Robert Burns resources - primary

Celebrating Robert Burns - an enterprising approach

Ideas and downloads for cross-cutting projects related to Robert Burns. It includes activities mapped to the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence from a Robert Burns World Federation education pack sent to all primary schools in Scotland.

Tam o Shanter

Details of an interactive CD-ROM, produced by Learning and Teaching Scotland, which includes the entire text of the poem; a full sound recording by a professional actor; the poem's characters; and a variety of props and scenes for setting the poem and creating storyboards. Tam o Shanter comes with a comprehensive educational support pack with activities, work schemes and lesson plans.

Burns Night illustrations

A portrait of Rabbie Burns, and a plate of haggis, neeps and tatties, in colour and in black and white, to help your school celebrate the well loved Scottish poet.

'To a Digital Mouse'

The life and works of Robert Burns were the inspiration for a third year art and design class at Auchinleck Academy. In this article for Connected magazine, teacher Pamela Baxter describes how she and her pupils created a new website to celebrate the Scottish poet.

Scotland's Culture

Working on farms

An interactive resource about rural life in 18th-century Scotland from the Scottish History website which could be used to help primary children understand the social and economic context in which Burns was living and writing.

Scots soundbytes

Scots poems and songs on the 5-14 Special Focus website, several of which have been created and recorded by children. Other poems are read aloud by the authors. As well as the audio and video recordings, there are suggested classroom activities to help children further develop their understanding of Scots and poetry.

Focus on the Scots language

Tak a guid look at yon wabsteid wi teachin materials for teachers in or on Scots. Braw ideas for teachin, and recordings of Scots poems that fair cry oot tae be doonloaded an listen't tae.

Edwin Morgan poems

Text and audio downloads of poems by Scots Makar Edwin Morgan on the Literacy website. The poetry readings are performed by admirers of his work including writer Liz Lochhead, Professor Jim McGonigal, Hamish Whyte and the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Liz Cameron.

Caledonian Medley - 5-14 Music

This part of the 5-14 Music website has teachers' notes and support for Level D 5-14 music, focusing in particular on the 'Caledonian Medley' where pupils perform an instrumental and vocal medley of Scottish music, drawing on work covered in the three other Scottish music modules at this level - 'Silver Darlings', 'Coilsfield House' and 'Ruidhle'.