There have been many,many fun and exciting events happening all at the same time. One of them has been the trip to Culloden for Primary 5. The p5 classes have been learning about the Jacobites and the Jacobite rising.

Both primary 5 classes attended and most came back happy and cheerful, others came back a bit unhappily because they did not get to see the museum but they enjoyed the rest of it.

Inside the building there was a little cafeteria,museum,gift shop and the education room and that is were the p5s went.

In the education room, we were all given tags to wear around our necks, They were three different colours and those colours were Red which represented a Government army supporter, Blue that represented a Jacobite supporter and white that represented people that had not made their mind up or  don’t support either of the sides. Four of the cards had names on them such as Francis Townley, Anne Mackintosh, James Mackintosh, Anne McKay and a couple more; the p5 got to dress up as them. There were 4 main countries that fought in the Jacobite’s and government troops and they were France who were Jacobite’s, the highlands and lowlands were also Jacobite’s.  The Scot’s and the English were a mixture and many people would risk their lives to protect their countries and regions. When we were out on the Culloden moor, we saw a little cottage that we thought was a black house at first but it wasn’t. The cottage was where the Jacobite’s camped during their wait for the government troops.

It was a very long journey to Culloden and back and to occupy ourselves we sang  and sang and sang to our hearts content. some people though did not feel well and they were sick ! But everyone had a great time, and learnt a lot on their trip.