STAGES 1, 2 & 3 EXCURSIONS - Sydney Living Museums · from Stage 1 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10). Students step back in time to the 1920s as

STAGES 1, 2 & 3

EXCURSIONSDiscover a whole other life

At Sydney Living Museums we are proud to offer your students a wide range of stimulating education programs that combine immersive experiences in authentic historical contexts with focused activities to develop critical, creative and reflective thinking.

Students are invited to explore the stories of the people who have lived, worked and played in our historic places over time – Aboriginal people and colonists, convicts and bushrangers, masters and servants. With a strong focus on active learning, using historical artefacts and technologies, costumed interpretation and imaginative re-creation, our programs target outcomes from HSIE, SciTech, Mathematics and Creative Arts.

We have carefully developed our programs to link to NSW syllabus outcomes and cross-curriculum priorities and, where appropriate, have adapted them in response to the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum K–10. We are also excited to offer a new Stage 3 program that complements the Museum of Sydney exhibition Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese Story.

If you are unable to visit our properties in person, your class can still access our high-quality resources by participating in a virtual excursion. Join us at the Hyde Park Barracks Museum via videoconference for A Convict Story, the popular tale of the incarceration of convict Ivan Gotney.

We look forward to welcoming you and your class to a Sydney Living Museums excursion in 2014.

Mark Goggin Director

Welcome

COVER IMAGE Students in the courtyard washing clothes by hand, Elizabeth Farm. Photograph © James Horan

The information in this brochure was correct at time of printing but may be subject to change.

The Historic Houses Trust of NSW, incorporating Sydney Living Museums, cares for significant historic places, buildings, landscapes and collections. It is a statutory authority of, and principally funded by, the New South Wales Government.

STAGE 1Now and Then, Elizabeth Farm

Lessons from the Past, Rouse Hill House & Farm

Child’s Play, Vaucluse House

How Does Your Garden Grow?, Vaucluse House

The Way We Were, Susannah Place Museum

Then and Now: Playing with the Past, Meroogal

STAGE 2Colonial Life at Elizabeth Farm, Elizabeth Farm

Transported in Time, Elizabeth Farm

Expanding the Colony, Rouse Hill House & Farm

A Colonial Eye, Rouse Hill House & Farm

Rats: Convict Tales, Hyde Park Barracks Museum

Convict Life at the Barracks, Hyde Park Barracks Museum

Investigating Convict History, Hyde Park Barracks Museum

Whose Place?, Museum of Sydney

A Convict Story: Videoconferencing Program

STAGE 3Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese Story, Museum of Sydney NEW

Bailed Up: Life on the Goldfields, Justice & Police Museum

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SYDNEY LIVING MUSEUMS EXCURSIONS STAGES 1, 2 & 3

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ELIZABETH FARMMondays to Fridays, all Terms 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 60 students

This program for students in Stage 1 integrates outcomes from HSIE, PDHPE and SciTech. It also incorporates outcomes from Stage 1 History and Science (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum K–10).

Students discover what life was like for the Macarthur family and their hardworking servants without the benefits of running water, bathrooms, electricity, motorised machines and paved roads. They experience what it was like to do the laundry by hand, see what’s growing in the

kitchen garden and explore the colonial kitchen to identify how different it is from their own kitchens at home.

They explore the drawing room and principal bedroom, and play 19th-century children’s games, including hoops, skittles, quoits, and cup and ball, in the pleasure garden.

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LESSONS FROM THE PASTThis program for students in Stage 1 integrates outcomes from HSIE, PDHPE and Creative Arts, and gives children the opportunity to learn firsthand what school life was like in the late 19th century.

Students begin by dressing up in items of period costume

and meeting their schoolmistress or master,

who leads them in saluting the British flag and singing

the national anthem, ‘God Save the Queen’.

Various hands-on activities, such as practising writing on slates, a sewing lesson, an outdoor physical education drill and (weather permitting) maypole dancing in the yard, enable students to make vivid comparisons between schooling, then and now.

ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARMMondays to Fridays, all Terms 2 hours or full day (10am–2pm)Maximum 60 students


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CHILD’S PLAYThis program for students in Stage 1 HSIE also incorporates outcomes from Stage 1 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10).

