Pupils in Primary 7/6 at Boghall Primary School took part in the annual ‘Braw Breakfast’ competition, organised by The Royal Highland Educational Trust. The aim of their Farmhouse Breakfast Week campaign is to raise awareness of the benefits of eating a healthy breakfast and show children the variety of options available to them, grown here in Scotland. The competition was to compose a poem in the style of Robert Burns’ infamous ‘address to a haggis’, celebrating their own favourite breakfast dish and how it “shakes up your wake up!”
There were many entries from schools across Scotland, with Katie Coyle from P7/6 at Boghall Primary School being named the winner! As a prize for winning, Katie and her classmates were treated to a huge Scottish breakfast! To begin their braw morning, the children took part in a workshop where they had to identify different Scottish breakfast items and how they are manufactured from farm to shop. After bowls of Scottish porridge, bananas, strawberries and grapes, they tucked into bacon rolls, scrambled eggs and black pudding!  Honey was the top choice of toppings with added toast on the side. To follow that they polished off oatcakes and cheese and yet more grapes and strawberries, all washed down with freshly pressed apple juice. To top it off, there was an award ceremony for Katie to receive her certificate and read her winning entry, ‘Tae a roll oan sausage’. Their class teachers Zoe Armstrong and Ray McGregor said, “Everybody thoroughly enjoyed their Scottish breakfast,
kindly prepared by Karen Valentine and staff from RHET. There certainly wasn’t much lunch eaten in the dinner hall from P7/6 that day!”