RELATIONSHIPS EXHIBITIONYEAR 3 TEACHER RESOURCE

CHILDREN & PLAY

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RELATIONSHIPS EXHIBITION

YEAR 3

TEACHER RESOURCE

CHILDREN & PLAY

Published by SSJG Heritage Centre Broome

9 Barker St, Broome, Western Australia

© SSJG Heritage Centre Broome 2015

ISBN: 978-0-9944448-0-6

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Contents

INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................................. 2

THE SISTERS OF ST JOHN OF GOD ............................................................................................................................ 2 THE RELATIONSHIPS EXHIBITION .............................................................................................................................. 2 THE OLD CONVENT ................................................................................................................................................. 2 A PLACE TO VISIT ..................................................................................................................................................... 2

PROGRAM OUTLINE ........................................................................................................................................... 3

CHILDREN AND PLAY - INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................................... 4

LEARNING ACTIVITIES ........................................................................................................................................ 5

PRE AND POST-VISIT ACTIVITIES - CURRICULUM LINKS .............................................................................................. 5 PRE-VISIT ACTIVITY 1: MEMORY MAKING ............................................................................................................... 6 PRE-VISIT ACTIVITY 2: TOYS AND CHILDHOOD GAMES .............................................................................................. 7 PRE-VISIT ACTIVITY 3: WHAT IS A CURATOR? ........................................................................................................... 9 ONSITE ACTIVITIES - CURRICULUM LINKS ................................................................................................................ 10 POST-VISIT ACTIVITY 1: CLOTHING AND ‘SUNDAY BEST’ ......................................................................................... 11 POST-VISIT ACTIVITY 2: FOOD AND CELEBRATION ................................................................................................... 12 POST-VISIT ACTIVITY 3: QUEEN ELIZABETH’S VISIT................................................................................................. 13

LEARNING THEMES .......................................................................................................................................... 14

BACKGROUND NOTES ..................................................................................................................................... 15

KEY DATES............................................................................................................................................................. 15 WORD BANK ....................................................................................................................................................... 16

RESOURCES ..................................................................................................................................................... 17

A MEMORABLE FAMILY EVENT ............................................................................................................................... 17 SHARING CHILDHOOD MEMORIES ......................................................................................................................... 18 THEN AND NOW .................................................................................................................................................... 19 MENU TEMPLATE .................................................................................................................................................. 20

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INTRODUCTION

The Sisters of St John of God The Sisters of St John of God were founded in Ireland in 1871 and are an apostolic religious congregation of women. In 1907 nine Sisters arrived in Beagle Bay Mission, lead by Sr Antonio O’Brien, to minister to Aboriginal women and children. They responded to whatever works needed to be done and so commenced teaching, nursing, training of the older girls and a wide range of domestic duties. Over the next hundred years the Sisters work brought them into contact with peoples from all over the Kimberley, with Broome being the main centre for outreach.

The Relationships Exhibition In 2007 the Sisters of St John of God set up the Relationships Exhibition in response to requests from locals for a place where people could access historical photos held in the archive repository. Originally meant as a temporary exhibition it is now permanent and opens six days a week, nine months of the year. This access is only possible through the generosity of volunteers. The Exhibition is an ongoing storytelling place where people interact with the story, expand and enrich it through their contributions.

The Old Convent The Relationships Exhibition is located in the Old Convent, a State Heritage listed 1926 building, on the corner of Barker and Weld Streets in Broome. Old Convent is the name commonly used by locals for the building and grounds which carry memories for generations of Kimberley families. This stands near the site of the first hut where the Sisters of St John of God came to live in 1908. Over the last hundred years this site has become almost sacred through the secrets and stories associated with it. Today the building and grounds are well preserved and once again play a community role under the banner of the SSJG Heritage Centre. All are welcome to come and share the stories of the past. The building is not perfect and neither was the past. People did suffer, were dislocated from families and were controlled by the government forces of the day.

