Trip to Knox

Murrzo’s thoughts on 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

A couple of weeks ago the two J.R.S.O., Swagger and Pony, went to teach the primary 1/2's how to cross the road safely.
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

Botany trip

A few days ago our class went for a little walk around Gifford for our Botany project which is all about plants, trees and wildlife growing things. :) While we were walking around we stopped a few times too look at trees and flowers. Also, a few of the pupils' parents came in and went for a walk with us. Mr Morgan knew so much about plants some of us were amazed.
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

On Tuesday 15th and Wednesday 16th June we went to Knox Academy for out induction days. We all met up in the hall at the start of the day. For Traprain House our first class was science and we got to use a Bunsen burner which was really fun! Then we did dance with a teacher called Mr Campbell who was really funny. :)

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

In class we are doing a botany project which means studying flowers and trees scientifically. As part of our Botany project we decided to go on a trip. On Monday (14th June) we went on a trip to the local woods down the road from the school. The purpose of our trip was learning about different plants and trees.

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

Trip to Knox Academy

There won't be any posts from Yester for a few days as the class is working at Knox Academy for two days. They will be in the same classes that they will be in next year and learning about what to expect. If any of the class is reading this, why not add a comment to this post and let us all know how you're getting on!

Mr Devereux

Guitar Hero

In our Guitar Hero project our band is called KIX .The members in the band are Sov who is on the drums, Skitt who is on bass and Bizz who is on guitar. We are really enjoying our project. On the 16th of June we are going up to Knox Academy for the battle of the bands. We have been very successful in the songs that we have played. We are the only band who has been on medium difficulty and the rest of the bands have only been able to do easy. The best bands so far are KIX, Relentless and Sound Smashers.

By Sov, Skitt and Bizz

Primary 1 learning stories!

On Friday we went down to primary 1 and they shared their learning stories with us (: A learning story is a little book to keep track of their learning. Their learning stories were all about their whole class project right now and that is all about farming, farm animals, crops they grow on farms and more. We went with our buddies to hear what they have been learning and after that we had to write a little comment to tell our buddy how much we enjoyed reading their learning story and also about how much information they have researched.
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 ♥

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 week is money week. We play loads of great games but this one was our favourite !
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!

Mr Devereux had headlines on the interactive whiteboard that he would change every round. He also had companies up on the normal whiteboard that he would also change the share price of every round.

Menace thought : "It was better than normal maths and everybody enjoyed it! It was great fun ! =)"-

Brownie thought : "Fun, fun, fun! It was the best thing that we have done in maths in ages =)"

Murrzo thought : " We played it last year in maths but this year was better =) "

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

$$$ MONEY WEEK! £££

This week is money week! Money week is when we learn about money and how to use it properly. Today (Tuesday) Mr Devereux was teaching us about shares. A share is when you pay a certain amount of money for part of a company called a share. A share is a piece of paper that says you own a part of a buisness. The more shares you buy, the more of company you own.

Tomorrow we are going to play an investment game where we get into pairs and buy and sell shares depending on the news articles Mr Deveruex is going to put on the board. We each start off with £100 and we see who can make the most money by the end of the morning. Izzy's mum is coming in to help. Last year Izzy, Murrzo, Captain Choas, Fish and Skitt played this game and it was so fun! We can't wait to play it again! =D

by

Izzy and Moonbeam

=)

Promenade theatre

Yesterday we did some drama in class. (:

We were learning about Promenade Theatre. Mr Devereux let us act one out in the hall and it was little red riding hood.

Promenade Theatre is when the audience take part and then become part of the play by taking part in the scenes up as they go along.

In our case we all became phones, chairs and doors and more. We also got to act out the characters like granny, Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf. It was really fun and we all like it.

We are now making up our own plays in groups. (We get a fairy tale story, jazz it up and act it out). There is Shrek, Alice in Wonderland and Humpty Dumpty with a twist).

By Rascal and Moonbeam

Science Lesson =o

We did a science experiment. We stretched springs with weights and we did another exeriment on oil. It was really hot at first but as it cools down it goes thicker. It was really fun science to learn about.
=o{D

By Brownie and Giggles =P

Guitar Hero! =]

Yesterday we started a new topic called 'Guitar Hero'. It's an Xbox game (a type of electronic game-console) in which you make a band using a connected guitar, drum set and microphone.

