We were very excited to welcome a dear friend of ours, Joan McDade to the school today to read aloud her new Scots book, ‘The Adventures of Ross and Cromarty’ to our infant classes. Joan was accompanied by Nadia Frew, her illustrator and Tracy Harvey, a local poet.
The children were engrossed in their story telling and are very excited to have a copy of the book in their class libraries.
Thank you Joan, Nadia and Tracy, we are extremely grateful of our partnership working with you.
Today, 3 of our pupils attended the Lapraik Festival in Muirkirk to compete in the verse speaking competition.
We are delighted to share that our pupils were awarded the following prizes:
Runner Up Junior P1/2 Category: Abigail M
3rd Place Middle P3-5 Category: Lewis J
1st Place Upper P6/7 Category: Adele M
Overall Winner: Adele M
Well done to these superstars! We are so very proud of you all!
Following on from our Burns Family Night in school, the newly appointed President of Alloway Burns Club, Jolyn, invited some of our pupils to perform at their annual Youth Concert.
Our young people thoroughly entertained the audience with their verse speaking and singing.
Our Scots poetry and singing superstars had a lovely afternoon whilst visiting and entertaining the residents of our local Afton Court Sheltered Housing complex today.
Today our school choir recorded their entry for the Robert Burns World Federation, National Choral Festival.
Well done everyone, you sang beautifully!
We sang ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ as our Scots piece and ‘Comin’ Thro’ The Rye’ as our Burns piece.
We presented Mrs Wilson with a gift to thank her for playing the piano for us all term in preparation for this competition.
Today, 3 of our pupils attended the Barony Burns Festival at the Barony Campus to compete in their annual verse speaking competition for all feeder Primary Schools.
We are delighted to share that our pupils were awarded the following prizes:
1st Place P1-3 Category: Millar S
2nd Place P4/5 Category: Lewis J
1st Place P6/7 Category: Adele M
Well done to these superstars! We are so very proud of you all!
A huge thank you to Mrs Smith for hosting another successful event for all the local Primary Schools and to the talented classes from Lochnorris Primary who entertained us throughout the morning.
I would like to bring to your attention the following National level competitions, which run alongside the Schools competitions we currently enter in Singing, Verse Speaking and Instrumental.
Competition 1 – Art
For P6 & P7 pupils
A scene from Scottish History or from a Burns song or poem.
Art may be a painting, or drawing using any medium, excluding computer generated images. Artwork should be no greater than A3 in size.
Competition 2 – Writing in Scots Language
P7 Pupils
The content should be about Robert Burns or any poem, animal or event in his works and may be written in any of the languages of Scotland. Pupils are invited to write a short story no more than A4 size and 300-500 words in length. The work may be handwritten, or computer generated and should be signed by the entrant as their own work.
Should your child wish to enter, please return completed entries to Mrs McNulty by Monday 24th March to enable them to be posted off by the deadline.
There are certificates, trophies and a monetary prize to the winning school for winning entries.
A huge thank you to our talented young people, brilliant local performers and all in our school community who joined us for our 3rd annual Burns Family Night!
We love having the opportunity to welcome everyone in to showcase the work and talents of our young people, and with the title of ‘Scots Schuil and Scots Teacher of the Year 2025’ to our name, we really do have a lot of talent to share!
The evening was a huge success, the profits of which will go towards our P7 Residential Trip.
We thank you for your continued support!
Tasty treats for our guests to enjoy.
David Bunten from EPIC bagpiping.
Our school choir.
A jammed packed hall.
Local poet, Stuart Paterson.
Local musician, Ciaran McGhee.
Chloe and Adele shared their own poems they had written.
Local musician, Joan McDade.
Wullie Dick from New Cumnock Burns Club.
Our Scots poetry competition class winners.
Local poet, Rab Wilson.
Musical duet, Jolyn and Davie, otherwise knows as Brigadoon.
Our interactive Kahoot! quiz is always a huge success! Well done to our winning player, ‘Tea Cakes’.
Simon Thoumire from ‘Hands Up For Trad’ gave the closing words.
Everyone gathered singing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ to finish off the evening.
Well done to Adele M and Baylee M for kickstarting the evening by performing their winning poetry recitations at the Afton Lily Burns Supper tonight!
We are grateful of being able to showcase our young peoples talents to our local community. We hope everyone had a great night!
