Thanks you so much to all of the P5 parents and carers who came in to share in our John Muir Exhibition this morning. Well done to all of the P5s for achieving their John Muir Awards.

P4s have been working hard on their personal projects this week and we are excited to hear and see them next week when they will all get a chance to present them to the class.

We really enjoyed our Netball and Cricket session with P6 yesterday. It was great fun to have a chance to play both sports and also to play with a mixture of children from P4/5 and P6, not just our classmates.

It is incredible to think that next week is the last week of term and another school year has gone! Mrs McKerron and I are feeling emotional about saying goodbye to a fantastic class, but we are confident that all of the children will continue to succeed in their next classes and beyond.

We have had a great week in P4/5.

At the start of the week we really enjoyed programming the Beebots with P1. It was great fun!

On Wenesday we spent the afternoon doing outdoor learning in the wildlife garden. We all created tracks and trails, created outdoor artwork, made and decorated clay thumbpots and made human nests. We worked well and had great fun creating all of these things using only natural resources. Have a look and see what you think…

P4/5 Natural Artwork on PhotoPeach

P4/5 Outdoor learning in the wildlife garden on PhotoPeach

This week some of the P5s completed their Bikability training. Everyone worked really hard to gain confidence and learn new skills. Well done to all of you!

I liked doing Bikability because it was fun. By Scarlett

I loved doing Bikability. By Rachel

I liked learning the things in Bikability. By Jessie

In our IDL work this week the P4s have been busy working on their personal projects. P5s have been continuing with their John Muir work. This week we designed and decorated pebbles for our wildlife garden and we also completed our natural frames and iserted our obseravtional drawings.

I really really enjoyed making the frames and pebbles, but I haven’t finished my ladybug! By Olivia

On Tuesday we were so lucky to have a wonderful sunny day (for most of the day!) for our sports day. It was great to see everyone out on the field having fun and enjoying the day.

I loved doing sports day! By Rudie, Amelia, Jaydan and Annabelle

I liked all of sports day. By Helen

I liked the sprinting. By Tom, Daniel, Ronnie and Harry

I enjoyed doing sports day. I also liked doing the running race. By Elliot

I liked watching the adults run! By Evie

This week we have spent a lot of time outside enjoying the lovely weather. We had a session with Sam the Ranger in the wildlife garden on Wednesday. We made frames from sticks and bug houses/hotels.

I really loved making the wooden frames, but it was quite tricky to do with the rope! By Olivia

We have also been planning and designing an outdoor classroom which we hope to create.

I liked going outside to design my classroom. By Honor

As well as this we were measuring the height of trees without using any measuring equipment!

We enjoyed a great game of rounders in P.E. yesterday.

I really enjoyed the rounders. By Annabelle and Rachel

I liked rounders a lot. By Inika

We also enjoyed watching the Nursery Assembly yesterday. They all did really well!

We are looking forward to sports day on Tuesday and hope that the sun is shining!

I look forward to seeing where we are going to do sports day. By Cadence

I am looking forward to going down to the park after school today and playing rugby. By Robbie, Daniel, Harry , Tom and Ronnie

We had great fun today learning about minibeasts and creating natural frames and bug houses.

Wildlife fun! on PhotoPeach

What another busy week!

“I enjoyed the rugby – I loved learning a new game” Rachel, Olivia and Tom

“I enjoyed rehearsing for our John Muir play – it’s exciting”- Scarlett, Isla and Evie

“I liked having my own Microbit to program”- Helen
“I was excited to learn about Excel and Microbit”- Jaydan
“I loved the Microbit with Thomas and we made our initials”- Robbie

“I enjoyed going outside to do my project”- Honor and Inika

Well done everyone!

It’s Showtime here at Yester!

We had our ‘Dream On’ dress rehearsal on Wednesday and did our first performance last night. We hope those of you who saw it enjoyed the performance. Everyone has been working very hard on it. We are all looking forward to our final performance tonight and then back to normality next week!

I enjoyed and was very excited about the ‘Dream On’ show. By Scarlett and Isla

I really enjoyed doing the ‘Dream On’ performance with all of the lights! By Olivia

The Rude Mechanicals’ act at the end of ‘Dream On’ was really funny! By Helen

I loved doing the ‘Dream On’ performance and I am excited to do it tonight. By Honor 

Also this week, Rudie, Amelia, Tom and Isla went to compete as part of the school netball team in the East Lothian Schools tournament. We won several matches and finished in a very respectable third place. Well done!

I loved doing the netball tournament! By Amelia, Rudie, Isla and Tom

I really enjoyed making my little harbour during golden time. By Cadence

A wonderful morning was spent in the sunshine on our bikes trying all sorts of tricky challenges!

Thank you to the mums who did an amazing job of leading the session.

As part of our John Muir work, this week P5 visited the local woodland and school wildlife garden with Sam, our Countrside Ranger.

We looked for creatures and their habitats, made clay faces using natural resources, looked for (and sniffed out!) some tracks and trails and did a bug hunt.

It was a fantastic morning.

Last week everyone brought in and shared their homework about hydo, wave or tidal power.

There was an amazing assortment of powerpoints, models, diagrams, posters and fact sheets.

We were incredibly impressed with the work that had been put in and the children were really able to explain clearly what they had found out.

Here are some of the pieces that were shared: