2018 STAGES 1, 2 & 3 SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS SCHOOL EXCURSIONS BOOK NOW FOR 2018 2018 STAGES 1, 2 & 3 SCHOOL EXCURSIONS History | PDHPE | Creative Arts Science and Technology CONTENTS WELCOME ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM 4 At Sydney Living Museums, students Lessons from the Past (Stage 1) discover past lives, events and stories Early to Rise (Stage 1) in the places where they actually unfolded. We provide learning Expanding the Colony (Stage 3) experiences that reveal the past in A Colonial Eye (Stage 3) fresh and memorable ways, stimulate MURU MITTIGAR ABORIGINAL CULTURAL 7 curiosity and critical thinking, and & EDUCATION CENTRE motivate ongoing exploration. ELIZABETH FARM 8 All our education programs are aligned with the NSW Now and Then (Stage 1) Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum: History K–10, and Colonial Life at Elizabeth Farm (Stage 2) enhance and extend classroom learning by immersing children in authentic historical contexts. Whether it’s Transported in Time (Stage 2) on site, online or via a virtual excursion, learning is VAUCLUSE HOUSE 10 grounded in our places, objects, hands-on activities Child’s Play (Stage 1) and rich museum resources and encourages students to build their own evidence-based understanding How Does Your Garden Grow? (Stage 1) of the past and develop skills in historical inquiry. MEROOGAL 12 Powerful experiences of place are integral to our success Then and Now: Playing with the Past (Stage 1) in supporting learning outcomes. With partners such as the Muru Mittigar Aboriginal Cultural & Education SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM 13 Centre we are extending our capacity to interpret our The Way We Were (Stage 1) sites through both place and country, and to connect MUSEUM OF SYDNEY 14 students with the Aboriginal story of Sydney. Whose Place? (Stage 2) Our newly launched professional development program helps primary teachers from across NSW JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM 15 to increase their students’ engagement with History Bailed Up! (Stage 3) by using strategies and approaches that have HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM 16 been well proven in our education programs. Convict Life at the Barracks (Stage 2) Every year more than 50,000 primary school students join our highly trained staff on school excursions at our Investigating Convict History (Stage 2) unique museums and historic sites. We look forward Rats: Convict Tales (Stage 2) to welcoming you and your students in 2018. Life at the Barracks: Convicts and Migrants (Stage 3) MUSEUMS DISCOVERY CENTRE 19 ONLINE 20 Convict Sydney Mark Goggin VIRTUAL EXCURSIONS 21 Executive Director A Convict Story (Stage 2) Law of the Land (Stage 3) PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM 22 MAKE A BOOKING 23 The 1886 Police Court at the Justice & Police Museum is a compelling setting for learning about miners, bushrangers and policing during NSW’s gold rush. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM ROUSE HILL The colonial house and farm, gardens, stables, summerhouse and restored 1888 schoolhouse beside the convict-built turnpike road to Windsor provide an immersive learning environment for students to explore the past in the present. 4 slm.is/education STAGE 1 Lessons from the Past Early to Rise HISTORY, PDHPE, CREATIVE ARTS HISTORY In this highly immersive program, students find out Students explore the working areas of the former what it was like to go to school in 1888. After dressing Rouse family farm and do a few chores that would’ve up in items of period costume they meet their been part of daily life for many children in the late 19th schoolmistress or master, who leads them in saluting century: feeding the chooks, polishing a saddle, hanging the British flag and singing ‘God Save the Queen’. out the washing and pumping water. They visit the original milking shed and explore the beautiful stables, Various hands-on activities, including writing learning about the vital role of horses in providing on slates, a sewing lesson, an outdoor physical transport and getting work done around the farm. education drill, and (weather permitting) maypole dancing in the yard, enable students to make vivid comparisons between schooling then and now. ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM Monday to Friday In the full-day version of the program, students From $190 for up to 20 students play 19th-century games during their lunch break 1 hour 30 minutes before returning to the classroom for a natural Maximum 60 students history and drawing lesson to round off the day. Visit slm.is/ER for more details ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM Monday to Friday From $27 per student Special 2-for-1 offer Full day or 10am–2pm Maximum 60 students Book a full-day excursion at Rouse Hill House Visit slm.is/LP for more details & Farm combining Lessons from the Past (morning activities only) and Early to Rise (complete program) for just $27 per student. slm.is/education 5 STAGE 3 Expanding the Colony A Colonial Eye HISTORY CREATIVE ARTS, HISTORY