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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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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The great storm of January 1978. Alex John Maclennan's croft

Angus's new house

Angus Mackenzie and Paul Major building the wall on the front of Angus's new house. The wall is made of whinstone and granite.

Angus Mackenzie, Paul Major, at work.

Angus Mackenzie, Paul Major, at work. The house is built on the site of John Munro's house which was here in the early 1900's - known as Westermost Croft - the first or last house in the 'street'.

Autumn view of Saunders Campbell's pond

Autumn view of Saunders Campbell's pond from the road near Betty Mackenzie's croft, looking towards the Black Isle.

An Army camp, possibly 1939

An Army camp, possibly 1939. This photograph must have been taken from the top of Knockfarrel as the Dingwall-Strathpeffer road can be seen in the background.

Dochcairn before 1913.

Duran Cottage - one scene

Four scenes of Duran.

Duran Cottage - second scene

Four scenes of Duran.

Duran and a horse - third scene

Four scenes of Duran.

Duran - fourth scene

Four scenes of Duran.

Fanny Campbell at her home.

Hillcrest 1956.

Glenburn

Mrs Campbell at the front door of Glenburn.

The kitchen

Mrs Campbell at the livingroom fire.

"Granny Campbell", otherwise Mrs Jessie McKay Campbell,

Mrs Morling has also supplied this photograph of "Granny Campbell", otherwise Mrs Jessie McKay Campbell, mother of Christine (above) and George and Simon (below).

Jock the Glen's house

Caisteal Gorach, the Foolish Castle,

Visitors to Dingwall often ask about what seems to be the ruins of a castle on Tulloch Hill, beside Ben Wyvis. Caisteal Gorach, the Foolish Castle, was never lived in - it is a folly built to look like a ruin. Henry Davidson, an 18th century laird of Tulloch, provided work for labourers by building the roofless doorless castle. It is said he did not want any large houses on his estate other than Tulloch Castle - and Caisteal Gorach is not exactly a prime residential site. It is 1000ft above sea level and no road has ever led there. Generations of Dingwall folk have made the arduous climb to picnic at the castle and enjoy the view over six countries.

Sgt. John Wood who spotted Jockan's house from the rescue helicopter

"Jockan" Macritchie's house during the 1978 storm.

"Jockan" Macritchie's house after the great storm of January 1978

Mary Mackenzie

Mary Mackenzie outside the house which was there before Roy's house. William was next door. When William died Mary moved into William's house.

Munro's Posting Establishment motor garage, Strathpeffer - now Spa Motors?

Roddy Munro, Davy Munro, Johnnie Mackenzie and Kenny Urquhart.

Donnie Mackenzie's house when thatched (1915). Donnie's granny at the door.

Simon Campbell (left) and George Campbell (right).

Simon Campbell (left) and George Campbell (right). Photograph courtesy of their nephew, John Rich, Petersham, Australia. For more information please see the War Records area of our website.

Winter view of Saunders Campbell's pond

Winter view of Saunders Campbell's pond from the road near Betty Mackenzie's croft, looking towards the Black Isle.

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