What do you know about Skara Brae?

26 Comments

1. Ellen December 6, 2016 at 3:49 pm

   I learnt that they had furniture
   • oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:30 am

     All made out of stone!
   • oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:32 am

     I remember in our class assembly Alexander explained,
     “And in Skara Brae, Orkney, they even found stone toilets flushed by streams!”
   • oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:32 am

     Followed by Ben/Bones remarking,
     “Very posh!”
2. Ellen December 6, 2016 at 3:51 pm

   It was covered by a sandstorm (I think!)
   • oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:29 am

     And then uncovered by a storm in 1850.
3. Ellen December 6, 2016 at 3:53 pm

   Then uncovered and lived in!
4. Charlie D December 7, 2016 at 3:55 pm

   I found out that their houses were connected with passage-ways apart from one house.
   • oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:37 am

     The one house I think was a workshop?
5. oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:34 am

   More using the Chromebooks!
6. oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:34 am

   That’s a good thing!
7. oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:35 am

   And I learnt that Skara Brae is located on the west bay of Sandwick, Orkney!
8. oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:35 am

   Then I really enjoyed designing a poster about it!
9. oscar (school council) :P December 9, 2016 at 7:36 am

   I hope we do more about Skara Brae! (Or other Stone Age villages in general)
10. Freddie and Olivia December 9, 2016 at 2:36 pm

    what fun new places for this morning. So wish these were are natural home places.
11. Ellen and Tia December 9, 2016 at 2:41 pm

    There was a central hearth
12. Beatrice & Harper December 9, 2016 at 2:55 pm

    We learnt that there were underground passageways linking to underground houses
13. Beatrice & Harper December 9, 2016 at 2:56 pm

    We learnt that the skara brae people were the first people to have stone furniture
14. jasmine December 9, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    I learnt that they had furniture
15. Elle ? December 12, 2016 at 4:50 pm

    I love that the houses were round but throughout time they updated into more rectangular but still rounded roofed houses
16. Elle ? December 12, 2016 at 4:51 pm

    I learnt that they had a built-in hearths in the centre of the room I wish I had that in my house to keep me warm and cosy in the winter weeks
17. Elle ? December 12, 2016 at 4:52 pm

    I also learnt that the middern was almost like a central heating area I remember how it was made it was so disgusting they use rubbish to create heat from the bacteria???
18. Elle ? December 12, 2016 at 4:53 pm

    That is something that I really wouldn’t want in my house, how revolting!
19. Elle ? December 12, 2016 at 4:58 pm

    I agree with Oscar in one of his blogs I really enjoyed making the poster about Stone Age villages but my most favourite work on Skara Brae pretending to be an estate agent describing and persuading people to buy the one and only Scara Brae house an exclusive high-quality construction.?
20. Elle ? December 12, 2016 at 5:00 pm

    I wish we could do that all over again, it has been my favourite lesson during class nine, well apart from high adventure but that doesn’t really count is a lesson wink wink
21. Shannon gatenby December 12, 2016 at 7:10 pm

    I have learn lots about SkaravBrae, however I didn’t know that the Skara Brae was reviled by a winter storm in 1850