The village is available for school visits and projects!
Please call the village on 07 4696 6309 or visit at 73 Wirraglen Rd Highfields.
HOW TO BOOK YOUR SCHOOL EXCURSION
email: Highfieldspioneervillage@hotmail,com
phone: 07 4696 6309 (hours 10am – 4pm)
Cost per pupil $10.00 (this includes morning tea) bring your own lunch
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Number of students involved …………………………………..…
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Intended time of stay (allow time for lunch, marshalling, bus loading etc) From………………………..….. to…………………………………………….
Program to include Core Segments 1, 2, 3, 4
plus optional segments to suit time available …………………………
See following page for risk assessment
HIGHFIELDS PIONEER VILLAGE LIFESTYLE OF THE PIONEERS
CORE PROGRAMME Half hour segments
1 Horse works Corn growing, husking, and cracking for farm use and as a
cash crop. The use of draught horses as a source of power
to work stationary machinery, horse whim demonstration
2 Puppet show Animated wooden toys tell the story of land settlement on
(in the Gallery) the Darling Downs, from 1840 to 1900 (suit all ages)
3 Slab cottage Housing – Grinke slab hut and Raatz stone cookhouse
(1889)
(guided tour) home made furniture, hides as carpets, hand made fly screen,
open fire, fountain, vegetable garden, washing machines
4 Damper eating Billy tea, damper, golden syrup at tables in the damper shed
(morning tea)
OPTIONAL Half hour segments (choose maximum of three)
5 Damper making Dough making, open fire cookery in camp ovens
(demonstration)
6 Heritage chapel History and current use of the Meringandan Congregational
Church (1909), conducted inside the chapel
7 Blacksmithing Working with iron - forge and anvil
(demonstration) Horseshoe making
8 Water wisdom water - guttering and tanks, divining for underground water, (participatory) boring and windmills – wood-fired pumps, log stock troughs.
Manually operated geared water pump demo (suit Years 4, 5, 6)
9 Harvesting machines A guided visit to the machinery shed. Stripper, winnower,
thresher, reaper & binder, Harvesters 1838 to early 1900’s
10 Southern Cross A guided walk through the Southern Cross Museum
Products made by Toowoomba Foundry 1876-1980’s
11 Toowoomba Fire Brigade Historical Museum A guided tour of the History of our local Fire Brigade and their trucks, technology and how it has changed, Fire Safety Talks can be included via prior arrangement
12 Free time There are many buildings with stationary exhibits to explore
Pupils to be in small groups with an adult
13 Aboriginal Culture Talk* Didgeridoo performance, Dance workshop and Boomerang Throwing Workshop *Extra charge please phone for quotation
14 Cabarlah Artists Painting demonstration by local artists available Friday Mornings between 9am and 12:30pm
15 Transport Museum and the James MacDonald Bike Collection A guided walk through the Transport Museum
Featuring Penny Farthings, Horse Drawn Transport and Vintage Cars
16 Queensland Energy Exhibition Centre A guided walk through the Energy Museum
featuring the history of Energy usage in Queensland and the very first electrical appliances ever made
Note: If one of the demonstrators is away sick another segment will be substituted
RISK ASSESSMENT
(1) Activity (2) Hazard (3) Risk (4) Risk level (5) Management
(1) Horse Works (2) Draught horse (3) Contact (4) Low (5)Pupils seated remote from horse
(1) Puppet show (2) None (3) None (4) Nil (5) Pupils seated in hall
(1) Slab cottage (2) Washing Machine (3) Catch in Ringer (4) Low (5) Demonstrators standing each side of machine
(1) Damper and Tea (2) Hot beverage (3) Scalding (4) Low (5) Pupils seated at tablesand tea Tea cooled with milk
(1) Damper (2) Open fire (3) Smoke (4) Low (5) Pupils well back from making inhalation fire
(1) Heritage (2) None (3) None (4) Nil (5) Pupils seated in chapel
(1) Blacksmithing (2) Sparks (3) To eyes (4) Low (5) Solid half-wall preserves distance
(1) Water wisdom (2) Divining wires (3) Jabbing (4) Low (5) Adequate spacing
(1) Harvesting machines (2) Machinery (3) Jostling (4) Low (5) Machinery stationary behind weldmesh
(1) Southern Cross Museum (2) None (3) None (4) Nil (5) Exhibits roped off/No running in building
1) Toowoomba Fire Brigade Historical Museum (2) None (3) None (4) Nil (5) Exhibits roped off/No running in building
(1) Aboriginal Culture Talk (2) Mishaps (3) Jostling (4) Low (5) Adequate Spacing
(1) Cabarlah Artists (2) None (3) None (4) Nil (5) Pupils standing and watching
(1) Transport Museum (2) Mishaps (3) Climbing on railing (4) Low (5) Small groups under adult supervision
(1) Energy Museum (2) Mishaps (3) Climbing on railing (4) Low (5) Small groups under adult supervisiong