A Year in Yester

Today in P7 we have been reviewing the national newspapers, a bit like what they do on BBC’s Breakfast News programme.

We looked at a variety of websites, including The Scotsman, The Herald, The Times, The Telegraph, The Independent and The Observer. These newspapers are examples of what are called the “broadsheets”, as they carry serious news, unlike the “tabloids”, which offer news that may be a bit lighter in nature.

We found that each newspaper carried different main stories. As an extra, we reviewed the stories for others who had not been to each website.

The first site we looked at was: http://www.america-ferrera.com
It was good but the only thing we thought was helpful was the pictures.
Overall we give it 4 out of 10.

The next website was askmen.com it was excellent. We especially thought the biography and the pictures were superb. Overall we give it 9 out of 10.

Finally we looked at http://www.americaferrera.info. It was good but it had really small writing. We give it 6 out of 10.

By Jordanne and Sheenarose

As part of our ICT lesson we had to look up a subject of our choice; we chose cheese. Here’s a bit about cheese.
Cheese is a delicacy in some countries such as France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. We personally think that French cheese and Swiss are the best. There are hundreds of different cheeses in France alone such as Stilton, Boursin and Camembert.
You can do different things with cheese.
For example, Halumi you cook in a frying pan, strangely, it doesn’t melt but turns brown and salty.

By Robin and Jack

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

In ICT we were looking at cheap flights from the UK. The challenge was to see who could find the cheapest flight from the UK to anywhere still in Europe, with at least one flight around the Christmas period. The cheapest flight was 1p each way plus the taxes, from Edinburgh to Dublin. We also found other flights, from Inverness to Liverpool, and from Glasgow to Brussels, for the same price- 1p!
The web site we used was www.ryanair.com

by Lucy

The photo below shows the cheapest flights we could find.

It’s definitely true that the children didn’t expect to find flights so cheaply, especially as we had already discussed what the effect of searching for flights during the Christmas holidays might have been- ie that they would invariably be higher! During further discussion, the question was asked: How can the company actually make money when they fill their seats at such a cheap price? A good question, and not an easy one to answer accurately!
Perhaps the next logical step would be to invite Michael O’Leary in to discuss business strategies with Yester’s P7 class!