Caboolture Historical Village

Yesterday Year 3 went to visit the Caboolture Historical Village. There were gems, display rooms, spooky train rides and much more. The students have written the following three reflections for you to enjoy.

Gem digging was awesome.  We got a bucket of sawdust with gems hidden in it. It was SO much fun to sieve the sand away from the gems. The best bit was that we could keep our gems.

Then we had the spooky train ride.  The first time we went around the track there was a bushranger with a gun in his hand!  Then we went through the spooky tunnel and screamed as loudly as we possibly could.  Then the second time we went past the bushrangers there were two.  The new one had a ginormous gun and he stole a box of gold off the children – but the key was lost.  So, he shot the box open and it had twenty, seven-pound notes in it and they gave one to every person.  But then they shot a chicken in the tree – but I knew it was fake.  Then they threw a fake snake into my carriage!  I screamed even though it was fake.

The funniest thing about our excursion was we saw a bright pink water bottle actually IN one of the display toilets (thunderbox).  I laughed and giggled a lot.

The trip to Caboolture was awesome and Year 3 learnt SO much about how people lived 100 hundred ago.  If you haven’t been to the Caboolture Historical Village be sure to make the trip as it is a great place to visit, and it’s so much fun.  We definitely enjoyed getting a lolly from the lolly shop – but don’t tell anyone!

By Kayla Sanderson 3D

On Thursday we went to the Caboolture Historical Village. It was really interesting because you could go into lots of buildings from the past. It looked like a village with houses that were much more basic than they are today. There were very small shops, not big ones like the IGA. There was a small sweet shop (Lucky them, lollies were only 1c. Imagine $1 for 100 lollies!). I would not have liked to have something wrong with my teeth in those days because the dentist tools looked like torture machines. At the jail house I don't think the police were very careful because they gave the criminals toothbrushes which they could sharpen into knives and blades. The jail didn't look too uncomfortable, but I still wouldn't like to be there because there wasn't much space.

I liked going into the schoolhouse because I really liked lifting the desks up. It was small and cosy. Schools were very strict then. I would have not liked to have got the cane in those days - one slap on your hand for talking in class and six slaps for being rude to a teacher! There was a train and we had to find the bushrangers who pretended to shoot a small chicken from the tree. I really enjoyed being given fake English money.   

By Isabel McKeown 3A

On Thursday, July 26^th, the Year 3 students had the opportunity to visit the Caboolture Historical Village.  Here we learnt about early Australian history and our local area.

We had great fun participating in a range of activities including learning how clothes were washed in the past and being involved in a bushranger hold-up.  It was interesting to see what hospitals and prisons looked like many years ago.

My favourite was learning about the first fleet arriving in Sydney in 1788 and bringing home gems that I sieved.

Thank-you so much to the teachers for organising a wonderful day and the parents who came to help.

By Amy Richards. 3A