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Tag: Homeschool Specials

Events open to Homeschool students only

Put Yourself in the Picture

Sign up for a fun-filled, curriculum-based program live from your National Portrait Gallery! 

IMAGE: Self portrait, 2004 Peter Russell-Clarke. © Peter Russell-Clarke #NPGDART Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Put Yourself in the Picture Our Visual Art program for Stage 2 and Stage 3 allows students to investigate, interpret and explore the meaning of portraits. They’ll look at aspects of biography, identity, and culture; discover different styles, mediums and movements; and learn through discussion, activity and drawing. 

Key curriculum links: 

Explore ideas and practices used by artists, including practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions [ACAVAM114] 
Explain how visual arts conventions communicate meaning by comparing artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks [ACAVAR117] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Creative Arts Visual Arts Appreciating Creative Arts Visual Arts Making Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials One-off Events STEM/STEAM

Portraits Tell Stories

IMAGE: The Great South Sea Caterpillar Transformed into a Bath Butterfly (Sir Joseph Banks), 1795 (printed 1851) by James Gillray #NPGDART Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Portraits Tell Stories From Dreaming stories to decimal changeover, the Endeavour to Yothu Yindi, Australian history is full of fascinating tales – and we have the portraits to prove it. 

History | Year 3 – Year 6 

This interactive session for Stage 2 and 3 students uses portraiture to provide opportunities for learners to develop and deepen their understanding of Australian history. Evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives and empathy will be used as tools to investigate portraits in our collection within their historical context. 

Key curriculum links: 

Experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, migrants, women and children [ACHASSK135] 
Stories of groups of people who migrated to Australia since Federation (including from ONE country of the Asia region) and reasons they migrated [ACHASSK136] 
The contribution of individuals and groups to the development of Australian society since Federation [ACHASSK137] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HSIE History Select Sub Strand Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials One-off Events STEM/STEAM

Solve It Using Sources: Homeschool Session

Based at the Hyde Park Barracks and Susannah Place in Sydney’s Rocks area, and explores the archaeology of both sites and other primary sources. Year 6 – S3 Year 7 – S4 Year 8 – S4 Solve It Using Sources: Homeschool Session Home-schooled students
Special sessions are reserved for home-schooled students in 2024:

Cost: $10 per student per session.

Minimum of six students required for each session.

Curriculum links

Skills – Analysis and Use of Sources

Stage 3 History
HT3-3 Applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication

Stage 4 History
The Ancient World Depth Study 1: Investigating the Ancient Past

Key inquiry question: How do we know about the ancient past?

HT4-1 Describes the nature of history and archaeology and explains their contribution to an understanding of the past
HT4-5 Identifies the meaning, purpose and context of historical sources
HT4-6 Uses evidence from sources to support historical narratives and explanations Museums of History NSW (Sydney Living Museums) Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Secondary HT3-3, HT4-1, HT4-5, HT4-6 HSIE History Australian History: Colonials and National (Stage 3 – Year 5 and 6) HSIE Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Homeschool Specials

P is for Portrait

Sign up for a fun-filled, curriculum-based program live from your National Portrait Gallery!  

IMAGE: Adut Akech, 2018 (printed 2020) by Charles Dennington © Charles Dennington #NPGDART Kinder – ES1 Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 P is for Portrait Our Visual Art program for Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 allows students to explore the concept of and ideas surrounding portraiture. They’ll have the chance to experiment with different materials and techniques, respond to and learn from contemporary and historic portraits, and consider why people make art in the first place! 

Key curriculum links: 

Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists [ACAVAM106] 
Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks [ACAVAM107] 
Respond to visual artworks and consider where and why people make visual artworks, starting with visual artworks from Australia, including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples [ACAVAM109] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Creative Arts Visual Arts Appreciating Creative Arts Visual Arts Making Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials One-off Events STEM/STEAM

Cooking up the Past: Homeschool special session

Explore how food was grown, stored and cooked in the past, in the 1820s kitchen at historic Vaucluse House. Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 Cooking up the Past: Homeschool special session Students are introduced to the Wentworth family and their ten children. They think about how the way we grow, store, prepare and eat our food today is similar or different to the way this was done in the past. They will see what’s growing the kitchen garden; investigate how technologies for preparing food have changed from the 19th century to today in the kitchen and dairy; and learn how to make butter, so they can make their own and find out how good it tastes on a piece of bread.

Home-schooled students
Special sessions are reserved for home-schooled students in 2024:

Cost: $10 per student per session. 

Minimum of six students required for each session.

