Tree Lighting Assembly

Class 5 lit the tree at a whole school assembly.

Here is a video of them singing and putting their gingerbread decorations on the tree.

Christmas Songs from Norway

Every year in Orkney we have visitors from Norway at the time of the community tree lighting events.

This year we have been practising some Norwegian Christmas songs and we sang with the Norwegian musicians when they visited us at school to help us get ready for our own school tree lighting.

You can hear us singing along with them in Norwegian here.

Preparing for a Norwegian Christmas

We have been learning a few Norwegian words and a Christmas song with the Norwegian exchange students. We will be lighting the school Christmas tree and singing the song the same week as the community trees are being lit.

We also tasted gingerbread.

This is a traditional Norwegian Christmas food.

The Orkney Song Shop will be coming in to help us learn the song for our tree lighting.

It is called, 'Jeg er sa glad hver julekveld'.

We can see how similar some of the words are and we can understand a few without translation.

Monarch of the Glen

We have been creating images based on the famous painting by Landseer of 'The Monarch of the Glen'. It is a painting which people all around the world associate with the Highlands of Scotland. Here is a slideshow of our paintings.

A short film about Norway

What can you see that is the same as Orkney and what is very different about Norway?

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