Wattle Grove Primary School

2013 YEAR 7 CAMP TO KALGOORLIE

DAY THREE• Prospecting for Gold• Building a Bush Shelter• Visiting Coolgardie• Games Night

Wattle Grove Primary School

2013 YEAR 7 CAMP TO KALGOORLIE

Out looking for quartz rocks to crush up looking for gold…

Checking a dry creek bedFor little quartz rocks…

The girls have found a handfulof them…

Here is the gear you need to crush the rocks and sluce the fines around in your pan…

Getting into groups to get going…

Shiva is showing everyone how it is done, under the eye of Sharon from the camp school…

I think Sharon might have found a little bit of gold in there…

A girl’s team hard at work…

Grace has found some…

BUILDING BUSH SHELTERS

Mrs Lavery explains the Bush Shelter activity to the students

Students need to form a team and collect things to use for their shelter…

It has to be big enough for them all to fit inside…

They need to explain the features And make up a song and dance

to promote it.

A variety of gold mining and prospecting equipment on display...

A selection of Children’s toys and games from the period...

Lunch in the park in Coolgardie…

Arriving at Coolgardie Town Hall for our tour and activities…

These old buildings include the old police station and post office…

Our tour guide Vic, talking to the students in the park by the town hall…

Philip with the gold nugget Vic handed around…

Visiting old prospector, Jack Carins’ bush camp, just out of Coolgardie…it even has a dog house…

Photograph at the camp of Jack at work in the years before he passed away…

Next we visited Warden Finnerty’s House. It was built by the Bunning Brothers in the early days before they became well known…

Vents in the roof structure to let the hot air out and help keep it cool…

Outside Coolgardie Cemetery…

The grave of Warden Finnerty’s wife who died at only 38 years old…

Old Jack, the prospector’s gravesite...

This large grave site is that of the explorer, Ernest Giles and was paid for by the governmentas a sign of respect…

Back at the museum in the Town Hall…

Story is about the rescue of Modesto Varischetti who was trapped in the mine when it flooded…

They rushed divers and their gear to Coolgardie by train, creating a record for the fastest train trip and saved him. One of their suits is shown here…

Our buses lined up outside the Town Hall…great old building…

Vic invited us over the road to see his mate Maurie’s Collection of old equipment and other things…

He even had a Dalek like those In the Dr Who TV Show, much to the excitement of Misters, Sanderson and Sherlock…

Lots of old metal signs

Prospectors hand push cart…

Old delivery bike…

Lovely old car…

A variety of old petrol pumps…

Beautifully restored old Leyland Truck from the twenties…

Thanking Maurie for letting us having a look around at no charge…

CAMP BIRTHDAYS

Shiva and Evie had birthdays on camp…thank you to the kitchen staff who made and decorated such beautiful cakes for them…

GAMES NIGHT

After singing Happy Birthday, we had a lot of fun playing lots of different games…

Anmol and Zaid playing chess…

THE END