Continuing our theme of the Stone Age, today, we learned about our ancestors who were no longer nomadic, living at Skara Brae in the Orkney Isles. The children were fascinated by the fact that everything our Stone Age ancestors used, was made of stone! Beds, fire hearths, shelves and plates and walls; all made of stone. We learned that the villagers of Skara Brae built their houses in a circle, with adjoining pathways between the houses and used soil and grass to create the roofs to keep them dry and warm. We decided that it would be quite dark and very smoky inside the houses.

At the end of school today, as a reward for super work in their lessons, the children were asked to create cave paintings on the wall in our little playground, just like our Stone Age ancestors. They showed us woolly mammoths, long horned goats, bison and fish and some even signed their work!