Happy International Walking Month!! The theme for this years walking month is the rainforest and how reducing our carbon footprint will help the rainforest and the animals that live there. This week each class has gone on a local walk and have been on the hunt for some rainforest animals on their way.
See how many you can spot in our photographs….
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!
This year the theme for Earth Day 2025 was Our Power, Our Planet. Each class fully embraced this theme by exploring solar lights, windmills and planting some seeds for our garden and helping to decorate our new special memorial garden.
Each class also took part in activities in class creating some lovely art work using paints and handprints to make Earth pictures which was lots of fun and lots of mess!
Take a look at how busy we have been!
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!
Another busy term in the Pentland Class! We have all been working so hard on our activities in class and having the best time with our friends and adults in class. We have lots of lovely visitors including Diesel, Sparkles and Willow the ponies from Happy Hoofbeats, Live Music Now, Dance Namaste and the theatre group Imaginate. We have loved all of these experiences and have been able to express ourselves in lots of different ways.
Some of the learners in Pentland have been out to Bathgate Xcite for swimming and others have enjoyed some hydrotherapy in school. We all love the water and are growing in our confidence and skills every week.
Here are some photograph’s of some of the fun things we have been up to in class and out and about! Enjoy!
Happy Easter!
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.
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!
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!!
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.
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.
