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Cultural Tides Doric Workshops at Meethill School – Wow!

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My last post was about the first two Doric Workshops I ran at Meethill School for the Cultural Tides Project – and now I can share some results from the 3rd workshop!

The P5s joined me in creating a couple of Doric Rhymes – the first was about what they get up to in their spare time… and they did so well with that rhyme that we had time to create a second rhyme about their favourite words in Doric!

Here they are, along with the pupils AMAZING illustrations! I wanted to share ALL the drawings because I loved them so much, so click on the gallery to view each full size illustration

At the wikend wi nivver sit doon
Wir either skatin, crabbin or gaen doon I toon
The Lido’s gey hoochin wi faimlies waakin dugs
The soons o bairnies squealin fills wir lugs*

Skurries pinch wir pieces file wir puddlin in the waater
We’ll later ging tae Zanres fur a fine sausage in baatter!
Back hame tae wir hooses, jammies on an a buik tae read
Aifter aniter bonnie day wi freens, oot in Peterheid!

Tattiebogles, oxters, peekin bairns an lugs
Foggiebummers, bosies, puddock, doup an dugs
Hummel doddies, peely wally duncin, scunnert, feel
A o these are Doric wurds kent at Meethill Skweel!

Cultural Tides – Doric Workshops at Meethill School

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As you can see from the second photo, it was a bright and sunny day up in Peterhead yesterday for my first visit to Meethill School as part of the Cultural Tides project organised by Aberdeenshire Museums Service !

I had great fun with the first two Doric workshops – an introduction to Doric in the morning where the P5 and 6 pupils had fun showing off how much Doric they knew, miming Doric words for eachother to guess (10/10 from what I saw!) and creating a Doric vocabulary for use in the other workshops.

In the afternoon they voted (very wisely!) for their favourite of 5 traditional songs connected with Peterheid and the surrounding area, decided what the song was “missing” and added a whole new verse (and a half! Watch this space)

I also got to see the school’s Storytelling Chair for the first time. (First photo) It was made by the folks at HMP Grampian in memory of Mr Black, who was the headteacher until 2024. there are amazing images from childrens’ books all over it and… some of my favourite Doric words!