A place to visit Visitors to the Relationships Exhibition, are encouraged to visit the Garden of Healing where people can sit and enjoy the garden environment as well as viewing the grotto, the 1908 foundation site and several other heritage items with interpretative signs.

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Program outline The education kit provides a unit of work, linked to the year 3 Australian Curriculum - History, and incorporates the cross-curriculum priorities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures and Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia. These teacher notes provide background information and introduce educational themes to explore. To maximise the Exhibition experience there are three pre-visit activities to complete before the visit, which help familiarise students with content and terminology and promote their own line of inquiry. The visit to the Relationships Exhibition is designed to be self-directed and students will need their own printed copy of the student booklet and a pencil. Students are provided with a range of tasks to support their active exploration, including a gallery-wide object search. The size of many of the galleries requires that class groups be sub-divided into three or four work groups each with an adult leader. Groups can then be rotated around the Exhibition at set intervals. To further assist the teacher a sheltered verandah area on the archive side of the Old Convent can be prior set up with folding tables and containers of educational materials that will duplicate or extend the particular grade theme. The education kit is flexible and can be adapted to suit the particular needs of your class. Teachers can choose how many of the activities to complete depending on time spent at the Exhibition, the ability and needs of students as well as your class and school’s curriculum focus. The teacher notes also provide three post-visit activities to enhance the learning at the Exhibition and to provide reflection whilst completing the unit of work back in the classroom. The Relationships Exhibition covers a period of history that some may find confronting; its intention is to be respectful and sensitive. Please be advised that these materials contain culturally sensitive material including images of persons who may be deceased.

Teacher notes

Student booklet

Dolly Pegs (onsite)

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Children and play - introduction The Year 3 unit of work - Children and Play introduces and welcomes students to an exhibition and the objects found inside a gallery. It also introduces historical skills through the use of primary sources and by examining the role of memory and the role of a curator. Students will investigate the Holy Child Orphanage Gallery and consider the lives of the Mission children through food, clothes, recreation and celebration. The aim is for students to become aware of what life was like for children in the past through daily life and by interweaving personal memories, shared memories and our national memory of this time period. Ideally, the three pre-visit activities would be completed before the visit to introduce how we remember the past and how objects bring memory to life. Once at the Heritage Centre, students are guided through a gallery experience as they enter the Relationships Exhibition and connect with children who grew up in a world that existed long before they were born. To complete the unit, there are three post-visit activities including a now and then fashion parade, writing an historical narrative and recreating a celebration feast! Students will investigate:

what life was like for children in the past

how objects, photos and memories help us remember the past

why we remember and celebrate our history

what a curator is. Important words for this unit:

children memory Sister

celebration orphanage Aboriginal

objects history curator

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Learning activities

Pre and post-visit activities - curriculum links

Activity Themes Curriculum

links Relationships Education Isolation

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1. Memory Making ACHHS069

2. Toys and childhood games

ACHHS067

ACHHS215

3. What is a curator?

ACHHS215

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1. Clothing and Sunday best

ACHHK062

2. Food and celebration

ACHHK064

3. Queen Elizabeth’s visit

ACHHS070

Note: Click on the hyperlinks for more detailed information on the Australian Curriculum website.

Look out for the following symbols:

Pre-visit

Student booklet (onsite)

Post-visit

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Pre-visit activity 1: Memory making Aim To investigate memory and how it shapes our view of the past. Resources

1. Broken telephone – drama-in-ecce.com (website)

2. A memorable family event (Resources)

Curriculum outcomes ACHHS069 Identify different points of view

Introduction The Relationships Exhibition began as a collection of photographs that triggered and provoked memories of childhood and local history. But how does memory affect our view of the past? Learning activity

1. As a class, play a few rounds of the playground game ‘Broken Telephone’.

Discuss what happened. Was it what you expected? Why/why not?

2. In every family, there are key stories that get told over and over again. Maybe it was a first word, grandma singing karaoke or a spectacular fall.

Direct students to choose a memorable family celebration or event and, on a piece of paper that is folded into thirds, record their version of it on the first third.

