Entries from May 2012 ↓

Meadowbank Athletics event 2012  On Wednesday the 30th of June 2012 West Barns were taking part in an athletics event at Meadowbank. The participants: Alistair Fell, Joseph Flower, Heather Cameron, Iain Goldie, Zosia Kuczok, Freya Holmes, Seonaid Holmes, Hayley Jade, Fraser Davey, Callum Harding, Malcolm Kelly-McGregor, Ebony Bruce, Cameron Fogo, Anne Dallas Burt and Danny [...]

    Lennox Award The Lennox Award kicked off with Yester giving a presentation about Ali sparks. They were making news articles about one of her novels. It lasted about fifteen minutes and involved everyone that came from Yester. Next Wallyford gave a presentation on Theresa Breslin. They used a time line to show us [...]

As Joseph won the Lennox Award book review prize, with his review of Day of the Assassin, the prize was a visit by the author Johnny O’Brien. Joseph has written his review of the visit below …. On Thursday the 9th of May Johnny O’Brien, the author of the wonderful Jack Christie series, came to [...]

Today we were looking at equivalent fractions, what they are, why we use them and how we use them. We played games including equivalent fraction snap, jigsaw puzzles and finding equivalent fractions using coloured fraction blocks. We discussed fractions that look different but have the same value.  Our success criteria for today were: I can match fractions [...]