School Blog

Drama has been up and running since after the February break and it's been lots of fun. Some children have been exploring sea life sensory under the sea. Another group have been taking turns to drive a bus to the harbour, then hopping on boats across the sea on adventures. Other children have been swimming ... Continue reading Drama →

Athletes in Ochiltree and Duntarvie have continued to come together on Monday afternoons to develop their physical activity and motor skills. This term we have focused on: Mobility activities (based on the Special Olympics Motor Activity Training Programme) with Louise Stretching and body awareness with Jill Golf and Croquet with Rachael

Beatlie choir have been working hard this school year. The children have been enjoying new songs with props to encourage engagement. They have also been working on vocalising into a microphone. We have been having so much fun with our new pancake song.

The pupils of Beatlie had fun celebrating World Book Day this year focusing on two books from this year's selection - One Big Family and Chaos at the Chocolate Factory. There were: Visits to the library for story time Story massage and individual story times Sensory exploration and art using chocolate Book hunts in the ... Continue reading World Book Day 2026 →

Today 8 of our athletes represented Beatlie at the ASN Boccia & Curling Festival at West Lothian College. Everyone had lots of fun and coped so well with the big, unfamiliar and very noisy hall! Well done everyone, we are super proud of you

Wow, what a quick and busy term we have had in Hopetoun. We have made the most of being able to go on the minibusses so we have been to Dobbies and the centre to see all the Christmas lights and listen to the Christmas music, we even got to smell Christmas at Dobbies! We ... Continue reading Winter term in Hopetoun class →

More swimmers have been making a splash at Bathgate Xcite this term. Our second Friday morning group recently completed their 5 week block with Ethan, Hira and Madison achieving their Aqua Bronze Award and Teddy receiving a progress award. 2 of our senior pupils have also been swimming on a Thursday afternoon. Fletcher achieved his ... Continue reading Term 2 Swimming ‍♂️ →

We have had a fantastic festive term in the Pentland class! We have had a ball taking part in all of our Christmas activities, parties and shows and have been full of festive cheer and joy. We have continued to work hard on all of our individual targets and routines and constantly impress everyone with ... Continue reading Merry Christmas from Pentland! →

Well, this term has definitely danced past us in a wintery whirlwind - filled with learning, achievement and most importantly - fun ! Our days have been extremely busy both in school and out in the local community, with assemblies and learning on a range of topics such as Remembrance, Fireworks, World Children's Day, St ... Continue reading Winter Term Round Up - Duntarvie! →

We have had a great Term here in Lomond experiencing and learning all about Night time. We immersed ourselves into the topic with lots of arts and crafts. We enjoyed making stars using different media, making spaceships with our painted footprints and salt dough stars. We participated in World Children's Day and listened to the story ... Continue reading Lomond Term 2 →

What a busy term it has been! Our topic this term has been Emergency Services. All our children have enjoyed exploring the Topic box. We have had Doctors, Nurses, Fire fighters, Ambulance drivers and Police officers. Tommy favoured being a policeman and enjoyed looking at himself in the mirror! Hira happily explored the police cars ... Continue reading Glendevon end of term! →

We have had another busy term in Ochiltree and we can't believe we're already at the Christmas holidays! This term we have been busy working towards some of our ASDAN challenges. The first was through our weekly health group where we really enjoyed our sessions with Childsmile. We explored healthy food through games and we ... Continue reading Merry Christmas from Ochiltree →