Miss Cochlan and Primary 6C

Here at 6c we have been making highland crofts out of clay. Crofts are small cottages which were made from stone and  packed with earth and straw to cement them together. The roof was made of straw, we call this a thatched roof. These crofts made up a community. A word for a community like this is called a TOUN. Inside their crofts they had only two rooms. In the middle of the two rooms was a fire with  stones around it to stop the fire from spreading. above the fire they had a black pot hanging from a chain to cook their food on. In one room they had their cattle so they could not be stolen. Also in that one room they also had their beds. In the other room they had a dresser against one wall and a small wooden table and chairs to eat at.

Check out Techno page to see the result and how we did it. 

By kevin and Zack

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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We have all been really excited lately because it is coming up to Christmas.

 We have had 2 visitors lately, both parents, to come into class and they talked to us about what they do to help the Environment. Mr Patterson (Holly’s dad) came in and has happy to talk about his very Eco-Friendly house in Culter. It was very interesting because we got to see what it was like living in a Zero Heating House. Holly, one of our School class mates was a bit embarrassed at first because Mr Patterson was her Dad! But she soon got over that when even she learned a lot from his talk. Thanks Mr Patterson!  It was a really good talk and we all hope to see him again in a few years time and see if he has improved  their house even more. He’s got a lot of ideas on how to have an even more eco-friendly house.

Ms Arif (Lea’s mum) came in to talk to us about her oil technology business. She supplies oil companies with plastic parts for their drilling.  She told us how she reclaims and recycles her products by breaking them down in to chips before shipping them off to China for free, to be made into chairs, furniture and doors etc. It was very nice to have her in with us and we learned a lot too. Thank you Ms Arif!

We wish you all  a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and look forward to telling you all about our new project next term: The Jacobites.   On behalf of 6C, Sophie and Aimee

Check out our new Enterprise page to find out what we’ve been getting up to for Christmas. It’s enterprisingly good!

Recently we have been really busy practicing for our Christmas concert. In between times ,we have been working hard on our energy project.We have been doing lots of things to do with energy, like

• Making electrical circuits.
• Expermenting with light reflections.
• Creating shadow puppets and putting on short plays.
• Save our world poems.
• Abstract energy paintings.
• And we saved the best till last…model eco-houses.    

 We worked in groups to plan what our houses would look like and which energy saving features we could include.   

       We re-used old cardboard boxes which we painted and decorated to make our eco-friendly houses and we think they look great!!! You”ll find them soon on our eco-news page . Keep your eyes peeled!!!