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.
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
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.
Wednesday, 9 April 2008
Dutch visitors at Yester
Today, we had a visit from four Headteachers from Holland. They were here to see how our school system works. We decided to take a photo of them by our International Education board. Mrs Edwards and Mr Purves are seen with them here.
Monday, 7 April 2008
Wednesdays in Primary 4
We enjoy using the ibooks.
Mrs Edwards reads us lots of stories in our library.
We all like to do Art and Design.
Cleg is reading to Mrs Cusack.
Chaffie and Tatties are doing a Language exercise.
Tatties and Mr Leslie, a student teacher, are problem solving.
We all enjoy using the percussion instruments.
Here we are doing our best handwriting.
Grouse talks to the class
Crannog writes:
The first thing we do on a Wednesday is the register. Mrs Edwards asks us all to say something when she calls our name. Next we practise our best handwriting. Then we go to Music with Miss Traill, our Music teacher. Break comes next. After break we have our milk then we do some Problem Solving for Maths and some English Language work. Lunch is from 12.30 to 1.15. We go outside to play. If it is raining at Break or Lunch time we stay in our classroom and play. On a Wednesday afternoon we do Spelling, then Mrs Edwards hears a reading group. We do Art and Design - which we all enjoy - and some ICT work. Sometimes Mrs Edwards reads us a story. At 3.15 we finish school for the day - some of us go home on school buses, some of us go home in cars, some of us walk home and some of us go to After School Club until we are collected by our parents.
The first thing we do on a Wednesday is the register. Mrs Edwards asks us all to say something when she calls our name. Next we practise our best handwriting. Then we go to Music with Miss Traill, our Music teacher. Break comes next. After break we have our milk then we do some Problem Solving for Maths and some English Language work. Lunch is from 12.30 to 1.15. We go outside to play. If it is raining at Break or Lunch time we stay in our classroom and play. On a Wednesday afternoon we do Spelling, then Mrs Edwards hears a reading group. We do Art and Design - which we all enjoy - and some ICT work. Sometimes Mrs Edwards reads us a story. At 3.15 we finish school for the day - some of us go home on school buses, some of us go home in cars, some of us walk home and some of us go to After School Club until we are collected by our parents.
My Weekend
Broch writes:
During my weekend I go to Judo and rugby. I play on my green machine. I sometimes go on my dad's tractor.
Signs of Spring
Monarch writes:
Tree begin to blossom. Birds return from hot countries. The weather usually starts to get warmer. Flowers, like crocuses, daffodils and tulips, start to open up. Some animals come out of hibernation. Frogs lay frogspawn in ponds and rivers. Lambs are being born. Insects come out of their hibernation places. Farmers sow seeds in their fields. Farmers take their produce to the farmers' markets. The days are getting longer because it is getting lighter in the mornings and evenings. People start wearing lighter clothes.
Tree begin to blossom. Birds return from hot countries. The weather usually starts to get warmer. Flowers, like crocuses, daffodils and tulips, start to open up. Some animals come out of hibernation. Frogs lay frogspawn in ponds and rivers. Lambs are being born. Insects come out of their hibernation places. Farmers sow seeds in their fields. Farmers take their produce to the farmers' markets. The days are getting longer because it is getting lighter in the mornings and evenings. People start wearing lighter clothes.
Easter in Scotland
Blackie writes:
Some people in Scotland roll hard-boiled eggs down hills at Easter. Most people have Easter egg hunts. My mum makes a special Simnel cake with 11 balls on top. People decorate eggs and I do too. We eat hot cross buns to remind us that Jesus died on the cross. Most people get eggs or chocolate eggs. We send people cards.
Some people do springcleaning for Easter. I like hearing the Easter story. Easter eggs represent the stone that was rolled away from Jesus' tomb.
Some people in Scotland roll hard-boiled eggs down hills at Easter. Most people have Easter egg hunts. My mum makes a special Simnel cake with 11 balls on top. People decorate eggs and I do too. We eat hot cross buns to remind us that Jesus died on the cross. Most people get eggs or chocolate eggs. We send people cards.
Some people do springcleaning for Easter. I like hearing the Easter story. Easter eggs represent the stone that was rolled away from Jesus' tomb.
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Bonjour a tous!
Bonjour à tous
Notre école, "les Grands Jardins" a treize classes.
L école élémentaire en France se compose du CP, CE1, CE2, CM1 et CM2 (de 6 à 10 ans).
De 3 à 6 ans, les enfants vont à l'école maternelle (petite section, moyenne section et grande section).
A partir de 11 ans jusqu'à 15 ans il y a le collège avec la 6ème, 5ème, 4ème et 3ème puis le lycée jusqu'à 18 ans (avec la seconde, la première et la terminale pour préparer le baccalauréat).
Enfin, nous pouvons aller à l'université pour suivre des études supérieures.
En primaire, nous étudions la langue française, les mathématiques, l'histoire, la géographie, les sciences, l'Anglais ou l'Allemand, l'éducation civique, la musique, l'informatique, l'art plastique et le sport.
Et vous? Quelles matières étudiez-vous à l'école?
Comment fonctionne votre système scolaire?
Nous espérons avoir bientôt de vos nouvelles.
Les élèves de CM2 des Grands Jardins.
Hello everybody
Our school, les Grands Jardins , has thirteen classrooms.
Elementary school in France is composed of CP, CE1, CE2 , CM1 and CM2 (from 6 to 10 years old ).
From 3 to 6 years old, children go to nursery school(“petite section”, “moyenne section” and “grande section” ).
From 11 years old to 15 years old, there is secondary school with “sixième”, “cinquième”, “quatrième” and “troisième”, then secondary school until 18 years old (with “seconde”, “première” and “terminale” to prepare the baccalaureate).
At last, we can go to the university to follow higher education.
At primary school, we study French, Maths, History, Geography, Science, English or Deutch, Civic Education, Music ,Computer Science, Art and Sport.
And what about you? What subjects do you study at school? What levels do you go through during your schooling?
Looking forward to hearing from you.
CM2 pupils of the Grands Jardins.
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