Robins Re-assemble in Rothesay...

Isn't it absolutely amazing what pupils and their teachers create out of the simplest ideas, with inspiration and imagination as their main resources?

Last Monday, two pupils from P7 Rothesay PS and their teacher braved the winter weather to take an early ferry so that the pupils could represent their class at the exhibition, showing Mr Russell, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, around the exhibits and being filmed by the BBC making paper boats.

The class had already made a flotilla of boats, one of which is on display in the Boat Shed.

This time? This time, the two pupils, who took part in last Monday's event, and their teacher, inspired by George Wyllie's King Robin which stands at the entrance to the exhibition, trekked back to catch the ferry to Rothesay and as they did so, an idea was born.

One Christmas, George Wyllie had decorated the exterior of the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh with 500 robins, An Assembly of Robins.

This Christmas, P7 Rothesay Primary School, made 60 Miniature King Robins and took them to the Mount Stuart Christmas Fayre yesterday, 60 just like this little one. (Each pupil also took a robin home.)

At the fayre, the pupils sold the robins for 50p each, adding enterprise education to all the other outcomes and experiences they had achieved working as a team on this.

The robins? The robins sold out!

So, if you bought one, like this wee one, take care of it, it's a limited edition.

Miniature King Robins in the making.