Students explore the former farm and examine a Students investigate the role of artists during the early range of sources to learn about the expansion of NSW colonial period and consider how they contributed to in the 19th century, and investigate the impacts on the the development of the colony. They look at a range environment, the people of the Boorooberongal clan of Australian artworks, from early depictions of a and the colonisers. They examine displays and artefacts strange new land to later works by professional artists to investigate Indigenous land management, as well showing the progress of the expanding colony. as farm structures and technologies as evidence of European farming practices and the challenges of Students are also guided through two drawing activities, irrigation. A walk through the house offers a glimpse focusing on the 19th-century summerhouse in the into the privileged world of the Rouse family. garden and a collection of natural history objects in the schoolhouse. Looking across to the Blue Mountains Working in small groups, students discuss documents from the hillside behind the house as they make their and images relating to local people who helped own watercolour, students learn about perspective and shape the colony, including free settler Richard the effect that interpretation has on an artist’s work. Rouse and convict servant Margaret Catchpole. ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM Monday to Friday Monday to Friday From $190 for up to 20 students From $190 for up to 20 students 1 hour 30 minutes 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 45 students Maximum 60 students Visit slm.is/CE for more details Visit slm.is/EC for more details PREVIOUS PAGES (p4 and clockwise from top left of p5): Handling a miniature ABOVE : Painting a view of the Blue Mountains. portrait of Richard Rouse while standing in his home and investigating his life; Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums Miss Medcalf leads the way in building bodily strength, lung capacity and good posture; Learning to sew; Students in the schoolhouse hold up their work for the 6 teacher to inspect. Photos © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums slm.is/education STAGES 1–3 MURU MITTIGAR ABORIGINAL CULTURAL & EDUCATION CENTRE AT ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM ROUSE HILL Muru Mittigar’s school Students gain unique opportunities to learn about Aboriginal culture, history, heritage and tradition. All workshops programs – whether at Rouse include hands-on experiences and delivery is adapted Hill House & Farm or at your to align with relevant outcomes for each stage. school – enable students of Activities offered include: all ages to access Aboriginal • a cultural talk introducing Aboriginal Australia • a look at traditional instruments, weapons and tools cultural experiences delivered • Dreamtime storytelling by Aboriginal education guides. • boomerang throwing • a bush resource walk • a talk on the didgeridoo and its origins • creating traditional art. For teachers, Muru Mittigar offers the On Country cultural awareness training, which contributes up to four hours of NESA registered professional development. To find out more about Muru Mittigar’s education programs, visit slm.is/MM Bringing your Stage 1 or Stage 3 students on an excursion to Rouse Hill House & Farm? Learning about Indigenous culture from an Aboriginal education guide. Photo © Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums Consider booking one 90-minute program with Muru Mittigar and another with Sydney Living Museums, so your students can rotate between the two – adding up to an extraordinarily rich and memorable day out. slm.is/education 7 STAGE ELIZABETH FARM 1 ROSEHILL Now and Then HISTORY Students discover what life was like for the Macarthurs and their hardworking servants without the benefits of running water, bathrooms, electricity, modern appliances and paved roads. They experience doing laundry by hand, see what’s growing in the kitchen garden, and explore the colonial kitchen to observe how it differs from their own kitchens at home. They also visit the drawing room and main At John and Elizabeth Macarthur’s bedroom, and in the pleasure garden, play homestead your class will be 19th-century children’s games including hoops, skittles, quoits, and cup and ball. transported back in time to discover the stories of the people who lived, ELIZABETH FARM worked and visited at Elizabeth Monday to Friday From $190 for up to 20 students Farm: free settlers, convicts, 1 hour 30 minutes servants and the local Aboriginal Maximum 60 students people, the Burramattagal. Visit slm.is/NT for more details 8 slm.is/education STAGE 2 Colonial Life at Elizabeth Farm Transported in Time HISTORY, CREATIVE ARTS HISTORY Students examine a range of historical and Students put on caps and aprons to become newly arrived contemporary sources to learn about the traditional convict servants and meet their overseers. After a look at hunting, gathering and land-management practices what’s growing in the kitchen garden, they carry out chores of the Burramattagal.