After the holidays, we hope to create our Schoolovision film entry on Wednesday 18th April, if everyone is available to help us that day. A number of pupils told me they’d check to see if their parents could help, so if you can, please let me know by adding a comment after this post. We’d hope the filming should take only an hour to an hour and a half, probably in the morning.
Happy Easter!
Telling the class about Sweden.
Many thanks to Veronika for her excellent talk to the class!
About to hit the ball for six!
Yester's winning cross country runners celebrate with the trophy!
This morning the Yester cross country team headed down to Hallhill in Dunbar, to take part in the annual East Lothian Cross Country Championships. After two months of training, we hoped that our very competitive youngsters would do well. Usually there are either five or six schools who enter the small schools’ races, but this year there were a total of nine schools in our races!
Despite that, we are delighted to report that we emerged victorious yet again, returning with the trophy for the 5th year running! Not only that, but our fastest runners were the fastest of any pupils at the event, from either small or big schools from throughout East Lothian! Well done team!
Moving to the music 2!
Moving to the music 1!
This afternoon, each class spent 30 minutes in the (very hot) hall, working out to aid the charity Lepra. As you can see, the children enjoyed themselves very much!
Heading into Yester Estate.
A lovely morning in the park.
Walking through the woods next to the Bleachfield.
The whole school walked more than a mile this morning, in aid of Sport Relief. We set off from the playground, headed down towards the Bleachfield, turned into Yester Estate, carried on up towards the house, came back down the road and walked around the perimeter of the Bleachfield and through the woods, before coming back up towards the school.
Back in class, we used the mapping website Map My Run and the laptops to establish that our mile long walk had actually been a walk of 1.61 miles in total! Well done everyone, and thank you to the various parents who came along and supported us along the way.
A new design of stamp!
Where's the ball going now?
In the gym today, we were playing team benchball games, with each team trying to score by passing the ball to their respective goalkeeper. It’s a very fast moving, all-action game, so I tried to capture some shots of the players in mid-game action- with mixed results! However, hopefully these pictures give a flavour of the fun the class had!
Who has the strongest lungs?
With Stuart Hamilton, at Castlesound Recording Studios.
Here are some thoughts from the morning:
Megan -”We had great fun and it was a great experience for all of us!”
Joe – “It was really fantastic to see all the equipment there!”
Caitlin – “It was a really cool experience!”
Lauren A – “It was fun but it was quite hard work.”
Angus – “It was really fun seeing how a professional recording studio operates, but it was hard work!”
Finlay G – “We’ve all got our hopes up- we hope to do really well (possibly even win!) but this was a once in a lifetime experience that not a lot of people are able to have.”
Daisy – “It was a great day and a great song to sing!”
The class rehearse!
Filming in the studio…
Choosing where to stay…
Deciding which type of car might be best to rent…
Working out how much money will be left!
Our task in ICT this morning was to budget for a family holiday to anywhere in Europe. This gave the class lots of scope to go wherever they wanted to, using either Ryanair or Easyjet as the flight carriers. We had learned the basics about how to book flights, accommodation and car hire last week in Money Week, when the class were asked to budget for a holiday to Finland, so this represented a leap forward in terms of allowing each pair to actually explore and decide what appealed most to them.
The budget was £3000, which included flights for a family of four, accommodation in the country you cose to fly to and car hire, as well as considering how much money would be needed for the duration of the holiday as spending money. At the end, we shared our plans with each other, and heard of some tremendously diverse and creative ideas in which to spend (or not spend!) all of the available budget!
We were hopeful that we had done quite well in Thursday’s orienteering competition at John Muir Country Park in Dunbar…
If you click on this link from the Outdoor Learning team’s blog, you might enjoy reading about the result! Not only did we retain the P4/5 trophy, we also won the P6/7 trophy too! Well done to all the pupils who took part!
Some of the class in the sun at John Muir Country Park, after having completed the course.
Although we don’t yet know the results, as the event is running all day, with schools arriving at different times throughout the morning and afternoon, the P5/6 pupils feel they performed well. Hopefully we will know the results tomorrow!
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