responsibilities of our facilities management team (Calum, John & Sandy) for International Children’s day and made sure pupil’s got their lunches, ensured paths were cleared and safe to use and daily school checks for security were carried out.
Glendevon’s eco representative has been hard at work in whole school groups throughout term 2 and focused on smaller garden spaces for Winter planting.
Glendevon boys have been exploring science concepts in messy science linked to our fashion and materials topic including; what materials to make our clothes from and what would happen to different materials when placed in water. Skills of predicting, showing preferences, retesting theories were all on display – brilliant work boys.
We are all ready for another fun filled term.
What a busy term we have had in Hopetoun class, there has been lots of lovely learning on display as well as lots of fun activities. This term we have been learning all about “my favourite sound” and we put quite a few of these together into our Christmas show with recording of some of these sounds like explosions, giggles, and different types of music. We have also enjoyed drama this term where our naughty horses have caused chaos! We have also been out and about to see lots of different Christmas lights and listen to Christmas sounds. We even went into chocolate production!We can’t wait to see what learning we can do next term. Have a very Merry Christmas!
Another term goes past in a flash!
What a fantastic term we have had in Lomond going on a bear hunt and experiencing lots of different sensories.
It has been such a fun topic for all of us and the children have enjoyed participating in all the different activities. We finished up with a sensory walk going through different materials in our bare feet – fabulous fun!
We have also been busy with the run up to Xmas and have allbeen enjoying our PE activities – especially the sleigh rides on our sheets!
All the children have made great progress with all their individual targets and welook forward tocontinuing the good work as we go into 2025.
Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year and look forward to seeing you all again when we return.
We have been really busy this term doing lots of fun things for Christmas. We have all worked so hard on our Nativity performance. Everyone look fantastic in their costumes and they all used their switches independently at the appropriate time too! We have been doing lots of Christmas crafting and Christmas cooking. We made truffles, Christmas bark, melted snowman biscuits in our cooking groups. We made some lovely decorations, calendars and Christmas cards and coasters in Art. All the children enjoyed our Christmas music and movement group, everyone liked the Christmas songs, ribbons, bubbles and the parachute. We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy and healthy New Year. See you in 2025!
As always Duntarvie have had a jam packed and fun term and we can’t quite believe it is almost Christmas already! After our harvest fundraising cafe we have been busy shopping every week to buy items for the West Lothian foodbank. We delivered it all last week and managed to collect a whopping 62.2kgs in total! Thanks again to everyone who donated items or money.
We have also enjoyed lots of time out and about in the community including Swimming, Potter Around, Gentle exercise, Musically Active Dudes and Growing Together gardening project.
Hope everyone has a lovely Christmas and New Year and we look forward to welcoming all the pupils back in January.
Love Team Duntarvie
