Scotlands Culture

Robert Burns resources - early years

Photo of two children decorating paper with tartan-like patterns

Celebrating Scottish culture with young children

Suggestions for celebrating Robert Burns and Scottish culture with young children.

An etched portrait of Robert Burns

Celebrating Burns - an enterprising approach

A range of enterprising ideas and activities to help you celebrate Robert Burns's birthday in your school.

A colour drawing of Robert Burns

Burns Night illustrations

A portrait of Rabbie Burns, and a plate of haggis, neeps and tatties to help you celebrate Burns Night.

Drawing of highlander in the rain

Working on farms

Rural life in 18th-century Scotland is explored in this interactive resource on the Scottish History website.

A photograph of a ginger-haired primary-age boy in a classroom

Scots soundbytes

Scots poems and songs, on the 5-14 website, created and recorded by children and read aloud by the authors.

Photograph of children dancing to Windows Media Player visualisations

Creative responses to music

How young children's creative responses to the modern Scottish composition 'Maxwell's Reel, with Northern Lights' were stimulated by using Windows Media Player visualisations.

Related links

Scuilwab

A website in Scots for 'bairns o aa ages' with ideas and resources for using Scots in a classroom setting.

Robert Burns World Federation

Learning resources, including information, activities, images, quizzes, crosswords and texts of the poems in Scots and English.

Itchy Coo

Scots language publications for young readers, written in Scots.