Paisley primary celebrates different pupils' cultures as part of poetry project

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Youngsters at a Paisley Primary school have been celebrating the many different cultures of pupils by taking part in a top poetry competition which celebrates different languages from across the globe.Three pupils from West Primary were selected for the final of the Mother Tongue Other Tongue competition, which encourages children to share their experiences of their families culture and traditions in their families.Sabina Rodrigues De La Rosa, Tanazzal Shah and Sabihah Tubasem were picked by judges for their poems written about their home countries which the school used to help teach their classmates about the variety of cultures within the school.Sabina wrote about Brazil, which is where her family is from.Don't miss the latest headlines from around Renfrewshire.

Sign up to our newsletters here.Her poem, which she wrote in Portuguese, was titled My Brazil, and talked of how ‘her’ Brazil differs from the stereotypical Brazil which people think of when they visualise the country.Sabina, who moved to Paisley two years ago, said: “I came to Scotland two years ago from Brazil, just before the pandemic started.“We had a good life in Brazil, but my family decided to move to the UK because things had become more difficult in our country.“There are problems with gangs, drugs and violence and we didn’t feel safe anymore.“Of course, I miss Brazil.

People think Brazil is all music, beaches and carnival, but for me it is much more than that.“This poem is about what Brazil means to me: my family, my friends and my memories but most of all, my heart.”Tanazzal, who is from Pakistan, wrote her poem in Urdu- titled Little Goats from Pakistan about her memories of seeing goats in the countryside during her holidays to Pakistan with her