INVENTORS AROUND THE SCHOOL

The school walls explain some information about famous inventors thanks to year 4 students.

Let's check who is your favourite!

HALLOWEEN BATS

The pupils have coloured different monsters and they have made a Halloween scary castle.

Apart from that, they have worked on a bat made of recycled materials. It was easy and they had fun! 

The result is great! 

 

HALLOWEEN DECORATION IDEAS

This is a great chance to all those creative Students at school... have fun and share your creations!
Click on the images to read the instructions.

  

    

Finally... try these amazing experiments, you can record yourself doing it and share it with your classmates... ask your English Teacher... but remember... SPEAK ENGLISH WHILE RECORDING!

Wild Animals

 

 

JOBS

Watch this video to know and review a bit more about jobs. Enjoy!!!





Now, have fun with this song!

COMPARATIVES

And here you are another video about comparatives… it’s quite interesting, try the exercises in the end of the video, you can write them down and give them to your teacher.

Halloween

Listen and read a funny Halloween story.

Now, let’s sing!

Paper Pumpkins

Halloween crafts to make with kids.

Celebrate the arrival of Autumn with these pumpkins.

NATURE

NATURE

Scotland is known by its beautiful countryside and its green landscapes. They are incredible around all the seasons. Look up into these activities and discover new vocabulary related to nature. Then, you will be able to describe Scotland´s pictures. Have fun!

CLOTHING

CLOTHING

In U.K the weather is very changeable. There, it rains a lot. So you have to take it into account if you decide to go for a walk!

What are you wearing today? It depends on the weather… Is it cold or hot? Is it rainning?

Put on your hat!... Take your jacket off!... Take your umbrella just in case!

Let’s practice English and check your vocabulary!

Happy Robert Burns´ day.

We’re coming up to January 25 which marks the annual celebration of Scotland’s national bard Robert Burns who lived from January 25, 1759 to July 21, 1796. Many of Burns’ songs and poetry were inspired by the beauty of Scotland, particularly the breathtaking scenery of Ayrshire, his birthplace and the romantic setting of Dumfries & Galloway where he lived in later life. It’s believed his love of nature stemmed from his working life on the family farm in Alloway, Ayr, where he wrote poems such as ‘To a Mouse’, ‘The Primrose’ and ‘A Winter Night’. Burns’ most famed poems are Auld Lang Syne and To a Haggis – the latter is oft recited at Burns Nights. Traditional Burns suppers centre on haggis (innards stuffed in a sheep’s stomach), neeps (turnips), tatties (potatoes) and plenty of whisky and music.

Power Point about Robert Burns´ day!!!

This is the Power Point about the Robert Burns´Day that we are been working at school.

Enjoy yourself watching it!!!!

The Story of Robert Burns

Robert burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, in 1759 to poor tenant farmers, William Burness and Agnes Broun. Robert Burns was the eldest brother to another six children. His early years were spent working with his father on the family farm, but although the family was poor, his father insisted that Robert and his younger brother Gilbert should have the best education they could afford. He employed a tutor and at the age of 15, Robert Burns wrote his first verses, 'My Handsome Nell', which were about his favourite pastimes at that time, women and drink.

In 1784, when his father died, Robert and his brother became partners in the farm but Robert was more interested in his poetry and womanising. Through the latter, he became the father of several illegitimate children. This gave him notions of escaping to the far off lands of the West Indies. As he prepared to give up the farm and head for a warmer climate, leaving his 'troubles' behind, his first collection of poems was published. This was the well known 'Poems- Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect - Kilmarnock Edition'. It received much critical acclaim and this encouraged him to remain in Scotland. He became known in Edinburgh as 'The Ploughman Poet' and within a short period of time was a country-wide celebrity.

At this point Robert Burns married the mother of two of his twin children. Her name was Jean Armour. Although he was now famous, it did not bring in much of an income and Robert had to take up employment as an exciseman to make ends meet. He still continued to produce poetry and songs, the number totalling approximately 400 before he died of heart disease at the age of 37 on the very same day that his wife gave birth to a son, Maxwell. An amazing 10,000 people paid their respects at his funeral.

Every year on the anniversary of his birth, 25th January, thousands of people throughout the world pay homage to this great man by way of a 'Burns Supper'. The ritual was started by close friends of Burns a few years after his death as a tribute to his memory. The basic format for the evening has remained unchanged since that time and begins when the chairman invites the company to receive the haggis. There is also a recital of Burns' famous poem 'To A Haggis'.

'Auld Lang Syne' by Robert Burns

"Auld Lang Syne" is a Scottish poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294). It is well known in many English-speaking countries and is often sung to celebrate the start of the new year at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day.

