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About this resource
About this resource
This resource can be used by students for research and source analysis. It supports the history topics:
Stage 2 Community and Remembrance
Stage 4/5 Life Skills The Making of the Modern World – Australians at War: World Wars I and II (1914–1918, 1939–1945)
The resource also supports the School Children and the Anzacs program offered at the NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education, although paused for 2023 and 2024.
Decorated blackboard at NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education
Syllabus links
Syllabus links
Stage 2 Community and Remembrance
Stage 2 Community and Remembrance
Outcomes
Outcomes
HT2-1 identifies celebrations and commemorations of significance in Australia and the world
HT2-2 describes and explains how significant individuals, groups and events contributed to changes in the local community over time
HT2-5 applies skills of historical inquiry and communication
Historical skills and concepts
Historical skills and concepts
Use of sources, cause and effect, perspectives, empathetic understanding, significance
Key inquiry questions
Key inquiry questions
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?
Content
Content
The role that people of diverse backgrounds have played in the development and character of the local community (ACHHK062)
Focusing on one group, investigate their diverse backgrounds and outline their contribution to the local community using a range of sources, e.g. photographs, newspapers, oral histories, diaries and letters
Days and weeks celebrated or commemorated in Australia (including Australia Day, ANZAC Day, Harmony Week, National Reconciliation Week, NAIDOC Week, National Sorry Day) and the importance of symbols and emblems (ACHHK063)
Identify important Australian celebrations and commemorations and discuss their origins and significance in society
History Years 7-10 Life Skills
History Years 7-10 Life Skills
Outcomes
Outcomes
HTLS-5 recognises the significance of people and events in the past
HTLS-6 explores the significance of changes and developments in the past
HTLS-7 recognises a variety of historical sources
HTLS-8 uses sources to understand the past
HTLS-12 investigates the past using historical skills
Historical skills and concepts
Historical skills and concepts
Use of sources, cause and effect, perspectives, empathetic understanding, significance
Content
Content
Australians at War: World Wars I and II (1914–1918, 1939–1945)
Significant events and experiences for Australians at home and at war
Students:
explore the experiences of a soldier during the wars, eg signing up/attitudes to conscription, life in the trenches (World War I), life on the battlefield in North Africa, South-east Asia or the Pacific Islands (World War II), separation from friends/family, using ICT and other sources as appropriate
explore issues that affected Australians at home during World War I, eg pay and conditions for workers, shortages/rations, attitudes to conscription, communication and information, using ICT and other sources as appropriate
investigate the changing roles of women during the wars, eg at work, in the home, in volunteer work, politically, using ICT and other sources as appropriate
History K-10 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2012
Exterior the NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education showing the 1877 and 1893 rooms.
Interior of the 1877 schoolroom at the NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education
About the NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education
About the NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education
The NSW Schoolhouse Museum collects and preserves objects relating to the history of public education in NSW. It is housed in the first buildings of North Ryde Public School.
The collection holds a varied collection of student exercise and text books from the 1880s to 1980s, a comprehensive collection of The School Magazine dating from its first issues in 1916 and numerous issues of NSW Public Instruction and Education Gazettes. It also holds teaching resources, handiwork and furniture.
A ‘living museum’, visiting students participate in a hands-on education program interacting with artefacts and re-enacting early school lessons. The education program is managed and run by qualified teachers and experienced facilitators.
More information at www.schoolhousemuseum.org.au.
North Ryde Public School and the Great War
North Ryde Public School and the Great War
Following lobbying by the local community, North Ryde Public School opened in January 1878 as a single schoolroom to 45 pupils of multiple ages. It expanded to two rooms in 1893 and to four rooms in 1910.
With the outbreak of war in 1914, ex-students from North Ryde Public School were quick to enlist, Trooper Arthur Stewart Dean being one of the first.
The school’s honour board lists 43 brave ex-students who served their country. Back on the home front the community worked together in support of the war effort.
Find out more on the Our boys page.
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
The extracts and images reproduced in the resource are from The School Magazine, Public Instruction and Education Gazettes and texts held in the museum's collection.
This resource has been adapted from the At School At War booklet written in 2015, and revised in 2017, by the NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education staff comprising teachers and curators.
© Text – NSW Schoolhouse Museum of Public Education Inc. September 2021. CC BY 4.0. Permission is given for reproduction for educational purposes only. The NSW Schoolhouse Museum does not own the copyright for images reproduced from gazettes, magazines and text books held in the museum's collection.
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