Today Primary 4 went on an exciting trip to the Archive Centre.  We went on the trip to learn more about our topic, farming.  In particular we were looking at what Inverness was like in the past and what the land was used for in the past.

 Here we had to look at what clothes would have been like in the Highlands in the past.  We got to touch the material and we all quickly guessed that most of them were made from wool from sheep.  It made us think of what our clothes were made off.

We got to look at 2 maps of Inverness, one was about 15 years old and the other was about 230 years old.  We were able to spot similarities and differences between the 2 maps.  The main difference was that in the ‘olden days’ Inverness had a lot less buildings than we do now, there was much more farms in the olden days.  We were even able to spot our school.

We were able to hold objects from the 19th Century that would have been used in a kitchen in a croft.  We had to think what the objects may have been used for and then we drew some of the objects.  We had to wear special gloves to touch them.

It was a lovely way to learn about crofts and farms in the past and we enjoyed our time out of the classroom.