More student focus on our city's origins

Posted by Administrator in Education on 06 Aug 2010 at 09:14 am

By VINNIE RODI

THE group of Grade 3/4 students sat enthralled as local historian, and former teacher, Glenn Miller started his talk.
The discussion covered many topics, all based on local history and events, with the main theme Mildura’s connection to the Chaffey Brothers, George and W.B., and our origin as an irrigation colony.
Students listened intently as they learned more about the Chaffey’s journey from California to Mildura in the late 1880s, and how they helped transform the town from a virtual desert to its current state.
It’s a scene that’s set to become the norm for primary schools across the district, and Victoria in general, in the coming years, with local history to become one of the new topics taught to our students.
It’s all part of State Government mandate encouraging schools to incorporate some form of local history into their curriculum, with Mildura’s Chaffey Trail Reference Group coming up with the local concept.
The group, in partnership with local historian and teacher, Lynda Robertson, has spent the past 10 months designing a course that caters for Grades Prep through to Grade Six, trialling ideas amongst students.
Henderson College was the latest to get a taste of what the potential course could have in store, with the group of Grade 3/4 students ...
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