Finnish trees
In this photo Natalie is doing her geography book. We were learning about some Finnish trees.
Friday, 30 May 2008
We were writing
These photos are from our Finnish lessons when we were writing a text on the computers.
Beethoven and Haydn
And then we have music. Here we are practising the recorder playing.
We will play the recorder in our end-of-the-schoolyear celebration. We`ll play two songs. The other is composed by Beethoven and the other is composed by Haydn.
Summer begins
In spring every class of our school visits one company. We visited the company called Savopak. They are doing some packages to other companies like Nokia for example. We went around the factory and heard about the company`s history and production.
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Hobbies
Golden Eagle's hobby is cricket. He says: I play cricket. We are doing bouncing practice just now. At the end of each day we have a game of cricket. It is really good fun. I'm really good.
Doo's hobby is playing on her trampoline.
Blackie has lots of hobbies. She says: I like reading thick, exciting books and painting pictures. I think swimming is fun and I like going on dog walks. She also collects lots of things e.g. pebbles, books, shoes and stamps.
Sporran's hobby is football. He says: I go to football training every Tuesday and do very well. My position is striker and I score lots of goals.
Monarch's hobby is cricket. He says: I like to play cricket with my friends and family.
Tod's favourite hobby is building things.
One of Capercaillie's favourite hobbies is swimming. He says: If you've got goggles on, you can see under the water. I like to do this.
Tartan's hobby is crabbing. He says: I have a crabbing rod which I got in Sweden. Crabbing is really fun. All you need is a piece of string, a clothes peg and a bucket of water. The best place for crabbing is on a rocky shore where crabs like to hide. You use a mussel and wait for them to bite.
Lang Syne enjoys pony-riding. She says: My pony is called Blaze. Blaze is a bay coloured Welsh section A with a white blaze on his head and a white sock on his foot. Blaze is 11.3hh high and he is my friend.
Corbett's hobby is playing football. She says: Football is fun. I support: Bayern Munich, Manchester, Italy and Hearts.
Craw likes to visit the fire engine at Edinburgh airport.
Reidcoat is a member of Haddington Athletic Football Club and his hobby is playing football. He says: We have training on a Tuesday night and we have a football match every Saturday morning. We have played North Berwick, Longniddry, Pencaitland, Musselburgh and Tranent. We sometimes have a football tournament.
Puddock enjoys horse-riding. She says: On Saturdays my mum, my sister and I go to the stables and help clean out all the horses. Then I bring in Chester, my horse, and I brush him, clean his hooves and bring his tack in. I get a lesson from Janis. She teaches me to be a better horse-rider and teaches me things like weaving poles and trotting poles.
Tatties does mini-moto every Sunday.
Highland recommends K-nex. She says: K-nex is a building game. You can make almost anything from space hoppers to dinosaurs. I have fun all the time when I am playing with it.
Grouse enjoys swimming. She says: My hobby is swimming because I like water and getting wet. However, when it comes to diving, I'm not so happy. I also like swimming because I think it is fun going underwater.
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
Exercise, Sport and Fitness in Yester Primary
Cleg writes: For exercise I like to jump. I can jump quite high. I like running about. I run round the school playground and I run round my house. When I play football, I enjoy doing headers.
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Grouse writes: I like playing tennis because I can do killer backhands! I sometimes play football at school and I enjoy it very much. After school, on a Friday, I go to judo and I am 2nd mon. I also like running but I don't do it a lot. For fitness I also do some running. I have weights at home so I use them quite often. Most children do gym at school and I am one of those children! Gym is a part of exercise. I like biking but I don't like it when I topple over! Running is another form of exercise.
Runrig writes: My favourite sport is football and I play it at break. I like swimming too. On Thursdays my class goes to gym. Our P.E. teacher is teaching us athletics at the moment.
Highland writes: I exercise a lot. I like going on my mum's stepper. It's good fun. For fitness I run with my mum. I do sports such as football and swimming. I think swimming is the best. It is a lot of fun.
Tatties writes: I like doing motor biking. I enjoy both off-road biking and on-road biking. I also do stunt-biking with my BMX bike. I run a lot - at my house and at school. I play rugby near my school. My rugby team has won a lot of matches. I like to climb trees.
Craw writes: I play football on Saturdays and Tuesdays. Also on Tuesdays I go swimming. I use my weights each morning. I go cycling with my dad - it is fun.
Corbett writes: I love sport, fitness and exercise. I do them a lot, mostly at school. My favourite sport at school is cross-country running. I do it with some other people. I also run, for fitness, as well as walk and cycle. I usually go on a daily cycle around Gifford with my dad. I go for a walk almost twice a week. Finally, I do all sorts of exercise. I have a talent for athletics and am good at doing handstands, somersaults and more..... I really enjoy keeping fit.
Tartan writes: I love biking because I can skid, jump and do wheelies! When I raced my friend, I won by one second. However, when I went on the ramp it collapsed because it was only made of wood. I really like football because I am really good at scoring goals. I have scored five goals in a day. I am also good at cricket.
Capercaillie writes: I like to go on my roller skates. I also like cycling with my dad. For fitness I go swimming with some of my friends. I've got a pair of roller skates which I like to skate on but I'm not an expert because I fall off a lot. I also enjoy climbing because it's fun.
Tod writes: I like gym and athletics because they are fun. I like to play football because it is a great sport. I think running is fun too, but it is very tiring. I go cycling in the school car park and it is great. I love roller- blading because it is cool.