Students explore how different members of the household at Vaucluse House lived, and make comparisons with their own lives today. They visit the well, dairy, scullery and kitchen, and discover some of the ways the Wentworth family’s servants ran the house without plumbing, electricity or motorised machines.

The students visit the beautiful drawing room, then go upstairs to see the bedrooms and find out what children wore in the 19th century. The teacher-led component of the program includes a walk to the vegetable garden, exploring the stables and playing 19th-century games like croquet, skittles, cup and ball, and hoops.

VAUCLUSE HOUSEMondays to Thursdays, all Terms 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 80 students


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This program for students in Stage 1 integrates outcomes from HSIE, PDHPE and SciTech. It also incorporates outcomes from Stage 1 History and Science (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum K–10).

In the kitchen garden students learn about

the life cycle of domestic food plants and plant a seed

to take home with them. This is complemented by a short bush foods walk that explains

how the local Aboriginal people sourced their food and cared for the land. Students also visit the Wentworth family’s sumptuous dining room and colonial kitchen.

The teacher-led section of the program includes a walk to the waterfall and playing 19th-century games like croquet, cup and ball, skittles, hoops and quoits.

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VAUCLUSE HOUSEMondays to Thursdays, all Terms 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 60 students


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THE WAY WE WEREThis program for students in Stage 1 HSIE also incorporates outcomes and content from Stage 1 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10).

Students step back in time to the 1920s as they enter the restored corner shop and put on their aprons. By helping to serve a customer they learn about household goods and the technologies of the day.

Inside the conserved interiors of the house at number 60 Gloucester Street (built in 1844) students discover

the Cunningham family’s household arrangements and the technologies used, and imagine how the family relaxed and had fun. Students also visit the tiny backyard to play a game of quoits and see the copper that Mrs Cunningham used to boil up the laundry every Monday.

SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUMTuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, all Terms 1 hourMaximum 35 students


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This program for students in Stage 1 HSIE also incorporates outcomes and content from Stage 1 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10).

Students learn about the daily lives of four generations of one family who lived at Meroogal as they explore the house’s drawing room, kitchen and main bedroom. They see the games the children played with and listen to a record playing on the gramophone. They then

investigate past technologies, such as the meat safe, wood stove and chamber-pot.

Outside in the garden they visit the well to pump up some water by hand before playing 19th-century games like quoits, cup and ball, marbles and jacks.

THEN AND NOW Playing with the Past

MEROOGAL, NOWRAThursdays, all Terms1 hour 30 minutesMaximum 30 students


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This program for students in Stage 2 integrates outcomes from HSIE and Creative Arts.

Students are guided through the kitchen, main bedroom and drawing room of Elizabeth Farm to learn about the running of the household and see 19th-century technologies in context.

They visit the kitchen garden, discuss British farming methods and explore the effects of colonisation on the natural environment and on

the Burramattagal people of the Darug clan. They examine a range of historical sources and learn about traditional hunting, gathering and land management practices. In a hands-on group activity, students discover how indigenous plants were used as bush food and bush medicine and in making tools.

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TRANSPORTED IN TIMEThis program gives students in Stage 2 HSIE the chance to discover what life was like for convict servants assigned to the estate of John and Elizabeth Macarthur in 1828.

After putting on their caps and aprons, students meet their overseers, the cook and the housekeeper, and get their hands dirty as they carry out the chores they will be responsible for as newly arrived convict servants – either washing clothes by hand or baking scones in the colonial kitchen.

Students then view the drawing room, main bedroom and elegantly set dining table during a tour of the main house, and hear about the Burramattagal, the local Aboriginal people.

Finally, students use a quill to put their mark to a ticket-of-leave.



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For groups of 30-60 students we offer a version of the program that omits the scone-making activity.

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EXPANDING THE COLONYThis program, originally developed for Stage 2 students, integrates outcomes from HSIE, Mathematics and SciTech. It is now also offered to Stage 3 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10) and incorporates outcomes and content from The Australian Colonies topic.

