OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 1

Learning Intention: Understand the reasons why the British settled in Australia. Success Criterion: I can describe what life was like in 18th Century Britain and explain why convicts were sent to Australia. Read the following passage:

Answer the following questions in your diary:

1. Describe what life was like in Britain during the late 1700s. 2. Why do you think there were so many convicts in Britain? 3. What did the government decide to do with all the convicts?

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 2

Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can identify some reasons for the First Fleet and explain what life was like for the early settlers during their journey to Australia. Read the “Life on the Hulks” information sheet. Use your five senses to brainstorm what life must have been like for a convict living on a hulk and write down your answers in the table below.

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 3

Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can identify some reasons for the First Fleet and explain what life was like for the early settlers.

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

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OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 4 Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can identify some reasons for the First Fleet and some aspects of their journey. Read the following information and complete the First Fleet Word Search.

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

First Fleet Word Search

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 5

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 6 Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can investigate the life of one group of settlers that arrived on the First Fleet. Read the information below about Convict Children

Imagine for the rest of this session that you are a convict child. Role play with your family what your life would be like at home as a servant for a settler. Go and help someone do the chores such as cleaning the house or helping out in the kitchen. Describe to your family how you would feel being treated as a servant.

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 7 Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can investigate the life of one group of settlers that arrived on the First Fleet. Have a look at the following three historical images of First Fleet convicts at work in the new colony. Describe the type of work you think they are doing: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Describe the clothes that you see the convicts wearing: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Draw a picture of what you might look like wearing convict clothing:

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 8 Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can identify some reasons for the First Fleet and describe some aspects of their journey. Show your working below

Use the below table to show your working: Officials and passengers 15 – 14 = Ships crews 323 – 269 = Marines 247 – 245 = Marines’ wives and children 46 – 45 = Convicts (men) 582 – 543 = Convicts (women) 193 – 189 = Convicts’ children 14 – 11 = Total 1420 – 1373 =

323 – 269 = 54

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 9 Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can identify some reasons for the First Fleet and describe some aspects of their journey. Using the map provided, trace the journey of the First Fleet starting with when it left England. The first date has been completed for you.

HISTORY: Activity 10 Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can identify some reasons for the First Fleet and describe some aspects of their journey. In your diary, write a conversation between a child convict and their mother about how they feel about living in the new colony. You might want to include information about how you felt on your journey on one of the ships, the type of work that you are forced to do or describe some of the other convicts that you have met in the new colony.

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 11 Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can identify some reasons for the First Fleet and describe some aspects of their journey.

Complete the biography of Private Marine Daniel Stanfield of the First Fleet using the information and template below:

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

Private Marine Daniel Stanfield Marine and settler, Daniel Stanfield was reputed to have come from an English naval family. He arrived with the First Fleet at Port Jackson as a private in the marines. Promoted to corporal, he married Alice, widow of Thomas Harmsworth, on the 15 October 1791 at St Phillip’s Church, Sydney. In less than a month he was on duty at Norfolk Island. In 1794 he was discharged from the marines and sworn in as constable and started to farm. He received two goats from Governor King, who described him as a deserving settler. In March Stanfield was robbed and petitioned, with other settlers, to Lieutenant Governor Gross for restoration of arms which they had both been deprived of by Government order. Stanfield talked of enlisting in the NSW corps and in November 1794 he sailed in the Daedalus for Port Jackson. The following October he returned to Norfolk Island in the Supply with his wife, four children, 30 sheep and 35 acres of his 120 acres under cultivation.When the evacuation of Norfolk Island was planned, Governor King requested Stanfield to remain and encouraged him by offering additional land. However, keen and determined, Stanfield did not find life easy, and he sailed with his family in the City of Edinburgh, arriving in Hobart Town in October 1808.

Next month he took up land at Green Point near Bridgewater and built a weatherboard house, which he valued at more than £2,000 (pounds), which stood for over a century. There Stanfield’s industry and enthusiasm brought better results than at Norfolk Island. By February 1825 he had been granted 1200 acres in widely separated areas, he had purchased 890 acres more and claimed to have 1,000 cattle, 800 sheep, 10 horses, a flour mill and other capital. His only grievances were that Michael Howe had raided his stockyard and other bushrangers had plundered his properties, though he was sometimes compensated by more land.

In 1826 he was summoned to give evidence against receivers of good stolen from him, but he died suddenly on 4th February, leaving a very numerous and opulent family. His eldest son, Daniel, was baptised 25 April 1790 at St Phillips church. He inherited in full measure his father’s energy and acquisitiveness and a great deal of property. But he was not entirely reliant on his father – by 1825 he could claim 450 cattle, 600 sheep, 7 horses and other cattle. His land grants included 450 acres from Governor Macquarie, 300 from Governor Brisbane and 300 from Governor Arthur he bought 850 acres of Green Lagoon. His brothers also had land and stock, and in 1827 the land commission reported that the Stanfields, a large clan altogether, have had immense herds of wild cattle roaming all over this quarter of the Island and finding themselves limited, have driven hundreds to the sea coast. Stanfield improved his properties and became a well-known stock breeder. In 1828 he was one of the first in Van Diemens Land to export apples to Britain – 1 specimen was one foot in diameter, but the shipment did not carry well. Like his father he had trouble with the bushrangers, and by 1825 he had been twice in Sydney to give evidence at trials. In Hobart, January 1808, he married Maria Kimberley the daughter of a transported First Fleet convict Edward Kimberley. They had a large family. Daniel Stanfield jnr died 28 March 1856.

Herbert STANFIELD

OLD GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL Stage 2 Learning at Home Activity

Prepared by: Mr Quan and Ms Oude Vrielink

HISTORY: Activity 12 Learning Intention: Understand the reasons for the First Fleet. Success Criterion: I can identify some reasons for the First Fleet and describe some aspects of their journey. Cut out the cards below and arrange them in chronological order (in time order). Hint: Check the date to see what goes first.