Kalamunda history village

8.30AM Students arrive at St Brigid’s College

8.40AM School siren

8.40AM -Role call to check that all students are present

-Morning Routine

9.10AM -Students will be briefed on their expectations of the excursion

-Formation of groups

-Organisation of supplies

9.30AM Crunch and Sip

9.45AM Head count on to busses

9.50AM Travel to Kalamunda History Village

10.00AM -Arrive at Kalamunda History Village

-Head count and roll call

-Briefing by Volunteers

-Gather into groups

10.10AM-11.30AM Rotations one, two and three

11.30AM -Head count

-Recess and toilet break

11.50AM-12.50PM Rotations four, five and six

12.50PM -Head count

-Discussion and review of today’s excursion

1.10PM -Toilet break

-Head count

-Walk to Stirk Park

1.20PM -Head count

-Lunch

2.00PM -Roll call at Stirk park

-Board buses and travel back to St Brigid’s College

2.10PM Arrive back at St Brigid’s College and go back to class

Australian Curriculum

Kalamunda history village

Historical Knowledge and Understanding

The history of a significant person, building, site or part of the natural environment in the local community and what it reveals about the past (ACHHK044)

The importance today of an historical site of cultural or spiritual significance; for example, a community building, a landmark, a war memorial (ACHHK045)

The impact of changing technology on people’s lives (at home and in the ways they worked, travelled, communicated, and played in the past) (ACHHK046)

Travel Arrangements

- We will be using the St Brigid's College buses

- A time slot has been booked via the communications book with the Grounds men to drive to and from the College

By GEORGINA MAJKO AND JESSIE LIST

Cost: $6.60

- This cost is covered by the College fee by parents at the commencement of each academic year

- Cost for parents - $10 each which is usually covered by the College

- The buses are owned by the school so there is no cost for travel

- St Brigid's College: 200 Lesmurdie Rd, Lesmurdie WA 6076

- Year Two

- In Term 4 History the Year 2 students have been looking at the history of a significant person, building and sites in the local community and examining what is reveals about the past. (ACHHK044)

Why did we choose Kalamunda History Village?

•POST ACTIVITIES

- Create a poster promoting the Kalamunda History Village and why it is important to our community (ACHHK045) (ACHHS054)

• - Write a retell describing your experience and time at the Kalamunda History Village. (ACHHK044) (ACHHS047) (ACHHS048) (ACHHS053) (ACHHS054)

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- Draw and label a bird’s eye view diagram of what your house looks like now compared to the Settler’s Cottage at the History Village. (ACHHK044) (ACHHK046) (ACHHS048) (ACHHS051)

• - Complete a journal entry from the perspective of a Kalamunda child from the early settlers of what a day of school was like in the past. (ACHHK044) (ACHHK046) (ACHHS047) (ACHHS048) (ACHHS052) (ACHHS054)

• - Identify and classify different home objects in to past and present (ACHHK046) (ACHHS047) (ACHHS048) (ACHHS049) (ACHHS050) (ACHHS051)

• - The class will go on a walk around the college and investigate certain buildings and consider whether they were built in the past or the present (ACHHK045) (ACHHS048) (ACHHS049) (ACHHS051)

Kalamunda History Village is a stimulating hands on experience that provides many wonderful and engaging programs for all primary years. It is a place that has preserved the history of the early settlers of Kalamunda and shows children what life was like in the past in their local community.

- Students will be dressed in their green and gold college sports uniform (shorts and shirt with bucket hat)

- Students will need to arrive at school by the first school bell (8.40AM). We will be leaving at 9.50AM and arriving back at school at 2.10PM

-Parents will be advised to put their child's lunch and recess in

separate bags with their child's name clearly labeled. Drink bottles also need to be clearly labeled

- Teachers: Georgina Majko and Jessie List

- 10 parent helpers ( 1 parent to 5 students )

- Duty changes have been made

- Medical equipment has been acquired

We will be completing the program Pioneer Life. Students will be divided into smaller groups and will have a guide who will give the students an inside to early hills life. Students will move around the Village to six stations.

- School

- Station

- Settler’s Cottage

- Laundry Day

- Carriage Shed

- Orchard Shed & Other Buildings

PRE ACTIVITIES

• - Students will write a letter to a relative about how their day is at school. Students are to pose questions to their relatives about what their school days were like. (These letters will be sent at the Post Office at the Kalamunda History Village). (ACHHK044) (ACHHS048) (ACHHS052) (ACHHS054)

- At the beginning of each lesson, look at the profile and photographs of different early settlers of Kalamunda and what their role was in society. The profiles will be added to a display in the classroom. (ACHHK044) (ACHHK046) (ACHHS049) (ACHHS050) (ACHHS052) (ACHHS054)

- Each student will get an early settler from Kalamunda and write a story in the perspective of the early settler’s day. (ACHHK044) (ACHHK046) (ACHHS047) (ACHHS048) (ACHHS052)

• (ACHHS053) (ACHHS054)

• - Play games from the past (i.e. elastics) and write step by step instructions. (ACHHK046) (ACHHS054)

•- Students will formulate their own questions based on home life, travel, chores and day to day activities in the past and interview a relative. (ACHHK046) (ACHHS049) (ACHHS054)

•- Write a report about the differences and similarities that were found in the viewing of photographs of Kalamunda from the past and present from the book ‘Kalamunda Then and Now’ Presented by Kalamunda and Districts Historical Society. (ACHHK044) (ACHHK045) (ACHHK046) (ACHHS048) (ACHHS049) (ACHHS050) (ACHHS054)