21St April 2016

Dear Parent/Guardian,
On The 18th of May 2016 our class will be visiting the Western Australian
Maritime Museum as part of or History unit.
Date: Wednesday 18th of May 2016
Venue: The Western Australian Maritime Museum
Location: Victoria Quay, Fremantle, Western Australia, 6160, Australia.
Contact number: 1300 134 081
Time: Depart school: 10:45am, Arrive back at school 2:05pm.
Supervising teachers:
Teachers: Miss Mollie Forbes (0434 567 892) and Miss Jazmin Ullrich
(0434 321 654),
Special Needs Education Assistant: Tennille Burt (0416 098 432)
Parent Helper: Sally Moore (0434 952 351)
Purpose of the Excursion:
As per the Western Australian Curriculum Year 6 History is focused on
students being able to
Record selected information and/or data using a variety of methods,
Use criteria to determine the relevancy of information
Interpret information and/or data collected
Identify different points of view/perspectives in information and/or
data Develop a variety of texts, based on information collected from
source materials
Reflect on learning, identify new understandings and act on findings
in different ways
Our unit of work based around the Maritime excursion and our Pre and
Post Activities designed with the aid of a WebQuest, allows students to
able to develop and improve their Historical skills listed above.
The excursion itself links directly to the Western Australian curriculum
with:
ACHHK115 - Stories of groups of people who migrated to Australia
(including from one Asian country), the reasons they migrated (e.g. push
pull factors) and their contributions to society.
Travel arrangements:
As St Patricks Catholic Primary School is located a close 12 minutes away
from the Western Australia maritime museum. The class will be catching
the free Red Cat Bus to the venue with careful safety precautions in place,
which departs from High street after Queen Street only a short 1 minute
walk from St Patricks.

The safety precautions the school has in place are as follows:

Teachers to maintain close supervision of groups throughout the
program students must remain with Supervisors at all times.
Supervisors to ensure fully charged and functional mobile phones
are carried at all times.

Teachers to ensure students stay within allocated footpaths and

paved areas.

Teachers are to ensure students show safe, cooperative and

respectful behaviour on the Red cat bus

Do not proceed with excursions during thunderstorms or unsafe

weather conditions.

Students must wear appropriate closed-toe footwear.

Students to bring sun-protection and wet-weather gear.

Itinerary:
Time

Activity

8:45-10:40

Morning News
Morning fitness
Spelling/reading rotation
Recess

10:40 11:00

Travelling time

11:00-11:15

Rules and expectations

11:15-12:00

Lunch, toilet break

12:00-1:00

Museum activity: Suitcase Stories

1:00-1:15

Toilet break/ afternoon snack

1:15-1:45

Tour of the Maritime Museum

1:45 -2:05

Travelling time, back to School

2:05-3:00

Toilet break
Short reflection/class discussion on the day
overall
Pack up/home time

Supervision to be provided:
Classroom teachers Miss Mollie Forbes and Miss Jazmin Ullrich will be in
charge of the class throughout the day. Special needs Education Assistant
Tennille Burt, Parent helper Sally Moore, as well as classroom teachers will
however have an assigned group they will supervise, the ratio of
supervisor to student on this excursion will be 1:6 1 supervisor to 6
students. The groups will be organised prior to excursion while pre
excursion activities are being completed. Any parents that wish to
accompany the class on the excursion are more than welcome. All
adults/supervisors on this excursion will have there mobile phones with
them if any form of contact is needed.
Recess/Lunch instructions:
Recess: Recess will be eaten on the school grounds, a normal packed
recess will be sufficient for students.
Lunch: A normal packed lunch will be needed for the excursion, students
will be eating there lunch on the paved area at the museum which has a
shaded area and seating.
Special clothing or other requirements:
Students are to wear:
Full sports uniform
Hat
Sneakers
Sunscreen (provided if necessary)

Students will also be wearing a nametag on their shirt which has St

Patricks Primary School number as well as supervising teachers contact
number incase of an emergency and to take careful precautions.
If you have any queries regarding the excursion please feel free to contact
supervising teachers.
Kind Regards
Miss Jazmin Ullrich

Miss Mollie Forbes

PARENT PERMISSION SLIP

I _____________________________ (parents name)

Give/do not give permission for ____________________________ (insert childs
name) for my Child to attend the Excursion to the Western Australian
Maritime Museum
Parents Signature:

Date:

Kind Regards,
Miss Jazmin Ullrich

Miss Mollie Forbes