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Wigtown Scots Tour
Wigtown Primary School is taking part in a very exciting Scots Language project. As part of the Wigtown Book Festival, Mrs Steele’s Rhinos (Primary 6/7 class) are devising and recording an audio tour...
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Association of Scottish Literary Studies Scottish Studies Conference
On Saturday 7th November the ASLS Scottish Studies Conference will take place in Glasgow. Dedicated to exploring aspects of the SQA Scottish Studies Award and how components could be delivered in...
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Robert Louis Stevenson Day 2015
Robert Louis Stevenson Day will take place on Friday 13 November, though celebrations will be taking place all week, from 9—15 November. This year the theme will be ‘Stevenson on Stage and Screen’ and...
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Decoding Scots
An interesting point emerged in a recent training session on Scots. We all know that not every learner has Scots at his or her disposal: we largely have a mixture of speakers and learners of the...
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Why Teach Scots?
This is a perennial question which Emma Grieve, the Orcadian poet, answers brilliantly in The Queen’s English, recently published as part of Orkney Stoor by Abersee Press. The poem opens,...
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January is the Coolest Month
I had to laugh on reading a recent piece – don’t ask me where: it is lost in a fug of chocolate and cheese (and maybe a bit of wine). The writer was complaining that January is a dead month, with...
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Weans’ Wurds
How many Scots words do you know? What about your friends and family? When and where do you use these words? Have you noticed that some people in different parts of Scotland use different Scots words...
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Burns for Bairns
(…or weans, if you are in certain areas of the country) The language of Robert Burns is sometimes described as ‘heritage’ Scots, which indicates that this literary form of 18th century Scots can prove...
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Lik A Dug at Yule…/Like A Dog at Christmas…
Matthew Fitt said it in his column the ither wik, the 3-18 Literacy an English Review said it in April (see fir yersels: read Review here) an the ither Education Scotland Scots Language Co-ordinators...
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Bilingual Brilliance in Burns’s Burgh
A am affa grateful tae Mrs Scott fir sharin this wi us aw: St Michael’s Primary school is based in the Southern Scottish town of Dumfries, only a few steps away from the resting place of Rabbie Burns...
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Scots Language Ambassadors
The latest Scots Language Ambassadors newsletter (issue 4) is out now. In this edition, we hear fae oor twa ambassadorial Bills – Wullie Oliphant and Bill Herbert – aboot their excitin first-hand...
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Oor Hoose Project Sharing Day
What a super day I had on Friday 19th February, when Duff House, Historic Environmental Scotland’s property in Banff, Aberdeenshire, truly became Oor Hoose. This was the culmination of an Education...
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GIFTING EVERY CHILD TRADITIONAL ARTS RESOURCE
Whit sangs, tales an dauncin culd we gie ilka bairn in Scotlan fir a richt guid handsel? Tae stert oot wi as a smidgin, a wee seed whilk micht graw intae muckle trees o pleisur an wunner. Here’s a wee...
View ArticleDinnae be a fairdiegowk, give the Into Film newsletter a wee read.
Well hello there! Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin. Do you know what a fairdiegowk is? Or a craiture? Fairdiegowk is now my new favourite Scots word. Sorry Bahookie, you’ve been skelped by...
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