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Happy St Andrew’s Day! This week we have been learning about St Andrew.

Ellie – St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, Rope, Fisherman and Fishmongers.

Paula – St Andrew was one of the 12 disciples of Jesus.

Christy – St Andrew was born in 5 BC

Cerys – St Andrew was 62  when he died.

Szymon – He was killed by the Romans in Greece.

Alexander – Some of St Andrew’s remains are in Scotland.

Sam – He said that he was not worthy to be crucified on a  cross like Jesus so he was crucified on a x-shaped cross.

Ciaran – The x shape was adopted as our national flag of Scotland (the saltire).

Matthew – He had a brother called Simon Peter.

Mirin – St Andrew appeared in a dream and told the Pictus people that they would be victorious in battle.

Phoebe – he followed Jesus and spread the good news.

Happy St Andrew’s Day!

We have also been learning about multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000 in numeracy and using subtraction strategies in number talks. We have worked very hard this week in all areas.

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Since returning from the summer holidays we have been very busy. We have been learning about shale mining in Broxburn and we looked at the Burngrange mining disaster.

Max – the Burngrange disaster happened 71 years ago.

Lucas – the disaster happened in West Calder

Mirin – 15 men lost their lives.

Daniel – one of the men died at the exit to the mine.

Connor – 2 of the men were brothers.

Paula – a giant explosion and fire caused the disaster and parts of the mine to collapse.

We have learned lots of information and created art work, job adverts, PowerPoints, mind maps and newspaper reports all about shale mining and the disaster.

We are now going to be learning about natural disaster.  We can’t wait!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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P5b’s Titanic adventure

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Natalia – I liked when we dressed up and played a character on the Titanic

Adam – I learned that workmen had to be at 6:00 am sharp or they would be sent home by the time keeper.

Maisie – I learned that when the Titanic left Southampton it almost crashed.

Lilya – I learned that the people that worked in the Titanic had 6 minutes to go to the toilet. Once one of them fell asleep and the time-keeper started banging on the door.

Adil – I learned that the smoke from the cooking went through the fourth funnel to make it look like it was working.

Archie – I enjoyed dressing up as a purser.

Marta – I learned that the carpenters who worked on the Titanic took spare pieces of wood home to show their families how nice the wood was.