Sports at Yester

Hi, I am Adder and I am going to tell you about all the sport that we do at school. On a Thursday we have P.E. (physical education) with Mrs. Jones. We do lots of different sports like hockey, gymnastics, social dance, football, cricket and many, many more. At the moment we are doing a block of social dance. I think it is quite good.
On a Friday we have sport with our teacher Mr. Devereux. So far this year we have done fitness and rugby. When we do fitness we do sit ups, press-ups, star jumps, relay races and more. At rugby we are learning how to perform three man scrums. It is good fun. I really enjoy it. What sports do you play at your school?

Famous Scots

There have been a lot of famous Scots who have made Scotland proud and a great country. Here are some: Mary Queen of Scotland who had her head chopped off, Rabbie Burns who is a famous Scottish poet, Robert the Bruce was a man who fought for Scotland and Chris Hoy who is a Scottish cyclist and won sports personality of year 2008. There are plenty more Scots but these are some.

By Saltire

Torn Nedertalen

My name is Torn Nedertalen.
I have a dog, his name is Bongas. He is 12 years old, just as old as me!
I have two sisters. They are 6 and 3 years old.
When it’s Christmas I’m going to Harstad and meet my relatives.
My mother and my stepfather have just divorced, so we are living with my grandparents.
My best friend is Erik. He goes to another school. I have known him since we were in kindergarten.

My hobbies are fishing, snowboarding and catching birds and then release them.
I release fish if they are smaller than 400grams.
The largest fish I have ever caught was 800grams in the river it was a brown trout.
My favorite fish is arctic char the largest arctic char I have caught is 700grams. That was bigger than the one my father caught, which weighed 680grams.
I love World War II planes. My favorite is the P51 Mustang.

Melis

Hello :)

My name is Melis
I am 12 years old
I live in Tromsø
It’s a very nice town
I like to be with friends, go shopping, and much more.
I have a dog and a cat, their names are Trulte and Devil ^^



Christmas in Tromsø is very funny.
The family is gathered and eat, and then we open the presents, it’s great fun.
My best friends are Geral, Karamell, Sukkertøy and Friidrett.I have a little sister, a big brother, a step brother, step father and a mother.
My little sister is 1 year old, my big brother is 15, my step brother is 15, my step father is 40 and my mother is 37.
In school I like gymnastics and music.
After school I play guitar.

Lars Ivar Erta Bertasen

Hello! My name is Lars Ivar Erta Bertasen.
I live in Tromsø.
I live in a red/brown house.
I have one dad, one mom and two sisters.
I like to play football in the summer and I like skiing and ice skating and digging snow caves in the winter.

Tromsø is a fun city, we can do many fun things like: Go shopping a lot of different stuff, go to a café (but that can be a little expensive) or a restaurant (very expensive), or visit Darklight, which is a laser game where you use a body suit and we shoot at each other.

When it’s Christmas I like to eat porridge and turkey. On New Years Eve we eat turkey, it’s a tradition.
For Christmas I wish for football shoes, an electric tooth brush, candy, money, a gift certificate on Swag and a TV.
On New Years Eve we used to buy rockets but now that stupid law makes it illegal to buy rockets. Sometimes we get guests from everywhere; I think this year we are going to have guests from Vietnam. They are my dad’s colleagues. I am going to Vietnam in May with my mom and my dad to visit them.

Karamell

My name is Karamell, I am 12 years old. I was born in July 1996. I like drawing and climbing. My parents are separated, so I live two places. In my family there is my mother, my stepfather, my father, my sister and soon a little brother.

Before Christmas we have a special calendar, where we count down to the 24th. Then it is Christmas and we get a stocking full of candy! When we celebrate Christmas in my family we eat good food and spend time with each other. We put a three in the middle of the living room, and we put a lot of stuff on it.

I like to ride snowmobile in the snow as well as sliding down the road on a sleigh. I like ice skating too. We get our Christmas presents on December 24th. I wish that I get clothes and movies. There is no Christmas without the snow! It is fun to have snowball fights.

Merry Christmas!

Sukkertøy

My name is Sukkertøy. I was born in September 96.

My parents are separated. Mum is 37 years old and my dad is 39. My mum got a new husband and my dad got a dog. My dog’s name is Miko. My hobbies are drawing and acting in the theater. I’m biologically an only child, but I got one step-sister and one step-brother.

