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Duntarvie Final Term!

Duntarvie Class of 2026, that’s wrap!

It has been such a delight to watch you all achieving so many things this term. I have loved seeing you all engage in your various awards and qualifications and seeing you all having so much fun across your rich and varied curricula! It’s also been wonderful to see everyone accessing the local community in a range of sporting activities and hear all about your swimming successes and awards too!

Our wonderful S3s have now completed their ASDAN transition challenges,ย  engaging in a wide range of activities with lots of effort and enthusiasm, spanning arts and crafts, cooking, drama, music, RME, whilst developing life skills, accessing the local community and even participating in work experience tasks by shadowing various people who help us at Beatlie, and within the community, to name just a few areas of learning and skills development.ย 

Our S4 and S5 pupils have been working hard to achieve even more SQAs this term, and have loved learning about how to care for animals, exploring our unique sensory perception systems,ย  and transferring our skills to learning in new and exciting environments. Our S5 pupils also achieved success in learning about relationships with others and keepingย  safe. One S5 pupil has even achieved a National 2 award in learning all about personal health and wellbeing – fantastic!

What’s been so heartening though, is seeing you all find happiness and self expression in the everyday interactions you have with your adults and with your peers. There is so much kindness and laughter in our classroom – thank you for so many memories!

What a year we have had together!

Well done, well done, we are all so very proud of you!

Term 4 Swimming ๐ŸŠ

๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ… Another fantastic term at Bathgate Xcite! ๐Ÿ…๐ŸŒŠ

On Friday mornings, our Group 5 and 6 swimmers โ€” Brooke, Callan, Cole, Riley, Cian, Pete, Reeve and Lewis โ€” smashed it with 6 Aqua Bronze Awards and 2 Progress Awards achieved between them! Incredible effort all round!

On Thursday afternoons, Fletcher continued developing his skills and achieved his Aqua Silver Award. He was joined by Liam, who made good progress towards his Aqua Bronze Award, and Ruaridh, who proudly achieved his Aqua Silver, Gold and Platinum Awards!

Well done, everyone โ€” we are all super proud of you! ๐Ÿ‘

Secondary Sport and Fitness Activities Part 2

Weโ€™ve been busy again in Secondary, keeping active and trying out new sports! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ

Itโ€™s been great to see everyone getting involved, building fitness and enjoying a range of different activities along the way. Plenty of energy, smiles and team spirit all round!

Football at Broxburn United Sports Club โšฝ

Archery ๐Ÿน

Golf at American Golf Driving Range โ›ณ

Dancing at DanceWorld Studios ๐Ÿ•บ

And finally 2 weeks altogether at Deer Park Bowling ๐ŸŽณ

Cricket Festival

๐Ÿ On Monday, three of our athletes took part in the first-ever Edinburgh Disability Cricket Festival at Inverleith Park!

Joining pupils from across the East of Scotland, they had a fantastic time โ€” especially teaming up with pupils from Tynecastle High School. The day was packed with action as they developed their striking, bowling, catching, throwing and running skills.

To top it all off, we finished with a well-earned picnic in the park ๐Ÿงบ๐Ÿ˜‹ โ€” a perfect end to a brilliant day!

Wet Wheels Adventure

What a dayโ€”what a crew! ๐Ÿšคโœจ Who knew we had so many talented skippers in the making?

Two groups of pupils from both primary and secondary took to the water at Wet Wheels, Port Edgarโ€”and it was unforgettable.

Everyone had a turn at the helm, and while we loved the thrill of speed, the highlight had to be spinning donuts and making waves! ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿ˜„

We were even lucky enough to spot Derek the dolphin, along with seals and puffins! ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฆญ๐Ÿง

Safe to say, the staff had just as much fun as the pupils! ๐Ÿ˜„๐Ÿ™Œ

 

MATP Challenge Event ๐Ÿ…

On Monday afternoon we hosted our second Special Olympics Motor Activity Training Programme (MATP) Challenge Event.

Once again, our athletes from Hopetoun, Lomond, Pentland and Glendevon were absolutely phenomenal! ๐Ÿ…

They shone with confidence and energy, proudly showcasing the incredible skills theyโ€™ve been working so hard to develop in training. Their effort and determination were fantastic to see โ€” we couldnโ€™t be prouder! ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ‘

We also loved reading the positive feedback about the skills your young athletes worked on – it’s fantastic to see their hard work and progress being recognised!๐ŸŒŸ

Thought he done amazing.

It was good to see him trying to do something that requires coordination.

Great to see Matthew making such an effort to roll over and knock down the bottles!!

Really good to see Theas legs being worked and from bench.

It was such a busy afternoon, so a huge thank you to the parents and carers who shared photos โ€” we loved seeing all the special moments captured! ๐Ÿ“ธ

Finally, a special thank you and well done to one of our senior pupils who took on the important role of equipment assistant – your help made a real difference! ๐Ÿ™Œ

๐ŸŒŸ Well done to everyone involved โ€“ you were amazing! ๐ŸŒŸ

ASN Athletics Festival

This morning Thea, Lewis, Riley, Jaxson, Madison and Jeet represented Beatlie at the ASN Active Schools Athletics Festival.

Things got a little competitive (especially between the adults ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜‚), but everyone tried so hard and had lots of fun.ย  We saw lots of independent movement and brilliant engagement from all our young athletes!

Races

Javelin

Battleships

Beanbag throw

Obstacle course

Skittles

Boccia

We would like to say a BIG thank you to Dianne and Amber, the 2 West Lothian College students working with us, they were amazing and the pupils loved them!

Well done everyone, you were amazing ๐ŸŒŸ

Secondary PE event

On Monday afternoon we hosted our Secondary PE event.

A BIG thank you to the parents and carers who came along . We enjoyed sharing all the different activities and skills we have been working on this year.

Warming-up in the sunshine โ˜€๏ธ

Activities

Lovely feedback from our parents ๐Ÿ˜Š

 

ASN Fun Run ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ

On your marks… get set… GO!

Teddy, Denny, Callan, Pete and Cole represented Beatlie at another ASN Fun Run at Cedarbank.

Everyone gave it their all, ran fast and had lots of fun!

Well done everyone ๐ŸŒŸ

Term 3 Swimming ๐ŸŠ

Wow! Wow! Wow!

Our swimmers have been working incredibly hard at Bathgate Xcite this term, and their progress has been amazing to see!

On Friday mornings, our Group 3 and 4 swimmers โ€” Sean, Muhammad, Freddie, Frankie, Jaxson, Denny, and Ruaridh โ€” smashed it with 2 Aqua Bronze Awards and 5 Progress Awards achieved between them! Fantastic effort from everyone.

On Thursday afternoons, Fletcher continued his brilliant development towards his Aqua Silver Award. He was joined by Ethan and Stanley, who also made excellent progress towards their Silver Awards, and Alex, who proudly achieved his Aqua Diamond Award!

Well done, everyone โ€” we are all super proud of you! ๐ŸŒŸ