Early State 1 and Stage 1 & 2
Creative Arts – Drama PDHPE – Games English – Listen and Speaking
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Pirate School
Learn how to become a pirate at Pirate School! Students can learn to row a boat, tie knots and pump air to an underwater diver. Students will also hunt for buried treasure and learn how to laugh like a proper pirate
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Stage 1
HSIE - Social Systems and Structures
Science and Technology - Getting About, Lets Communicate
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Content
Students will learn how boats, sailing ships, steam ships and bulk cargo carriers are important to transport now and 100 years ago.
We can also organise a harbour cruise at an extra charge. The harbour cruise will show the students how coal and general cargo are loaded onto the ships by getting really close!
Communication is taught through Morse code and semaphore interactive exhibits
Stage 2
Science and Technology – Out and About, Simple Machines
HSIE – Change and Continuity, Significant Events and people, Relationships with places, Cultures and Identity
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Learn about the navigators who found their way to colonise Australia, how did they find their way to Newcastle? And why did they stay here?
We look at the ways that technology changed how the harbour operates from horse drawn carriages, to railways to hydraulic cranes. Students can also search for the machines in the museum.
Shipwrecks also played a major part in shaping Newcastle’s history. Learn how brave men from the lifeboat Victoria saved many lives.
Stage 3
Science and Technology – On the move, Way out Communication, What’s the Weather
HSIE – Change and continuity, Global connections
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Content
Students will learn how the maritime industry began as the first ever export from Australia in 18??? . From that time ships were used as the main form of transport for the new colony and without coal the early Australian colony may not have survived.
Shipwrecks also played a major part in shaping Newcastle’s history. Learn how brave men from the lifeboat Victoria saved many lives. How did the weather affect the shipping and transport industry
Communication is taught through Morse code and semaphore interactive exhibits.
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