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Fairtrade Fortnight

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Thank You for Supporting Our Fairtrade Café

A huge thank you to everyone who came along and supported Beatlie’s Fairtrade Café. Your support helped make our Fairtrade Fortnight celebrations a great success.

Throughout the fortnight, our pupils enjoyed opportunities for sensory exploration, choice-making, interaction and participation. Taking part in a range of exciting activities, including learning about Fairtrade, exploring where tea products come from and creating Fairtrade tea -themed artwork.

How you can continue to support Fairtrade:

  • Look for the Fairtrade Mark when shopping.
  • Choose Fairtrade tea, coffee, chocolate, bananas, sugar, and other products.
  • Encourage family and friends to buy Fairtrade products.
  • Learn more about Fairtrade and the difference it makes to producers around the world.
  • Visit the Fairtrade Foundation website at www.fairtrade.org.uk for more information.

Thank you once again for helping us celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight and for supporting our pupils and their learning. Together, we can continue to make small choices that have a big impact.

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Global Goals Week @ Beatlie

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Last week we held our Global Goals Week highlighting the 3 Goals we will be working toward over the year.

This year we will be highlighting the following Global Goals:

GG3: Good Health & Wellbeing

Some of us made smoothies and/ or fruit salads, we all participated in physical activities and daily story massage.

GG12: Responsible Consumption

Beatlie display great responsibility with their consumption and we daily participate in recycling daily recyclables and through our art and craft activities we enjoy upcycling something from school to make something new. Some of us had fun taking part in these activities over the week.

GG15: Life on Land

We enjoyed fun participating in a Biodiversity Hunt in the garden finding bug hotels, hedgehog house etc. We also got messy making Bird Feeders and doing some gardening as well as making the most of the weather and observing nature all around us while going on community walks.

Lammermuir

Hopetoun

Lomond

Pentland

Glendevon

Ochiltree

Duntarvie

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Walking Month Week 4

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A little bit of rain hasn’t stopped us from getting out there on our walks this week!  For our final week of walking week, each class went on a walk and collected some natural materials in the environment, experiencing all of the sights, smells and feelings of all of our findings.  When we got back to school we put our materials to good use and made a lovely display board at the front of the school with our wonderful creations!  What do you think?  We think it looks great!

Well done everyone on another successful walking month of May!

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Walking Month Week 2

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Another busy week for all the children in Beatlie getting out and about this walking month.  This week we went on a sound walk – we found all the pictures of the rainforest animals and used our talking buttons to play the sound that they make.  This was lots of fun and some of the animals sounds made us laugh! Lots of nice sunny weather for us this week too – hopefully it keeps up for us into next week!

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Walking Month Week 1

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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….

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Spring Clean Week 2025

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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!

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Pre-loved clothing event

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Last term Ochiltree took part in lots of upcycling projects and today was their final project as they hosted a pre-loved clothing event. They worked very hard to sort and lay out all the clothes, then today everyone had a job to do such as greeting the visitors and manning the stalls. This event also helped us mark the launch of our non school uniform clothing bank.

Some pupils and staff came along for a browse too!

Caroline from the Advice Shop also came along to support families with any questions.

 

 

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Globl Goals Week 2024

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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

 

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Beatlie Fairtrade Fortnight 2024

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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

Lomond

Summer term in Lomond

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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.