At home, students find out another person’s memory of the same event and record it in the second third.

Did the other family member have the same memory of the experience? Students record the things that were the same or different on the last third of the paper.

3. As a class, discuss what happens when we are presented with only one version of an event.

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Pre-visit activity 2: Toys and childhood games Aim To show how games and toys can be used to help find out what life was like for children in the past. Resources

1. Sharing childhood memories (Resources)

2. Word bank (Background Notes)

3. Kids having fun & Complete the picture (Student booklet) 4. Word find (Student booklet)

Curriculum outcomes

ACHHS067 ACHHS215

Pose a range of questions about the past Identify sources

Introduction Parents in Broome during the 1940s and 1950s were anxious to make sure their children were fed, clothed and had a safe place to sleep. It was wartime and life was difficult, so many children were sent to mission schools and orphanages where their basic needs could be met. Even though there was very little money, children found ways to play and make toys. Learning activity

1. As a class, read the article ‘Sharing Childhood Memories’ about Margie Deegan’s memory of

dolly pegs. The text could be enlarged on an interactive whiteboard, overhead projector or

as an A3 photocopy.

Ask literal questions such as:

o Where did Margie live when she was a little girl?

o What materials were used to make dolly pegs?

o What other toys did Margie play with?

o Why was Margie initially reluctant to be a guest presenter at the Heritage

Centre?

o Why did Margie finally agree to speak at the Heritage Centre?

Ask inferential questions such as: o Why were these dolly pegs a ‘source of comfort’ for Margie and her friends?

o How did Margie feel after she finished speaking at the Heritage Centre sessions?

Ask evaluative questions such as: o Do you treasure a particular toy, just as Margie did? Why?

o Why did the Heritage Centre ask Margie to share her memories of the dolly

pegs?

2. Make connections between information in print and images through the following

questions/activities:

Circle the objects (artefacts) used in the Relationships Exhibition

Why is Margie wearing gloves?

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Why is there a microphone in the picture?

3. Identify primary and secondary sources of information by:

choosing a colour to highlight or underline Margie’s oral history which gives primary

information (material that provides a first-hand account of events from someone who

was there at the time)

choosing a different colour to highlight or underline the information in the article that

provides secondary information (material that provides a second-hand account of an

event)

discussing the difference between these two sources of information.

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Pre-visit activity 3: What is a curator? Aim To find out what a curator is and the kind of work they do in an exhibition. Resources

1. Hairstyles (Student booklet)

Curriculum outcomes ACHHS215 Identify sources

Introduction Curator is taken from the Latin word ‘curare’, which means ‘take care’. Curators research, collect, document and display objects in a gallery or exhibition. Learning activity

1. Introduce the word curator to your class including its definition and examples of places they

would typically work.

2. As a class or in groups, ask students to write a job description for a curator including key skills needed to work in an exhibition (e.g. careful, curious).

Connection with your visit Ask students to look at the rag curls displayed in the Holy Child Gallery and ask why they think the curator chose to display the rag curls hairstyle? Why are objects useful to connect people to the past?

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Onsite activities - curriculum links

Activity Themes Curriculum

links Relationships Education Isolation

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3. Celebrations

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4. Photo search

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5. Shadow search

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6. Holy Child Orphanage model

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7. Food

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8. Hairstyles

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9. Kids having fun!

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10. Making Dolly Pegs A hands-on activity recreating the toys children made in the past.

ACHHS071

The onsite activities aim to bring alive some of the experiences of children in the past through a playful education trail. Successful completion of the trail results in the materials to make ‘dolly pegs’.