My family’s traditional way to celebrate Christmas is that we eat some porridge with an almond in. Then we go to my great-grandfather and we eat gingerbread and other Christmas cakes and cookies. For Christmas dinner we eat ribbe (pork rib) and pinnekjøtt (lamb cooked with wooden sticks in the pot). We open our gifts on the 24th of December in stead of the 25th. For Christmas I wish for clothes, music, money and movies just to mention something. When it’s Christmas here it’s really cold. It’s really much snow too. We use to have snowball fights and build snowmen.


Merry Christmas!

Cristiano Ronaldo

Hi! My name is Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro
I am 12 years old. And I love football!
My best friend is Gummimann.
The boys in the class and I play for Fløya football team.
My position on the football pitch is forward.
My favorite team is Manchester United FC.
My father is from Sri Lanka and my mother is from Norway.
I have two brothers!
One is 23 and the other is 10 years old.
And that’s me!

In Norway we call Christmas “jul”.
I wish for football stuff, but I must be kind at school :)
I look forward to New Years Eve.
In Norway we have this law that says we can’t buy rockets, only batteries that stand still on the ground.
I hate this law.

That is all from me.

Lisa Stokke

Hello :)
My name is Lisa Stokke. I’m 12 years old.
I have two brothers and live with my parents.
I enjoy being with friends, shopping and singing.
In my spare time I play handball. We practice 2 times a week. This season we have very many games, and our team is having cups in other places, and then we go and play against them. We are only two people in our class playing, but that’s OK.
Sometimes I love living in Tromsø, and sometimes not.
It’s because it never gets really warm here.
My favorite football team is Chelsea. In the classroom I sit aside a new girl that has been visiting our class. She’s going to start here soon.
My favorite time of year is right now! And that’s because it’s Christmas. In my family we celebrate Christmas every year at my grandmother’s place. We make good food and eat a lot of candy. And of course we open presents. ;D For Christmas I wish for clothes, handball stuff, a camera, and other things like that.
This year I went to England. We were living with some friends and having a great time. We went to Madame Tussaud’s and the London Eye. We saw Big Ben and the Queen’s Castle. We also took the train to Windsor and spent a day in Lego Land. Well, my brothers enjoyed it, anyways. We were only there for a week, but it was enough. I hope to go back there soon.
That was all about me :D
Goodbye and have a nice Christmas!

Gummimann

My name is Gummimann
I live with my mom, dad, my little brother and my aunt. We are a big family.
When it’s Christmas we eat spareribs, porridge and steak. Then we go and open the presents. I also have a Christmas calendar. I got some erasers and some sweets. My little brother is a mini me. He is 11 months.
In his calendar he got a BIG chocolate.
My hobbies are FOOTBALL!!! I play as a defender and attacker.
I also like cookies and ice cream.
I was born in October 1996.
I like Xbox 360 and I have Xbox Live just add me: x TurboExx x
My favorite games are Gears Of War 2, Rainbow Six Vegas 2, Guitar hero 2 and 3
My best friend is Pappmann… I am not so funny but someone thinks I am and that was all for now.


Merry Christmas!!

Friidrett

My name is Friidrett. I am 12 years old, and live in Tromsø. I have brown hair and grey/blue eyes. I am 1,45 meters high. I have one big sister. She is 16. My best friends name is Eilis. She is very nice! My favorite colors are grey, pink and blue. My favorite season is summer because then I can bathe, but I also like winter because then it is snow and Christmas. My hobbies are athletics, to scrap, slalom skiing and Telemark skiing.

My list of favorites:

Food: Taco, pizza and nachos
Drink: Mozell (apple and pear soda)
Dessert: Crème brûle
Animal: Dog
Movie: Wild Child
Music: Pop
Now it’s Christmas time! I have bought gifts for my friends so now I’m ready!!
That was all about me.

Eilis

My name is Eilis. I am 12 years old, and I live in Tromsø. My hair is blonde. I am 1.59 m tall. My favorite colors are black, blue and pink. My eyes are blue. I like to dance jazz. My favorite season is summer, I just looove summer! Because then I can swim in the ocean. My best friend is Friidrett. She is very cool!
I just got a new little brother. We were at the hospital to visit him yesterday. He was so cute :) I also have two other little brothers.

ME:
Favorite food: Mexican chicken
Favorite drink: Mozell (soda)
Favorite dessert: Crème brûle
Favorite movies: Dirty Dancing, Wild Child
Favorite music: Pop
Hobbies: Friends, dancing, and having fun =)
I love Christmas!

