Excursions for
Primary School
The educational school excursions for Primary children are focused on an exploration of the Quarantine Station site.
Meaning-making for these primary students comes through interaction with the place of the Quarantine Station, exploring the natural and built environment, handling artefacts, following paths of migration on large maps, experiencing past technologies, interacting with primary sources, playing games and hearing stories.
All of Q Station’s school excursion programs have significant links to the NSW and Australian National Curriculum across multiple subject areas, however these are also able to be customised to meet particular needs of the group. Contact the Education Program Manager on 02 9466 1551 or toursdesk@qstation.com.au to discuss school excursion ideas for your class.
Our Education programs can run with a minimum payment to the equivalent of 15 students.
The maximum number of students we can host on one day is 120. If you have a larger group, we can arrange your group to visit across multiple days.
HISTORICAL DETECTIVES
Learning from the past
Why is the Quarantine Station a significant site? Students will love the immersive learning experiences presented, as they learn to hunt for clues in the present to reveal the stories of the past. Visiting our former key operational buildings; hospital, disinfecting showers and autoclaves, will provide opportunities for them to learn about how technology has changed over time to improve our daily lives and to consider why it’s important that we preserve these buildings today.
Addresses outcomes and key enquiry questions related to stage 1 The Past in the Present topic
Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: 20 – 120 students
Price: $20 per student
MINDFUL EXPLORERS
Cultural perspectives within the Quarantine landscape
What evidence can be found and what is missing from the Quarantine landscape story? Using the site itself as a primary source, students will reflect on the nature and consequence of first contact between Aboriginal people and the early European settlers in Sydney Harbour. In doing so, they will gain an empathetic understanding of the differing cultural perspectives of this significant site and its historical human occupation.
Addresses outcomes and key enquiry questions related to stage 2 First Contact topic
Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: 20 – 120 students
Price: $20 per student
SUITCASE STORIES
Migration through Quarantine
Who were the people who came to Australia via the Quarantine Station in the 19th and 20th centuries? Students will discover the migration stories and differing perspectives of some of thousands of people whose lives include time spent at the Quarantine station. Using the site as a primary source we challenge students to learn about the significance of the Quarantine station site and how changes in Australian society were reflected within the quarantine landscape
Addresses outcomes and key enquiry questions related to stage 3 topics of Australian Colonies and Australia as a nation
Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: 20 – 120 students
Price: $20 per student
QUARANTINE STATION UNWRAPPED
Customise your experience!
The Quarantine Station is an evocative place; a rich source of historical significance, geographical splendour and human endeavour. The learning possibilities are endless and are as unique as your students.
A Quarantine Station Unwrapped program can be customised to meet your particular needs or learning goals. Talk to our Tour Reservation team about your requirements; select aspects of our standard programs or activities or envision your own. We have created art or writing retreats, programs using our spaces as photographic or art inspiration, experiences focusing on the contemporary considerations of the site within the tourism and hospitality business or specialised Museum studies or EFL programs. Accommodation is also available for overnight stays.
Capacity: Min. 20 Students
Price: Dependent on itinerary
GHOST BOY
ring Felicity Pulman’s book to life; discuss the representation of characters, settings and events in this imaginative text. Whilst learning about the differences between Tad’s world of the 1880s small pox epidemic and our own. Students will enjoy visiting key locations from the text and will have the opportunity to create their own inscription. Includes activity Making Your Mark.
Themes: Speaking and listening, thinking imaginatively, creatively and interpretively (stage 2 and stage 3), first contacts, the Australian colonies and applying skills of historical inquiry.
Duration: 2 hours
Capacity: 20 – 120 students
Price: $20 per student