Monarch writes: I like to cycle with my friend. I love running - because I live on a farm, I can run in the fields. I walk up and down our farm road with my friend and my family.
Crannog writes: I like star jumps. They are fun. I do them in the gym. I like to play football. I play up front. I like to score goals. It is fun to run. I run in the school playground and at home.
Sporran writes: I play lots of sport at the weekend - I play football, rugby and bowls and I go swimming. At school I run around a lot - in the playground and round the back of the school on the playing field. When I go to my auntie's house, I always have a shot of her treadmill. At my own house I like to jump on my trampoline. I am a striker at football and I score lots of goals.
Blackie writes: When I do fitness exercises my favourite thing to do is jogging on the spot. You can go fast or slow, or in-between. Star jumps raise your heartbeat which makes you fit. In fact, all fitness exercises raise your heartbeat. Press-ups are good stretches. Stretches are good to do because they help you to warm up your muscles. I like step-ups.
Golden Eagle writes: My favourite kind of exercise is trampolining because it's really fun and my trampoline is big. For sport I like go-karting because I have my own go-kart and I go up ramps and I drive round muddy fields. I also like cycling, because I go quite fast, and tennis, because I do good forehands.
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Visitor number three!
Andrew Borthwick, who works for the British Council, was also visiting Primary 5 to see their blog. While he was in our school, we invited him to come to our classroom too so that we could show him what we have been finding out about Finland and Kuvansin koulu. Mr Borthwick asked us lots of questions about our project and he said that we have been working hard and have done a lot of interesting things in this link with Finland. Like Mixu and Tero, he was very impressed with our work.
Our second special visitor
Our second visitor was Tero Aarnio, a Finnish speedway rider who rides for Berwick Bandits speedway team. He showed us his black and yellow bike, answered lots of our questions about speedway and Finland then looked at our Finland display in our library. He, like Mixu, was very impressed with all the work we have been doing.
Special Visitors in Primary 4 at Yester
We have had three special visitors today. First of all Mixu Paatelainen, the Finnish manager of Hibernian Football Club in Edinburgh, came to visit Primary 5 and he spent some time in our classroom to see what we have been doing about Finland. He was very impressed with our work.
Sunday, 11 May 2008
Europe Day - 9th May, 2008
9th May was Europe Day and we had fun at Goldentime. We were in teams of 5 and we did a quiz about Europe. There were questions about capital cities in Europe, European flags, European food, places in Europe and lots more. The winning team had a good score and each member of that team was given a small prize.
After our quiz, we went outside into the front garden and Mrs Edwards took photos of us holding European flags. We posed for the photos beneath our school flagpole.
Can you see the Finnish and Scottish flags on our flagpole?
Red Rose Bushes
Each class in our school planted a red rose bush in a special garden to commemorate our Ruby Anniversary. Here are Cleg and Golden Eagle with Stirling Bear at the new rose garden.
Friday, 2 May 2008
Anniversary gifts
At the end of our special 40th Anniversary day, every child in the school was given a gift. We each received a bookmark with the school badge, the dates 1968-2008 and the words "Yester Primary School - Celebrating 40 Years Learning Together".
It was a very special day for us all and we enjoyed it very much.
A special cake
After our party we went to the school hall to join the rest of the pupils, staff and special visitors (former pupils and staff) to see the youngest and oldest pupils cutting the special 40th Anniversary cake. We sang "Happy Birthday" to ourselves and gave the school three cheers.
Red party
In the afternoon we had a "red" party in our classroom. We played Pass the Parcel - Reidcoat won this game and his prize was four red pencils. We also played Red Corners, Musical Chairs and Musical Statues. We danced a lot of the time and had fun. Some of us had dressed up in red clothes.
40th Anniversary
We had a special "red" lunch to celebrate our anniversary. We had tomato and basil soup, or watermelon slices, followed by spaghetti bolognaise or vegetarian chilli wrap and, for dessert, we had either fresh strawberry salad or frozen strawberry yoghurt. It was delicious!
Sylvia and Lynnette, our cooks, and Mandy, our dining room supervisor, dressed in red for the occasion.
Yester Primary School's 40th Anniversary
Our school was 40 years old on 16th April. We did lots of different things to celebrate such a special anniversary.
To begin the day we had an Open Morning when visitors to the school visited the classrooms to see us at work and to look at the special displays we had made. Each class from Primary 3 to Primary 7 had studied a different decade from the 1960s to the 2000s. We made an interesting display about the 1990s. We also visited the other classrooms to find out about the other decades.
Stirling Bear
Cleg and Stirling Bear in front of our International Education board
You may have noticed that a certain little bear has started appearing in the photographs. She is our class mascot and she is called Stirling Bear. She is called that because she comes from Stirling which is a lovely town in the middle of Scotland.
We have taken lots of photographs of Stirling Bear in various places in our school. She has been photographed in different lessons, with different pupils and at special events too.
Today is a special day for Stirling Bear because she has gone on her holidays to Finland! She has been put in a packet with a postcard of Scotland and a bag of Edinburgh Rock sweets and she has been sent to Kuvansin koulu to join in lessons with our Finnish friends. We hope that she will have lots of photographs taken in Finland and then, when her holidays are finished, she can come back to us. We are looking forward to seeing what she gets up to in Finland!
Keep looking for photographs of Stirling Bear to see what she has been doing in Yester.
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