HSIE units of work which have impacted on me as a student and have inspired me to study history throughout high school and university.
- British Colonisation of Australia - Year 4 - and our excursion to Old Sydney Town (which closed in 2003). We all dressed up as colonialists and spent the day living the life of 10 year old children in the early 1800's, attending classes and using chalk boards and encouraged to use only our right hand to write. We also witnessed the escape and subsequent capture and flogging of a convict. Some of our classmates even spent time on trial in the old court house and experienced being locked inside the stocks.
- Gold - Year 5 - and our excursion to Hill End
Despite the almost 4 hour drive, our grade arrived in Hill End and shown to where we would spend the night - Hill End Ranch. The girls had quarters in an old sleeper train and the boys were in cabins. We went gold panning and I came home with a small amount of gold!
- State and Federal Government - Year 6 - and our over-night excursion to Canberra
We learnt all about how bills were passed through Parliament, especially when our own classmates took on the roles of speaker and clerk.
- Global Issues: Antarctica - Year 6 - throughout the unit of work, our class created artworks with an Antarctic theme and penned creative stories from the point of view of Scott or Amundsen. Some of these works were included in the school newsletter and I am pleased to say mine was one of them. It was this unit that sparked my passion for writing creative pieces of work.
Old Sydney Town Somersby. (January 13, 2008). Retrieved August 27, 2011 from the Old Sydney Town Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Sydney_Town
All photographs taken by me, or my classmates with myself photographed.
