This week we have been learning about St Andrew who is the patron saint of Scotland.  St Andrew was a friend of Jesus.  He died on an X-shaped cross because he thought that Jesus was special and he didn’t want to die in the same way.  St Andrews was named after him because the monk Regulus brought his bones there and built a church over them after an angel told him to in a dream.  Regulus didn’t mean to go to Scotland, but the weather was really stormy on the sea and he washed up on the coast.

In maths we have been learning how to tell the time and we have been practising our times tables using the Times Fables story book.  We have stories to help us to remember – why not ask us about the robin who lands on Tyler’s chair?!

We walked to the war memorial this morning and we thought about World War One.   We were surprised by how many names there were of people who had died and some of us found names similar to our own.  We saw different things to remember people who died.  We saw a memorial with a Jewish star of David, poppy wreaths and crosses with people’s names on them.

We saw the memorial for someone who had died only 9 years ago in Afghanistan.  We were surprised as we didn’t expect to see that people still died in wars.

We saw poppy wreaths which had been laid by some local churches, the police, the Beavers, the Cubs and the council.  Molly and Elise laid a wreath that we had made at the base of the statue.  We have also put a QR code that links to a video and poem we have written at the base of the statue.

The statue showed Saint Margaret who was a queen of Scotland 1000 years ago with soldiers at her feet.  Saint Margaret looked after children and orphans when she was alive, and she was caring. Saint Margaret’s husband and son were killed in a war and so we think she would understand what it is like to lose family members.

Thank you to all the helpers who meant that we could visit the war memorial, from P3S.

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Last week in literacy we retold the story of The Witch of Fife.  The witch gets up to lots of adventures all over Scotland and ends up rescuing her husband from the Bishop of Carlisle.

In reading, we have been practising using expression with our faces, voices and bodies by reading and performing plays.  We had to work as a team to do this successfully.

In maths, we have been practising adding over the 10s barrier by using a number line to help us.  We have also been thinking about multiplication as “groups of” and have learned a few multiplication facts using a story to help us.

We learned about the Buddhist festival of Wesak in RME and over the next few weeks we are going to explore the different ways that different cultures celebrate this festival.

We have had a Halloween theme this week.  We have read The Worst Witch, The Witches and the Witch of Fife.  We made a story string with leaves and stones to tell the story of the Witch of Fife.

Every morning this week (except Friday) we took part in Rookie Rockstars.  Some of our favourite songs were Never Give Up and dancing to We will Rock You at the end!

We have written an Ochil Fairy Tale about Wee Tommy, who fell off a cliff but was rescued by the good fairies.

We have also learned about the History of Halloween and completed a crossword using the clues and our knowledge.