Curriculum links – Stage 1 History

Outcomes
The Past in the Present:

HT1-3 Describes the effects of changing technology on people’s lives over time
HT1-4 Demonstrates skills of historical inquiry and communication

Key inquiry questions:

What aspects of the how food was sourced and prepared in the past can you see today?
How have changes in technology shaped the way we source, store, preserve and cook food? Museums of History NSW (Sydney Living Museums) Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HSIE History Past and Present (Stage 1 – Year 1 and 2) Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Homeschool Specials

Convict Work at the Barracks: Special Homeschool Session

Connect live with a museum educator and learn about how convicts lived and worked at the Hyde Park Barracks. Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Convict Work at the Barracks: Special Homeschool Session The museum educator will ask questions, show objects, show videos from inside the Hyde Park Barracks and complete an interactive quiz.

Home-schooled students
Special sessions are reserved for home-schooled students in 2024:

Cost: $10 per student per session.

Minimum of six students required for each session.

Curriculum links – Stage 2 History

Outcomes
First Contacts:
HT2-4 Describes and explains effects of British colonisation in Australia
HT2-5 Applies skills of historical inquiry and communication

Skills
Analysis and Use of Sources; Empathetic Understanding; Perspectives and Interpretations

Concepts
Continuity and Change; Empathetic Understanding; Significance Museums of History NSW (Sydney Living Museums) Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HSIE History Australian History: Community and Remembrance, First Contacts (Stage 2 – Year 3 and 4) Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Homeschool Specials

Australian Constitution: past, present, future for home school students and small schools

During the program, students work with our highly experienced Parliamentary Educators to understand the history, features and functions of the Australian Constitution and referendum process. Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Year 7 – S4 Year 8 – S4 Year 9 – S5 Year 10 – S5 Year 11 – S6 Year 12 – S6 Australian Constitution: past, present, future for home school students and small schools Australian Constitution: past, present, future is a 50-minute program for students in Years 5-12 and explores:

Australian federation and drafting of the Australian Constitution
the features and functions of the Constitution
the purpose and process of a referendum. Free Parliamentary Education Office, Australian Parliament House Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Secondary HSIE Legal Studies Select Sub Strand HSIE Society and Culture Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials

Introducing Parliament for home school students and small schools

What are laws, who makes them and how can you be involved? Students work with our Parliamentary Educators to understand the fundamentals of active citizenship and the work of the Australian Parliament. Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Introducing Parliament for home school students and small schools Introducing Parliament is a 30-minute program for students in Years 3-4 and explores:

the similarities, differences and importance of rules and laws
the role and responsibilities of representatives
what it means to be an active citizen. Free Parliamentary Education Office, Australian Parliament House Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HSIE Select Strand Select Sub Strand HSIE Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials

Parliamentary Insider for home school and small schools

Go beyond the nightly news to discover the who, what, how and why of the Australian Parliament. Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Year 7 – S4 Year 8 – S4 Year 9 – S5 Year 10 – S5 Year 11 – S6 Year 12 – S6 Parliamentary Insider for home school and small schools Parliamentary Insider is a 50-minute program for students in Years 5-12 and explores the function and significance of Australia’s democratic system of government. It does this through investigating:

how laws are made through Parliament
the responsibilities of representatives
the formation of government
how government is kept accountable. Free Parliamentary Education Office, Australian Parliament House Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Secondary HSIE Legal Studies Select Sub Strand HSIE Society and Culture Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials

Portraits Tell Stories

IMAGE: The Great South Sea Caterpillar Transformed into a Bath Butterfly (Sir Joseph Banks), 1795 (printed 1851) by James Gillray #NPGDART Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Portraits Tell Stories From Dreaming stories to decimal changeover, the Endeavour to Yothu Yindi, Australian history is full of fascinating tales – and we have the portraits to prove it. 

History | Year 3 – Year 6 

This interactive session for Stage 2 and 3 students uses portraiture to provide opportunities for learners to develop and deepen their understanding of Australian history. Evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives and empathy will be used as tools to investigate portraits in our collection within their historical context. 

Key curriculum links: 

Experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, migrants, women and children [ACHASSK135] 
Stories of groups of people who migrated to Australia since Federation (including from ONE country of the Asia region) and reasons they migrated [ACHASSK136] 
The contribution of individuals and groups to the development of Australian society since Federation [ACHASSK137] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HSIE History Select Sub Strand Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials One-off Events STEM/STEAM

Put Yourself in the Picture

Sign up for a fun-filled, curriculum-based program live from your National Portrait Gallery! 

IMAGE: Self portrait, 2004 Peter Russell-Clarke. © Peter Russell-Clarke #NPGDART Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Put Yourself in the Picture Our Visual Art program for Stage 3 allows students to investigate, interpret and explore the meaning of portraits. They’ll look at aspects of biography, identity, and culture; discover different styles, mediums and movements; and learn through discussion, activity and drawing. 

