School Blog

Another busy week for walking month this week. This week's challenge was for each pupil to make a Rainforest Animal Mask in class and then go out exploring on their walk with their mask. We have seen lots of lovely, creative masks and the children all really enjoyed stomping and roaring through their walks dressed ... Continue reading Walking Month Week 3 →

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 ... Continue reading Walking Month Week 1 →

This year the theme for Earth Day 2025 was Our Power, Our Planet. Each class fully embraced this theme by exploring solar lights, windmills and planting some seeds for our garden and helping to decorate our new special memorial garden. Each class also took part in activities in class creating some lovely art work using ... Continue reading Earth Day 2025 →

Another busy term in the Pentland Class! We have all been working so hard on our activities in class and having the best time with our friends and adults in class. We have lots of lovely visitors including Diesel, Sparkles and Willow the ponies from Happy Hoofbeats, Live Music Now, Dance Namaste and the theatre ... Continue reading Pentland Term 3 →

Another fun and very busy term in Duntarvie ! There's been a big emphasis on keeping our bodies moving this term and learning new skills as we do so. Everyone has either been out at swimming to Bathgate Xcite, or in the hydrotherapy pool this term, and some of us have been at both. Being in ... Continue reading Duntarvie Round Up - End of Term! →

What a busy week we had last week on the run up to Comic Relief, we all worked really hard in art and cooking to prepare for our cafe. It was lovely to see everyone who came along and there was lots of games, music, prizes and delicious cakes and bakes. To top it off ... Continue reading Comic Relief 2025 →

We had a visit from the Barrowland Ballet Company on Thursday. They explored their 'Poggle and Me' story with some of our pupils over two sessions. Their imaginative production really caught the attention of our pupils and the interactions during the show were amazing to watch!

Everyone had a wonderful time exploring different stories around the school Bedtime stories, silly puppet shows, fairy tales and linking music to stories through a book hunt in the garden. We have also made a whole school story massage which we carried out altogether at assembly. This will live at reception for anyone to look ... Continue reading World Book Day →

Lammermuir have been busy bees since coming back from the Christmas break. We have had lots of fun activities arranged around our topics of Winter, Robert Buns, Chinese New Year and Valentines. For our Winter topic, we made snowman sensory bags, played with real snow in the garden, made our own snow and also explored ... Continue reading Topic, Topic Topic! →

We have been really busy this term doing lots of fun things for Christmas. We have all worked so hard on our Nativity performance. Everyone look fantastic in their costumes and they all used their switches independently at the appropriate time too! We have been doing lots of Christmas crafting and Christmas cooking. We made ... Continue reading Christmas in Lammermuir! →

As always Duntarvie have had a jam packed and fun term and we can't quite believe it is almost Christmas already! After our harvest fundraising cafe we have been busy shopping every week to buy items for the West Lothian foodbank. We delivered it all last week and managed to collect a whopping 62.2kgs in ... Continue reading Duntarvie End of Term round up →

What a fantastic term we have had here in Pentland! The pupils have been exploring hydrotherapy and pool play sessions and have increased in confidence and skills while having so much fun. We have also been busy with our fashion topic and have loved exploring all the different costumes and materials. We engaged well with ... Continue reading Term 2 in Pentland Class →