2016 STAGES 4, 5 & 6 COMING IN 2016 SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS SUBSCRIBE HEAD ON PHOTO FESTIVAL TO SYDNEY LIVING AT THE MUSEUM OF SYDNEY MUSEUMS ENEws AND UPDATES FOR TEACHERS 30 April – June 2016 The Head On Portrait Prize is one of Australia’s most critically acclaimed We’ll send you our monthly photographic portrait competitions. eNews with the latest information In 2016 the exhibition will feature the about our events, education finalists of the Head On Student Prize, programs and more. which showcases amazing photography by Australian school students. PLUS, you’ll receive a FREE double pass to visit any of our Sydney Living Museums is pleased to present this photography exhibition in partnership 12 museums and historic houses. with the Head On Photo Festival. ONE KEY 12 MUSEUMS MANY LIFETIMES CAROLINE SIMPSON LIBRARY & RESEARCH COLLECTION ELIZABETH BaY HOUSE ELIZABETH FARM HYDE PARK BaRRACKS MUSEUM JUstice & POLICE MUSEUM MEROOgaL THE MINT MUSEUM OF SYDNEY on the site of first Government House ROSE SEIDLER HOUSE ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM SUSANNAH Place MUSEUM VAUCLUSE HOUSE VISIT US AT slm.is/education The Historic Houses Trust of NSW, incorporating Sydney Living Museums, cares for significant historic places, buildings, landscapes and collections in NSW. BOOK It is a statutory authority of, and principally funded by, the NSW Government. NOW The information in this brochure is correct at time of printing but may be subject to change. FOR 2016 11 programs • 5 sites • NEW VIRTUAL EXCURSION COVER IMAGE: Student at the History Extension 1 Seminar Day, November 2014. Photo © James Horan slm.is/education slm.is/education 1 2016 STAGES 4,5 & 6 BOOK NOW ARCHAEOLOGY FOR 2016 IN 2016 THE ROCKS History Excursions Full-day program March 2016 Welcome Also on offer Our museums, historic houses and gardens are at the heart of every school Sydney Living Museums also offer excursion we offer. With Sydney Living programs for Commerce, Legal Studies and Food Technology students. Museums your students will discover past lives, events and stories in the Please share the enclosed fliers with places where they actually unfolded. your colleagues or visit slm.is/education We provide History programs for secondary school students that cover a range of topics, outcomes and cross-curriculum priorities PresenteD WITH from the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Sydney Learning Adventures and The Big Dig Curriculum: History K-10 including: • How historians and archaeologists Available for two weeks only: investigate history; Week 1 Monday 14 – Thursday 17 March 2016 • The experiences of convicts and free settlers Week 2 Monday 21 – Thursday 24 March 2016 arriving in the colony in the 19th century and • The nature of British colonisation of Australia. Each year Susannah Place Museum, Sydney Learning Adventures and The Big Dig collaborate to offer a full All our programs are led by highly day of history activities in The Rocks. trained staff, and we involve students in During the program, students will the analysis of primary and secondary • Hear a professional archaeologist discuss sources and use of evidence to develop their latest work in the field informed responses to inquiry questions. • Explore Susannah Place Museum (built in 1844) • Visit Parbury Ruins, an archaeological site where At Sydney Living Museums we are the foundations of a cottage built between 1815 committed to ensuring that students and 1823 are conserved beneath a modern building who visit our museums are active • Tour The Big Dig archaeological site and engage participants in historical inquiry. in a hands-on analysis of some of its artefacts • Visit The Rocks Discovery Museum. Every year over 10,000 high school students participate in our programs, Details For bookings contact and we look forward to welcoming $25 per student Sydney Learning Adventures you and your students in 2016. Full day (9.15am–2.30pm) 02 9240 8552 80 students www.shfa.nsw.gov.au/sla See page 12 for a two-hour Archaeology in The Rocks program available year-round at Susannah Place Museum. Mark Goggin Executive Director IMAGES (left to right): Students examine artefacts. Photo © Alfonso Calero, 2 courtesy of Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority; students examine artefacts at slm.is/education 3 History Extension Extension Seminar Day, November 2015. Photo © James Horan Hyde Park Barracks Museum The Hyde Park Barracks is one of 11 Australian Convict Sites on the UNESCO World Heritage list. With the end of transportation, the building became a female immigration depot, first housing Irish orphan girls escaping the famine in Ireland, and later also housing aged and destitute women as an asylum. STAGE Archaeology 4 Underfoot DEPTH STUDY 1 Students apply the processes and methods of the historian and the NEW archaeologist as they investigate the Investigating layered history of the Hyde Park Barracks. History They research pictorial and written sources and examine archaeological Students analyse and evaluate a range artefacts to complete an historical Working as an of primary and secondary sources, inquiry