Primary 6.1 celebrated St Andrew’s Day, learning all about their patron Saint and exploring their own Scottish culture.

In maths, we have been focusing on applying mental strategies with speed and accuracy. Today we applied partitioning when solving addition and subtraction calculations to reveal a St Andrew’s Day picture! We were so happy with how much our pace has improved since August.

Later, we heard the story of Saint Andrew’s life and discussed how he came to be Scotland’s patron Saint. We now understand why Scotland’s flag is a saltire, reflecting the x-shaped cross Saint Andrew was crucified on.  We now know that there are many other countries that also have St Andrew as their patron saint, including Tenerife who also has the same flag as Scotland!

We had a quiz on what we had learned on Google Forms via Google Classroom, showing that we had learned a lot about our patron Saint. We challenged ourselves with a crossword or a dictionary challenge to strengthen out dictionary skills and spelling.

In the afternoon, we finished out stain glass windows decorations for our St Andrew’s Day party. It was exciting to push all the tables back to create space for a good ol’ Scottish ceilidh! We had a true or false quiz about what we had learned and made little Scottish kilts from shortbread. We learned all about how traditionally each clan had a tartan which was made from select colours and a striking pattern. We were very pleased with them!

We learned the steps to a progressive version of the Circassian Circle and had a dance in the classroom. We stopped for a break to have a Scottish snack – a sugar-free Irn Bru and our shortbread kilts. We learned that ‘Slàinte’ is a Gaelic phrase which is similar to ‘cheers’ but it actually means ‘health’

Happy St Andrew’s Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