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Good practice in assessment - Scots Language, SCQF Level 5 – Lourdes Secondary School
Delivery and assessment
The core resource for delivery of this course was an Education Scotland unit on A Chitterin Bite by Anne Donovan (https://education.gov.scot/improvement/Documents/scots9-AChitterinBite.pdf). The completion of the Understanding and Communicating activities in this unit was evidence of meeting the necessary outcomes.
We complemented this with a range of additional activities, which included:
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Lots of discussion around the fact that Scots was a language in its own right and not just ‘slang’ – the candidates often expressed surprise that Scots could be used as a language, including in literature
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Reading, analysis and discussion of a range of Scots literature, including: poetry by Tom Leonard (Liaison Officer, Unrelated Incidents [3]); Stephanie Green (Embra Buses); Bus Queue (Agnes Owen); Edwin Morgan (Glasgow 5th March); and Liz Lochhead (eg Prologue to Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off; Fat Girl’s Confession, Trouble Is Not My Middle Name, Favourite Shade)
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We were also incredibly fortunate to have Liz Lochhead come in to the school and share a reading and discussion session with the class. In this session, she read some of the aforementioned literature and spoke about her use of Scots and its impact on the audience. The candidates asked her questions about her inspirations and use of Scots. This was a highly valuable session.
In addition to the above, we also asked candidates to translate newspaper articles from Standard English into Scots. This was to consolidate evidence of being able to communicate in Scots, and also to make students aware of the fact that Scots is a separate language which is written and sounds differently from English.
Throughout, myself and other colleagues who shared this course were in touch with a Scottish Studies Glow group (Grp-Scottish Studies and Scots Language in Glasgow), in which members shared ideas and resources and supported one another through this new qualification. This was highly beneficial in terms of learning from one another’s best practices and experiences.
