MORE than 100 people, including VIPs, turned up to a special Scots Assembly held by the children at St Bridget’s Nursery Class in Kilbirnie.

The kids performed poems and songs in Old Scots on Friday, April 29 to celebrate being named Scottish Ambassadors by Education Scotland.

Sarita Taggart, Senior Practitioner, at St Bridget’s Nursery, said: “It was fantastic, so good. We had a massive turnout, not just from parents but members of the community.

“We had 100 chairs and we ran out of them so there must have been about 120 people there. It was very well attended.

“Frances Rodman, the head of early years, was there. We also had Elizabeth McKay, the author. She did work with us last year so it was lovely to have her back again.

“Our Scots Assembly was a celebration of our achievement at being the only early years centre in the whole of Scotland to be named as Scots Language Ambassadors.

“It’s a fantastic achievement and a real honour that Education Scotland granted us this status.

“This stems back to last year when St Bridget’s was named runners-up in the Literacy Across Learning category at the Scottish Education Awards.”

The event was the first in a series of fundraisers the nursery are holding in support of the Greig Steven Memorial, a charity in memory of a former pupil who died of cancer last year.

St Bridget’s have so far raised £500 for the cause, with over £400 of that raised from the raffle at the Scots Assembly alone.

The nursery is now selling more raffle tickets and are organising a coffee morning on Friday, May 20.

Mrs Taggart added: “We did a quick total and we found that we had made £453 from the raffle at the Scots Assembly.

“We’ve decided to keep it going and we’ve got some fantastic prizes, like a week in Craig Tara and a brand new football table from Argos worth £50.

“We sold another lot of raffle tickets when we had an assembly for the older children so we’ve now made £500 altogether.

“We’ve got a coffee morning organised and we’re going to keep the fundraising going until then.”