Students explore Rouse Hill House & Farm, examining a range of sources to learn about the expansion of the NSW colony. They investigate the challenges of travel and transportation in the 19th century, the effect of

farming on the environment and on the lives of the local Boorooberongal clan, and the sustainability of European and Aboriginal land management practices. A walk through the house gives students a glimpse into the privileged world of prosperous settlers like the Rouse family.

To conclude the program, students work in teams to investigate how rainwater was collected for irrigation on the farm.

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This program was originally developed for students in Stage 2 HSIE and Creative Arts. It is now also offered to Stage 3 and has been adapted to incorporate outcomes and content from The Australian Colonies topic in Stage 3 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum K–10) and Stage 3 Visual Arts.

Students study and identify a range of artworks, understand how and why artists create art, and make their own art. In addition, Stage 3 students use a range of sources to

investigate the contributions significant artists made to colonial Australia.

Students create their own landscape drawing of the Cumberland Plain and the Blue Mountains beyond. Before they begin, they look at and discuss examples of early Australian colonial art and learn about the use of perspective and interpretation in artworks. They then make a pencil sketch of the landscape, complete it with chalk pastels and exhibit it for their classmates to appreciate.

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This program helps students in Stage 2 HSIE to learn about the lives of prisoners who lived at the Hyde Park Barracks between 1819 and 1848.

Students refer to a variety of primary and secondary sources, including the building itself, to learn about the daily routines, misdemeanours and punishments of the convicts.

They explore the barracks as a site of archaeology.

As they investigate the rats’ nests beneath

the floorboards, students learn about the unusual role these rodents played in conserving the building’s history.

Students then put on convict shirts, learn how to make bricks and lay them to make a sturdy wall, and sleep in a hammock, all the while following the many rules of the barracks.

RATS Convict Tales

HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUMMondays to Fridays, all Terms1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 35 students

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CONVICT LIFE AT THE BARRACKS

This program, originally developed for Stage 2 HSIE, is now also

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the Australian Curriculum History K–10) and incorporates outcomes and content from The Australian Colonies topic.

Using a range of sources, including the building itself, students learn about the routines and experiences of male prisoners who lived at the barracks between 1819 and 1848. They handle

convict-period leg-irons and learn about some of the other punishments convicts faced if they broke the rules.

Students also locate and compare information found in convict indents (records from the barracks) to better understand the personal experiences of individual convicts. Stage 2 HSIE students then use this information to create a convict portrait, while Stage 3 students work in small groups to answer an inquiry question.

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This one-hour program, originally developed for students in Stage 2 HSIE, also incorporates outcomes and content from The Australian Colonies topic in Stage 3 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10).

Students discover historical evidence by exploring the building and examining a range of sources. Activities include handling convict-period leg-irons,

trying on convict clothing, resting in a convict hammock and investigating a rat’s nest beneath the floorboards.

Students discuss artworks as historical sources and hear individual stories about the convicts who lived at the barracks. This helps them to develop the skill of empathetic understanding.

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HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUMMondays to Fridays, all Terms 1 hourMaximum 80 students

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WHOSE PLACE?This program for students in Stage 2 HSIE also incorporates outcomes and content from the First Contacts topic in Stage 2 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10).

Students are guided through the museum’s spaces while

participating in structured learning activities that help them to identify

different points of view and explain why people

behaved as they did in the past. They analyse

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artefacts, handle objects and work in small groups to learn what life was like for Aboriginal people before and after the arrival of Europeans. They hear a retelling of the story of the spearing of Governor Phillip by Willemering and develop the skill of empathetic understanding as they play a game that demonstrates the challenges of communicating without a shared language.

MUSEUM OF SYDNEYTuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays, all Terms 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 45 students

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A CONVICT STORY Videoconferencing program

This one-hour videoconferencing program is for students in Stage 2 HSIE.

Bring the convict story of the Hyde Park Barracks Museum to your classroom with a virtual excursion! This theatrical presentation, woven together from historical

sources, transports students back in time to learn the life story of convict Ivan Gotney.

Through active participation students gain insights into the everyday lives of convicts at the barracks and find out why convict labour was so important to the development of the new colony. Students are encouraged to observe, analyse and draw their own conclusions.

