12 Jun 2018
Stage 1 are very excited about journeying back to the past as they explore Rouse Hill House and Farm next Monday 18 June 2018.
The students will be given the opportunity to learn first-hand about what school life was like in the late 19th century.
They will dress in period costume – straw hats, plus cotton pinafores for the girls and sailor collars or coats for the boys – they will then meet their school mistress or master to begin the school day. Once in the classroom they will take part in late 19th-century classroom activities including practising writing on slates, completing a science lesson, a sewing lesson, and a drawing lesson as well as an outdoor physical education dance and drill. The students will make vivid comparisons between schooling then and now.
The students will also explore the working areas of the former farm and investigate what life would have been like for children living there in the late 1800s.
As chores would have been part of daily life for children living on the farm in the late 1800s, the students will visit the old milking shed and explore the beautiful stables and they will have the chance to experience some of these for themselves; feeding the chooks, hanging out the washing and pumping water.
Stage 1 can’t wait to visit Rouse Hill House and Farm. Please return notes and make final payments by Thursday 14 June 2018.