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Glendevon, Hopetoun, Lomond, Pentland

Term 1 Primary PE

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Our athletes in Hopetoun, Lomond, Pentland and Glendevon have been working hard, training towards our first ever MATP Challenge Event on Monday 1st December. They can’t wait to showcase their unique achievements to family and friends (more details will be shared closer to the time, but I am excited to see everyone supporting their athlete with posters, banners or maybe even personalised t-shirts!).

What is MATP?
The Special Olympics Motor Activity Training Programme (MATP) is a unique programme specifically designed for athletes of all ages with Profound and Multiple, Physical and Intellectual Disabilities and/or Complex Support Needs.

It focuses on developing individual skills and abilities rather than direct competition, ensuring each athlete can achieve personal bests and celebrate their achievements.

It is made up of 4 core sport specific MATP skill areas:
• Mobility (gross motor skills)
• Dexterity (fine motor skills)
• Kicking (lower body skills)
• Striking (upper body skills)

 

MATP enables our athletes to increase physical activity, improve motor skills, build confidence, increase participation in sport activities and foster a positive self-image.

Hopetoun Athletes

Lomond Athletes

Pentland Athletes

Glendevon Athletes

 

Lomond

Lomond Term 1

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These dark nights and dark mornings are creeping up on us citing the end of Term 1.

It has been a term for trying different activities out and seeing where we can fit everything we want to do into our timetables. We are settling down now and have good plans in place moving forward into next term when we will continue to work on our targets as well as trying new experiences.

We have been enjoying the farm topic with lots of songs, art and messy play activities. Night time is our other topic which we have started and will continue onto December.

Horse riding was fantastic fun and all experiences either riding the horses or the sensory experience of looking after a horse – thank you to RDA for a wonderful experience.

Lomond is most definitely an outdoor class and we are loving using the wheelchair bike, drive deck, trikes and all the playground equipment for fun as well as developing independent skills using walkers,  playing with others and communicating needs and wants. Lets hope it is a good autumn to allow us continue.

Thank you for all the support throughout the term and look forward to seeing you all for parents night and our Christmas event.

Whole School

Group 1 Swimming 🏊

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Well done to our first group of swimmers who just completed their block at Bathgate Xcite.

They worked so hard, gaining confidence and developing skills in the early stages of buoyancy, co-ordination, spatial awareness, breathing, and entering and leaving the pool safely.

3 swimmers achieved their Beatlie Aqua Bronze Award and 1 swimmer was presented with a Beatlie Swimming Progress Award. Well done everyone ⭐ we are so proud of you 😊

Duntarvie, Ochiltree

Term 1 Secondary PE

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On Monday afternoons athletes in Ochiltree and Duntarvie have been coming together to develop their physical activity and motor skills.

After a fun warm-up altogether, we split into 3 groups:
  • Striking & kicking activities (based on the Special Olympics Motor Activity Training Programme) with Louise
  • Music & movement (using activities from Physiobods and the MOVE programme) with Jill
  • Boccia & New Age Kurling (focusing on teamwork) with Rachael

Then we finish off with a whole group cool down and relax.

Striking & Kicking Activities

Music & Movement Activities

Boccia & New Age Kurling

Whole School

ASN Fun Run

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Today 4 of our athletes represented Beatlie at the ASN Fun Run at Cedarbank School.

The boys took part in the 0.5km walk/run  🏃‍♂️‍➡️ and placed 4th, 9th and 12th out of 20 competitors.

In the 1km wheelchair race our female athlete came 1st!! 🥳

We are super proud of them as this was a really busy event with lots of new faces and an unfamiliar route.

Lomond

Lomond 2024 – 2025

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I cannot believe that the end of the school year is upon us again – it has passed in a flash but such good memories and achievements along the way!

I am so proud of the achievements the children have made and the support the team have provided to ensure they have had the best time exploring, trying new things, communicating, relaxing and generally having so much fun!

We have enjoyed getting out and about in the community – especially this term visiting all the different country parks but also our community walks, litter picks and bear hunts! The class have also enjoyed the use of bicycles, wheelchair bike and drive deck out in the playground and confidence has grown to try out different resources such as the swings, roundabout, bridges and climbing apparatus.  We have also made good use of all the indoor resources too with the favourite being the hydro and rebound.

Thank you and well done to class of 24/25. We look forward to next year and welcoming our new friends  as well as wishing those moving class the best of luck.

Pentland

Pentland Summer Term

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We have had another fantastic time in Pentland over the past few months.  We have been so lucky with the weather and have been out enjoying our wonderful playground as often as we can.  We have each had a great time riding our bikes/trikes and are getting more and more confident with them.

We have been busy out and about for walking month in May taking part in lots of activities about the rainforest and some of us have been out swimming or at the theatre which we have loved.  We have also had lots of lovely visitors to our class including the Clown Doctors who we just love and have so much fun with!

We have had a brilliant year this year and have all worked so hard.  We hope everyone has an amazing summer and we are looking forward to all of our exciting activities in the new term.

Happy Holidays!

Whole School

Football Festival

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Today some of our learners attended the ASN Football Festival at Broxburn Athletic FC. They had a fantastic time, working on kicking and dribbling skills, and especially enjoyed playing a a giant game of hungry hippos!

Ochiltree

Term 3 in Ochiltree

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Well what a busy term this has been in Ochiltree! We’ve had some really important responsibilities this term including planning, preparing and running our pre-loved clothing event and Comic Relief cafe and we’ve been making the most of having our school buses to get out and about in the community. We’ve been shopping, testing out some cafe’s and a definite favourite has been our trips to the duck pond and the library at the Lanthorn. We also had lots of fun during Science week exploring animals and how they adapt and we’ve had an absolute blast with our Space topic! We were also lucky enough to make some new furry four legged friends during our Theraponies sessions. Happy Easter to you all!!

Lomond

Lomond Term 3

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Spring is Here, Spring is Here…..

Can you believe it – how time flies when you are having fun and that is what we have been doing in Lomond.

What a fantastic term we have had from looking after ourselves to looking after babies and lots of other life skills in-between!

We have enjoyed all the whole school events such as the ceilidh, mental health week and the up-cycling event as well as red nose day, science week, World Book Day and Spring Clean Week.

Our topic this term has been: ‘Looking after my body’ and we have been really enjoying the experiences. All of us had fun bathing the baby dolls – although we ended just as wet sometimes! We also had fun listening to and participating in body awareness songs – especially when we got the parachute out for the last song! We got to have some sensory experience with our sensology which got us all using different care products and smelling lovely scents to relax.

You will see from the photos that we have been loving our outdoor activities – going on the drive deck, bikes, swings, walking and meeting the ponies. We have also been enjoying visits to the yard, Bathgate swimming pool and Community walks. Some of us have also been making great progression on the Innowalk, Hydrotherapy and Rebound as well as our Independent work tasks.

Such a jammed packed but most enjoyable term. Now looking forward to our new topic and new challenges for our summer term.