Happy St Andrew's Day...

St Andrew's Day today and the blip is coming from Braehead Primary School in South Ayrshire. With P7's focus on music and Robert Burns, this is just the day to hear about their 'Auld Lang Syne' paper boats, being held up for us by Cameron, Jack, Aaliyah, Annie and Raymond.

The pupils made their boat for the exhibition from the sheet music for the famous song, written by Burns - himself from Ayrshire man - and sung the world over.

Their boat was inspired by George Wyllie's Paper Boat and makes the link to Burns, just as Wyllie himself had done in many sculptures, including his Burns Line, a boat with a cargo of shortbread tins, all featuring Burns and inscribed with another quotation from him...

"Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others, this is my criterion of goodness; and whatver injures society at large; or any individual in it, this is my measure of iniquity."
Robert Burns

Criterion referenced learning? It should be. That boat is now in the Burns Museum in Alloway.

The boat made by the pupils is at the exhibition in the Mitchell, P7 Braehead but they also made a fleet of their 'musical boats' and put them on display in County Buildings in Ayr, where they've been getting a lot of good responses from visitors.

The Braehead fleet in Ayr was 'launched' last week by Provost Helen Moonie and the pupils.

Next week, some of the pupils will be coming up to the exhibition and showing the BBC how to make a paper boat for 'a that...

And their boats will be launched on the Clyde on Hogmanay.

Happy St Andrew's Day! If you're off to a ceilidh tonight, enjoy yourself! For Auld Lang Syne.