Early to Rise - Stage 1 Education Program
Rouse Hill Estate
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This Stage 1 History program gives students the opportunity to explore the working areas of the former farm, and investigate what life would have been like for children living there in the late 1800s.
Students visit the old milking shed and explore the beautiful stables that the Rouse family built for their horses. They learn about the vital role of horses at the time, as an essential means of transport and for getting work done around the farm. They shift bags of chaff, polish saddles in the tack-room and hear what poet Banjo Patterson had to say about the Rouse ‘Crooked R’ brand.
As chores would have been part of daily life for children living on the farm in the late 1800s, students have the chance to experience some of these for themselves; feeding the chooks, hanging out the washing and pumping water.