Glaitness School » Events http://glaitness.edublogs.org Sharing Class News and Projects Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:04:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Norway Constitution Day http://glaitness.edublogs.org/2006/05/24/norway-constitution-day/ http://glaitness.edublogs.org/2006/05/24/norway-constitution-day/#comments Wed, 24 May 2006 07:08:51 +0000 tgeddes http://glaitness.edublogs.org/2006/05/24/norway-constitution-day/ Primary 5 pupils attended the annual celebrations in Kirkwall marking the day when Norway received it’s first constitution and became an independent nation on 17th May 1814. Orkney has always had strong links with Norway and representatives from the County of Hordaland were there to celebrate the occasion along with those who had sailed across from Norway and children who had walked shorter distances from the local schools of Papdale and Glaitness. The entertainment was led by singers, dancers and fiddlers from St Andrews Primary School in the Orkney district of Tankerness.

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All over Norway, children’s parades form the central elements of the celebration. Each elementary school arranges its own parade through the local community, led by the school’s own marching band and with an abundance of flags. You can read more by clicking on the following link:

Norwegian Constitution Day

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