The Jacobites
We’ve made a good start on our new project, The Jacobites. We think it is a very good and interesting project because it can take you back to the 1600/1700s. We have learned quite a lot already. We have learned about the Stuart Family tree. We have had a very special visitor in class, Connor Colquhoun! A real Jacobite! ( Who suspiciously looked like Ms Cochlan) dressed in a tartan plaid, a tartan bonnet, a targe but with a moustache. We asked (him) lots of questions about the Jacobites and life back then. Did you know that some people used to live in small cottage type house called Crofts. In a Croft, there was a fire in the middle of the room, the roof was made of straw and had a hole in the middle of the roof for the smoke to go out of. The Crofts were sometimes called Black Houses because of all the black soot that came from the fires and because they hardly had any light because they had very small windows. Today we started making our own Crofts from clay. We planned how they would look first and which materials we would need to make the roof. Some people have decided to use straw, twigs. moss or dried grass.
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