{"id":1518,"date":"2020-01-13T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/?p=1518"},"modified":"2020-01-13T15:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:58:24","slug":"burns-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/2020\/01\/13\/burns-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 29th January the whole school will be participating in a &#8216;Burns Assembly&#8217;. On this day every class will be performing something Scottish to the rest of the school as part of the celebration.<\/p>\n<p>Primary 2 will be performing &#8216;Donald Where&#8217;s Yer Troosers?&#8217;. Pupils will be given many opportunities to practice the song in school over the next coming weeks, however, it would be also be very helpful if you could practice the lyrics to this song with your child at home as well.\u00a0 Pupils will be given out an A4 sheet with the lyrics on it by the end of the week. Below is a copy and a link to the song on youtube.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Andy Stewart - Donald Wheres Your Troosers\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4yw0bLHTOb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just come down<br \/>\nFrom the Isle of Skye<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not very big and I&#8217;m awful shy<br \/>\nAnd the lassies shout when I go by<br \/>\nDonald, where&#8217;s your troosers<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus:]<br \/>\nLet the wind blow high<br \/>\nLet the wind blow low<br \/>\nThrough the streets<br \/>\nIn my kilt, I&#8217;ll go<br \/>\nAll the lassies say hello<br \/>\nDonald, where&#8217;s your troosers<\/p>\n<p>A lassie took me to a ball<\/p>\n<p>And it was slippery in the hall<br \/>\nAnd I was feared that I would fall<br \/>\nFor I had nae on my troosers<\/p>\n<p>[Repeat Chorus]<br \/>\nNow I went down to London Town<br \/>\nAnd I had some fun in the underground<br \/>\nThe ladies turned their heads around<br \/>\nSaying, Donald, where are your trousers<\/p>\n<p>[Repeat Chorus]<br \/>\nTo wear the kilt is my delight<br \/>\nIt is not wrong I know it&#8217;s right<br \/>\nThe Highlanders would get a fright<br \/>\nIf they saw me in the trousers<\/p>\n<p>[Repeat Chorus]<br \/>\nThe lassies want me every one<br \/>\nWell, let them catch me if they can<br \/>\nYou canna take the breaks<br \/>\nIf a Highland man<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t wear the troosers<\/p>\n<p>[Repeat Chorus]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 29th January the whole school will be participating in a &#8216;Burns Assembly&#8217;. On this day every class will be performing something Scottish to the rest of the school as part of the celebration. Primary 2 will be performing &#8216;Donald Where&#8217;s Yer Troosers?&#8217;. Pupils will be given many opportunities to practice the song in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/2020\/01\/13\/burns-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burns Celebration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1518\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/slhsmclassblogof2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}