Llysfaen
Primary School
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Happy Hannukkah
Hannukkah started on the 7th of December this year. Hanukkah is the Jewish festival of light and is celebrated four days before the new moon. During a war between the Maccabees and the Greeks a Jewish temple had been taken over by the Greeks but the Jews had got it back and to celebrate they wanted to light the holy lamps but there was only enough oil to last one day but then a miracle happened because the oil lasted eight days and nights and that's why Hanukkah is celebrated today! Every day for eight days people of the Jewish faith light one of the candles on a hanukkiah and that represents the eight days and nights that the oil lasted.
On Monday, Mr Cannon, Ben and Jonah led an assembly on the festival to inform and educate the children of Llysfaen about the upcoming festival!
Yesterday Mr & Mrs Eyal-Caruba came in to talk to the year sixes about Hanukkah and gave them all jam doughnuts as they are a traditional treat eaten during the festival! The year sixes were fascinated by the stories they told!
