Education Scotland is the national body in Scotland for supporting quality and improvement in learning and teaching. We were very pleased to welcome them to Balbardie PS recently to share our fabulous work on Scots language and performing arts, led with huge enthusiasm by Mrs Innes who teaches Expressive Arts across many of our classes. Congratulations and thanks go to Mrs Innes (and her supporting team) and of course a massive well done to our star pupils. We are very pleased to share this with you:

At the end of last term we had a visit from one of Education Scotland’s team, as our school has been recognised for its work in relation to the Scots language.  The Scots language being regarded as a minority language, and as such is part of the Scottish curriculum.

The children in Mrs Aitken’s class performed their bite sized musical, ‘The Gingerbreid Mannie’ and also sang their warm up songs, ‘Heid, Shooders, Shanks and Taes’ and ‘The Shoogly Woogly’ as well as singing, ‘Last Night There was a Murder in the Chip Shop’.   To say that they were awesome truly does them justice.   Confident individuals who demonstrated success in their learning about the Scots language and where it fitted into Scotland’s story.

The feedback and report given to the school was superb, and we are justifiably delighted with this.

The full class performance was recorded, and I asked that the DVD be made available to parents, should you want one.  This will cost £2.00 to cover the cost of making the DVD.   Letters with a tear-off slip to order  a DVD will be available shortly. Please return the slip with the money for your copy.

Yours sincerely,

Edi Innes

Expressive Arts Teacher