Tam O'Shanter goes graphic!

Well done to our entrepeneurial librarians (Mrs Brown and Mrs Babbs) who have managed to secure a £1800 grant to allow us to develop a graphic novel version of Burns' famous poem 'Tam O'Shanter'. A number of S2 pupils will interpret the poem in words and actions relating it to life in Edinburgh using current 'slang' and situations that are relevant to the present day. A graphic novel will be created using digital images and Comic Life software, which can then be taken to primary schools and re-told by our pupils in both Burns Scots and Liberton lingo.

The school has recently completed the Liberton50 Project which enabled the whole school to participate in creating images and storytelling of Liberton past and present. Promising and talented pupils were identified by the storyteller in residence and these pupils are the ones that could take the poem to the primaries enabling their talents to cascade down to the younger pupils. An ongoing aim of the project would perhaps trigger interest in nurturing the storytelling links between secondary and primary pupils with a long term vision of a storytelling festival for the local area. Additional help would be sought through professionals such as Mathew Fitt, Beth Cross and Ruth Kirkpartick, where available, to guide our pupils to generate a worthwhile and sustainable project of storytelling in the area.

Shoe box appeal for children in Belarus

A huge well done to our S2 pupils from Business Education who managed to gather enough gifts to fill 52 shoe boxes for needy children in Belarus. I am very proud of the efforts of all of our pupils, parents and staff who donated so willingly to such a worthy cause.

This shoe box appeal is run by the Samaritans' Purse.

Donald J Macdonald (Headteacher)