Pappmann

Hi! My name is Pappmann.
I like to skate and ski.
I am 12 years old, and I’ll be 13 in February.
On the summer I like to play football.

During the holidays I go to the city and buy things like skate boards,

snowboard and DC shoes.
Now its Christmas time and I buy gifts for my friends.
Well as you know I go to Gyllenborg Skole.
I have Xbox 360, Playstation2, PSP, DS and a computer.
I’ve had four Playstation 2s. Three of them was destroyed!
I have a little sister, she is 8 years old.
I have the GTA collection and gears of war + more games.
I play Runescape and World of Warcraft.
I am level 80 on World of Warcraft and 111 on Runescape.

Well now about skating:
I’m a fan of Ryan Scheckler, the best skater in the world!
He can do kick flips,360, 180, grabs, and rails.


Christmas:
I go to my cousin and eat at Christmas time,

and then we play a lot of computer games.

New Years Eve:
Me and my dad use to buy fireworks. I’ll buy tanks and firecrackers.
And I use to go to burger king after we are done shopping.

Ishavskatedralen

My name is Ishavskatedralen.
I live in Tromsø in a house that we are currently renovating, so we have not painted it yet.
We live in Hagebyveien.
Soon Santa Clause will come,
I hope he’ll bring me nice gifts.
I have a new snowboard at home.

I love Manchester United!
I like to play football, wrestle and listen to music.

Ryan Sheckler is the best skater, but Rodney Mullen is good too.

Sillah

Hi, my name is Sillah. I’m 12 years old.
I have one brother and one sister, and I live with my parents.
I enjoy being with my friends, playing football and shopping.
I and my best friend play football together. We play on TIL.
We practice 4 times at week. I think it is very funny.
I like to live in Tromsø. Here we have cinemas, activity centers,
Ishavskatedralen, Polaria, and many other things.
My favorite football team is Liverpool FC.
What I wish for this Christmas is money, football stuff and clothes.

Merry Christmas :)

Yesters Christmas Party

The Christmas party we are having is not going very well. We have no decorations, no pizzas, no music and altogether it could be a disaster.

But, help is at hand and we are making decorations, everyone is bringing in their own food, and everyone is dressing up. And finally, we must thank Robin Red Breast and Tartan Terror, who have brought in CD's.

So, it might not be that bad! Wow!

By Whisky!

OUR CHRISTMAS PARTY!!!!!!!

Today is our Christmas party and we are organising it but the class have hardly any Christmas decorations so we have to make lots of them. The party will start at 1.15 and finish at 3.15. We are meant to be in maths just now except we are doing things for the party. Some of the class are not in our set so they are doing maths and we are not.

Weather in Gifford

The weather in Scotland is usually cold and wet. In winter we don't get much snow . In summer it can be quite hot but cloudy. It is windy a lot in Scotland.
I like winter best.

By Highland Cow

Nessie

The Loch Ness Monster, otherwise known as Nessie, lives in Loch Ness. Loch Ness is a lake in the Highlands. Nessie is a myth, so some people don't believe in her, but we do! She is known to be a big, green, swimming dinosaur. She has big scales, a long neck and huge fins. People come from all around the world to see Nessie, but don't often get to.

By Highlander and Turnip.

Rehearsing, rehearsing...

All right! As most of us might have noticed, Christmas is not far away. 7A have been rehearsing for a church concert that the school will hold this Friday. As it's closing in on showtime, the tension is building. How will we do? But we look on the bright side of things: When the concert is over, so is this semester! I'm sure the concert will be a great success!

-Magnus-

OUR CHRISTMAS LUNCH !!!!!!

On Tuesday we had our Christmas lunch! The P7 table was called the elves table! We made table decorations in art and Mrs Hilsley, our head teacher and Carol, the school secretary, judged which one was best! Tartan Terror won a pen but because we all did so well we all got prizes too! We had a roast dinner first and then ice cream or jelly after! The little ones got crackers and party hats but there weren't enough for us! It was great fun! Do you have any special dinners at school?

By Highland Cow and Tinkerbell

Our Christmas party!

