{"id":80,"date":"2026-06-11T15:27:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/?p=80"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:27:29","slug":"a-message-from-the-king-%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/2026\/06\/11\/a-message-from-the-king-%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba\/","title":{"rendered":"A message from the king! \ud83c\udfba\ud83c\udfba\ud83c\udfba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote poems using kennings, inspired by our favourite animals.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc22\ud83d\udc35\ud83d\udc36\ud83d\udc3a\ud83e\udd81\ud83d\udc2f\ud83e\udd92\ud83d\udc17\ud83e\udd9d\ud83d\udc38\ud83d\udc3c\ud83e\udd93\ud83e\udece\ud83e\udd8d\ud83e\uddac\ud83e\udd8f\ud83e\udd9b\ud83d\udc2a\ud83e\udda5\ud83e\udda3\ud83e\udd8e<\/p>\n<p>We sent some to Sir David Atteborough, and Finlay suggested we send some to King Charles, because we know they are both animal lovers.<\/p>\n<p>This week a letter came addressed to the children in P4\/5&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We got a letter back from Buckingham Palace, saying how much the king had enjoyed our poems and how impressed he was with the illustrations!<\/p>\n<p>Definitely a royal seal of approval for P4\/5&#8217;s writing skills! \ud83d\udc51\ud83e\uddad<\/p>\n<p>WOW! Well done, everybody!<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-80 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/2026\/06\/11\/a-message-from-the-king-%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba\/img_20260611_151631\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p452025\/uploads\/sites\/3663\/2026\/06\/11152625\/IMG_20260611_151631-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/2026\/06\/11\/a-message-from-the-king-%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba\/img_20260611_151647\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p452025\/uploads\/sites\/3663\/2026\/06\/11152632\/IMG_20260611_151647-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/2026\/06\/11\/a-message-from-the-king-%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba\/img_20260611_151654\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p452025\/uploads\/sites\/3663\/2026\/06\/11152638\/IMG_20260611_151654-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/2026\/06\/11\/a-message-from-the-king-%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba\/img_20260611_151710\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p452025\/uploads\/sites\/3663\/2026\/06\/11152643\/IMG_20260611_151710-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/2026\/06\/11\/a-message-from-the-king-%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba\/letter-from-the-king\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/p452025\/uploads\/sites\/3663\/2026\/06\/11152647\/Letter-from-the-king-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wrote poems using kennings, inspired by our favourite animals. \ud83d\udc22\ud83d\udc35\ud83d\udc36\ud83d\udc3a\ud83e\udd81\ud83d\udc2f\ud83e\udd92\ud83d\udc17\ud83e\udd9d\ud83d\udc38\ud83d\udc3c\ud83e\udd93\ud83e\udece\ud83e\udd8d\ud83e\uddac\ud83e\udd8f\ud83e\udd9b\ud83d\udc2a\ud83e\udda5\ud83e\udda3\ud83e\udd8e We sent some to Sir David Atteborough, and Finlay suggested we send some to King Charles, because we know they are both animal lovers. This week a letter came addressed to the children in P4\/5&#8230; We got a letter back from Buckingham Palace, saying &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/2026\/06\/11\/a-message-from-the-king-%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba%f0%9f%8e%ba\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A message from the king! \ud83c\udfba\ud83c\udfba\ud83c\udfba<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5615,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/p452025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}