St Andrew's Day

Today was St Andrew’s day. Rowan, Malindi and Tully came dressed in their own national dress…plus a very big and very furry Highland cow hat! During snack time we talked about the girls’ kilts and why they were dressed differently today. Rowan bought in some Scottish themed tea towels which we enjoyed looking at this morning. Mrs Gent surprised us all after lunch by turning up with her own traditional tartan on!

She told us all that she is from Scotland too just like the girls. Mrs Gent spoke to us about Scotland and we were all laughing at the funny Scottish words she taught us. Especially the Scottish word for ‘little’! Hearing about the Loch Ness Monster made us all creep closer and closer to Mrs Gent as we were hanging onto her every word. We asked some very interesting questions….does the Loch Ness Monster eat haggis?

We were all very excited about what we had learned and spent the afternoon looking through atlases to find Scotland and drawing pictures of Scottish mountains. We remembered that Mrs Gent said heather covered the mountains and that at a certain time of the year it was purple. There was definitely a purple theme running through our artwork this afternoon.

Mrs Gent told us about the special sword dance that Scottish boys learn…we didn’t have any swords so light sabers had to do! Lots of us danced the sword dance with Mrs Gent. It was very tricky, we had to jump over the ‘swords’ and turn around.

Mrs Gent also taught us the Scottish national anthem. We were all mesmerised as she sang ‘Flower of Scotland’ to us and many of us were to found humming it as the afternoon went on.

What a fabulous afternoon in Otter’s class.