Every year the P7s organize the Christmas party. Ours is next Thursday and the theme is what you want to wear to school! Here are some of the things we are having at the party: A fashion show, dancing competition, Christmas corners (which is a game were there are four corners with pictures on them and when the music stops you run to a corner, the music player covers their eyes and shouts out a corner and if you are at that corner you are out!!) and much more! There is going to be food and we are going to give them funny posh names! WE CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!

by Robin Redbreast and Bramble

Our Christmas Traditions

In Scotland we have lots of Christmas traditions. We have Christmas trees in our homes which we decorate with some nice things! Most people have a star or an angel on the top of the tree. We put our presents under the trees. Some people have roast turkey for their Christmas dinner. We have Santa. Do you have a Norwegian Santa? Our santa rides in a SLEGH! with flying reindeer pulling it. He goes down chimneys and puts presents in our stockings. We have many traditions, please tell us about your traditions! We wonder if some of our traditions are the same as yours?

- Highland Cow and Robin Red Breast

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

Every year the P1 to 3 and P4 to 7 go to two different plays. This year P1 to 3 went to see Seeping Beauty and we are going to see the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe . Some of you may have heard about the Narnia books or even read them. The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is a story about four children called Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy who stumble upon the magical world of Narnia. Narnia has been put under a spell that makes it winter forever. Sort of like the weather that you get in Norway. Anyway the spell was cast by an evil witch who made herself queen of Narnia. There is a legend in Narnia that one day two girls and two boys should come to Narnia through a wardrobe, defeat the witch and bring back Aslan. Aslan is a talking lion who is the son of the Emporer over the sea. He is the king of Narnia and everybody in the country wishes for him to come back. There is a great battle between the forces of the witch and Aslan's army. The witch is killed and the four children are crowned kings and queens of Narnia. They live in the magical country for many years (but its only been a few hours in their world) then they find the wardrobe again and go through into thier world. The story is really good and we're looking forward to going to see it.

By Tartan Terror and Human Nessie

Election result

At assembly today we found out WHO WON THE ELECTION! My party the Green Elements WON! The ECO party got 8 votes, The Linx party got 18 votes, the Change party got 18 votes, the keepers got 11 votes and the Green Elements got 23 VOTES!!!!!! I am very pleased my party won! My party, The Green Elements had their candidate come out and give a speech. Our candidate is Highlander and she gave a really good speech! When we found out we'd won we hugged each other and SCREAMED! finding out about the Government was great fun!

By Robin Red Breast

Norwegian beavers

The British beaver became extinct 400 years ago when the last ones were hunted for their fur. Now the Scottish Wildlife Trust has decided to re-introduce the beaver into Scotland. Four beaver families have travelled to Scotland from Norway to be released into the wild. Some farmers are not happy about this, but other people are very pleased. The beavers are in quarantine just now, but when there 6 months is over they can start to build dams! They will be released in the area of Scotland called Argyll.

I hope these Norwegian beavers will soon feel at home in Scotland.

Mr Devereux

Christmas Party

This is Adder and Thistle,

We are going to tell you about the Christmas party that we are having on 18th December. The theme is "what you want to wear to school," and there is a competition for the person who wears the wackiest clothes (wasn't my idea!). We are going to do dancing and the cha cha slide! We hope it will be fun!

From

Thistle and Adder

Christmas

There are 17 days till Christmas. We can not wait until Christmas day to see what Christmas presents we will get. I (Tinkerbell) am looking forward to Christmas dinner as well and I'm getting my tree next weekend.

Rob Roy MacGregor and Tinkerbell

Kris Boyd and Ally McCoist

Today we did our election and our group is called The Keepers. Hopefully we are going to win. I hope you like football. Becuase me and Ally Mcoist like football we support Glasgow Rangers and on Saturday we beat Hamilton 7-1 at their own ground and Celtic got beaten 2-0.

by Kris Boyd and Ally McCoist

School election

Today we did the voting in our election. All the candidates are getting people outside. I really hope the Green Elements will win. I wonder who you would vote for?

by Stardust

Our Election is today!

Today we are doing our Election. We are having a good time and we enjoy voting. Our Election is 2 hours long. We will be very tired at the end of today!!! HAVE FUN! by Haggis and Whisky

What we do in Yester?

In Yester we have Primary 1 up to primary 7 and we also have a nursery. There are 160 puipls in Yester School and there are 21 staff in the school as well! On Monday P1 to 3 have assembely and on Tuesday P4 to P7 have assembly. Everyone at Yester is kind and helpful. How many people are at your school?

By Highland Cow and Fudge

Yester Primary School day

At Yester we start the day at 8:45am and finish at 3:15pm.
Some of the subjects we have are-

Maths (every morning)
Environmental Studies
Personal and Social Development
Spelling
PE (physical education)
Drama
Art
I.C.T (computing)
and much more.

