We had great fun for Fairtrade fortnight doing lots of different activities including baking for our cafe and art. The theme this year was working together, I think you’ll agree that all the classes worked together to produce some great results!
Wow – our first term together is almost complete!
The last few weeks have gone by in a flash, with so many fun and varied activities both in school and out in the community.
We’ve been working hard in class on our targets, and coming together for groups exploring our senses, enjoying music, story and song, and learning about looking after our bodies as we grow up too.
Keeping active has been very important both in and out of school as well as increasing our independence and developing skills in communication, and growing in confidence. Cross class PE groups have been lots of fun, working together with friends and adults from across the secondary school, and learning new skills. Some pupils have also been back on the Innowalk, and quite literally making great strides in progress here!
We’ve also contributed to whole school celebrations and events including Global Goals Week and Fairtrade Fortnight. We’ve been cooking up a range of healthy snacks, meals, and tasty treats in the pupil kitchen, and enjoying trying hard with some messy, bold art creations too.
Many of our pupils have been very happy to welcome back our clown doctor friends as well as our fabulous music therapists, Ellie and Sophie – who have led some really lovely sessions with our pupils – and our dance therapist, Charan.
We’ve definitely made good use of our busses this term, and have also enjoyed some lovely walks in this lovely Autumnal sunshine. We’ve enjoyed collecting items to explore as well as visiting local shops, cafes, the library, and attending a range of community groups including Musically Active Dudes, the Young Adults’ social group at Broxburn United Sports Club, and Gentle Exercise classes in Polbeth. These are brilliant opportunities to develop our life skills and meet new peers and adults too. One pupil has been particularly delighted to get back to his much loved gym visits too, and is working exceptionally hard!
I look forward to what’s in store in the times ahead with our fabulous Duntarvie stars!
Thanks to everyone for a brilliant start to the school year!
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!
Beatlie have had a fantastic Fairtrade Fortnight.
I know we did not have our traditional cafe but hope you all managed to enjoy some of our fab baking at your meet the team events or at home.
All classes participated in several different activities over the week including making a 30th Birthday card for Fairtrade, Story Massage, Cooking, Messy Play and Art making bunting.
Enjoy looking through the videos of all the classes enjoying Fairtrade Fortnight 2024
Duntarvie
Glendevon
Lammermuir
Lomond
Ochiltree
Pentland
Hopetoun
What great fun we have had this term. We have been lucky to be able to go horse riding and the weather was really kind to us. We have done lots of sensory exploration through water play, messy play and our sensory boxes. We have let our imaginations shine with some dressing up and some imaginary play with babies and water- what a great combination!
We are looking forward to going on some new adventures next term, hopefully the sun will continue to shine for us and we can spend lots of time outside.
Here are some of our highlights from this term.
This term has absolutely flown by and we’re so excited to finally see the beginnings of Spring outside!!
We’ve had another busy term getting involved in our school Eco work, Fairtrade activities, Comic Relief and had the best time at our Burns Ceilidh. We’ve also been busy starting our new topic all about people who help us in school and have had fun taking photo’s of people we find who help us as well as getting involved in some of the jobs that they do and we’ll be continuing this topic after the Easter holidays.
We hope you all have a lovely Easter.
Team Hopetoun
Fairtrade Fortnight 2023 is all about spreading a simple message: making the small switch to Fairtrade supports producers in protecting the future of some of our most-loved food and the planet.
Coffee, bananas and chocolate could soon be much more difficult to buy.
Climate change is making crops like these harder and harder to grow. Combined with deeply unfair trade, communities growing these crops are being pushed to the brink.
But here’s the good news.
More people choosing Fairtrade means extra income, power and support for those communities.
By making the small switch to Fairtrade, we can all support producers in protecting the future of some of our most-loved food and the planet.
Fairtrade Fortnight 2021
Climate quiz
How much do you know about the climate crisis and Fairtrade?
Quiz Answers
1. Which continent is most vulnerable to the climate crisis? Africa
2. How many animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction because of the climate crisis? One million
3. Name two Fairtrade products that are at risk because of the climate crisis. Chocolate, bananas or coffee
4. If no action is taken, many cocoa growing regions will become too hot to grow cocoa – that means no more chocolate. What year will this happen by, if no action is taken? 2050
5. How many people from Cote d’Ivoire have the same carbon footprint as one person in the UK? 21
6. Name one way that Fairtrade supports farmers to combat climate change.
7. How many farmers and workers in the world depend on coffee production? 25 million
8. How can you support farmers and workers overseas to cope with the challenges of the climate crisis? Choose Fairtrade!
What a fantastic fortnight we had in Beatlie exploring all that is Fairtrade!
We had fun participating in the baking activity making tray bakes for all our friends and family to enjoy at home as we were unable to hold our coffee morning!
We experienced story massage listening to stories and songs about Fairtrade while relaxing.
Messy Play was fun exploring rice, coffee and chocolate!
We also participated in ‘Climate’ activities such as Litter Picking, Recycling and Gardening.
We hope you enjoy looking at all our hard work and experiences on the Learners Journals but we would also like to give a
HUGE THANKS for all the donations made for Fairtrade Fortnight!
We raised £64 from our virtual coffee morning.
Here are a few photos of some of our frieds enjoying their traybake at home.
Fairtrade Fortnight 2021
Climate quiz for secondary schools
How much do you know about the climate crisis and Fairtrade? This quiz is a good way to get you thinking about the impact of the climate crisis on farmers and workers overseas.
Quiz
1. Which continent is most vulnerable to the climate crisis?
2. How many animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction because of the climate crisis?
3. Name two Fairtrade products that are at risk because of the climate crisis.
4. If no action is taken, many cocoa growing regions will become too hot to grow cocoa – that means no more chocolate. What year will this happen by, if no action is taken?
5. How many people from Cote d’Ivoire have the same carbon footprint as one person in the UK?
6. Name one way that Fairtrade supports farmers to combat climate change.
7. How many farmers and workers in the world depend on coffee production?
8. How can you support farmers and workers overseas to cope with the challenges of the climate crisis?
