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1000 \u2013 P4 started the journey of building the base but first had to decide where the oven door would be. Matthew discussed that the sun rises from the East and sets in the West.\u00a0 Wind comes from the West so we do not want out oven door facing the West as it could blow out our flame.\u00a0 We want the back of the oven facing West.<\/p>\n
P4 then measured out the base of our oven and placed the glass bottles on. The glass bottles will trap a layer of air for the oven that will act as insulation under the hot oven.<\/p>\n We then started to mix together our cob \u2013 sharp sand, clay and water.\u00a0 Iain Lamont asked \u201cHow do you make clay?\u201d and learned that clay is dug up from the ground.<\/p>\n 1100 \u2013 P1 came out and started filling the gaps between the glass bottles with saw dust. Leah explained to the group that \u201csaw dust comes out when you saw wood.\u201d\u00a0 The saw dust creates more inssulation filling all the holes and gaps with saw dust.\u00a0 Emily said that \u201cwe are tucking it all in,\u201d as she worked hard to press the sawdust between the gaps.<\/p>\n \u201cCan we put our feet in that?\u201d asked Noah.<\/p>\n We then added cob to it to stick it all together. Harrison said \u201cit feels so hard and wet.\u201d\u00a0 He then said \u201cit will dry out and it will keep the bottles in their place.\u201d<\/p>\n 1300 \u2013 P2 are building the mould using damp sand. Matthew really had brought the beach to us \u2026 sand, sunshine and water and we built a sandcastle.<\/p>\n \u201cIt looks like Mount Everest\u201d \u2013 Christopher Convery<\/p>\n Day 3 \u2013 P6\/7, P4 and nursery<\/p>\n Building continues. Primary 6\/7 really put their hands into the building of the oven. It was very messy but fun.\u00a0 All of P6\/7 added to the structure of our cob oven, building more and more layers around the mould.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had to put the mixture of cob on top of the previous layer and use our finders to press it down. We were not to spread the cob mixture down as this would squeeze the water out of it making it dry.\u201d Zara<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Primary 4<\/p>\n \u201cIt looks different from the oven at home, it has no buttons.\u201d Rory<\/p>\n Zakir \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have electricity!\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Day 4 \u2013 Primary 7<\/p>\n Primary 7 started out first thing today and noticed that the oven has some slight damage to it due to the heavy rain overnight. We learned that the cob oven is a little vulnerable and we need to protect it from the rain.\u00a0 A bag over our cob oven will protect it.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I ever become a billionaire I\u2019m going to build my house out of this!\u201d<\/p>\n Primary 1b has a very important job of putting on the last cob and finishing off the very top of our oven. What a great job they have done.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Day 5 \u2013 Pizza tasting day. We all loved eating the pizza.\u00a0 It tasted delicious and we enjoyed counting down the seconds it takes to cook our pizza \u2013 only 90 seconds!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The installation of our amazing Cob Oven has started.\u00a0 Please find our diary of the process below: Thursday 0920 \u2013 Whole school assembly. 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