Bonnie nicht, gowden oor.

Foggie bummers an sunflooers

Bluesky thinking, but we're nae too far awa.

My column in the P&J today is about Whitehills, Blackpots and the Red Well. It features a great poem by pupil Leland. Awa get yer copy! pressreader.com/article/2846...

Luikit at ma board yestreen, an thocht......I love ma job! Middle een is an anagram fer an Aiberdeenshire village - onybdy? #scottishstudies #scotslanguage #geography

🌿✨ Bursting with pride! Our PBL & Scots students in Banff are using Doric to reply to Gaza pupils’ stories of place, loss, cultural loss & resilience—linking lost words with biodiversity decline. Language shapes our bond with nature & connects us across cultures. @karenadamsnp.bsky.social

Abdy need a thinkin pod. Great day at Pairlament yestreen.

🗞️ Weel deen the @pressandjournal.co.uk fer supporting multilingual press fer oor indigenous leids. New cless display 🖼️

A dreich but poignant day at Culloden wi a puckle faimlie, mindin i fallen. Hunners o fowk fae aa ower i Wirld attended.

Come awa ben ti the renovatit Tarlair Community Cafe, Macduff.

The day's holiday darg, sparked by Spring, a wee guide ti nature fer scweelbairns - sae important they connect wi nature an wirdies.

Scots an creativity at scweel - wow! Fantoosh wirk fae thon quine!

It's pride I feel fer yon loon fae Poland, disna say muckle, affa affa quait, wirks awa with sicna care ower his wirk, wi a bittie help fae thon resource, scrievit a crackin piece o Doric wirk wi his cairt.

I've bin weel impressed wi thon quine's wirk ess year in S3 Scots. Fitna care she's tikken, an nae a braid Scots spikker, but wi Scots in e faimlie; reconnectin wi her grunnie ower it. Golshochs, or gulsh = chaep sweeties.

🗞️ Weel deen the @pressandjournal.co.uk fer supporting multilingual press fer oor indigenous leids. New cless display 🖼️

Ess bairn articulates foo bilingualism works wi Scots and English; he is weel on i wye fae awakenin tae ownership o his leids. See mair in: www.abdn.ac.uk/uploads/educ...

Full tricket tae hae ma paper published iday in @educationabdn 's journal Education In The North amon a bonny faimlie o wirks. Ess acknowledges a twinty year journey o dicovery, lear an adventure, & validation fer 1000s o bairns. www.abdn.ac.uk/uploads/educ...

Ma wee airticle in e P&J at e wikkeyn, aboot a dominie exchange a lang fyle syne til e Airctic, inspirin ma darg wi Scots ever sin syne.

Aye gret tae hae Shane up ti Banff Academy eence mair giein it laldie wi his poyetry, an coaxin i bairns in i senior Scots cless tae mak Scots Haikus aboot their hame placies an as aye reinforcin i inclusive clessroom. @shanestrachan.bsky.social @scotslanguage.bsky.social

This ane gangs oot tae fellow teuchters fae Aberdeenshire an Tounsers forby. A document fae an officer scrievin anent his retinue gaan tae the wars in 1627, includin "butterie sellers". Thar ye hae it! #Butteries #Rowies #Doric #Scots @fitsidee.bsky.social @drfairbairn.bsky.social

Prof Turunen from University of Lapland below - maks a wheen o sense fer revitalisation o Scots in education. An Arctic pedagogy wye o deein wid be newfangled, caller an hae a network o pairtners athort e north. I'm a convert - paper oot ess wikk.

I recently learned about Arctic pedagogy - learning with an environmental, cultural & linguistic response to place, and working on the skills you'll need where you are. It's thrown up ideas of learning based around rivers, aligning with HH's concept o the carrying stream. A great model f/ learning.

Aye, there has been progress with Scots. But it's one of the 3 official languages, 2.4 million folk reporting skills. Our expectations for action have been ridiculously low, we are satisfied with tinkering on the edges, but we need to do more of this imho 👇

New paper out soon. What can we learn from indigenous people of the Alaskan Arctic? Empirical education research, narrative inquiry. Scots Language learning. Aberdeenshire.

Want tae be an official Scots Language Teacher? Fit wye nae upskeel wi the professional lear programme? t.co/f9NekNcslG

Ma guid wife is fair tricket wi her split new certificate fae @ScotsDictionars efter oor ain bairns wis telt nae ti eese thon wirdie at primary scweel.

It's time for Scots to have equity with Gaelic and English in Scottish Education. I've run out of reasons why not.

Fair tricket at my wirdies popped oot in e Sunday Times aboot Tee names an nicknames in Scotland. Howp ye aa hid a graan wikkeyn.