Last week and at the beginning of this week, we were busy rehearsing for our Burns’ Supper.  This took place on Wednesday afternoon and invited guest came to join us.  During our Burns’ Supper we recited Scots poems, danced to Strip the Willow, sang Flower of Scotland as well as Auld Lang Syne.  We  also ate haggis neeps and tatties and drank Irn Bru!  Our celebration was very traditional as we had a Master of Ceremonies, toasts, addressed the haggis and said Selkirk Grace.

In P.E we have been learning Scottish dances including The Dashing White Sergeant and Strip the Willow.  This is in preparation for the ceilidh that we will be attending at Bathgate Academy, with other cluster schools, on the 6th of February.

In writing we rewrote a Fairytale in the form of a playscript in Scots!  Some of us included very interesting twists to the traditional tales.  For example, Harry’s playscript is called Jack and the Text Message.  In his story, Jack finds a phone instead of magic beans!  We enjoyed writing in Scots as this incorporated humor into our scripts.  Our success criteria was to include Scots language; a character list/description, 3 or more scenes, character names in margin to show who is talking and stage directions in brackets.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Miss Bollen and P7b