Pupils from St John’s Primary are pictured with Bobby McGuire, secretary of the International, Historical, Cultural and Geographical Agency.

Bobby was again invited to assist in the Stevenston school’s Robert Burns Competition, which saw pupils recite the Bard’s poems.

The secretary also judged the competition last year.

Bobby said: “Once again, it was difficult to select winners with their loud poetic knowledge of many sentences, with their loud vocabulary and body expressions. First class.”