State Library Recount

By Scarlet and Yara in 5LS

“1, 2, 3..” our teacher counted, one by one letting us onto the bus. It was a race to the back seat, with only a few lucky people succeeding. Soon the bus was full and our class shouted with excitement as we drove away, for we knew we would all be having an excellent time at the State Library in the city!

We entered the library and waited a minute or two, until a very nice lady showed up, directing us to a new spot to meet our instructor Andrea. We set off, looking around with amazement at the vast study halls and magnificent artworks, but that wasn’t even the best part! We twisted and turned through the ginormous building, until we reached a very empty hallway with a cupboard and one very large digital artwork. We stowed our valuables away in the cupboard before experiencing some magic. The digital artwork slowly opened, revealing a walkway behind it! Excitedly, we walked inside, whispering to each other of the marvels on the walls. There were hats, maps, a boomerang and many more breathtaking and unbelievable objects put out. But we think you will be surprised when we say there were very rare and genuine photos on the walls and clothes from the times of the gold rush, laid out neatly on tables around the room.

Andrea sat us down and we had a short discussion about the gold rush. She then revealed the true reason we were visiting today: we were going to dress up and pretend to be a character from the 1850’s! We were going to make a short movie. There were some really important steps to get this right, so we had to listen really carefully. We partnered up, selected a costume each and got dressed. Our partner snapped a great picture of us and we edited the photos so they were black and white. 

The final step to bring our characters to life was to think of a script and make our characters “speak” through voice recordings and animations, we saved it so that Andrea could send it back to school for us.

On behalf of year 5 we say thank you to Ms Donohoe for giving us a fun and educational excursion, it is probably the best one we’ve ever been on!