The song's (Scots) title may be translated into English literally as "old long since", or more idiomatically, "long long ago" or "days gone by". The phrase "Auld Lang Syne" is also used in similar poems by Robert Ayton (15701638), Allan Ramsay (1686-1757), and James Watson (1711) as well as older folk songs predating Burns.[2] In his retelling of fairy tales in the Scots language, Matthew Fitt uses the phrase "In the days of auld lang syne" as the equivalent of "Once upon a time." In Scots syne is pronounced like the English word sign.

Auld Lang Syne

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne?

CHORUS:
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak a cup of kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

And surely ye'll be your pint-stowp,
And surely I'll be mine,
And we'll tak a cup o kindness yet,
For auld lang syne!

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou'd the gowans fine,
But we've wander'd monie a weary fit,
Sin auld lang syne.

We twa hae paidl'd in the burn
Frae morning sun till dine,
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin auld lang syne.

And there's a hand my trusty fiere,
And gie's a hand o thine,
And we'll tak a right guid-willie waught,
For auld lang syne

How to see the Loch Ness Monster.

How to see the Loch Ness Monster.It´s very easy, you must watch this video and you will see Nessie everywhere.

The water house: legend of the deep

The water house: legend of the deep

In 1942 Scotland a boy called Angus MacMorrow lives in a large manor house on the shores of Loch Ness with his mother Anne (housekeeper), his sister, a cook, a maid and an old game keeper.One day, while looking for seashells in a loch, he discovers a large mysterious egg and .... This the trailer of the film.

Phineas and Ferb and The Lake Nose Monster

Phineas and Ferb and The Lake Nose Monster

Phineas and Ferb must save the Lake Nose Monster after Dr. Doofenshmirtz removes all the zinc from the water. Candace is glad when she is with Jeremy in the lifeguard squad. Meanwhile, Doofenshmirtz plans to steal all of the zinc in Lake Nose.

Travel to Scotland with kids.

If you want to travel to Scotland with kids you will have to watch this video.

There's something magical about Scotland, perhaps it's the sunlight and mists, deep lakes and leafy forests, crumbling forts and ghosts of Scottish clans, salt breezes and tangy mountain air. Traveling in Scotland with kids, will it be the mysteries of the Loch Ness, the wild beauty of the Isle of Skye, the windswept Outer Hebrides, or stone castles at every turn in the road? Contrary to stereotype, the Scots were warm and congenial to our family.

The story of St. Andrew (the patron saint of Scotland)

The story of St. Andrew (the patron saint of Scotland)

Video transcript

Storyteller 1:
A long, long time ago in Galilee a fisherman called Andrew spent his days fishing.

One day he heard a man call out from the bank.

Jesus:
Follow me.

Storyteller 1:
That man was Jesus of Nazareth and Andrew immediately lay down his nets and became one of the twelve disciples.

Storyteller 2:
Andrew watched Jesus perform many miracles. It was Andrew who first spoke to the boy who offered to share his five loaves and two fishes with Jesus at the feeding of the five thousand. Jesus managed to feed all five thousand people from only the food the boy had shared.

Storyteller 1:
After Jesus died Andrew preached Christianity throughout Poland, Russia and Greece. It was in Greece that Andrew was crucified on an X shaped cross as he thought himself unworthy of dying on a vertical cross like Jesus.

Storyteller 2:
Time passed, a monk called Regulus, or Rule, was watching over St. Andrew’s bones. The story goes that an angel appeared to Rule and told him to take the relics to the far west. The journey was long and arduous.

Rule was shipwrecked on the east coast of Scotland, in a place where the town of St. Andrews now stands.

Storyteller 1:
Over the centuries St. Andrew became important to the Scottish people. This is why the X shape of his cross, or saltire, is part of the Scottish Flag.

Storyteller 2:
St. Andrew became the patron saint of Scotland about a thousand years ago, and St. Andrew’s day continues to be celebrated on the 30th of November each year.

Saint Andrew

                                                      Saint Andrew

Saint Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland, and St. Andrew's Day is celebrated by Scots around the world on the 30th November. The flag of Scotland is the Cross of St. Andrew, and this is widely displayed as a symbol of national identity.

The "Order of Saint Andrew" or the "Most Ancient Order of the Thistle" is an order of Knighthood which is restricted to the King or Queen and sixteen others. It was established by James VII of Scotland in 1687. 

Very little is really known about St. Andrew himself. He was thought to have been a fisherman in Galilee (now part of Israel), along with his elder brother Simon Peter (Saint Peter). Both became followers (apostles) of Jesus Christ, founder of the Christian religion.

