Author Archives: Michael

With the Eurovision Song Contest website featuring Primary 6′s Schoolovision project, the children can justifiably claim to have a truly global audience this year!

Primary 6 proudly present their Schoolovision 2013 entry. Filmed in Yester House, we’d like to thank owner Francis Menotti for his assistance in helping us create this special version of the song “Let’s Go To The Opera”. Thanks also to … Continue reading →

At the annual eTwinning Conference in Lisbon, Portugal at the end of last week, Mr Purves joined more than 500 teachers from across Europe to participate in the conference’s theme of Citizenship and Collaboration. In addition to running a workshop … Continue reading →

At the annual eTwinning Conference, held in the National College for School Leaders in Nottingham at the weekend, Schoolovision 2012 won 1st prize and was especially commended for bringing communities together around Europe. Mr Purves was there for the weekend … Continue reading →

After earlier victories this year in swimming, orienteering and cross-country, there remained only the annual East Lothian athletics event at Meadowbank earlier today. Yester participated in the small schools event this afternoon, along with a total of 15 other small … Continue reading →

Join P5/6 for a good sing-song, as we share our entry to this year’s Schoolovision contest! We recorded the song in March, at Castlesound studios in Pencaitland, and then filmed the video around the village on 18th April. Many thanks … Continue reading →

Our annual ceilidh, organised by the Parent Council, will be on Friday 24th February, in Garvald Village Hall, from 6.30pm until 9.30pm. There will be poems, Scottish Country Dancing to live music, along with a raffle and bar. For only … Continue reading →

We take lots of photos over the year here at Yester. A good number of them appear on individual class blogs. However, we are trying to find ways of showing more of them, so if you like the idea of … Continue reading →

The Yester School blog has a new feature – you can now ‘like’ blog entries. This is a great and quick way of showing that you are impressed at what’s going on at Yester without having to write comments (although … Continue reading →