Last week four first year pupils from the Arbroath High School community project group visited Kendale House to help the elderly residents celebrate their Burns Lunch.

Ailsa Chung, Claire Milne, Nairn Peat and Isla Simpson read selected poems from Robert Burns and then joined forces to deliver the “Address to the Haggis” as lunch was served.

The group was accompanied by three senior pupils, John Kerr, Ruaridh Mathieson and Josh Wright – all of whom are accomplished singers and all members of the national youth choir of Scotland. The three boys each chose a Burns song and sang unaccompanied between the poetry readings.

The residents of Kendale Hall were delighted by the visit – which allowed them to mark Robert Burns Day in unusual fashion. The S1 pupils were also pleased to be able to follow up on the school’s successful Christmas community event, in which all of them participated. We hope this is the first of many such community activities to take place during the course of the year.