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

=)

Kizzy and Izzy's Mad Golden Time

National Hockey Tournament! =)

Yesterday (Thursday 27th May) the hockey team did another tournament at Peffermill. At Peffermill they have two pitches!!!! Teams from all over Scotland came for fun matches. Our team did really well and won! =D

We played 5 matches against lots of different teams. Some teams weren't much of a challenge, but some others were. The first game was quite hard because we weren't used to the astro-turf (fake grass) but after that we were fine. Here are the scores to our games:

YESTER OTHERS

draw

4 - 0

3 - 0

1 - 0

2 - 0

At the end we had a really weird game of hockey with a team called 'Peebles' where people were picking up the ball and actually throwing it in the goal! It was really fun!! =P

Then at the very, very end we had a big group photo of all the teams that were playing there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At the end of the day we had soooooo much fun we could have stayed there for the whole day!!!!!!

by Izzy and Murrzo =)

Grassy art

On Tuesday 25th of May 2010 we had an art lesson about different types of plants. We went outside and collected things that we needed for our collages. When we got inside we sat down to make our pictures. We all got different things to stick on our pictures and then we got going making them. Mr Devereux said that we could stick different things down on our pictures.

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

On Tuesday 25th May we did a soil experiment where we got a bit of soil from the nursery garden and took it apart. We sorted the soil on bits of paper. We found all sorts of things from stones to worms. We had to sort the things we found in to piles and make sure they went into the right pile so they didn’t get mixed up. We kept 3 of the soil piles and their piles of stones and other things to put on display. Some people put their bugs under cups to stop them running away. Some people gave their bugs names. There were Bobs, Freddi’s, a Susan Boyle and a Gordon Ramsay. After the experiment, all the bugs were put outside, and the soil was put back in the nursery garden. Here are some comments about the experiment:

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

Police Talk

Today we had a talk with P.C. Paton and P.C. Black which was fun and we learnt a lot about drugs and the effects on your body.

by Nonny & Sov

Meadowbank

On Wednesday 26th May some of the class went to Meadowbank for a sports competition.

Meadow Bank is a sports competition for schools around East Lothian, where we compete against each other.

Here are the events we did:

Bizz and Pony - 80m sprint

Ponakins and Skitt - 150m sprint

Milz - 600m (long distance)

Rascal and Skitt - Long jump

Bizz and Milz - High jump

Sov and Moonbeam - Cricket Ball

Ponakins, Murrzo, Menace, Captain Chaos, Fetts, Swagger - Tug of war

Pony, Skitt, Ponakins and Bizz - Relay

We all did really well and here are the results;

Bizz - 80m sprint - 3rd

Pony - 80m sprint - 3rd

Ponakins - 150m sprint - Ist

Skitt - 150m sprint - 3rd

Milz - 600m (long distance) - 2nd

Rascal - long jump - 5th

Skitt - long jump - 5th

Bizz - high jump - 1st

Milz - high jump - 1st

Sov - cricket ball - 1st

Moonbeam - cricket ball - 5th

Ponakins, Murrzo, Menace, Captain Choas, Fets and Swagger - tug of war - Last :(

Ponakins, Pony, Bizz and Skitt - Relay - 4th

All together, out of the small schools we came...... 2nd!!!!!!! :)

We all really enjoyed it and the rest of the class are very proud of us!

Ponakins and Milz x

Hockey Competition

On Tuesday 25th May Captain Chaos, Bizz, Menace, Izzy, Moonbeam, Swagger, Murrzo, Skitt and Pony went to a hockey competion in Penicuik. We were in the Regional Finals because earlier in the year we were in another competition and we won so we qualified for the Regional competition. At the competion there were eight teams and we came fourth.


By Captian Chaos and Bizz

Plant Dissection

Yesterday we dissected a plant. We had to take all the parts out the plant such as the:

Ovary

Stem

Petals

Stigma

Stamen

Sepals

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 ☺

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 ;)

Class talks

We got given a class talk to do on a topic that we had never done before and we were interested in. We had 3 weeks to prepare it in and then we had to present it to the class. Rascal was the first to do her class talk. It was about Sweetheart Magazine which Rascal writes for. Then it was Kizzy who did her class talk on her trip to France and the fact that she was stuck in France because of the ash cloud. The others did theirs on:

Brownie - Alligators and Crocodiles

Bizz - Dider Drogba ( a footballer)

Captain chaos - Jonah Lomu (rugby player)

Nonny -Motorbikes

Tashmeer - Army Cadets Force

Menace and Murrzo (they did their class talk together) - Yester memories

Bee - Eczema and Coeliac

Dizzee - My pets

Izzy - Hunt, point, retrieve dogs

Star - Sunflowers

Fets - Plants

Ponakins - Smoking

Swagger - Sound

Moonbeam - Avatar

Squidy - Aliens vs Predators

Milz - Jacqueline Wilson

Pony - Australian animals

Sov - Foster and Stafes

Nevis - Diggerland

Skitt - Garvald

By Moonbeam and Kizzy

Video Conference

Today Yester and Stadil-Vederso Skole had another video conference. The pupils in Stadil-Vederso Skole have been very busy reading the posts which Yester pupils have been putting on the blog. Kizzy and Dizzee were delighted to be asked individual questions about their posts.

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