Stage 1
![Students wearing dress up costumes and laughing in the nursery.](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/03/12c47328d3d449049b2aba70a3092c6b.jpg)
Onsite
Child's Play
Students learn about what it was like to live at Vaucluse House for the wealthy family of William Charles and Sarah Wentworth, with their ten children and many servants
![Eat Your History publication photography at Vaucluse House](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/aae50097d13c4c8b9f9cb44d7b13a094.jpg)
Virtual Excursion
Cooking up the past
Discuss how food was grown, stored and cooked in the past, in the 1820s kitchen at historic Vaucluse House
![A student feeds the chickens as part of the Early to Rise program at Rouse Hill Estate](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/03/0bc4d46a7b9342898f10177ce77a70a9.jpg)
Onsite
Early to Rise
This Stage 1 History program gives students the opportunity to explore the working areas of the former farm, and investigate what life would have been like for children living there 120 years ago
![Black and white image of a boy looking out a window](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/zl9du87e/production/be91ff5d46a941eef2cba87f1b6eccee8c4b0e2f-3406x1942.jpg?fit=max&auto=format)
Growing up in the early 1900s
What was life like for ordinary working-class children living in the suburbs or on the fringes of Australian cities in the early 1900s?
![](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/e35800d4677b45a5a54ed7e2f9e52b52.jpg)
Virtual Excursion
Growing up in the past
Discuss what life was like for rural children in the early 1900s and learn about household chores and technology from the past
![Students laying in the hammocks at Hyde Park Barracks on the Home: Convicts, Migrants & First People Learning program](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/02/685ffc1d34b94b2483c8ffadc9280291.jpg)
Onsite
History Adventures at the Barracks
Join us for a one-of-a-kind museum experience, where kids will discover what life was for the convicts at the Hyde Park Barracks!
![Children and adults dressed in period costume holding ribbons attached to pole.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/1ec57c6e70bf46d186fc1a01ec5a15b2.jpg)
Onsite
Lessons from the Past
Integrating outcomes from History, PDHPE and Creative Arts, this program gives students the opportunity to learn firsthand about what school life was like in the late 19th century
![](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/47bd857babc344d6a6c19143c1981677.jpg)
Resource
Life in the past...stinks!
We can’t go back in time, we can still visit the places where people once lived and worked - and do some of their jobs
![Student and carer looking at convict bricks on wheelchair tray. Cayn assisting.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/f6b364574553458fa037a62c42c100e2.jpg)
Onsite
Making Connections accessible program
Onsite program at the Hyde Park Barracks for primary and secondary school students with access requirements