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Robert Burns World Federation Competitions – Art and Writing

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.

Noo that’s whit a ca’ a Burns Nicht!

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 β€˜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.