Explore – National Trust

Home Hill School Tours

tas

Our tailored guided tour shares the incredible stories of Home Hill with students. Home Hill, the family home of Joseph Lyons, Dame Enid Lyons and their 12 children, is Devonport’s only ‘house museum’. It presents a learning environment for all ages and has direct links to the National History Curriculum. Joseph

Then and Now: The Past in Your Class

vic

Students will take part in a 50 minute program in their own classroom that explores what school was like for Melbourne students during the 1880s.

The Old City Watch House

vic

Students actively explore this confronting place and its people from a number of different perspectives through role-play, multi-media interpretation and self-exploration.

Rippon Lea Education Programs

vic

This program examines the past through family history, childrenís life, schooling and domestic work. It includes toys, games, sports, period clothes and exploration activities.

Polly Woodside Education Programs

vic

Step lively aboard a real 19th century tall ship and into the lives of the sailors who lived and worked aboard.

Heritage at your Touch

vic

Take your students on a virtual tour of a real colonial house and meet the people who lived there and examine their things!

Former Magistrate’s Court Education Programs

vic

This significant heritage building offers students an engaging and revealing insight into past and contemporary legal process.

The Past in the Present and the Present in the Past: From the Paddock to the Plate

nsw

Step back in time to the world of a pastoral property dating from the 1830s.

Tales of a Colonial Settlement

nsw

This includes and builds on the story of James and Mary and their home to set them in the context of the developing Berrima Village between 1830 and 1860.

School Tours at Hobart Penitentiary Chapel

tas

Exclusive one hour guided tours are available for students from Grade 3 – 12. The features of a tour of the site of the Hobart Convict Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site include: Stories from the site of the Penitentiary as it was in 1821 before being demolished The Penitentiary Chapel, construction

Runnymede School Tours

tas

This one hour guided tour helps students learn about the social and cultural traditions of the 19th century, the role of servants, and the workings of a self-sufficient estate. A teacher’s pre-visit kit is also available. Cost: $5 per student (teachers free of charge) Group Size: Maximum 30 students Bookings:

Royal Bull’s Head Inn – Year 5

qld

Through the context of the Royal Bull's Head Inn, Drayton, and some of the personalities connected with it, students will learn about what life was like for different groups of people in the colonial period.

Royal Bull’s Head Inn – Year 2

qld

Through the context of the Royal Bull's Head Inn, Drayton and some of the personalities connected with it, students will explore, recognise and appreciate the history of their local area by examining the remains of the past and considering why they should be preserved.