{"id":8972,"date":"2021-11-15T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T17:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2021-11-15T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T17:09:48","slug":"p1-4-and-a1-author-visit-thursday-18th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/2021\/11\/15\/p1-4-and-a1-author-visit-thursday-18th-november\/","title":{"rendered":"P1-4 and A1 Author Visit &#8211; Thursday 18th November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents\/Carers<\/p>\n<p>West Lothian based author Paul Walsh will be visiting our school on Thursday 18<sup>th<\/sup> November, to help us celebrate Scottish Book Week.\u00a0 He will be reading P1-4 pupils his new book &#8216;The McScarf&#8217;s\u2019, performing live &#8216;The McScarf&#8217;s&#8217; song and supporting the children with a short creative writing session.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The McScarf&#8217;s\u2019 is about a Clan of <strong>ten Scottish animals<\/strong>\u00a0who take readers to visit\u00a0<strong>ten modern and historic locations<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>around Scotland!\u00a0 &#8216;The McScarf&#8217;s&#8217;,\u00a0<strong>written in scot&#8217;s<\/strong>, is an introduction to Scotland, showcasing modern cities such as Edinburgh to see the Castle, and Glasgow to see a traffic cone&#8230;wait, what?\u00a0 The Clan also take us for\u00a0<em>a flying<\/em>\u00a0visit to Loch Lomond, St. Andrews for a\u00a0<em>spot of Golf<\/em>, and Glencoe to\u00a0<em>&#8216;bag a munro&#8217;!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you wish your child to receive a personally addressed and signed copy of the book for a discounted price of \u00a37.99 (usually \u00a310.99) please complete the slip that will be sent home on Tuesday 16th November.\u00a0 \u00a0Please note that all orders are to be made by Friday 19<sup>th<\/sup> November.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/BlackburnPrimary\/uploads\/sites\/1308\/2021\/11\/15170834\/mcscarfs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8973\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/2021\/11\/15\/p1-4-and-a1-author-visit-thursday-18th-november\/mcscarfs\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/BlackburnPrimary\/uploads\/sites\/1308\/2021\/11\/15170834\/mcscarfs.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mcscarfs\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/BlackburnPrimary\/uploads\/sites\/1308\/2021\/11\/15170834\/mcscarfs-300x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/BlackburnPrimary\/uploads\/sites\/1308\/2021\/11\/15170834\/mcscarfs.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8973\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/BlackburnPrimary\/uploads\/sites\/1308\/2021\/11\/15170834\/mcscarfs-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/BlackburnPrimary\/uploads\/sites\/1308\/2021\/11\/15170834\/mcscarfs.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/BlackburnPrimary\/uploads\/sites\/1308\/2021\/11\/15170834\/mcscarfs-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Parents\/Carers West Lothian based author Paul Walsh will be visiting our school on Thursday 18th November, to help us celebrate Scottish Book Week.\u00a0 He will be reading P1-4 pupils his new book &#8216;The McScarf&#8217;s\u2019, performing live &#8216;The McScarf&#8217;s&#8217; song and supporting the children with a short creative writing session. \u2018The McScarf&#8217;s\u2019 is about a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/2021\/11\/15\/p1-4-and-a1-author-visit-thursday-18th-november\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">P1-4 and A1 Author Visit &#8211; Thursday 18th November<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120872,135641,500,135747,502],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laura","category-miss-farquhar","category-p2","category-mr-reid","category-p4"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8974,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions\/8974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/BlackburnPrimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}