St. Andrew is said to have been responsible for spreading the tenets of the Christian religion though Asia Minor and Greece. Tradition suggests that St. Andrew was put to death by the Romans in Patras, Southern Greece by being pinned to a cross (crucified). The diagonal shape of this cross is said to be the basis for the Cross of St. Andrew which appears on the Scottish Flag.

St. Andrews bones were entombed, and around 300 years later were moved by Emperor Constantine (the Great) to his new capital Constantinople (now Istambul in Turkey). Legend suggests that a Greek Monk (although others describe him as an Irish assistant of St. Columba) called St. Rule (or St. Regulus) was warned in a dream that St. Andrews remains were to be moved and was directed by an angel to take those of the remains which he could to the "ends of the earth" for safe-keeping. St. Rule dutifully followed these directions, removing a tooth, an arm bone, a kneecap and some fingers from St. Andrew's tomb and transporting these as far away as he could. Scotland was close to the extremities of the know world at that time and it was here that St. Rule was shipwrecked with his precious cargo. 

St. Rule is said to have come ashore at a Pictish settlement on the East Coast of Scotland and this later became St. Andrews. Thus the association of St. Andrew with Scotland was said to have begun.

Perhaps more likely than the tale of St. Rule's journey is that Acca, the Bishop of Hexham, who was a reknown collector of relics, brought the relics of St. Andrew to St. Andrews in 733. There certainly seems to have been a religious centre at St. Andrews at that time, either founded by St. Rule in the 6th century or by a Pictish King, Ungus, who reigned from 731 - 761.

Whichever tale is true, the relics were placed in a specially constructed chapel. This chapel was replaced by the Cathedral of St. Andrews in 1160, and St. Andrews became the religious capital of Scotland and a great centre for Medieval pilgrims who came to view the relics.

There are other legends of how St. Andrew and his remains became associated with Scotland, but there is little evidence for any of these, including the legend of St. Rule. The names still exist in Scotland today, including St. Rules Tower, which remains today amongst the ruins of St. Andrews Cathedral.

It is not known what happened to the relics of St. Andrew which were stored in St. Andrews Cathedral, although it is most likely that these were destroyed during the Scottish Reformation. The Protestant cause, propounded by Knox, Wishart and others, won out over Roman Catholism during the Reformation and the "idolatry of catholism", that is the Saints, relics, decoration of churches, were expunged during the process of converting the Roman Catholic churches of Scotland to the harsh simplicity of Knox's brand of Calvanism.

The place where these relics were kept within the Cathedral at St. Andrews is now marked by a plaque, amongst the ruins, for visitors to see.



The larger part of St. Andrew's remains were stolen from Constantinople in 1210 and are now to be found in Amalfi in Southern Italy. In 1879 the Archbishop of Amalfi sent a small piece of the Saint's shoulder blade to the re-established Roman Catholic community in Scotland.

In 1969, Gordon Gray, leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland was in Rome to be appointed the first Scottish Cardinal since the Reformation. Pope Paul VI gave him further relics of St. Andrew with the words "Saint Peter gives you his brother". These are now displayed in a reliquary in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral in Edinburgh.

Inspector Gadget in Scotland

While enjoying the verdant scenery of Scotland in a drive in the Gadget Van, Penny, Brain, and Inspector Gadget are suddenly attacked by a huge dragon-like beast which spits fire at the car. Thinking his engine has simply overheated, Gadget stops the car and gets his latest assignment from Quimby: It's off to Loch Ness to protect an important scientist from the clutches of Dr. Claw. Despite a MAD detour that sends the Gadgetmobile flying off a cliff, and without the help of shocked-to-silence Scottish locals, Gadget finds his way to the Loch only to realize the scientist is already missing. The police inspector begins his search for him while Penny secretly does some investigating of her own. Using a portable computer / radar screen, she tracks not only the monster that tried to destroy them earlier (which turns out to be an enormous mechanical creature), but also the Gadgetmobile and Brain, one after the other, all underwater. The monster swallows Gadget whole, and once inside, he finally meets Professor Thumphkin, a nervous old man in a wool sweater with a voice reminiscent of actor Richard Haydn. In an attempt to break out of their unlikely prison, Gadget uses his laser and his screwdriver, yet succeeds only in freaking out Thumphkin and short circuiting the lake monster's guidance system. Dr. Claw is no longer able to control it from his MAD sub, and it's all he can do to get out of its way. Penny deftly leaps onto the huge robot, literally gets inside its head, and brings it to a quiet stop at the shore of the lake. Gadget emerges from the monster intact, carrying a passed-out, but safe Professor Thumphkin.

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