Excursion to Tailem Town

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Our current unit of inquiry is called ‘History through artefacts.’  We are investigating how objects have changed over time and how this impacts our lives.

Today, we travelled by bus to an old pioneer village called Old Tailem Town to look how people lived in the past (olden days). We walked all around the village and looked closely at the houses, rooms, tools, old vehicles like cars, trucks, farm machinery, carts and all of the different businesses you have in a pioneer town, like a bakery, church, town hall, old cinema, car garage, dentist, hospital, news agents, train station, green grocers, butcher and many many more!

We got a really good understanding of how people lived in the “olden days” and how tough their lives were compared to ours now. It was very interesting to see all of the different objects and materials they used or owned. We’re looking forward to using our new understandings back at school for different activities.

A highlight of the day was our ‘school lesson’ with Mr Squires. Our classes had to line up in 2 lines for an outside assembly. Then we were inspected by teachers to make sure the laces were tied on our shoes and our hands were clean. We sang God Save the Queen and then marched into the classroom. We sat at our old school desks as Mr Squires explained how school worked in the past – with ink wells, the cane, special school bags or satchels, slates to write on and Primmers to read.

We’d like to say a big ‘thank you’ to our parent helpers – Julie, Tracy and Chelsea. It was great to have you helping us during the day.

Well done to the people who dressed up to fit in with our ‘olden days’ topic – you all looked great.

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15 thoughts on “Excursion to Tailem Town

    • Hi Kyah and Sharon – it was a great day! We had a wonderful time wandering around and looking at lots of different things.
      Great to see you on our blog.
      From Miss Sporn

  1. Thanks for the great outing you are the best teacher. From Bryce

    Looks like it was a exciting day! Thanks to Lisa and the mums that assisted! Heidi

  2. Thanks for sharing your excursion to Old Tailem Town. I especially like the black and white photograph. I enjoyed visiting your room after the excursion and hearing about the activities you did. I wonder what schools will look like in 100 years into the future. Will we still have schools?
    Regards, Mr Luke.

  3. hi everyone

    hope you enjoyed seeing all the old fashion things. our year 2 class went there a few years ago too and had a lot of fun. you must have had fun too!!!!!!!!!

  4. I remember when I went there.

    We had a blast. There were so much to see. Where to start first? I wonder if there is anything new.

    Did you have as much fun as we did?

    • Hi Erin,
      Thanks for your letter.
      We had soooooo much fun in Tailem Town – the children were very busy running form one place to another. There was nothing new there but lots of things looked a LOT older!
      From Miss Sporn

  5. I remember when I was in year 2 I got to go to old Tailem town it was very fun.

    I was very exited to go.

    I hope you enjoyed the trip?

    when I was there people said that there was a ghost in the church which scared me a lot.:)

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