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Globl Goals Week 2024

Global Goals Week is an annual week of action, awareness, and accountability for the Sustainable Development Goals.

What are the Sustainable Development Goals?

The Sustainable Development Goals are a set of global priorities for ensuring that economic, environmental, social and cultural wellbeing is achieved for everyone around the world. They are ambitious goals for governments across the world to achieve, but there is a lot we can do at school and at home to support them.

Why are the goals important?

The goals aim to end poverty, protect the planet and try to make sure that everyone around the world is living comfortably.  All very important and worthwhile goals to work towards! Each goal has specific targets for governments to achieve over the next 14 years. In schools, we can help to support the meeting of these targets.

How can we play our part in achieving these goals?

In our school we already do lots of excellent work to make the world clean, green and more sustainable! We have also made links between our Climate Action Schools projects and the Sustainable Development Goals so we will be able to record, monitor and evaluate our progress in helping achieve these goals.

This year we will be highlighting the following goals and this week was an introduction to these goals:

Global Goal 3: Daily Walking Club, Joint Healthy Snack

Global Goal 12: Paper recycing projects

Global Goal 15: Natural Art projects, Outdoor Music

 

Beatlie Fairtrade Fortnight 2024

   

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

Summer term in Lomond

What a fantastic end to the first year in our new school. We have had so much fun exploring everywhere. The weather has been a little bit nicer so we have made the most of being able to get out and about. We have had some very exciting walks and we even met a tractor with a very friendly driver who stopped to let us come close and see his tractor.

We have had lots of fun inside school as well, with our teddy bears picnic and clown doctors party both happening on nice sunny days. Even when it has not been as nice, we have still managed to make the most of our lovely new gardens, who knew that a poly tunnel was a great place to have a dance!

We finished our term with a lovely trip to Lochore Meadows country park where we had great fun in the play park then we had our picnic lunch, we even managed to have an ice cream before getting on the bus and coming home.

We hope everyone has a lovely summer and comes back to school looking forward to all the adventures we have in store for next year.

Ochiltree 2024

Ochiltree have had a fabulous year! I for one have loved every minute of it and will miss them very much!

It has been a year of fun and laughter, skills and attainment and the children have done themselves and you proud!

Alex and Fletcher have achieved their Asdan Transition Challenge and move onto their senior phase after the summer.

Mollie also moves into the senior phase class with one more year of her Asdan to go.

Brendan, Liam and Stanley will continue on their Asdan journey in Ochiltree with new friends joining them after the summer.

I hope you have all kept up to date on their journey this year through their Learners Journal and have enjoyed all the photos and videos of how fantastic they have been participating in all the wonderful activities we have had this year.

A special thanks to all who have supported all the youngsters in Ochiltree this year goes to: Madge, Alison, Tracy, Kerri, Ashley and Susan.

Have a fantastic holiday and look forward to seeing you at some of our school getharings next year. x

Lammermuir Term 2

This term in Lammermuir we have been busy celebrating lots of different events – From Children in Need to St Andrew’s day, World Children’s Day to Christmas.  We have taken part in cooking and baking activities, arts and crafts activities and some relaxing activities.

We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year!

From everyone in Lammermuir

World Food Day

This week in Beatlie we recognised World Food Day by making sensory bottles with the focus ‘Water is Life, Water is Food. Leave No One Behind’

World Food Day takes place annually on 16 October and promotes awareness of hunger and action for the future of food, people, and the planet.

Take a look at how much fun we all had making the bottles and how great they all look now they are finished.

 

#WorldFoodDay

#ZeroHunger

#FoodSecurity

#SustainableAgriculture

#EndHunger

#NutritionForAll

#GlobalFoodChallenge

Beatlie Scarecrow Festival 2023

Our first cafe in our new school and what a lovely morning we had joined by some strangers………..

Thank you to all who came and enjoyed the lovely baking the children prepared over the week.

Thank you to all the children and staff for decorating the hall and making fantastic scarecrows.

Everyone had the opportunity to vote for their favourite – although everyone is a winner, Peat was the peoples favourite on the day.

Enjoy watching the videos of us all preparing for the day and a second one showing us all enjoying the morning.

See you all again for our Children in Need cafe on 17th November.