More than 2,000 school pupils from across Scotland have taken part in a new video performance of We’re the Land of Scots. The song, created by children’s wellbeing charity Fischy Music, has become a young supporters’ anthem as Scotland returns to the World Cup.
Children from primary schools across Scotland have joined together in a new national video performance to cheer on the Scotland men’s football team as the country marks its return to the World Cup.
More than 2,000 pupils took part in the video for We’re the Land of Scots, a children’s anthem written by Fischy Music, the Scottish charity which uses songs to support children’s mental health and wellbeing. The video was released here on YouTube at 10am on Wednesday 10 June.
The participating pupils came from communities across the country, including Fife, Glasgow, Edinburgh, West Lothian, North Lanarkshire, Perth, Aberdeen, the Scottish Borders and Canisbay in Caithness. Wearing Scotland football tops, they recorded their own versions of the song for a collective video intended to send encouragement to the national team.
The project sits at the meeting point of football, school life and cultural identity. Scotland’s return to the World Cup has created a public moment that reaches well beyond sport, and the children’s video shows how that national attention is being carried into classrooms and assemblies as well as fan zones and stadiums.
We’re the Land of Scots was first launched last November, when more than 32,000 children joined Fischy Music’s national Big Sing Online Concert for St Andrew’s Day. Fischy Music said the idea for the song came directly from children, who had repeatedly asked the charity to write a song about being Scottish.
The new performance gives the song a football setting. One of its lines refers to cheering at the football, making it a natural fit for pupils who wanted to send a message to the Scotland squad. Teachers and children quoted by Fischy Music described the song as one pupils sing “loud and proud”, with one P7 pupil saying, “Scotland’s a home for everyone.”
The tone of the project is deliberately broad. Rather than presenting Scottish identity as fixed or narrow, the song’s message is built around belonging, place, language and community. That may explain why it has moved easily from St Andrew’s Day into a football moment. It gives children a way to take part in a national occasion without needing to be in the stadium or old enough to remember Scotland’s previous World Cup appearances.
Fischy Music is inviting every primary school in Scotland to watch the video and sing along during its Sports Online Concert on Friday 19 June. The 30-minute event will focus on sport, the Commonwealth Games and the World Cup, with schools asked to register in advance to receive the link.
The charity has received £2,625 from National Lottery Awards for All, linked to celebrations around the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games. Fischy Music said the funding will support the production of the Sports Day themed online concert for children in Scotland, celebrating diversity and team spirit around the Commonwealth Games and World Cup.
Fischy Music was founded in 1998 by Stephen Fischbacher and works with schools, families and children through songs and resources intended to support emotional expression, confidence and wellbeing. The charity said it supported the mental health and wellbeing of more than 180,000 children in 2024 to 2025, and that its songs had more than 3.4 million online plays in the past year.
The participating schools reflects the reach of the project across Scotland’s local authorities, from central belt schools to the north coast. It also shows how cultural moments around the national team can be taken up by children in places far from the tournament itself.
For schools, the project offers something more modest and more useful than celebrity football spectacle. It gives pupils a shared song, a reason to sing together, and a way to see themselves as part of a national moment. That may be the real strength of the video: not that children are watching Scotland from the outside, but that they are being invited to lend their own voices to the occasion.
SOURCES
Fischy Music press release, 10 June 2026
Fischy Music official website
FIFA Scotland World Cup 2026 team page
UEFA Scotland at the World Cup 2026 guide
