It’s been a short week but a busy week in Primary 5!
Here are some of our comments:
Beth: In Drama we had fun miming little scenes. We focused on facing our audience and we used facial expressions and actions to allow our audience to guess what we were doing.
Bea: We wrote a letter from the viewpoint of Rory in our class novel.
Joseph: I made a helmet during construction today.
Rachel W: We really enjoyed going to our new committees today!
Taylor: We all went to our Achievements Assembly and we found out about our new house mascots.
Chi Chi: In Art we all started to make Egyptian masks.
Toni: We decorated doves for International Peace Day and we all stood with Primary 6 to make the Peace sign in the playground.
Have a great weekend!
Primary 5 and Mrs Reeves
Sounds like another productive week! So lovely to see international peace day celebrated in such a lovely way. Well done everyone. 🕊
Beth has been loving her drama lessons! Thank you. She is also really looking forward to all the exciting things she will be doing with the community links committee.
I love reading your comments about the different things you have learned and you are enjoying in class! Thank you primary 5! I was out of school when you completed your human peace sign but your teachers kept me in the loop and send me your picture! Great work as always! Miss Smyth 😀
I’ve been saying a little prayer for the poor and I learned a few facts about ST. Ninian.
1.ST. Ninian was the first saint of Scotland
2.He was a Bishop and a Confessor
3.He had five names apart from Ninian
4.He built a church.
5.He died around 432.
Saint Ninian is acknowledged as Scotland’s first saint with the date 397AD celebrated as the beginning of his mission to his people.
He was a Christian Bishop, and was particularly active in the Whithorn and Galloway area of Scotland.
He is also credited with being the first to bring Christianity to the ‘southern’ Picts, the people living in the parts of Scotland we know today as Perth, Fife, Stirling and around Dundee and Forfar.
Not much is known with certainty about St. Ninian, but according to oral traditions dating from the 5th century and confirmed in the writings of the Venerable Bede in the 8th century, a holy man named ‘Nynia’, born among the British people, introduced the Christian faith into Scotland long before the coming of Saint Columba.
In the 8th century a Latin poem ‘Miracula Nynie Episcopi’ was written by a monk at the monastery at Whithorn. In the 12th century Ailred of Rievaulx wrote his “Life of St Ninian”. Some stories in the books tell of the life, good works and goodness of the saint and some tell of cures and conversion of people to Christianity. Churches and altars across Scotland and further away in Europe were dedicated to St Ninian.
Historically we know that from the 7th century people made a pilgrimage to visit the shrine of St Ninian in Whithorn believing in his power to cure illness and perform miracles. The town became a cult centre and over many centuries both kings and commoners made the journey and the fame of Ninian and Whithorn spread.