Urrbrae House
This interactive school's program for primary students is run on Wednesday mornings during school term and is designed to enable students in Years 1-2 and 4-6 to step back into the recreated world of 1892. Our volunteers also step back in time, developing a character through role-play and costumes to help recreate the past for the children. Volunteers lead children through various activities.
Year 4-6 children are divided into groups of:
Guests of the Waites where the children experience a formal morning tea in the Dining Room and undertake leisure activities appropriate to ladies and gentlemen such as croquet on the lawn (depending on weather), quoits, parlour games, dominoes, flower-pressing and sketching.
Household Servants whereby the children experience the many manual tasks that were essential to the running of a large Victorian household such as preparing and serving food, doing laundry using washboards, cleaning silver, polishing boots, beating rugs and making pomanders.
School children are taken through a school lesson by a governess that includes copperplate writing using inkwells and nib pens, and learning about Victorian values. The children are also given the opportunity to play with reproductions of late nineteenth century toys such as porcelain dolls, china tea sets, wooden tops and quoits.
Children in Years 1-2 undertake a simpler, modified version of the older children's program.
For more information see the Education page.
For further information contact 8313 7497 or email urrbraehouse@adelaide.edu.au.
PLEASE NOTE: All schools volunteers must obtain a DCSI clearance as you will be working with children. The University can assist you with this.