We also have assembly every Tuesday when the whole school meet together. In assembly we sing songs, listen to stories and talk about what we have been doing all week.

Last thing on Friday we have Golden Time when we have free time to ourselves. We get to play games, go outside and listen to music.

By Fudge and Turnip

Scottish animals

Hi were tartan and stardust and were going to talk about Scotland’s animal’s. First of all, foxes. The foxes that live in Scotland burrow in hills or in forest. People hunt them to stop them from eating farm animals. Second the highland cow. Highland cows are big hairy cows with big horns and you can’t see their eyes because of their hair.

Tartan and Stardust

Our Election

In our class we have split up into political groups. There are 5 different groups.
They are : Green Elements, The Change, Linx, Eco and The Keepers. Each group has a candidate who represents our groups. Soon we will be having an Election and the other classes in school will be voting for their favourite group.
We all want our group to win!

Highland Cow and Highlander

Weather

Hi,
We would like to tell you about our weather in Scotland. Two days ago we had our first layer of snow. It was very exciting, but probably rubbish compared to yours! We threw snowballs at each other and we made a mini snowman called, Sir Larry Humphrey Henderson McGregor. Unfortunately he was killed by an evil primary 6 boy. WE HAD A FUNERAL!!!

The next day (a.k.a. today) we wrote our names and drew pictures in the snow. It was great fun! Our snow still isn't great though, but it might turn great tomorrow!

Bye, from
Thistle and Tartan Terror

Our Norwegian tree (almost!)

Gifford is about 20 miles from Scotland's captital city, Edinburgh. Every year Norway sends a Christmas tree to Edinburgh and it is set up on "The Mound," a hill in the centre of the city, near to Edinburgh Castle. The tree is sent by Norway as a thank you for the support Scotland gave during the Second World War. This is the 24th year Edinburgh has received the gift. The tree has always come from the Norwegian region of Hordaland. This year the tree came from an area of Scotland called Peebles, although Norway still paid for the tree. This was to reduce the carbon footprint of the tree. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh (a Scottish mayor) said: "This year Edinburgh will be having a green Christmas, so our friends in Hordaland are sourcing our famous Christmas gift locally." The tree has 1,800 lights on it. It looks lovely, doesn't it? A lot of our children will be going to Edinburgh to see the Christmas lights so they will be able to see the tree too.

Mr Devereux

We have arrived!

Now I have added everyone's pictures to the introductions. You can all see what the children in P7 at Yester look like.

Mr Devereux

Tartan kilts

Quite a lot of children in our P7 class wore tartan today, and you can see many of them wearing kilts. Mr Devereux played Scottish music when the children came in to the classroom at the start of the day.

Highland dancing

Nettle told you that she did Scottish highland dancing. Here she is wearing her traditional dancing costume for St Andrews Day.

Scottish music

Highlander, Tinkerbell and Adder played their violins in front of the whole school. The tune they played was Scotland the Brave. Actually, we though that they were very brave playing in front of the whole school. Our head teacher accompanied them on the piano.

Golden Time

This is a picture of our Scottish Golden Time. Children across the whole school chose the activity they went to. Here is Mr Devereux doing Scottish poems and stories with two pupils from P1, two from P2 and two from P7. Most of the other children in P7 went to Scottish games, Scottish quiz and designing tartan.

Our Scottish Flag

Here is the Scottish flag we made with the children wearing their school uniforms. Everyone is waving a Scottish flag (saltire) too. This is the playground at the front of the school. I climbed up a ladder on to the roof to take the photo. There was a lot of water on the roof which had turned to ice so I had to be very careful!
Mr Devereux

St Andrews Day

Today we are celebrating St Andrews day with an all school golden time with special Scottish activities. Usually golden time is a half hour of doing what we want in the classroom. Do you have golden time? Some of the activities we are doing today are : Designing tartan, listening to Scottish poems and stories, Scottish dancing and a special Scottish quiz. Today we are all wearing tartan. We are also all wearing white tops and blue jumpers because the WHOLE school are going to make the soltire (the Scottish flag) by all standing in a position which looks like the soltire.
We are going to have a GREAT time!

Bye! from The Human Nessie and Robin Red Breast

Winter poems and stories

P7 at Yester have enjoyed learning about the snow in Norway. I think they are very jealous. We have also been listening to stories of dark winter nights in Norway, stories of trolls and gods. Today we listened to a story about Thor's lost hammer.

