Written by
Toby Rossato
Photography
by Henry Bastow-Stuart & Simon
On the 2nd of April, the Grade 3/4s went to the Polly
Woodside and the Immigration Museum. There were two groups, the green group and
the red group and we split up to go to each place. We arrived in the city by
bus and the red group went to the Polly Woodside with Mrs Pepi, Marcus, Semiha
and Daniel. The green group went to the Immigration Museum with Simon, Ms
Ventura, Luisa and Mr Williams. 
The Polly Woodside is a huge and interesting ship. It was
made in Belfast in Northern Ireland and the 3/4s thought it was great! First we
had little lunch and then we did lots of exciting stuff like ringing a loud
bell, learning about port and starboard (in other words, left and right) and
talking in loud voices (in other words shouting) stuff like “There’s a shark in
your ear!” and
“There’s a storm behind you!” That made people look!
We watched a movie about Polly Woodside’s first voyage and looked at where the
captain and his men slept and we did lots of other interesting and exciting
ship stuff with the final thing being scrubbing the deck! Lots of fun!
Then we met up with the other 3/4s and had lunch.
After that we went to the Immigration Museum and we got a suitcase and a
pencil. The suitcase wasn’t a real suitcase, it was a cardboard one with five
different pieces of paper coloured green, red, pink, blue and yellow. The
Immigration Museum was all about people moving away from their countries,
mostly because of war.
First we learnt about immigration stories which was
about the difficulties of leaving their land. Then we learnt about getting in
to Australia by boat. I learnt that over 9 million people have migrated to
Australia since 1899. We also pretended to sleep in a tiny ship’s bed with six
other people and watched some movies. Finally, we asked a friend what they felt
about the museum. Then we hopped back on the bus and arrived back at Moreland
Primary just in time for the end of school.
