Writing in Scots

We have been looking at Scots Language this week, and the class were asked to brainstorm in groups how many Scots words they could think of. Although they came up with some good suggestions, the children found it hard to think of many, but they discovered we sometimes use words which they didn’t realise were Scots. The children listened to the story of ‘Rumplestiltskin’ told entirely in Scots, and they understood it all!!
In our I.T this week, we used the website: http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ to create a cartoon strip, then used an English to Scots translator, to convert our writing: http://www.whoohoo.co.uk/scottish-translator.asp
Here are the results……