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Post-visit activity 1: Clothing and ‘Sunday Best’ Aim To compare and contrast ‘Sunday Best’ outfits with dressing for a special event today. Resources

1. Then and now (Resources)

2. Clothing (Student booklet)

Curriculum outcomes ACHHK062 The role that people of diverse backgrounds have played in

the development and character of the local community Introduction Clothing is often the biggest clue to how we have changed over time. Fashion is constantly changing to reflect how we live and what we like and value. Through it we see how our community has changed, what features have been lost and what has stayed the same. Learning activity

1. Write a class list of the types of clothing children wore in the Relationships Exhibition.

2. Compare this to the clothes children wear today.

3. Use the ‘Then and Now’ resource page to represent the change in clothing. The ‘Now’ outfit could be presented in many different ways- drawn or sketched, using magazine cut-outs, photos or online images.

4. Once you have created your ‘Then and Now’ designs bring them to life using dress ups, things from home or a toilet paper challenge and have a class fashion parade!

“The orphanage received charity clothing boxes from all over Australia, full of cardigans, dresses and blouses. If something fitted, you could take your pick. We all wore sandals to school and church, but my very best shoes were shiny black, patent leather. My hair was kept short because of my curls, but the other girls tied their long, straight hair back with a ribbon, or wore it in a bun or plaits.” Once in Broome (Sally Bin Demin)

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Post-visit activity 2: Food and celebration Aim Identify and recreate a ‘celebration feast’ that children from the Orphanage would have enjoyed in the past. Resources

1. Menu template (Resources)

2. Kimberley occasions, Celebrations and Food (Student booklet)

Curriculum outcomes ACHHK064 Celebrations and commemorations in other places around

the world; for example, Bastille Day in France, Independence Day in the USA, and those that are observed in Australia such as Chinese New Year, Christmas Day, Diwali, Easter, Hanukkah, the Moon Festival and Ramadan

Introduction The Sisters ensured that children did not miss out on celebrations. They participated in St Patrick’s Day, religious celebrations including Saints’ Days and First Holy Communion breakfasts or more simply, a Sunday beach picnic. Learning activities

1. Choose a celebration that may have been commemorated with a feast by the Orphanage children in the past. Discuss: Which culture would have celebrated this feast? What is its significance? Why is it marked by a special feast day?

For example:

St Patrick’s Day

Shinju Matsuri

Man-gala

Easter Sunday

School feast days

2. Students write a list of the special food the children would have shared with their friends on that day.

3. Students design a menu that may have been handed out at this special celebration (see template).

4. Students draw all their dishes and illustrate how they imagine their feast would have looked.

5. Plan a class celebration where students bring their celebration feasts to life!

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Post-visit activity 3: Queen Elizabeth’s visit Aim Write a narrative from the point of view of a child from the Orphanage when Queen Elizabeth visited Broome in 1963. Resources

1. Queen Elizabeth II visit to Broome 1963 - abc.net.au (website audio)

Curriculum outcomes ACHHS070 Develop texts, particularly narratives

Introduction In 1963 Queen Elizabeth II visited Broome and many children in town went to wave as she drove past. Using all of the information you have gained so far about children’s lives in this time period, write a narrative based on a Broome child’s memory of this historical event. Learning activities

1. Source images of Queen Elizabeth’s 1963 visit to Broome on the internet. Discuss as a class.

2. Listen to the audio of a Broome local’s recollections of the day. Discuss as a class.

3. Create a word bank of relevant vocabulary to capture a sense of the Queen’s visit.

Vocabulary could be categorised using the senses as a guide:

Sounded like

Looked like

Felt like

Tasted like

Smelled like

4. Role play what it must have been like as a young child in Broome in 1963 preparing for the

Queen’s visit. Capture the morning’s preparations and sense of anticipation: get dressed in

your best clothes, style your hair, prepare a special feast for friends and family, make flags to

wave, wait in the crowd for a glimpse of the Queen and so on.

5. Create a whole class narrative plan or scaffold about a memory from the day of the Queen’s

visit. Include an orientation, complication and resolution that draws upon the historical

information discussed in previous activities. You may like to storyboard this plan to assist in

sequencing the ideas.

6. Students use the whole-class plan as a stimulus to write individual narratives. These can be

presented in a variety of ways. Examples include:

a diary entry

a postcard or letter

a newspaper article.

