Thursday, 1 July 2010
Mr Devereux's final post
I'm afraid I couldn't get the Moviemaker file Ponakins and Bee produced to work. I did try.
Hope you all have a toptastic summer holiday!
Mr Devereux
Fish's memories
Bye :) Fish
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Bizz looks back
Bizz
Captain Chaos and Tashmeer
Captain Chaos :) Tashmeer :)
Menace
Yester is only school I have ever at! And soon I will be leaving. =(
So I would like to share a few of my favourite moments.
My class the best class ever to have been at Yester (duh).
My class has had some really great moments together. Even when we fall out have always made up. Everybody says our class is the loudest class in the whole school. And we can’t say we're not! =D
Anyway I have learnt a lot at my time Yester which I can only thank the teachers for! (Thanks) But I have to say P7 has really been amazing for a lot of reasons:
1. Benmore
2. All the trips
3. Just amazing
Benmore was really fun. =D I really enjoyed the abseiling.
One more thing !!
GOOD BYE YESTER
Izzy's final post
From nursery all the way through to P7 I’ve loved going to Yester. The teachers have all been really friendly, (as long as you behave yourself…!) and don’t believe in just sitting all day and doing boring work. They like to get up and about and be active! We are very eco and we are going for the green flag but sadly we will be gone when they get it! :)
My favourite trip was……… BENMORE!! I loved Benmore so much! It was really fun and it was good to go on holiday with all your friends!
I <3 YESTER! BYE!
Saturday, 26 June 2010
Izzy - musical memories
We started with ‘Fiddle Times Starters’. Then we moved on to ‘Fiddle Time Joggers’. We have also been playing with sheets of music.
This year is our last year of violin. Next year in Knox Murrzo, Captain Chaos and Ponakins will continue violin but I’m going to another school so I’ll learn there!
Izzy
:)
Skitt's thoughts
My year at Yester Primary - Pony
I’m going to miss Primary School so much although I’ve had so many amazing memories!!!!!!
Primary School is quite easy compared to Knox because you have to change classrooms a lot!! It’s much more confusing that Yester. The lunches are really nice!
It’s good how you have more responsibility and you’re more independent!
I love Primary School and I’m going to miss it a lot!
Pony x
My time at Yester - Ponakins
I am not too worried about going up to Knox. Yester has been the best school I have been to and I have loved it. (:
Ponakins xxx :)
My time at Yester - Milz
P7 has been a great year and I have really enjoyed it!
Milz x :)
My time at Yester - Murrzo
Murrzo
Leaving school by Kizzy
From Kizzy =D
Rascal's Yester story
The pupils at Yester are all really nice.
I’ve learnt a lot at Yester & I wont forget the school but I am looking forward to going to high school to meet more friends and learn new subjects(:
Rascal x
Moonbeam's P7 thoughts
I have achieved a lot of things in P7 Like Benmore and King Loth.
I can’t wait till I go up to high school!!! :)
Love Moonbeam xxx
My time at P7 - Swagger
By Swagger
Brownie's farewell
Yester is the only school I’ve ever been to. I’m really sad to be leaving even though I had so many fun moments.
My favourite classes are P2, P4 and P7.
Brownie
My time at Primary - Star
By Star :)
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
Squiddy's thoughts
Squiddy
Nevis reflects
By Nevis
Fets remembers Benmore
By Fets
Yester by Nonny
By Nonny
My time at Yester Primary School
In Yester I have learned loads of great and useful things. I have improved on my maths – going from level A to level E.
I have improved on my spelling – Now on level F!
I have improved on loads of things like my language and my writing, and that’s all thanks to all the great teachers that have got me through it all.
I especially loved Benmore Camp. We had loads of great activities and I made some great new friends. There was loads activities like: caving, climbing and abseiling, canoeing, forest walk, gorge walk, high ropes and loads more.
That’s all the things that I enjoyed at Yester and I really don’t want to leave.
Thanks to all the teachers and thanks to all my best friends.
Bee P7 x
Moonbeam and Kizzy at Knox
What lessons we had
Maths
Science
Dance
Drama
ICT
P.E.
Modern Studies
CDT
Geography
Moonbeam and Kizzy
Trip to Knox
Going to Knox was a great experience and I’m really looking forwards to going there after the summer.
Milz’s thoughts on Knox
I really enjoyed going to Knox and I’m looking forward to going after the summer. I really enjoyed the lessons and my favourite ones were CDT, Guitar Hero, P.E and Modern Studies. Knox is so big and I will definitely get lost next year!
