Step back in time with our much-loved School Life of the Past program—now refreshed to support the Department’s HSIE Early Stage 1 Unit 3 and the 2024 Early Stage 1 HSIE syllabus. Through hands-on activities, Kindergarten students discover what school and home life was like long ago. They’ll write on slate boards with slate pencils, […]
In our School Communication in the Past excursion students will touch and use historic objects from the past. By seeing and touching, using and doing, students can experience the benefits and limitations of past technologies. They can feel the challenges of writing with scratchy metal nibs, the laborious process of hand printing and the slowness […]
Our School Communication in the Past program supports the new 2024 Stage 1 HSIE syllabus topic ‘The way people communicate has changed over time’. We’ve kept the favourite activities, re-focused our displays and created some new immersive experiences. Hands on and engaging with historic objects, students write with ink pens and ink, use early printing […]
New Stage 1 program – School Communication in the Past. Immersive and hands-on, students will engage with stories, images, objects and sites spanning the 1870s to 1970s. More detail in Learning experiences and Typical visit. Sample excursion plans coming soon. Bookings for 2025 are being taken.
Dip into our new online resource Objects of School Days Past to examine artefacts created and used in primary schools between 1870 and 1980. We have featured 36 objects and 100 connected objects to tell the story of learning and teaching in NSW primary schools in the past.
The NSW Department of Education published a series of infants readers and work books from the mid 1950s to late 1960s. View a YouTube reading of The Rolling Plum from the 2nd Grade reader, Open Road to Reading. Read Di and Robbie’s memories of the story in their memories of 1960s lessons and subjects.
We’ve really enjoyed working with excited students again, for many, their first excursion. Term 3 is fully booked but there are still some dates available in Term 4. If you missed out on a date, we are taking 2023 bookings. View our calendar. Email us for bookings – info@schoolhousemuseum.org.au
Did you know that NSW school students and teachers were actively involved in fundraising for Belgian orphans, making comfort items for soldiers at the front, tucking hand-written notes into the gifts they packaged and growing vegetables in support of returned soldiers? Find out the contribution of primary children in our digital resource NSW school children […]
What a great first term of student visits! Here’s Glenbrook PS on Facebook and St Therese Lakemba on YouTube
Our new Pre and post visit learning Google site has ready-to-use learning activities to prepare your students for a visit and help follow it up. Learning sets include: Aboriginal Country About the Schoolhouse Museum Photos from the past Objects from the past Oral histories Your story.