Today the boys and girls learnt all about St. Patrick and Irish customs.  We watched a short film about St Patrick’s life.  It is was very interesting.  We had our listening ears on and were able to remember lots of facts about him.

We learnt that :

He was born in Wales (Harry).

He was captured by pirates (Zach).

He was taken on a boat to Ireland (Kai).

He had to look after sheep when he was captured (Finlay F).

Patrick prayed to God when he was on the island (Neve P).

Once he escaped he decided to become a priest and he studied for lots of years. (Aoibhe).

He went back to Ireland and helped the people to believe in God (Finn).

Mrs Thomson came into our class told us lots of things too about St Patrick’s day and about Ireland.  She showed us the beautiful shamrock that her mummy posted her from Dublin. We learnt that shamrock is Ireland’s flower.  It is very pretty.  We are going to use Mrs Thomson’s s cutting to try to grow more lovely shamrocks.

We also learnt that Irish boys and girls have the day off from school.  They celebrate the day by going to Mass before watching a St Patrick’s day parade in town. Mrs Thomson made us laugh when she told us that when she was a little girl she used to go to McDonalds on St Patrick’s day and order a green milkshake.  We didn’t know that there was such a thing !  We rounded off our afternoon by making a lucky leprechaun.  Harry and Aoibhe also showed us the lovely St Patrick’s day badges and leprechauns that brought in specially.   We loved them!

Happy St Patrick’s day to all of our family and friends,

love from P1b and Mrs Macdonald.