TOURS FOR SECONDARY STUDENTS

HISTORY & HERITAGE including Green Bans
BEATIE BOW’S SYDNEY
THE IRISH CATHOLICS OF THE ROCKS
THE ROCKS AT FEDERATION

General Information

• Rates quoted for each tour are per student including GST
• Free of Charge Ratio - 1 teacher/ adult : per 10 students
• Additional adults are charged at the applicable student rate
• Minimum of 20 students is required for the per student rate to be applicable; with a maximum of 30 people per group/ guide, this includes students, teachers, carers and parent helpers.
• Weekend/ Public Holiday bookings incur an additional $1.10 per person

HISTORY & HERITAGE including Green Bans

This perennial favourite is a comprehensive introduction to Australia's European birthplace and the historic precinct’s subsequent importance to our modern society.

This tour allows the student to learn about the lifestyle, social history and heritage of Sydney.

In addition, for Secondary Students we focus also on the era of GREEN BANS and ‘people power’ in the 1970s.

BEATIE BOW’S SYDNEY

Bring alive the era of Ruth Park’s much loved and respected novel, “Playing Beatie Bow”.

Set in The Rocks, student visit Victorian Sydney and through this well researched novel, relate to the social history of 1873.

THE IRISH CATHOLICS OF THE ROCKS

The story of The Rocks and Millers Point reveals an interesting historic analysis of the religious forces active in the 19th Century Sydney community and the social impact on a working class area – from the Irish perspective.

THE ROCKS AT FEDERATION

While Australians were being stirred up with the fervour of national pride, the people of The Rocks had other things on their mind. At Federation this dockside area was shedding the inheritance of the latter decades of the 1800s, that being, a squalid slum.

Students will have the opportunity to relate to the living and working conditions of an inner working class suburb of Sydney with many buildings and sites remaining in The Rocks today to tell us this story.