Today is World Book Day, and we had a visit from our nursery group, who brought along their favourite books to P5. The P5 children took the opportunity to read the books the nursery children had brought along, and then questioned them about the books to see how they had enjoyed them!
Back in term 1, we spent our art time learning how to use pencils to great effect. We learned about shading, and how a single HB pencil can create many different, yet viually attractive drawings, as this post shows.
So when Mrs Hilsley alerted me to the fact that there was an East Lothian-wide competition for primary schools to enter, the John Muir Sketching competition, I felt P5 might well be in with a chance of doing well. Every pupil entered the competition, which asked for them to use a single pencil to create a sketch of something to do with nature.
A couple of days ago, we got an email that announced that one of the class, Anna, had won the competition! Well done Anna! The prize is a trip for the whole class to the Scottish Seabird Centre on 22nd April, where we will take part in some John Muir based activities. Further details to follow! Take a look at the post on the main Yester homepage, which gives more details of Anna’s achievement!
Our recent chain reaction project came to its conclusion yesterday, with the results of all the countries’ entries having been counted up. Last week, P5 viewed and evaluated the entries from all 21 countries, and each child gave scored all the videos, apart from our own one. This process was repeated right across Europe, with each child in all the 21 countries scoring each chain reaction, apart from their own. The results were then collated by each teacher and submitted. Over the weekend, our Belgian partner in the project counted all the votes from all the countries, and recorded a special results video newsflash with his class.
The great news for us here in Yester is that our chain reaction finished in 6th position out of 21 countries!
So that’s our chain reaction project over for another year, and we have had great fun once again participating in this award-winning eTwinning project. A big thanks to the parents who helped the children film some very creative chain reactions at home in the early part of the project, and to our Belgian partner Dave for his great work in creating and administering the European Chain Reaction once again!
Have a look at the project website to see all the great entries!
On Thursday, the P5 class led this year’s Burns Supper in the hall at lunchtime.
The whole school attended, and the top table of P5 pupils led the traditional speeches and poems. In addition, the individual class winners of the Scottish poetry competitions performed their poems, and we also had dancers, and a singer and a violinist too!
Here, you can see the Address to the Haggis, as well as the winner of the P5 poetry competition. The third video shows the Immortal Memory, followed by the Toast to the (Dinner) Lassies. Have a look at the other classes’ sites over the next few days to see the winners and performers from each class!
Our entry to the 2014 European Chain Reaction is ready.
We hope you like it- all entries need to be on the site by Friday 24th January, thereafter, we will need to view all the videos and give our votes for our favourites. The results will be announced by our Belgian partners once all the votes have been counted, at the end of the month!
Today we had a taster in a really unusual sport- fencing!
The class had a great time learning how to fence properly, as you can see in the photos!
Yesterday afternoon, the whole school were in the hall for a performance of the well-known story, Stig of the Dump. Firstly, the group performing explained that they needed some of the children to be actors in the show, and two of the P5s were chosen, along with children from other classes. They spent 30 minutes rehearsing for their roles, while the rest of the pupils in all the classes learned some songs that would be sung during the performance.
The show itself lasted for an hour, and it turned out to be great fun for all, including the teachers!