Highland pupils celebrate Scotland’s bard

Schools throughout the Highland Council area will be celebrating the life and works of Robert Burns around Burns Day on 25 January.

From Thursday 23 to Wednesday 29 January, Highland schools will be holding a variety of celebratory events including Burns suppers and lunches; poetry recitals, musical performances and ceilidhs.

On Friday 24 the Council’s Catering Service will be providing all 209 Highland primary and secondary schools with Burns lunches including haggis, neeps and tatties on school menus or stovies with fresh vegetables and oatcakes. Scotch broth will also be on offer to secondary pupils and a pudding favourite of trifle is on the menu for all! 1,500 Kg of haggis will be supplied locally from Munro’s of Dingwall.

Councillor Alasdair Christie, Chairman of The Highland Council’s Adult and Children’s Committee said: “It’s great that our schools and communities are celebrating the life of Rabbie Burns especially in the Year of Homecoming Scotland 2014. We all know, as his song goes, that Burns ‘Heart was in the Highlands’.”

Some of the schools organising Burns events and activities include:

Also on 24 January:

On Burns Day, 25 January, Kinlochbervie High School is holding a Burns Lunch from 12.30 – 3pm. School pupils are providing the entertainment and speeches.

Monday 27 January will see Auldearn Primary hold a Burn’s Supper for children and their parents. Cromarty Primary is holding a whole-school Burns Day Celebration.  Pupils will be involved in a range of activities – preparing a Burns supper, listening to scots story teller Lillian Ross and composing their own scots dictionaries. Kinlochbervie Primary School will have a Burns Supper/Lunch.

Duncan Forbes Primary 6 pupils are organising a Burns Supper for their parents on Wednesday 29 January from 6.30 – 8.30pm.