Today we wrote poems about winter darkness. William Wallace enjoyed learning about trolls. He wrote his poem about trolls in the darkness. He used a lot of alliteration (repeating the same letter at the start of words). Alliterative poetry was very popular in Britain in Medieval times. How many examples of alliteration can you find? Here is his poem:

The trolls were trundling through the thick trench-like snow.

Harmlessly the snow glided through the thick trees like feather from the birds.

Everyone was in their warm cosy beds.

Winter was truly coming, the snow was coming fast.

It was pitch black but the trolls kept trundling through the thick trench-like snow.

Never had it been this cold and the snow so thick.

The trees were tricking the treacherous trolls tearfully tripping them up.

Everything outside was frozen from the fir on the trees to the grass on the ground.

Recklessly the trolls snatched the tiny toddlers in their beds and ate them for tea.

By William Wallace

Reading and writing

Hey! Robin Red breast here! In Scotland now, it’s heading towards winter but we have not had much snow. Have you? I’m wondering if any of you have heard of Jacqueline Wilson. She is my favourite writer! What writers do you know in Norway? I like writing and reading, and do any of you in Norway have favourite writers? I would like to know! At school my reading book is called The Secret Garden. Do you have reading groups in Gyllenborg Skole? In Norway do writers come and sign the books they write? Do you have any keen readers in your class? I am a VERY keen reader. Sorry I have so many questions!

St Andrews Day

Hi there Berry here

Tomorrow it is St. Andrews Day and we are allowed to wear tartan and I don’t know if everyone in the class will wear some tartan .
I can't wait till Christmas comes because I already know what I am getting so it is not a surprise. (any way got to dash.)

ST ANDREWS DAY

Hey, now it’s time to tell you guys some of our good old Scottish traditions.

Saturday is St. Andrews day! A day when we all wear tartan to celebrate one of our well known saints, St. Andrew.

Because we aren’t at school on Saturday we are all going to wear tartan tomorrow. Yay! That’s great because tartan is totally the fashion now as well. Yay!

By Thistle

Thistle, obviously likes tartan!!
She has really long, thin nails and plans to paint them tartan.
She is right now wondering if she has a tartan necklace.
OOOOOOHHH!!!

Do you have any great traditions Thistle could worry
about?

By Bramble

Tartan Terror!

Hello again! How are you today? We’ve only got a few weeks till the Christmas holidays and I’m looking forward to a couple of weeks of freedom. Were probably going to have absolutely rubbish snow (not like you). I really really like Christmas and I’m looking forward to putting up the tree. What’s Christmas like in Norway?

Bye bye! From Tartan Terror

Food in Scotland

Hi! Its us again! Its The Human Nessie and Highland Cow. We were wondering what you eat in Norway? Scotland’s traditional food is haggis, neaps and tatties (haggis, turnips and potatoes). In Scotland we grow some of our food but simply can’t grow some things like bananas for example. It’s far too cold. We do grow wheat which is turned into flour and then bread and other things. We also grow most vegetables and some fruits. What foods do you grow in Norway?

Whisky

Hi, I'm Whisky and I'm 11 years old and I live near Gifford. I have a mum and dad and a little sister. I have a lot of friends at school. At school I like gym, circle time, drama and golden time. After school I do a lot of activities. I go running at Meadowbank on Tuesday, and I do piano on Tuesday as well. I want to start Highland dancing. I love chewing gum and chocolate. I like to read and I love going shopping!
Whisky

Neap

Hi, my name is Neap. I am a girl. I like art and drawing and my hobbies are climbing and other adventure things. I like reading. I sit next to Whisky and Fudge. My favourite film is St Trinians.
Neap

Norwegian lesson

Hi there! Glad you liked our site, though I presume it didn't make much sense. The picture of the polar bear is taken at an arctic zoo/amusement centre here called "Polaria". There you can see real living seals! During the visit the pupils also watched a film about the climate changes and how it affects life above the Arctic Circle.

Now, regarding the Norwegian letter you were talking about: Actually we have three more letters in our alphabet than you have in yours. The last three letters in our alphabet are Æ (æ), Ø (ø), and Å (å).
The Æ is pronounced kind of like the A in the English word "barrier", or the OU in "sound". The Ø sounds like the O in "word" or the U in "much", while the Å resembles the O in"boring" or the A in "walk". We have separate keys for these letters on our keyboards in Norway. Sweden and Denmark also use these letters. Hope my explanation wasn't too complicated!

