Why were contemporary games invented? How inclusive are these games? Will these games stand the test of time? Compare and contrast answers from the open-ended questions on traditional and contemporary games. List the characteristics of both traditional and contemporary games using a Venn diagram. These can be about traditional, commonalities and modern games. Episode clips. Children's games [Episode 13 : Victoria]. Victoria's family supper [Episode 13 : Victoria].
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Name required. Search this site Search for:. Blog at WordPress. Follow Following. Sovereign Hill Education Blog Join 13, other followers. Sign me up. Already have a WordPress. That meant shovelling rock and gravel, carrying water, panning for gold and rocking the wooden mining cradles.
It was tough to learn to read and write. It took a while after everyone moved to a new goldfield for there to be enough children or a teacher available for a school to be set up. Children often had big breaks between schools and new teachers to get used to all the time.
Books were rare and it was expensive to buy paper and something to write with. Classes were often held under a tree or in a tent, which sounds like fun, but it must often have felt too hot, cold, rainy, windy or dusty to be comfortable.
Often, a teacher travelled between several settlements, so children only went to school the day the teacher came near where they lived. Later in the Gold Rush, church groups set up schools and the children could go to classes in the church. By , the government made rules to try to get every child to go to school, but many still had big breaks when they moved or if they had to help their parents. I dont know what to think of the digging's for Bendigo the streets have diggings on one side and shops on the other.
A small child working at the diggings with her family. Mother works while holding her baby. Ellen Clacy offered more insight into the lives of children on the goldfields within the pages of her book, ' A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in '. She describes an orphaned girl they met along their travels to the diggings:.
Her father met with a severe accident in digging, and returned to Melbourne. He returned only to die, and his wife soon followed him to the grave. Having no other friend or relative in the colonies, the child had been left with her aged grandfather, who appeared as infatuated with the gold-fields as a more hale and younger man. His strength and health were rapidly failing, yet he still dug on. She was not beautiful, nor was she fair - she had none of those childish graces which usually attract so much attention to children of her age; her eyes were heavy and bloodshot with work, weeping, cold, and hunger except when she spoke of her sick grandfather, and then they disclosed a world of tenderness; her hair hung matted round her head; her cheek was wan and sallow; her dress was ill-made and threadbare; yet even thus, few that had once looked at her but would wish to look again.
There was an indescribable sweetness about the mouth; the voice was low and musical; the well-shaped head was firmly set upon her shoulders; a fine open forehead surmounted those drooping eyes; there was almost a dash of independence; a "little woman" manner about her that made one imperceptibly forget how young she was in years. While out walking, Clacy encountered a little girl who had come to get water from a stream beside the road.
She struck a conversation with her:.
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