A news update from Holy Rood - by Cara, Lucy and Eleanor (S2)

So far this year has been the great start of a year for our school. We have raised money for charity, S4 have just had their work experience week and prelims, and S2 are choosing their subjects for the years coming. There have been trips abroad organised, new school clubs have been created and Robert Burns Day has just been celebrated (see below). Last but not least, the February holidays are coming up soon - half the term is nearly finished!

Robert Burns Day

Robert Burns was a famous Scottish poet who was born on 25th January 1759 and died on 21st July 1796. On the 25th January each year we wear tartan patterned clothes and sing old Scottish songs like 'Auld Lang Syne'. For dinner we gather with our families to eat haggis, neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes) and for dessert we have the traditional shortbread (a sweet biscuit in sugar) and a glass of Irn Bru (bright orange coloured fizzy juice) to drink. Then we say some of his poems and all hold hands in a big circle to sing Auld Lang Syne together. This song is played on the bagpipes (a traditional Scottish instrument) and sung. (Haggis is made from sheep intestines. People sometimes joke that it is an animal with one leg shorter than the other that runs round the Scottish highlands!)