By the way; I thought I'd try a new colour as well, maybe silver works.

I have been looking at the Gyllenborg Skole website. It is very impressive with lots of photos. I like the picture of the polar bear. I hope he didn't eat anyone! I notice one of the letters you use looks like an o with a little circle above it. How do you say this sound? What key(s) on your computer do you press to make this appear on your screen? I got bored with using blue so I thought I would leave this post in red!

Mr Devereux

Tartan

Hi, my name is Tartan and I am 11 years old. My favourite sports are basketball, hockey and gymnastics. I have 2 sisters and one brother. I have one dog as well.
Tartan

Highlander

Hi! I'm Highlander. I'm 11 years old and I like reading and drawing. My favourite foods are chocolate (mmm!) and pizza. I have a dog called Solti (say "Sholty") and he is WILD! I live in the country and we have a big garden. I have one sister who is nine. She is annoying. When I'm older I'd like to be an illustrator because I love drawing.
Highlander

P7 web page

One of the ways we let parents know about all the things we are doing at Yester is by our own web page. I keep this up to date every week and put on photos of things were have been doing. We also have some PowerPoint presentations made by our children and some podcasts they have made too. If you want to have a look at our P7 web page click here or go to www.yester-school.org/ak.html We also have a section of the school's website called the P7 Zone. Here the children have worked in pairs to make their own web pages. There are 14 pages here for you to enjoy. The address is www.yester-school.org/j.html
Mr Devereux

Nettle

Hi, I am Nettle. I am 11 years old. I go to Yester Primary School. My favourite sports are gymnastics, golf, basketball, rugby and hockey. My hobbies are drumming, highland dancing and fashion design. I have 3 cats called Coco, Max and Charlie. I also have a dog called Ben. My favourite food is salad and cheese. My favourite animal is a tiger. My favourite colour is purple. I have 2 houses. I live in the town and the countryside.
Nettle

Fudge

Hi, I'm Fudge. I am 11 years old. My favourite hobby is horse riding. I have a pony called Coco. I go bowling every Saturday morning at 8.00. My favourite food is chicken tika and I love chocolate and chewing gum! I have lots of pets. I live in a village in East Lothian. I have a big sister.

Fudge

Stardust

Hi, I am Stardust and I live in the countryside of Scotland. My favourite things to do are play Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon. My favourite thing on tv is Top Gear. My favourite lessons at school are drama and art. I can't wait to hear more about your country.

Stardust

Tinkerbell

Hi peeps, I'm Tinkerbell. Here are some of the things I love:

• Top of the Pops magazine


• Disney Channel


• Chocolate


• Music


• My MP3


• Chocolate


• Claire's Accessories (a shop)


• Chocolate

Don't worry - I'm not that fat!

Tinkerbell

Turnip

Hi, I am Turnip. I am 10 years old and I love to be active. I enjoy dancing and playing the piano. I also do lots of art and enjoy painting and drawing. I go on lots of walks with my family and love spending time in the countryside. I also love to cook and spend time in the kitchen with my brothers.

Turnip

Kris Boyd

Name: Kris Boyd
Age: 10
Hobbies: football and darts
Sports: football, darts, hockey and WWE (wrestling)
Favourite TV show: WWE, football, darts, Mr Bean, Arnold Schwarzenegger and adults' films
Favourite thing to eat: mince and potatoes and everything else apart from mushrooms and tomatoes

I play for Hutchy Football Club. I have a dog and fish. I like to play with my WWE figures and my Super Strikers and also my Rangers figures. Oh - and my Playstation 2. I have a sister and mum and dad. I have been to 7 Rangers matches and 2 Scotland matches.

Kris Boyd

Bramble

Hi, I'm Bramble. I am 11 years old and come from Scotland. I enjoy any kinds of sport but I especially like long-distance running and swimming. I do athletics on Mondays and swimming twice a week for an hour. I know most of you enjoy skiing and I do too. In school I enjoy art, PE and drama. I live in a village near Gifford. When I grow up I want to be an athlete. I love animals and want to do something to help the environment.

Bramble

Haggis

Hi, I'm Haggis. I'm 11 years old. I like riding. I enjoy the countryside. I have one sister. I love living in Scotland.

