Teachers! Don't miss out on your chance to contribute to this really important survey on language teaching & learning in Scotland's schools! 👇

Jim got my vote for Scots Writer of the Year. I also cast a vote for Billy Kay and Emma Grae If you haven't voted in this years Scots language awards, there's still time. Cheers

Teachers on the Scots Language & Culture CPD course might want to tune into BBC Radio 4 on Sat @LadyM_McManus will be chatting to Len Pennie on Loose Ends. sylviaw Dr Jamie Fairbairn

16 Scots Language Award nominations between us and NAE WINS 🤯 The Scots Language Awards are in Cumnock on Sat 14th, mon and join me, Susi, and a pile o ither guid fowk for performances, awards and crack eastayrshireleisure.com/events/scots-l… 🎟️🎟️🎟️

To correspond with our new OU-BBC co-production, The Zelensky Story, we are celebrating all things Ukraine 🇺🇦 Our new interactive puts a spotlight on twelve influential figures whose stories have shaped the country – take a look! ow.ly/OGUW50T9Sbu #Ukraine #BBC

Join us for two of crime writing's most brilliant and unpredictable minds Chris Brookmyre and Stu Turton at our sponsored event at Bloody Scotland 2024. 📅15 Sept - 1.30pm Albert Halls Stirling More info and tickets👉 ow.ly/eEz150TjZ0s #BloodyScotland

Commendable ScotlandTonight film on rising knife & gang violence. Listen to the important messages from families, agencies, activists and crucially - young people feeling at risk. Young lives are in the balance. The time for action is now player.stv.tv/episode/4mvd/s… #Prevention

The morra nicht in Cumnock it’ll be a pleisure tae see ane o ma favorite Doonhamers an sangsters Claire Hastings, an ane o oor finest fiddlers Eryn Rae. Guid crack guaranteed wi presenters Taylor Dyson fae @ElfiePicket an @Shane_Strachan fae the Broch. Jyne us Hands Up For Trad

The nicht at the Scots Awards in Cumnock I’ll be readin a poem by Robert Fergusson. My appearance micht hae chynged a tate since I first performed Fergusson’s Auld Reikie back in the early 1980s! Me here wi ma pal, the late, great Norman Chalmers. ⁦Hands Up For Trad⁩

🏆 It's the first award of the night and it goes to @openuniversity Scots language teacher professional learning programme! 🗒️

🏆 This year's Scots School o the Year is @newcumnockps! 🏫 Sponsored by Black & White and Itchy Coo

As a tutor on this course, an efter pilotin the course wi 8 colleagues at Banff Academy I wis fair tricket for sylviaw and Bruce Eunson that we won the award fer Scots Education Projeck o e Year.

WHIT. A. NICHT. 🥳🥂 My cheeks are still sore from smiling so hard! 😁 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆 SCOTS TEACHER O THE YEAR 2024 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏆 SCOTS SCHUIL O THE YEAR 2024 🏆🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 This means the world to me! Thank you so much to everyone who voted! ❤️ Well done to Hands Up For Trad for a wonderful evening! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

It was an honour handing oot this award tae such amazing winners! OU in Scotland sylviaw Dr Jamie Fairbairn

"From Pictish to Polish: The Languages of Scotland": one of my favourite thematic walks across Edinburgh, encompassing Gaelic & Scots, Latin & Greek, French & Polish, and much more... this time for the perfect audience: the participants of the AMLaP conference #AMLaP #AMLaP2024

Oor Lowpin Leid Dinna greet, noo-na, noo-na, oor leid’s no deid bit sleepit oot— noo an aan thae wirds spang lowpin ower the dictionar, stap the hail hoose wi unco sangs. #Scotstober michael dempster - cyberscots ᛞᚩᛗ

Ahead of #WorldCerebralPalsyDay on 6 October, we're sharing Eilidh's story. Embracing a love of languages through her OU degree has helped her one step closer to realising her dreams of becoming a teacher. Full story 👉 ow.ly/5NrU50TBWtu #OUfamily World Cerebral Palsy Day OU Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies

Scots is the senior Germanic language o Scotland. "Aye" insteid o "yes" "Heid" insteid o "head" "Drap" insteid o "drop" "Cannae" insteid o "can't" "Maist" insteid o "most" an uisin wirds lik "skite", "scunner","dreich","wabbit","dytit","gowster","lum" aw hae the mair provonance!

My speech on the groundbreaking The Open University professional learning course for teachers on the #Scots language. A hugely significant development for the Scots Leid. Full speech 👉fb.watch/whkaVWGSuT/

Happy Chinese Lunar New Year of the Horse! 马年快乐！open.edu/openlearn/lang… OpenLearn