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Learning themes The education kit is designed around three major learning themes that encapsulate the history embedded in the Relationships Exhibition and links it to the Australian Curriculum. The themes are:

Relationships Education Isolation

Learning themes are located separately on the Primary REEP web page. The reading material is intended as background information for teachers to support student questions and was adapted from a number of sources including Pat Jacobs’ Living on the Kimberley Pearling Coast: Sisters of Saint John of God in the Early Twentieth Century, SSJG Heritage Centre Broome, 2014. The following key inquiry questions have been taken from The Australian Curriculum as a basis for planning a unit of work: Year 3: Community and Remembrance The Year 3 curriculum provides a study of identity and diversity in both a local and broader context. Students explore the historical features and diversity of their community as represented in symbols and emblems of significance, and celebrations and commemorations, both locally and in other places in the world. Key inquiry questions:

Who lived here first and how do we know?

How has our community changed? What features have been lost and what features have

been retained?

What is the nature of the contribution made by different groups and individuals in the

community?

How and why do people choose to remember significant events of the past?

For more information on history curriculums see:

WA Curriculum - SCSA

Australian Curriculum - ACARA

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Background Notes

Key dates

1871 The Sisters of St John of God form in Wexford, Ireland

1907 Beagle Bay - Founding Sisters arrive at Beagle Bay Mission from Fremantle

1907 Beagle Bay Mission – nursing, teaching, training, dormitories, general domestic work and pastoral work.

1908 Sisters Antonio O’Brien and Benedict Courtney arrive in Broome, St Mary’s School opens, home nursing and pastoral

1913 Broome - Sisters nurse at District Hospital

1910 Broome - Sisters nurse at Japanese Hospital

1912 Broome – first St Mary’s School building completed

1913 Lombadina Mission – nursing, teaching, training, dormitories, domestic and pastoral work

1914-18 World War I

1937 Derby – nursing, education, pastoral at the Leprosarium now known as Bungarun

1939-45 World War II

1939 Broome - Holy Child Orphanage

1942-45 Broome Sisters and children in their care evacuated to Beagle Bay because of war

1952 Derby – Native Hospital

1954 Derby – Holy Rosary School

1956 Balgo Old Mission

1963 Broome - Queen Elizabeth II visits

2007 Broome - Sisters of Saint John of God assemble the Relationships Exhibition in the Old Convent

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Word bank Aboriginal: existing in a land from the earliest times or from before the arrival of colonists; indigenous. Celebration: to do something special or enjoyable for an important event, occasion or holiday. Children: who are Aboriginal or ‘half-caste’ and under 16 years of age are under the legal care of the Chief Protector in Western Australia from 1905. History: the study of past events. Memory: something remembered from the past. Mission: a term loosely used to refer to reserves, government stations and Christian institutions where Aboriginal peoples were placed. Many of the missions were established and run by missionaries. Mixed race: people whose parents or ancestors are from different ethnic backgrounds. Children with Caucasian, Aboriginal and Asian heritage were previously called half-caste; this term is now considered offensive. Multiculturalism: encourages all Australians to maintain their customs and traditions while respecting those of others. Oral history: collects and records memories and stories of historical significance through recorded interviews. Orphanage: a place where children whose parents have died or who are unable to care for them can live and be cared for. Primary source: material that provides a first-hand account of an event. Religious habit: a special set of clothes worn by members of a religious order. Secondary source: material that provides a second-hand account of an event. Sister: a woman who has taken vows and belongs to a religious order is called a nun and addressed as ‘Sister’. Terra nullius: a Latin term meaning ‘not inhabited’ or ‘empty land’.

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Resources

A memorable family event

Event title:

My memory of this event:

____________________’s memory of this event:

These memories were the same:

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These memories were different:

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Sharing Childhood Memories

Find this story and others in the SSJG Heritage Centre Newsletters http://heritage.ssjg.org.au/Newsletters.aspx

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Then and now

Then

Now

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Menu template