Miss Gordon challenged our class to a day of co-operative learning tasks. We were excited to work in groups with different people in our class.

First, we had to work in teams to complete a jigsaw. This was just the beginning of our day!

Then, Miss Gordon told us that she had a wild Scottish animal that she wanted to introduce us to, it was a haggis. It took a while for us to guess what it was because we thought it was a pig or a cow. She explained that her haggis needed a new home and it had hoped that P1 would help. Of course, we said yes!

We had to talk, agree and work as a group to decide what the haggis would need in a house, where the house would be and what things in our classroom we could use. We came up with some fantastic ideas!

After playtime, we went outside into the playground to try to recreate our houses and make new parts for Miss Gordon’s haggis to live in. Some groups decided the haggis might like a gym hall where it could play ball games like we do, others wanted to make him a cosy bed made from grass and one group even made the haggis a bath! It was lots of fun!

When we got back inside, Miss Gordon told us that her haggis wasn’t real! We were shocked! She explained that some people think that a haggis is an animal that runs wild in Scotland but really it’s a food made from different ingredients. We decided that haggis looks a bit like mince when it’s cut up!

We watched a man who was dressed in a kilt say some funny words to a haggis. He was saying ‘An Adress to a Haggis’ on Burns Night and we were really surprised that after learning some Scots that we could understand some of the sentences of the poem!