VIRTUAL EXCURSION 1 hour Maximum 30 students

Bookings for A Convict Story can be made at www.dartconnections.org.au

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This is a program for Stage 3 students who are studying HSIE or History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10). It incorporates outcomes from The Australian Colonies topic.

Students learn why Chinese people migrated to Australia during the 19th century and about their experiences of living in, and the contributions they made to, Sydney and NSW. The success of Chinese miners on the goldfields and the story of entrepreneur Quong Tart demonstrate how significant events and people influenced the development of the colony. During a guided tour of the exhibition students compare information from a range of sources and identify different points of view, behaviours and attitudes from the past.

In 1888, several boats carrying Chinese immigrants sailed through Sydney Heads into a crisis that would shape the nation. Chinese people had been arriving in Sydney for over 30 years, but by 1888 growing ill will towards them had broken out into open hostility. Those aboard the SS Afghan, Menmuir and Guthrie were detained and deported under harsh new immigration laws hastily rushed through parliament.

The ‘Afghan incident’ was catalysed by the threat of cheap Chinese labour, compounded by prejudices demonising the Chinese and their way of life. It paved the way for the White Australia policy and the exclusion of Asian immigrants for the next 80 years.

Celestial City explores the background to and consequences of this crisis through the stories of Sydney’s Chinese people.

MUSEUM OF SYDNEYMondays to Fridays, Terms 2 & 3 1 hour 30 minutes Maximum 45 students


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This program for students in Stage 3 integrates outcomes from HSIE – Change and Continuity and Environments, and Creative Arts. It also incorporates outcomes and content from The Australian Colonies topic in Stage 3 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10).

Students analyse and compare a range of sources, including 19th-century artworks, to investigate the

threat bushrangers posed to successful goldminers and the technologies used by miners and police to respond to this threat.

The program concludes with a re-enactment of the 1864 trial of NSW bushranger John Vane. Students act out the trial’s historic proceedings, helping them to better understand the actions, perspectives and experiences of different people during the gold rushes.

BAILED UP Life on the Goldfields

JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUMWednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays, all Terms 1 hour 30 minutesMaximum 50 students

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BOOK YOUR EXCURSIONTo make a booking for your school, please telephone the museum or historic house where the program is delivered.

Bookings for A Convict Story (page 22) must be made online via www.dartconnections.org.au

Detailed information about school programs and pricing, risk assessments, pre- and post-visit materials and online resources are available at sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/education

ELIZABETH FARM 70 Alice Street Rosehill NSW T 02 9635 9488

HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM Queens Square, Macquarie Street Sydney NSW T 02 8239 2311

JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM Cnr Phillip & Albert streets Circular Quay, Sydney NSW T 02 8313 5640

MEROOGAL Cnr West & Worrigee streets Nowra NSW T 02 4421 8150

MUSEUM OF SYDNEY Cnr Bridge & Phillip streets Sydney NSW T 02 8313 5640

ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM 356 Annangrove Road Rouse Hill NSW T 02 9627 6777

SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM 58–64 Gloucester Street The Rocks, Sydney NSW T 02 8313 5640

VAUCLUSE HOUSE Wentworth Road Vaucluse NSW T 02 9388 7922

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VISIT OUR MUSEUMS

GOVERNMENT HOUSE 1837THE STATE’S VICE-REGAL HOME

Take a guided tour of the great hall, grand dining room and elegant ballroom of this residence designed in England by the fashionable architect Edward Blore.

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, MACQUARIE STREET, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 9228 4111

HYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUM 1819A WORLD HERITAGE SITE

Experience what life was like for the convicts who built Sydney at this museum housed in Governor Macquarie’s original convict barracks.

QUEENS SQUARE, MACQUARIE STREET SYDNEY, NSW T 02 8239 2311

JUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUM 1856LAW AND ORDER

These historic police buildings once hosted infamous criminals like bushranger Captain Moonlite and sly-grog queen Kate Leigh.

