A Year in Yester

Over the last couple of weeks, as Christmas has been drawing near, the children in Yester have been very busy. The following photos show just a few of the things that have been going on…

Christmas lunch for the staff.

P7 violinists keep the staff entertained during lunch!

P7’s storybooks for P1

In the run up to Christmas, Miss Stuart asked the P7s to write their own storybooks, with the intended audience being the P1s. Once they were all completed, the P7 children took them down to P1 and let the younger children hear their stories.

P4s carrying out their traffic surveys in Haddington.

As part of their recent project on Haddington, Miss McNair took her P4 class to Haddington for a day. Part of the day was spent on the streets, carrying out various surveys. The P4 class had great fun!

P7 recently wrote Haiku poems, (see earlier post). As a follow on from this, they then created their own clay paintings of the month they had written about. The painting above shows a wintry scene.

Symmetry work in maths.

Using the ibooks to research information on wolves via the internet

Four P6 children spent the morning in King’s Meadow learning how to make internet web broadcasts last Friday. By the end of the session, they had learned how to make their own radio broadcasts, for all to hear on the internet! All four had great fun! Lochlainn and Lauren were part of a four man team making a broadcast entitled, “Quiz,” based on the popular “Who wants to be a Millionaire” TV show, complete with music and sound effects!

Meanwhile Leah and Sandy made an X-Factor like production, which certainly makes for great listening!

Go here to listen to the children’s work:

1) Quiz

2) X Factor interview. (you may need to scroll down slightly)

The little thing, known as ‘Nothing’ sat up and stretched its legs. It then tried to stand up but it had forgotten how to. ‘Nothing’ tried several times but, failed to succeed. He began to cry
” Oh why, oh why can I not get up?’ his voice was drowned with sorrow.
Then, suddenly, the front door opened and people were running up the stairs like a herd of elephants. They started to talk, then one of them opened the attic door.
The human made the floor creak. The human stopped, and looked around the room. She spotted ‘Nothing’. She picked ‘Nothing’ up and took him to her room.
“Ahh, the light in my eyes, it hurts.” ‘Nothing’ thought.
The girl laid ‘Nothing’ on her bed. She looked at him. ‘Nothing’ looked at her. She wasn’t young, she looked like she was ten or eleven years old. Her room wasn’t pink or purple like ‘Nothing’s’ last owner, it was blue with suns on the wall with rainbows surrounding.
The girl bent over and looked at him, then she spoke. ” Hello, I know you’re just a teddy bear but I’ll look after you.”
“So I’m a teddy bear…”
“My name is Kelly, I’ll call you….Paddy!”
A woman came up stairs and then Kelly went down stairs.
“So my name is Paddy not teddy” Teddy, now known as Paddy said and began to smile.
Kelly and the woman left the house so Paddy went to explore her room. Paddy shuffled off the bed. When he hit the ground his legs did not fall, so he walked across the room.
The door opened. Paddy scrambled up to try and get on the bed.

By Carla

For the P7 Enterprise we are doing a competition in which we have to invent something which can sort an everyday problem. Some of the inventions are, a Jox Box AKA, a space saver and stops children getting bored because it has a TV, PS2 projecter, DVD and CD player. Also there is a Shoe Shocker which untangles knots in your shoe laces and polishes your shoes. A Lean Mean Hygiene Machine which solves the everyday problem of people not flushing the loo and this does it for you when you unlock the door and when you open and close the door a fragrance comes out of lavender scent. Last but not least the granny mobile which is a go-kart for the elderly.

By Lucy and Erin

Yey it’s the 29th of December
It’s a special day to remember

Yes you guessed it, it’s my birthday
Time to have lots of fun and play

Now I get to open my present
I sense it will be very pleasant

I opened it, it was a toy possum
It is really, really awesome

Oh no, the toy possum ran away
I am definitely not ok

I am very, very sad
It was the the best thing I ever had

So if you ever see a little possum
Remember you should never cross him.

It was a dark and gloomy evening and the 1st Gifford Brownies and Guides were at The Edinburgh Dungeons. They had just had a tour of the Dungeons and were settling down to sleep, when the noises began. All they heard was the rattling of the wind and the creaking of floorboards.

The shrieking then started, many were petrified. I felt unimaginably frightened and my knees were knocking so loudly that I couldn’t even hear what I was thinking. A sickly and deadly smell filled the air. Everyone was breathing in a bitter and moist taste. With only 1 walkie-talkie between all 26 of us, if any problems ocurred we would give the other walkie-talkie a buzz. On the other line the creepy janitor was waiting….

By Jordanne