Year 4 News Flash Report

Excursion to NSW State Library and Sydney Museum

This week all the Year 4 classes have taken part in an excursion to both the State Library and Museum of Sydney as part of our history topic on European settlement and the impact on Indigenous cultures. 

At the State Library we were given the opportunity to examine different Aboriginal tools and learnt about how they lived sustainably on the land. We also had great fun either taking part in, or watching, role playing activities recreating events in the 1780s and 90s. 

During our time at The Sydney Museum we looked at the original site of the first European structures, intricate models of the first fleet and played a game that showed us how challenging communication would have been between the Europeans and the Indigenous Aboriginals. We also had the opportunity to examine and research some artefacts and report back our findings to the others in our groups.