Children tell us why Burns Night matters to them

Cast your mind back a couple of weeks to New Year's Eve.

Maybe you were allowed to stay up late… and along with the fireworks, you might have heard Auld Lang Syne.

The song's words were written more than 200 years ago by a Scottish poet called Robert Burns.

Long before TV, phones or the internet, he became famous almost overnight - writing poems and songs people still sing and quote today.

Every year, on 25 January, his life and work are celebrated and children in Dumfries, a town where Robert Burns lived, explained why he's important to them.

Affectionately known as Rabbie, Robert Burns was born on 25 January 1759, in a village in Ayrshire in Scotland.

He was born on a farm, and as he grew up he discovered a love of reading and writing.

He published his first collection of poems in the summer of 1786, and from there published many more famous rhymes, including 'To a Mouse', 'Address to a Haggis' and 'Selkirk Grace'.

He died in 1796, aged just 37 years old.

However, he left behind a huge legacy, and is considered to be Scotland's national poet, or to use the fancy term, bard.

A Burns supper consists of lots of different parts, and there are bits that most people include, although everyone will have their own variations.

The 'Selkirk Grace' usually opens the meal, after the host has welcomed everyone and said a few words.

The main event, the haggis, will arrive to a flurry of bagpipes, after which 'Address to a Haggis' is usually recited before it's eaten.

Other bits of Burns' poetry may get recited as the night goes on, and the Auld Lang Syne can be sung at the end.