This term we are studying the poem Tam O’Shanter by Robert Burns. We were really interested in the verse:

The wind blew as ‘twad blawn its last;

The rattling showers rose on the blast;

The speedy gleams the darkness swallow’d

Loud, deep and lang the thunder bellow’d:

That night, a child might understand,

The Deil had business on his hand.

We noticed that Burns used onomatopoeia to describe how terrible the storm really was and we looked at each word individually. Miss Gunning split us into three different rows with the word ‘loud’ ‘deep’ or ‘lang’ to focus on. We re-created this storm using sound only – here is our video 😀

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P7 went to the SKY Academy in Livingston to visit the SKY Skills studios. We had an AMAZING day! Pupils were split into different teams and were each given different roles in order to produce a news report on global warming. There were 4 groups and each report was combined to produce an overall news report, we all found the final report hilarious – especially when Aaron (the main news reporter) appeared on screen wearing a pink suit jacket and glasses. The main job role titles were: Producer, Director, Scriptwriter, Camera operator, Reporter, Expert, Eye witness and Editor.

Have a look at our photographs below – can you see who is carrying out which role?