Our national baird was born on this day in 1759. Today saw the return of our annual celebration of his works and our great Scots language.
Our children have been working very hard to create beautifully scribed poetry samples, artwork and models.
Mr and Mrs Ross joined us to judge each entry on merit. The results will be announced at our Showcase Assembly, open to all, on Friday 27th. They both said the standard of entries was very high and they had a tough challenge selecting winners.
The children showed leadership and independence in organising our event. They demonstrated responsibility and cooperation by:
- Organising a seating plan
- Arranging the tables for our lunch
- Making paper thistles as table decorations
- Creating a collaborative art collage
- Writing and giving speeches
- Performing songs
Throughout the morning, with excited energy, they rehearsed their poems and speeches before performing their individual poems for the judges.
Our artwork entries:
Mr and Mrs Ross presided over our lunch with Mr Ross giving a very stirring performance of Address Tae A Haggis. Freya brought in the haggis to clapping and the sound of bagpipes. Max gave the Selkirk Grace.
Kym served a delicious traditional lunch of haggis, neeps and tatties followed by shortbread. It was wolfed down with great relish.
After the meal, Jack, Lewis, Cater and Atticus gave a tongue-in-cheek Toast Fae The Laddies. The girls, Katie, Tilly, Louise and Lacey, responded in kind with some gentle teasing of their own in a Reply Fae The Lassies – all in good humour. This was followed by a Toast Tae The School as delivered by Cameron. Katie gave a vote of thanks to everyone who helped make today’s event so successful.
The children then performed Daphne Cochrane before our celebratory lunch was brought to a close with the finale of everyone linking hands and singing Auld Lang Syne.
There are many people to thank for making our day such as success:
Thank you to Kym for serving our delicious lunch. Thanks go to Mr and Mrs Ross for judging and presiding over our lunch. And, of-course, thank you to our lovely families for supporting the children in learning their songs and poems and helping them create their artwork..
Till next year!
