Fife Primary School Website
- direct links to recommended websites.
Robert Burns
Robert Burns is Scotland's national poet.
Robert Burns, from
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His birthday on the 25th January is a day on which many Burns events take place. In 2009 it will be 250 years since Burns was born in Ayrshire.
2009 has been called The Homecoming Year to celebrate this anniversary.
Here are some sites with resources to assist teachers introducing Rabbie Burns to their classes. Other links are found on the Robert Burns Pupil Page.
- Robert Burns: Teachers Resources Kit from the National Burns Collection.
- Robert Burns Resources on the LT Scotland website and the Burns Activity Pack.
- Burns had sympathies for the Jacobites and many of his poems included such references.
- Other Burns activities (to download) are included in the Burns National Heritage Park site.