Explorers Day

Last Tuesday everyone at St Andrews was invited to come to school dressed as an explorer for our 'Explorers Day'.  There were some fantastic costumes and we had great fun trying to guess who everybody was!

 For part of the day, we played a trading game, where we had to pretend to be Vikings trading goods with people from other parts of the world; furs and antlers from Bulgar in Russia, timber and fish from Birka in Sweden, amber and silver from Hedeby in Denmark, stone pots and honey from Jorvik in England and silks and spices from Constantinople in Turkey.  We had lots of fun travelling over land or by sea, and trying to make the best deals possible!

Tanzanian Talk

On Friday Hellen Sinclair came to talk to all the children at St Andrews about Tanzania.  Primaries 1, 2 and 3 were fascinated to hear about her work as a volunteer in a school in Tanzania, and to discover how different life is for children living in that part of the world.

Hellen taught us how to say simple greetings in Swahili.

She told us about some of the animals she had seen.

She showed us pictures of some of the homes in Tanzania.

Hellen told us that some people in Tanzania are very poor.

Schools in Tanzania are very different from here.

Children who go to school there are very happy to be there.

Thank you, Hellen.  We really enjoyed your talk!