I admit it.
It's clearly inspired by posts elsewhere (HT - Mark) but here is a video from You Tube about a project in schools in Scotland.
How many of the words were in common use in your own Primary School? Kids of all backgrounds seem to warm to this sort of thing - they like getting their tongues round the strange words - and Ulster Scots and Scots words just seem so expressive.
I wonder to what extent we can build this sort of thing into the Summer Schemes - or even into some of the Church run Holiday (Bible) Clubs which seem to be secularising to a large extent - probably room for another post there about the wisdom or otherwise of that!
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Funny you should mention the Holiday Bible club concept - I think that the way that a lot of the children's mission organisations operate (ie, alongside local congregations and not competing with them or dominating them, and providing them with training and tools/resources) is an excellent model. The most successful church planting always comes when it's done by people who are part of the local community - not by outsiders that are parachuted in.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't agree more. The interesting thing from the Ulster Scots point of view is whether we could persuade a few locals in some Churches to throw in a bit of the language/culture when they are doing the non-Church bits of the Clubs.
ReplyDeleteI was involved with a Holiday Bible Club in East Belfast a number of years ago and, aside from the opening and closing messages it had the character of a Council Summer Scheme. If that's the way these things are going to be (for good or ill) then why not at least give the kids a bit of an insight into their identity?
Certainly the kids in the clip above seem to be enjoying it!