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JANUARY

A cultural Chinese sweets, was also held, raising
£141 for the charity CHAS.
collision worth The month culminated in the inaugural
Heriot’s Burns Supper, organised by Mr
celebrating Duncan and the S6 guidance team of Dr
Neilson and Mrs Kesterton. The night
was a reeling success! William Ringham
It is an odd irony that while the existence
started the evening off with the Address
of Burns Night on January 25 guarantees
that the first month of the calendar to a Haggis. It was some spectacle!
year is a celebration of Scottishness, at P2 chefs cook up a stir fry The passion etched across Will’s face
the same time the school community is carrots and chop up spring onions. They throughout the recital was simply
also committed to celebrating Chinese also created dragon masks, Lego zodiac breath-taking and the gasp that filled the
New Year. In 2020, the anniversary of animals, rat-themed lanterns and fortune room when he drove the knife deep into
the birth of Robert Burns and Chinese tellers. the haggis showed how captivating his
New Year fell on the same day. It was a Further up the school, nearly 200 performance was.
coincidence worth marking. pupils from S1 to S3 participated in a
In the days leading up January 25, pupils Chinese quiz, while the refectory offered
in P5 and S1 wrote habbies in the style Chinese food such as fried noodles, rice
of the national bard, while P2 pupils and wraps as lunch options. In Senior
learnt snippets of Burns’ poetry to recite School assembly, pupils from S1 and S2
in class. A year group of many talents, Mandarin classes spoke about different
P2 then switched their attentions to new year celebrations around the world
celebrating the Chinese year of the rat. and their experiences of learning the
Pupils cooked up a stir fry in the cooking language. A bake sale of homemade
room, learning how to use a grater for cakes and biscuits, as well as some P2 pupils show off their Chinese lanterns

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