This week Primary 7a started learning about Robert Burns. We started learning about this significant Scottish poet by making a KWL grid, which stands for what you KNOW, what you WANT to know and what you have LEARNED at the end of the study. After that, we read information sheets and highlighted the important info and took notes. Next we watched videos and also took notes.

The main outcome from Curriculum for Excellence for this topic is LIT 2-25a

This photo was taken when we were taking notes, as we were watching videos.

As a class we  drew portraits of Robert Burns here are a few examples:

We are learning about Burns because we are having a Burns supper on the 26th of January which we are all very excited about. For this we designed some invitations in a Scottish theme. We think you’ll agree some of our designs are very unique and patriotic.

We are preparing for this by writing our own Toast To The Lassies and Reply To The Laddies. Once everyone has handed them in, we will share them with each other and together with Mrs Senior will choose one of each and they will recite them out at the Burns Supper. We have also been given homework to choose a Burns poem and read it out to the class, as well as telling the class why you have picked it.

The next few weeks are going to be so exciting so stay tuned to find out what else we get up to!