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
We just want to give a huge thanks to the West Lothian Council Community Payback Team. They donated us a beautiful Christmas garden that they made themselves from scratch. We are so grateful and appreciative of the amount of work that went into this.
This has made our lovely outdoor grounds even more special this Christmas!
We’ve had another super busy term in Ochiltree and we’re all definitely ready for our Christmas break! This term we’ve been working really hard developing our communication skills and have been enjoying lots of opportunities to use these across the school using our individual communication aids to deliver lots of messages. One of our favourite days this term was Universal Childrens Day where Ochiltree took over from the 2 Debbie’s for the day, we were so busy and we were all very happy to swap back!! We’ve been busy exploring a variety of different kitchen measures in cooking to make lots of yummy snacks and we have been participating in some cross class groups with our friends from other classes for PE, health groups and more recently for our Christmas activity groups. We’ve been practising lots for our Christmas performance which we’re all looking forward to showing you this week.
Merry Christmas to you all!
Team Ochiltree
What a fantastic term we have had here in Pentland! The pupils have been exploring hydrotherapy and pool play sessions and have increased in confidence and skills while having so much fun. We have also been busy with our fashion topic and have loved exploring all the different costumes and materials. We engaged well with all of our activities including lots of singing, music, drama and listening and attention activities.
We have also been working hard on our body awareness and co-ordination skills during our PE sessions, we were working hard on balance, jumping, crawling and sliding.
Another of our favourite activities this term has been our session with the Clown Doctors – we love to play and interact during our sessions and are always so excited to see the Clowns.
Merry Christmas to all our lovely families when it comes!
We have been very busy over the last few weeks in Lammermuir. We have been collecting toys for River Kids toy appeal so that children all over West Lothian will have a toy to open this Christmas. Thank you to everyone who kindly donated. Our class went and delivered all the toys this week and then went to Dobbies afterwards to look at all the decorations. We enjoyed looking at all the lights, smelling all the festive scents and feeling lots of different textures.