By Murrzo and Milz
Teaching P1 and 2
Firstly we asked them what they already knew which wasn’t very much so we took them to a proper road where we told them where it is not safe to cross and where it is safe to cross. It went really well and P1/2’s can say that they can cross the road the safe way!
Pony and Swagger
Friday, 18 June 2010
Botany trip
When we went on our walk we learnt a lot about the wildlife. We got to draw the leaves, seeds and also we got to learn about the types of trees. Some of the trees were: silver birch, oak, beech, hawthorn, sycamore, pine, nettle and many more. We also found some tops of acorns which some wild animals had left behind.
Thoughts of the trip
Nevis: ‘I liked the trip and I learnt a lot from the trip.’
Rascal: ‘I enjoyed walking and fresh air but it was quite boring at times.'
Brownie: ‘It was good, fun and very interesting.’
Bizz: ‘I thought it was good and interesting.’
Skitt: ‘I thought it was fun and I learnt some stuff about flowers.’
By Rascal and Nevis
Our Knox induction days
We did our Guitar Hero later on in the day. In our classes we split up into bands and came up with band names. We all had a go and the band with the highest score got though to the final. The Pythons were the winners and they were from Garelton! But other people in Lammerlaw and Traprain got into the final as well, because there was 3 acts allowed in the final, and Bee, Murrzo and other people in their class got into the final but didn’t win. :(
On the Wednesday we did sports for 3rd and 4th Period. We did dodge ball and softball. They were both really fun! After the sports for 2 hours we had Modern Studies. It was fun, because we got to make a newspaper article about our visit time at Knox and it was a competition. Bee, Pony and somebody else from Traprain won. But I can’t mention their name. After that we went back into the main hall and did a communication activity that was fun. :) We had to go onto groups and name different things that were hung up on the walls and if we didn’t know them we would just need to leave them out. The first activity was you got a piece of paper and you needed to describe the picture and then you would pass it to your left and then the other person would write something different about the picture. The second activity was when you went to the front and there was a PowerPoint and it was about different languages. You had to match the describing words to their meaning. And the last activity was when you got a piece of paper and thefe were loads of different pictures and you had to name them. If you couldn’t name all of them you would just have to leave it out. And after that it was home time. :)
We both really liked the visit days at Knox and can’t wait to go back in August. We also can’t wait to make loads of new friends.
By Bee and Ponakins xx :P
Botany Trip
Different parents come along to help and share their knowledge on plants. Also they came because it’s a bit pressuring for Mr Deveruex to look after 25 children!
We learnt lots of new trees including:
beech
birch
hawthorn
sycamore
pine
We drew the leaves, seeds and trees on a piece of paper.
At the end, we all split up and had to find a tree that we had identified before and a new one either that we knew the name of or we could ask an adult if they knew. After about 5 minutes we all got back together and shared what we had found.
Soon we will be displaying the drawings in our class!
By
Izzy and Murrzo
Monday, 14 June 2010
Trip to Knox Academy
Mr Devereux
Friday, 11 June 2010
Guitar Hero
By Sov, Skitt and Bizz
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Primary 1 learning stories!
Rascal: "My buddy did great with her learning story (: I really enjoyed reading and learning about it."
Izzy: "My buddy is my brother so it was nice too for him to show how much he has learnt."
By Rascal & Izzy ♥
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Playground Vulcano
Playground Vulcano from oleflemming on Vimeo.
The children had choosen different subjects. This was a part of Lauras presentation about vulcanoes.
Investment Game
This game is called the Investment Game =)
In this game you have to buy and sell shares. At the end of the game the person with the most money wins. You can have your money in different forms. One is in cash and the other is shares. Say if you had 70 shares with Pepsi , then every month they would send you a dividend which contained money which the business earned every week and all the other people with shares in the business would get the same amount as you. When or if the business ran out of money because nobody would buy anything from their shop then you wouldn't earn any money.
In this game we had to make a profit. We had some scrap paper that we could write things on that we needed. We needed the paper for writing things on for the Bank type thing ^ which you will see a picture of [Mr Devereux adds: it was a stock broker's]. Izzy's mum came in to help with the bank and she did very well!
When we went up to the bank, and we wanted to buy and sell a share Mr Devereux would charge a commission that we would have to pay. People got confused by this but they understood it by the end.