CNR PHILLIP & ALBERT STREETS CIRCULAR QUAY, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 9252 1144

MUSEUM OF SYDNEY 1995ON THE SITE OF FIRST GOVERNMENT HOUSE

Discover the story of our city through history, archaeology and architecture. Enjoy our exhibitions in 2014, including Eat Your History (until 9 March), Suburban Noir (until 6 April), Celestial City (29 March–12 October) and Iconic Australian Houses (12 April–17 August).

CNR BRIDGE & PHILLIP STREETS, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 9251 5988

SUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUM 1844SYDNEY’S WORKING-CLASS HERITAGE

Discover the laundry coppers, backyard toilets, worn linos, tiny kitchens and crowded living quarters when you visit this rare surviving example of a working-class terrace.

58–64 GLOUCESTER STREET THE ROCKS, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 9241 1893

THE MINT 1811/2003MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN A HISTORIC PLACE

The Mint is Sydney’s oldest surviving public building and the location of the Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection, where you can immerse yourself in the history of interiors and gardens in NSW.

10 MACQUARIE ST, SYDNEY, NSW T 02 8239 2288

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Visit sydneylivingmuseums.com.au for full details regarding opening hours and admission prices.

FIND TREASURED SECRETS IN SYDNEY’S SUBURBS

ELIZABETH BAY HOUSE 1835AUSTRALIA’S FINEST INTERIOR

Step inside the Macleay residence, once claimed to be the ‘finest house in the colony’, and be stunned by the breathtaking harbour views, sweeping staircase and domed roof.

7 ONSLOW AVENUE, ELIZABETH BAY, NSW T 02 9356 3022

ROSE SEIDLER HOUSE 1948ICONIC MID-20TH-CENTURY DESIGN

Immerse yourself in this 1950s modernist house designed by architect Harry Seidler, which still boasts its original furniture and interiors.

71 CLISSOLD ROAD, WAHROONGA, NSW T 02 9989 8020

VAUCLUSE HOUSE 1805A COUNTRY HOUSE BY THE HARBOUR

Delight in the ornate interiors of the home of statesman William Charles Wentworth and his wife, Sarah. See the servant’s quarters, including the kitchen, dairy and cellars, and discover our historic kitchen garden.

WENTWORTH ROAD, VAUCLUSE, NSW T 02 9388 7922

LIFE BEYOND THE CITY: ORIGINAL HOMESTEADS AND FARMLAND

ELIZABETH FARM 1793THE MACARTHURS’ DOMAIN

Visit Australia’s oldest surviving homestead, built by pastoralist John Macarthur and his wife, Elizabeth.

70 ALICE STREET, ROSEHILL, NSW T 02 9635 9488

MEROOGAL 1885HOME TO FOUR GENERATIONS OF WOMEN

Gain an insight into the everyday lives of the family of women who lived in this enchanting house in Nowra and tended its charming garden.

CNR WEST & WORRIGEE STREETS NOWRA, NSW T 02 4421 8150

ROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARM 1813UNTOUCHED HISTORY

Crammed with thousands of objects – everything from the earliest colonial treasures to a 1960s television – this house chronicles the changing fortunes of six generations of one family.

356 ANNANGROVE ROAD, ROUSE HILL, NSW T 02 9627 6777

The Historic Houses Trust of NSW, incorporating Sydney Living Museums, cares for significant historic places, buildings, landscapes and collections. It is a statutory authority of, and principally funded by, the New South Wales Government.

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VISIT US AT SYDNEYLIVING MUSEUMS.COM.AUOR TELEPHONE [02] 8239 2288

ELIZABETH BAY HOUSEELIZABETH FARMGOVERNMENT HOUSEHYDE PARK BARRACKS MUSEUMJUSTICE & POLICE MUSEUMMEROOGALMUSEUM OF SYDNEY on the site of first Government HouseROSE SEIDLER HOUSEROUSE HILL HOUSE & FARMSUSANNAH PLACE MUSEUMTHE MINT AND CAROLINE SIMPSON LIBRARY & RESEARCH COLLECTIONVAUCLUSE HOUSE

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STAGES 1, 2 & 3 EXCURSIONS - Sydney Living Museums · from Stage 1 History (NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum History K–10). Students step back in time to the 1920s as