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.

What we did in January
What we did in February
What we did in March
What we did in April
What we did in May
What we did in June
What we did in July
What we did in August
What we did in September


What we did in October
What we did in November
What we did in December

January

Burns Night Celebrations - photo 3

Burns Night Celebrations

Millennium Celebrations - photo 7

Millenium Celebrations

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February

Ballet - photo 2

Ballet

Shinty - photo 1

Shinty

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March

Talent Show - Photo 6

Talent Show

Tour of School - photo 1

Tour of School

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Dunnichen
Dunnichen
Dunnichen
Dunnichen
Dunnichen today. Dunnichen (formerly Rondebosch) was built in 1902 for a South African on a grand scale, rich in overall form and exquisite in detail, and never sub-divided, in spite of its size, unlike other villas of the period.
No. 8 Kinellan Drive is a typical council house with an attractive garden.
No. 8 Kinellan Drive is a typical council house with an attractive garden.
Manderley
Manderley
The drive to Manderley showing on the skyline one of the carved stags that used to adorn the entry gates to Brahan Castle
Manderley
Manderley
The drive to Manderley showing on the skyline one of the carved stags that used to adorn the entry gates to Brahan Castle
Manderley - pond and front of house
Manderley - pond and front of house
The drive to Manderley showing on the skyline one of the carved stags that used to adorn the entry gates to Brahan Castle
Sunlight on Manderley
Sunlight on Manderley
The wonderful view down the Strath to Dingwall from the garden of Manderley
The wonderful view down the Strath to Dingwall from the garden of Manderley
The wonderful view down the Strath to Dingwall from the garden of Manderley. Manderley - For a contemporary house I think Angus Macdonald's "Manderley" is a worthy example of the period, also in a piended style with strong overhanging eaves, reflecting the owner's times working in the Far East. It is set on the hillside above the village with spectacular views down the strath to the Cromarty Firth. [Sadly, Angus Macdonald died in 2010.]
Raven Cottage (c. 1900)
Raven Cottage (c. 1900)
Raven Cottage (c. 1900) A very plain but elegant and well proportioned large white harled house of about 1785, the farm-house of one of the three original farms at the head of the valley.
Rondebosch in the 1930s
Rondebosch in the 1930s
Rondebosch (now Dunnichen) in the 1930s, with Provost Andrew Murray (Dingwall) and his wife Margaret.
Rondebosch (now Dunnichen) in the 1930s, with Provost Andrew Murray (Dingwall) and his wife Margaret.
Crancil Brae
Crancil Brae
One house not selected by Mr Murray is Crancil Brae, the photograph of which was taken early in the 20th century by the owner, T Wellwood Maxwell, the Strathpeffer chemist.
Kinettas (1999)
Kinettas (1999)
Kinettas (1999 ) A very plain but elegant and well proportioned large white harled house of about 1785, the farm-house of one of the three original farms at the head of the valley.
Raven Cottage
Raven Cottage
Raven Cottage An early cottage, originally thatched, tucked into the slope, now surrounded by Victorian villas and dominated by Cromartie Buildings, but it would have been in green fields at one time.
Timaru
Timaru
Timaru, completed in 1877 to the design of Inverness architect Alexander Ross, is a glorious essay - or at least the frontage is - in carpenter's Gothic style with finely carved posts and balusters and eaves boards. It was built for a retired New Zealand sheep-farmer and has an air of far-off lands about it.
Santrothen
Santrothen
Santrothen (beside the former filling station) is an interesting example of 1950's bungalow style with a part-piended (hipped) and slated roof and bold facing brick detail over entrance and at windows on the front elevation.
Castle Leod 2021
Castle Leod 2021
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April

Feis Rois - photo 03

Fèis Rios

Endangered Species - photo 1

Endangered Species

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May

Visit to Glasgow - photo 02

Visit To Glasgow

Our village - photo 5

Our Village

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June

The Cybernet Team - photo 1

The Cybernet Team

Visit to Culloden - photo 1

Visit To Culloden

Induction at Dingwall Academy - photo 2

Induction at Dingwall Academy

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

This is the Giant's Causeway in Ireland.It is a World Heritage Site.

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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Strathpeffer Primary July

It's July! It's happy holiday time! 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 below are some of the places where we went on holiday
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This is a photo of The Bridge of San Francisco on a beautiful day.
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August - This was back to school month.

Our first day in our New School

First Day In Our New School

Photographs of our new school being built - pupil photo 1

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 - photo 1

Mosaic Day

Alasdair and Joe visit the Kilvannie Stone - photo 2

Alasdair and Joe visit the Kilvannie Stone

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October

In the New Gym - photo 1

In the New Gym

The Travelling Puppet Show - photo 2

The Travelling Puppet Show

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November

Invergordon Visit - photo 2

Invergordon visit

Invergordon Visit - photo 4

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 - photo 4

The Xmas Party

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Strathpeffer Primary December

The opening of our new school on 1st December 2000 and the Xmas Party. NOTE: these photos are covered in more detail in the photograph album " Strathpeffer New School" on the Social page.
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The Xmas Party - photo 1
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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.
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