Key curriculum links: 

Explore ideas and practices used by artists, including practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, to represent different views, beliefs and opinions [ACAVAM114] 
Explain how visual arts conventions communicate meaning by comparing artworks from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artworks [ACAVAR117] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Creative Arts Visual Arts Appreciating Creative Arts Visual Arts Making Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials One-off Events STEM/STEAM Children’s Week

P is for Portrait

Sign up for a fun-filled, curriculum-based program live from your National Portrait Gallery!  

IMAGE: Adut Akech, 2018 (printed 2020) by Charles Dennington © Charles Dennington #NPGDART Kinder – ES1 Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 P is for Portrait Our Visual Art program for Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 allows students to explore the concept of and ideas surrounding portraiture. They’ll have the chance to experiment with different materials and techniques, respond to and learn from contemporary and historic portraits, and consider why people make art in the first place! 

Key curriculum links: 

Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists [ACAVAM106] 
Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks [ACAVAM107] 
Respond to visual artworks and consider where and why people make visual artworks, starting with visual artworks from Australia, including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples [ACAVAM109] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Creative Arts Visual Arts Appreciating Creative Arts Visual Arts Making Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials One-off Events STEM/STEAM

P is for Portrait

Sign up for a fun-filled, curriculum-based program live from your National Portrait Gallery!  IMAGE: Adut Akech, 2018 (printed 2020) by Charles Dennington © Charles Dennington #NPGDART Kinder – ES1 Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 P is for Portrait Our Visual Art program for Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 allows students to explore the concept of and ideas surrounding portraiture. They’ll have the chance to experiment with different materials and techniques, respond to and learn from contemporary and historic portraits, and consider why people make art in the first place! Key curriculum links: Explore ideas, experiences, observations and imagination to create visual artworks and design, including considering ideas in artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists [ACAVAM106] Use and experiment with different materials, techniques, technologies and processes to make artworks [ACAVAM107] Respond to visual artworks and consider where and why people make visual artworks, starting with visual artworks from Australia, including visual artworks of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples [ACAVAM109] Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Creative Arts Visual Arts Appreciating Creative Arts Visual Arts Making Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials One-off Events STEM/STEAM

Growing Up in the Past – special homeschool session

Discover what life was like for working class children growing up in the 1900s at Rouse Hill Estate. Year 1 – S1 Year 2 – S1 Growing Up in the Past – special homeschool session In this interactive virtual excursion, your Stage 1 class will connect live with a museum educator and discuss what life was like for rural children in the early 1900s. Students will investigate the lives of Annie and Ena Sherwood, two young girls who once lived in a small workers cottage on Rouse Hill Estate, and learn about household chores and technology from the past.

Students will also experience a school lesson in the Rouse Hill school house and investigate a range of objects from the time. Finally, they will discuss leisure time for children in the past and how toys have changed and learn how to make their own handmade dolly peg toy.

Home-schooled students
Special sessions are reserved for home-schooled students in 2024:

Cost: $10 per student per session.

Minimum of six students required for each session. Museums of History NSW (Sydney Living Museums) Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HT1-3 HT1-4 HSIE History Past and Present (Stage 1 – Year 1 and 2) Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Homeschool Specials

Solve it Using Sources: Homeschool Session

Based at the Hyde Park Barracks and Susannah Place in Sydney’s Rocks area, and explores the archaeology of both sites and other primary sources. Year 6 – S3 Year 7 – S4 Year 8 – S4 Solve it Using Sources: Homeschool Session Home-schooled students
Special sessions are reserved for home-schooled students in 2024:

Cost: $10 per student per session.

Minimum of six students required for each session.

Curriculum links

Skills – Analysis and Use of Sources

Stage 3 History
HT3-3 Applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication

Stage 4 History
The Ancient World Depth Study 1: Investigating the Ancient Past

Key inquiry question: How do we know about the ancient past?

HT4-1 Describes the nature of history and archaeology and explains their contribution to an understanding of the past
HT4-5 Identifies the meaning, purpose and context of historical sources
HT4-6 Uses evidence from sources to support historical narratives and explanations Museums of History NSW (Sydney Living Museums) Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary Secondary HSIE History Australian History: Colonials and National (Stage 3 – Year 5 and 6) HSIE Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Homeschool Specials

First Contacts: Special Homeschool Session

Connect live with a museum educator, examine a range of historical sources and explore the impact of these new arrivals on the Aboriginal peoples of Sydney. Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 First Contacts: Special Homeschool Session Home-schooled students
Special sessions are reserved for home-schooled students in 2024:

Cost: $10 per student per session.

Minimum of six students required for each session.

