A Year In The Life Of Strathpeffer Primary School ⋆ Ross and Cromarty Heritage

A Year In The Life Of Strathpeffer Primary School

Attribution: unknown (The ruin of Free Church in Jamestown)

What's it all about?

This year 2000, we have been taking photographs of what is happening in our school. We also have pictures of interesting places we visited. We stored this information in a computer. Now we have put our pictures and reports on this Web Site for anyone to read. We would like to hear from other schools in the world.

January

Burns Night Celebrations

Millenium Celebrations

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February

Ballet

Shinty

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Burns Cover

The photographs and text which follow concern the annual Burns Nicht Celebration which took place in the Strathpeffer Hotel on Friday 21st January, 2000. The picture below is of the cover of the programme of events of 'The Nicht's Ongauns' The programme was sponsored by Andy Henderson and printed by the Inver-Ross Printing Co. Ltd. Dingwall There are also photographs of the proceedings from the 29th Anniversary Dinner - 23 January 1959

Burns Photo

29th Anniversary Dinner - 23 January 1959

29th Anniversary Dinner - 23 January 1959 In May 2019 RCHS received the undernoted photographs of a 1959 programme from Mrs Hazel Thomson whose husband's grandfather, Andrew Macleod of Kinettas Cottages, a local postman, had attended the dinner.

29th Anniversary Dinner - 23 January 1959

Guest

Strathpeffer Burns Club

Friday 21st January 2000 was the night that the members of Strathpeffer Burns Club had been looking forward to for many months - the 70th Annual Celebrations of the Bard to be held by the Club. To mark both the Millennium and the 70th Anniversary, a record attendance for recent years - ninety members and guests - assembled in Strathpeffer Hotel.

Guests

Bob Wilkie

Guests

Strathpeffer Burns cover

The President (Jock Watt) and principal guests

Guests

Piper

Addressing the haggis

Addressing the haggis. After a sumptuous meal purveyed by Sean Kennedy and his staff, the President gave his welcoming address during which he had made special mention of the fact the celebration was being photographed by Dr Kerr Yule for the benefit of the Ross and Cromarty Heritage Society's Millennium project. He also thanked member George Thomson for the gift to the Club of a beautiful table lectern which had belonged to his late wife, the Rev Morag Thomson. In concluding his remarks, President Jock Watt alluded to the fact that since 1958, member Leon Radin had served in every office, had proposed all the various toasts, had sung at many celebrations and finally, had, for many years, served the Club as President. In recognition of his faithful service, dedication and commitment to the Club, Leon was presented with Honorary Life Membership of the Club.

Receiving the haggis.

Speeches

Guests

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Hamish Polson

Guests

John Crawford and Alexander (Sandy) Glass

Jock Watt doing some last-minute homework?

Guests

Catherine O'Rourke

Fiona Larg, Alistair MacCallum, Leon Radin.

Donald MacKillop piping the President, Jock Watt and the principal guest, Ian Morrison, to the top table

The night got off to a stirring start with Donald MacKillop piping the President, Jock Watt and the principal guest, Ian Morrison, to the top table and returning shortly after to pipe the Haggis, which was borne aloft in the customary manner by James Matheson, to the top table. The tempo was maintained by the President who addressed the Haggis in his own inimitable style much to the delight of his audience.

Fiona Larg getting instructions?

Fiona Larg getting instructions? Responding to Bill MacAllister's excellent Toast, Fiona Larg, Group Business Manager with Cap Gemini, very capably equalled Bill's humour putting the men folk firmly in place. She questioned whether today's men possessed the same charm that Robert Burns obviously possessed - again illustrating her theory with much wit. Fiona concluded by making the observation that if the three wise men had been women, they would have got there on time, helped with the birth, cooked a casserole and would have taken sensible presents. Again, a standing ovation was the order of the day as the audience expressed their delight at Fiona's response to the Toast of the Lassies.

Bill MacAllister

Bill MacAllister That well known journalist and broadcaster, Bill MacAllister was then called upon to Toast the Lassies. A speech, full of the native wit alluded to by Alastair MacInnes earlier in the evening, had the audience in tears of laughter before moving to a more serious examination of Burns's love of women quoting appropriately from many of his love poems. Bill concluded with his own ode to the women folk, reaping a standing ovation to his endeavour.

An animated Stewart Macpherson with Hamish Menzies in the background.

Hugh A Mackay

Hugh A Mackay Hugh Aberach MacKay, one of the north's foremost Burns orators himself, very eloquently proposed the Toast to Our Club and Artistes.

March

Talent Show

Tour of School

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April

Fèis Rios

Endangered Species

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May

Visit To Glasgow

Our Village

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June

The Cybernet Team

Visit To Culloden

Induction at Dingwall Academy

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It's July! It's happy holiday time!

The Giants Causeway

The village of Gairloch on the West coast of Scotland has a beautiful beach

Gairloch Beach

The 28th of June was the last day …….We said good-bye to many of our friends until the school holidays were over.

The images are some of the places where we went on holiday

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August - This was back to school month.

First Day In Our New School

Our New School Being Built

Director of Education	Bruce Robertson
Education Brief	Jim Stevenson
Education Resource Manager	Brian Hemming
Director of Property and Architectural Services	Dr Alister Coutts
Head of Project Management	Rodger Querns
Project Manager	Robert Campbell
Head of Architecture	James Kidd
Principal Architect / Planning Supervisor	Douglas Stewart
Project Architect	Ian Leitch
Strathpeffer Community Association Advisors	Margaret Scott, Douglas Murray
Landscape Architect	Martin Capel
Architectural Technicians	David Sutherland, Mike Wunder
Clerk of Works	John Thompson
Building Services Engineers	Ramsay & Primrose
Quantity Surveyors	Currie & Brown
Structural Engineers	W A Fairhurst & Partners
Main Contractor	McGregor Construction

Building Credits

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September

Mosaic Day

Alasdair and Joe visit the Kilvannie Stone

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October

In the New Gym

The Travelling Puppet Show

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November

Invergordon visit

Invergordon Visit

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December

A picture of all the pupils and staff of Strathpeffer Primary School

The opening of our new school on 1st December 2000

The Xmas Party