We definitely want to play this game again next year in High School =)
By Menace and Bee xxx ;) x
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
$$$ MONEY WEEK! £££
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Promenade theatre
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Guitar Hero! =]
We got into bands of 3, and one of 4:
First we had to name our bands!
- Izzy, Moonbeam, Rascal and Star (DARK ANGELS)
- Skitt, Bizz and Sov (KIX)
- Bee, Ponakins and Nevis (GLEEBERZ)
- Murrzo, Milz, Giggles (STAR SHADEZ)
- Dizzee, Pony and Tashmeer (ROCK 'N ROLLA)
- Swagger, Fets and Nonny (SOUND SMASHERS)
- Brownie, Menace and Kizzy (NEON SHADOWS)
- Fish, Captain Chaos and Squidy (RELENTLESS)
Second we had to make a image for our bands. That means to pick our band's logo and style.
On the 16th of June we are going to visit our new high school (Knox Academy) to compete with all the other P7s who are going to Knox after the summer. It's going to be really fun!
In the next couple of weeks we're going to start really getting into our bands and start practising playing and singing together! =D
by
Izzy and Menace
=)
Friday, 28 May 2010
National Hockey Tournament! =)
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Grassy art
Giggles thought, “It was okay, because I’m not really good at art.”
Bee thought, “It was fun, but we got in a mess with the PVA.”
I was messy and sticky but it was FUN.
The class all did different pictures and all of them are really good! Some people made theirs 3D and some people just made them 2D. J
By Giggles and Bee xx
Soil analysis
Ponakins said, ”I really enjoyed the soil experiment and finding all the bugs!”
Rascal said, “I thought it was really fun and enjoyed holding the worms!”
Fets said, “I thought it was very cool!”
By Milz and Star
Meadowbank
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Hockey Competition
By Captian Chaos and Bizz
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Plant Dissection
We used a little knife to cut the parts of the flower out. There was little slimy part called the ovary and we had to take that out.
Did you know that there are male and female parts to a flower joined together? ♀ <--- female , ♂ <--- male sign
Rascal: " I didn't like it. I thought it was a shame because if you looked at the flower before it was dissected it looked all pretty."
Dizzee " It was fun cutting up a flower."
Rascal ♥ and Dizzee ☺
Monday, 24 May 2010
Outside Goldentime = Fun!
On Friday it was hot so we got to go outside for golden time! =P We played with space hoppers, hula hoops, a giant ball and an experiment that Swagger and Nonny did down the hill. =l
- Brownie and Kizzy were walking round being bonkers!! =0
- Most of the boys were playing 'football' with the HUGE EARTH BALL! =)
- The rest of the girls were sunbathing! ('')>
- Moonbeam was playing football with Dizzee and other people! =.D
- Menace and Izzy pretened that they were in a car in the hula hoops and Murrzo said she was faster than a car. it was funny!(ha ha ha) =o{D
- Ponakins could hula hoop with 4 !!!! =]
- Squiddy and Dizzee were playing two man rounders! :o)
Bizz said: "It was fun because you can do what you want."
Milz said: "It was very good.''
Fets said: ''It was quite fun."
Pony said: "It was good and better than being inside."
By Brownie and Izzy
:) =] =0} =P ;)
Friday, 21 May 2010
Class talks
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Video Conference
If you want to watch a recording of the meeting, just click on:
http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/fm/aef027-9672
As usual, all the pauses are edited out, so you can watch the questions and replies uninterrupted.
Mr Devereux
Tug Of War
What we did today!!!
We were put into pairs and had to see who was stronger. We were doing this to prepare for a competition at Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.
Here are some thoughts of people in the class:
Nevis thought - It was quite fun but a bit challenging.
Caption Chaos - It was fun and enjoyed beating folk!
Swagger - it was good
Dizzee - It was amazing! :D
Ponakins, Rascal, Murrzo, Captain Chaos, Fets and Skitt all got on the team :D
Friday, 14 May 2010
It's Dizzee!
Giggles
Giggles xxx
Mr Devereux writes: "Giggles joined us at the start of this term and has taken part in lots of the fun things we've been doing. I'll add a photo of Giggles next week so you can see what she looks like (though you might be able to spot her in some of the Choices for Life photos)."
School fair
We don’t have a final figure but it is definitely over £1700!
Hope you had a great time on Saturday!
Pony and Nevis
Dyslexia assembly
They showed us a PowerPoint and they taught us a song. The song was great fun.
At the end of the assembly all the volunteers got badges with the Dyslexia Scotland symbol.
By Milz and Brownie :) LOL