 

Curriculum links

History – Stage 2 First Contacts

Outcomes
HT2-4   describes and explains effects of British colonisation in Australia
HT2-5applies skills of historical inquiry and communication
Skills
Analysis and Use of Sources; Empathetic Understanding; Perspectives and Interpretations
Concepts
Continuity and Change; Empathetic Understanding; Significance Museums of History NSW (Sydney Living Museums) Live Event – Scheduled Zoom HSIE History Australian History: Colonials and National (Stage 3 – Year 5 and 6) Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Homeschool Specials

A New Home: Special Homeschool Session

Connect live with a museum educator and learn about female Irish orphans who migrated to Australia in the 1800s and stayed at the Hyde Park Barracks. Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 A New Home: Special Homeschool Session Students will look at the factors that led the women to migrate from Ireland, what their journey was like and what happened to them once they were here. They will look inside the Barracks and see the current exhibition as viewing a range of sources, including some of the objects these women brought with them. Students will also hear from an ancestor of one of the women and consider the importance of oral history. Finally they will complete an empathy activity by considering what they would put in their trunks if they were migrating to another country, in a similar situation to these women.
Home-schooled students
Special sessions are reserved for home-schooled students in 2024:

Cost: $10 per student per session.

Minimum of six students required for each session.

Curriculum links

History – Stage 3 The Australian Colonies
Outcomes
HT3 1 – describes and explains the significance of people, groups, places and events to the development of Australia.
HT3 2 – describes and explains different experiences of people living in Australia over time.
HT3 5 – applies a variety of skills of historical inquiry and communication.

Skills
Analysis and Use of Sources; Empathetic Understanding; Perspectives and Interpretations

Concepts
Continuity and Change; Empathetic Understanding; Significance Museums of History NSW (Sydney Living Museums) Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HSIE History Australian History: Colonials and National (Stage 3 – Year 5 and 6) Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Homeschool Specials

Portraits Tell Stories

IMAGE: The Great South Sea Caterpillar Transformed into a Bath Butterfly (Sir Joseph Banks), 1795 (printed 1851) by James Gillray #NPGDART Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Portraits Tell Stories From Dreaming stories to decimal changeover, the Endeavour to Yothu Yindi, Australian history is full of fascinating tales – and we have the portraits to prove it. 

History | Year 3 – Year 6 

This interactive session for Stage 2 and 3 students uses portraiture to provide opportunities for learners to develop and deepen their understanding of Australian history. Evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives and empathy will be used as tools to investigate portraits in our collection within their historical context. 

Key curriculum links: 

Experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, migrants, women and children [ACHASSK135] 
Stories of groups of people who migrated to Australia since Federation (including from ONE country of the Asia region) and reasons they migrated [ACHASSK136] 
The contribution of individuals and groups to the development of Australian society since Federation [ACHASSK137] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HSIE History Select Sub Strand Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials One-off Events STEM/STEAM Social Sciences Week

Portraits Tell Stories

IMAGE: The Great South Sea Caterpillar Transformed into a Bath Butterfly (Sir Joseph Banks), 1795 (printed 1851) by James Gillray #NPGDART Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Year 5 – S3 Year 6 – S3 Portraits Tell Stories From Dreaming stories to decimal changeover, the Endeavour to Yothu Yindi, Australian history is full of fascinating tales – and we have the portraits to prove it. 

History | Year 3 – Year 6 

This interactive session for Stage 2 and 3 students uses portraiture to provide opportunities for learners to develop and deepen their understanding of Australian history. Evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives and empathy will be used as tools to investigate portraits in our collection within their historical context. 

Key curriculum links: 

Experiences of Australian democracy and citizenship, including the status and rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, migrants, women and children [ACHASSK135] 
Stories of groups of people who migrated to Australia since Federation (including from ONE country of the Asia region) and reasons they migrated [ACHASSK136] 
The contribution of individuals and groups to the development of Australian society since Federation [ACHASSK137] 

Please ensure each student has access to paper and pencils for the drawing activity. Free National Portrait Gallery Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HSIE History Select Sub Strand Creative Arts Visual Arts Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials One-off Events STEM/STEAM

Introducing Parliament for home school students and small schools

What are laws, who makes them and how can you be involved? Students work with our Parliamentary Educators to understand the fundamentals of active citizenship and the work of the Australian Parliament. Year 3 – S2 Year 4 – S2 Introducing Parliament for home school students and small schools Introducing Parliament is a 30-minute program for students in Years 3-4 and explores:

the similarities, differences and importance of rules and laws
the role and responsibilities of representatives
what it means to be an active citizen. Free Parliamentary Education Office, Australian Parliament House Live Event – Scheduled Zoom Primary HSIE Select Strand Select Sub Strand HSIE Select Strand Select Sub Strand Select Other KLA Select Strand Select Sub Strand Free Homeschool Specials

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