Week 2 - History

In History we began looking at some artefacts from the past.

  Niamh brought in an old atlas to show us.


We examined an old pencil case and ruler from Mrs Mowen which were about 40 years old. 

The children really enjoy touching and feeling the objects.  Many of the old things are a bit smelly, we thought.


Children told stories about brutal punishments from teachers in the olden days. 


We have been reading a big book about the history of school. 


 Two children interviewed Mrs Brown to find out about how she travelled to school.  She went to a very small country school.  Mrs Brown and her two friends rode their horses to school and put them in a paddock next to the school while they did their lessons.  


Mrs Graham lent us some ink well and pens from 100 years ago and we discussed how one student took the large pottery urn around and filled the ink well in the childrens' desks for them to dip their pens into to write.  We also saw a pen from about 50 years ago that drew up the ink from ink bottles for students to use.  The newer pen is a reproduction of the original.

 On AZNAC Day in the past, the school children went to their local war memorial to remember the fallen soldiers.

Classrooms had blackboards that the teacher wrote on in chalk instead of whiteboards or electronic boards like us.

Mrs Hammond's sisters came to St Ita's in 1960 and this is what their uniforms looked like.

Ella brought in an old watch and some very old photos.

We still have some treasures to discuss and examine.  Thank you to all the families and staff who have willingly lent us their artefacts.