On Wednesday 22 th of June we went to Shantytown. We learnt a lot about the olden days and how life was much more tougher than today's world, and all the boys learnt to be polite by waiting for the lady's to go first and tipping our hat to them. We dressed up as people from 1886 and went around the town and looked at all the old buildings. We also went gold panning and most of us found real gold! We all had an amazing time in the class room with the teachers Miss Barber and Miss Meres, from them we learnt about Queen Victoria and the saying, Manners Maketh The Man. We went on a tram and took lots of cool photos of us with props in the old buildings such as an old bar, barber and much much more. Also we went to a saw mill and watched a video of people working back in 1886, I noticed that they weren't wearing any safety equipment, no safety glasses, no hard hats nothing, so people got badly injured a lot and sometimes died and when you hit the age of 12 that's when you would leave school and go work in a saw mill or other stuff. We all learnt a lot and had an amazing experience and would definitely go back again.
Here are the photos:)
Here are the photos:)
Hi Blake
ReplyDeleteYou put up some great photos and gave a good account of what you did. Health and Safety has certainly changed a lot over the years and thankfully not so many people die doing their jobs. Do you think it would have been fun to leave school at 12 and have to go to work to make a living? It is a very young age - like leaving school now for you.
I was interested to read that you liked the classroom part and learning about the history. Sounds like you had a really good day.
Hi I like the picture of room 6 it is very cool from trinity.
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