into the lives of different groups Archaeologist and reflect on the perspectives and of people who lived at the barracks. experiences of some of the people DEPTH STUDY 1: who lived at the Hyde Park Barracks, During a simulated archaeological dig, INVESTIGATING to develop their appreciation of history students work in small groups to excavate THE ANCIENT PAST as a study of human experience. an artefact, then categorise, weigh, They explore and discuss many of the measure, sketch and interpret it, to help During this one-hour program, museum’s displays, examine bias in them better understand the different your students will explore the historical artworks and learn about the approaches to historical investigation role of the archaeologist and practice of historical archaeology. taken by archaeologists and historians. how an archaeologist investigates history through an examination HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM of the digs conducted at Monday to Friday Monday to Friday the Hyde Park Barracks Cost: $180 for up to 20 students Cost: $180 for up to 20 students Museum and key artefacts (see website for details) (see website for details) that were uncovered there. Duration: 1 hour Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum: 80 students Maximum: 60 students IMAGES (left to right): Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo © Douglas Riley; Sydney Living Musuems Curator Fiona Starr inspects artefacts at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum. Photo © Scott Finneran; artefacts from the Hyde Park Barracks Museum Archaeology Collection. Photo © Jamie North 4 slm.is/education slm.is/education 5 Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House STAGE 4 Contact and Colonisation DEPTH STUDIES 1 & 6, TOPIC 6D Students conduct an historical investigation into the process and impact of the British colonisation of Australia, examining sources and A modern museum built over and around the perspectives. They practise historical archaeology, analysing a range of remains of Australia’s first Government House, archival sources, handling artefacts the Museum of Sydney celebrates the people from the archaeological collection and and events that have shaped this city. In 1788 using them to answer inquiry questions. Governor Phillip chose this site for his official Students also explore the way the residence. It quickly became the centre of the museum interprets contact history colony’s administrative and social life, and through artworks, recreations and an important focus of first contact between artefacts. In the Gadigal Place gallery, students use primary and the Gadigal people and the colonisers. secondary sources to understand the different ways that Aboriginal and non Aboriginal people experience contact and assess how the lives of individual Aboriginal people were Stay in touch! affected by contact with the colonisers. MUSEUM OF SYDNEY Sign up to Sydney Living on the site of first Government House Museums eNews and Monday to Friday education updates to receive Cost: $180 for up to 20 students a complimentary double pass (see website for details) to visit any of our 12 museums Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes and historic houses. Maximum: 60 students slm.is/education IMAGES (left to right): Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House. Photo © Douglas Riley; students inspect the exhibits at the Museum of Sydney on the site of first Government House. Photo © Stuart Miller 6 slm.is/education slm.is/education 7 Justice & Hyde Park Police Museum Barracks Museum Modern Sydney is built on convict foundations – on convict labour, convict skills and convict stories. In June 1819 the Hyde Park Barracks opened to house convict men and boys working in government gangs, and over the next three decades as many as 50,000 convicts passed through its gates. STAGE STAGE 5 The Pyjama Girl Murder: 5 Investigating A Case Study History The Justice & Police Museum at History ElectiVE Students explore the displays at the Hyde Park Barracks Circular Quay comprises the former Students are asked to investigate, as historians, the infamous Museum to examine bias in historical artworks and evaluate the reliability of a range of sources. Using both archival Water Police station and courts, which murder of Linda Agostini, known as the ‘Pyjama Girl’, by examining evidence from various primary and secondary records and archaeological artefacts, they participate in once made up one of Sydney’s busiest sources. They watch a 1939 film and evaluate its reliability as an investigation and to answer an inquiry question. Within legal hubs. With its 1890s holding cells, a source for their inquiries, and discuss perspectives presented the context of the actions, values, attitudes and motives of offices, charge room, courts and vast by the media of the time. Students explore, examine and people from the past, students analyse a range of primary and secondary sources and use critical thinking skills. archive, the museum reveals over a evaluate artefacts and documents relating to the case, including forensic evidence found during the criminal investigation.