Haggis

Ally McCoist

Name: Ally McCoist
Age: 11
Hobbies: football and basketball

Hi, I'm Ally McCoist. I'm 11 years old and I like playing football. I like being a striker or goalkeeper. I support Rangers FC. I like basketball as well but I like football better.

Ally McCoist

Adder

Hello, it's Adder here. I am eleven years old and quite tall. My favourite sports are hockey, rugby, cricket, golf and swimming. I play hockey for East Lothian and rugby and cricket for Gifford. At school my favourite lessons are PE, art and creative writing.

I play the violin and a little bit of piano. I have never been to Norway but I have been to Finland.

From Adder

P.S. An adder is a small poisonous snake.

Highland Cow

I am Highland Cow. I love making things and being creative. I LOVE reading. It is SO fun. I live in the country and I have lovely views. My favourite food is sausage, mashed potato and onion gravy. My favourite drink is lemonade. I am ten years old but soon I'll be eleven. I giggle a lot! I like cycling and swimming in summer. My favourite animal is a giraffe.
Kilt

Thistle

Hi, I'm Thistle,

I am 11 years and I live in a small village called Gifford. It's really pretty and I love living there.

I live with my little sister and my mum and dad. I also have two cats called Leo and Dinah, and two guinea pigs called Twix and Pringles. They are so cute.

My hobbies include dancing, shopping, singing, swimming, reading and more shopping! I do dancing and singing every week at 21st Century in Haddington. It's really fun.

Thistle

Saltire

Hi, I am Saltire! I am 11 yeatrs old and I live in the countryside. I have 6 dogs and 5 ferrets. I like to read, climb trees and play sports. I also like speedway. I am feeling excited about learning a bit more about Norway. So see you later.
Saltire

William Wallace

Hi, my name is William Wallace. I am ten years old and I live near Gifford. My hobbies are Warhammer and football. I support Chelsea Football Club and my favourite players are Joe Cole, Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard. Warhammer is little models that people collect and paint. There are lots of armies but I collect orcs and goblins.
William Wallace

Berry

Hi, I am Berry. I am 11. My hobbies are dancing, singing, cooking and gymnastics. The dancing I do is called country. I have learnt Strathspay and the rocking step. I am the only one who has got the hang of it, but other people are getting it too in the dancing class.

I have a lot of sisters and brothers and they are very annoying. Two of them have their own flats so that's okay and the rest of us stay with my mum and big brother.

Berry

Loch Ness

Hi, I'm Loch Ness. I am age 10 and in Primary 7 at Yester Primary School. My hobbies are dancing and reading lots of books. My favourite foods are: chocolate, ice cream beans, chips and sausages. I love going shopping for toys and clothes but I don't do it very often though. I love meeting with my friends. too. Bye!
Loch Ness

The Human Nessie

Hello! I am the Human Nessie! I am eleven years and one month old. I have one older sister. She is annoying! I quite like reading and love playing outside, especially in winter! I hear all of you in Norway get tons of snow compared to us. We don't have any snow at the moment although it is very cold. Our school, Yester, is really nice. We are all friends here. We all have to do school talks soon. I'm doing mine on mythical creatures. Do you have to do class talks?
By Human Nessie

Robin Red Breast

Hi! I'm Robin Red Breast and I am ten years old. I love taking photos, writing stories and writing poems. I am very giggly and silly. I like reading but I also like dancing to music. My favourite band is Girls Aloud, and my favourite girl in Girls Aloud is Cheryl Cole. I like fantasy things a lot. I love drawing Manga, and I am quite good at drawing it! My favourite animals are monkeys because they are cute, cheeky, silly and very beautiful creatures. I live in upper Bolton, Scotland. Beware if you get to know me - I get wacky ideas! My favourite food is sausage mash and onion gravy. When I grow up I want to become an author.
By Robin Red Breast

Rob Roy MacGregor

Hi, my name is Rob Roy MacGregor. I am 10 years old. I like dong school work. I am going into high school next year. I like swimming, football and hockey but I don't like gymnastics. My favourite wild animals are a tiger and panda, and my favourite animal is a dog.
By Rob Roy MacGregor

Tartan Terror!

Hi! Tartan Terror here! I love art and I spend most of my time drawing and making things. I'm also a keen reader and am a HUGE fan of the "Edge Chronicles" books. Have any of you read any?

Anyway, I also love the outside, especially in winter (our snow is rubbish). I live in Gifford. It's a little village in the country and it's really pretty. It's really convenient because the school is just a few minutes away so I can just walk up.

See you!

The Tartan Terror