Author: Miss T

Literacy
Write a letter to someone who lives in Australia—talking about the differences between the two countries; (links with Geography)
Write your own Aussie Dictionary—compare words with our words;
Design an advertising campaign poster to remind children to be sun safe in Australia—Slip Slap Slop;
( links with PSHCE and Science)
Read Aboriginal creation stories—answering questions about them and design own plays to act them out (links with speaking and listening);
Write your own song about Australia (Links with Music)

Numeracy
Plan and cost out your own trip to Australia
(Links with Geography activities);
Convert simple amounts from pounds to Australian dollars and vice versa;
Simple word problems using Australian animals as a theme
Weighing out ingredients for our Lamingtons;
Measuring out designs for Aboriginal art and other art activities;
Using different shapes to produce Australian patterns
(Links with art);
Exploring the time differences between UK and Australia and solving simple time problems.

Science
Exploring different habitats of animals native to
Australia;
Looking at the Great Barrier Reef and all the different types of marine life that live there
Exploring the weather of Australia and the different temperatures at different times of the year compared to Britain
(All these activities link with Geography)

Music
Learning the Australian National Anthem
Singing and planning instrumental accompaniment for various traditional Australian songs—waltzing Matilda, Kenny the Kangaroo,
Kookaburra etc
Looking at the didgeridoo—listening to some didgeridoo music and designing their own ‘didgeridoos’
(links with Art)
Writing your own song about Australia
(links with Literacy)
Exploring Australian pop music!

Geography
Looking at a map of Australia—using maps and globe to locate different states and places;
Exploring the differences between the different states ie Queensland is more tropical than New South Wales ;
Studying the phenomenon that is Uluru—creating sunrise and sunset pictures
(links with Art)
Looking at the areas of nature that make Australia so special—the Rainforest and the Great Barrier reef as a focus (using the film Finding Nemo and Steve Irwin—Crocodile Hunter as a stimulus for work on the marine/ wild life in these places.
Planning a trip to Australia and preparing a small itinerary– using maps/ atlases to decide where to go and what to see.
Looking at the work of the late Steve Irwin and his wife at the Australia Zoo—Exploring information from the website and looking at conservation projects there. Sponsoring an animal at the zoo for one year—voting on which animal they want to adopt and
reasons why.

Art
drawing different animals in the style of aboriginal art;
Designing own aboriginal art pebbles;
Making aboriginal art mobiles;
Make your own barrier reef/ Rainforest collages
Uluru sunrise/ sunsets
(mixing water colours or using pastels);
Design and make your own boomerangs and didgeridoos
Using map as template—make your own Australia map
collages (putting different animals/ symbols on)
Looking at the art work of Rolf Harris esp how he draws cartoon kangaroos
Design your own kangaroo stories and put cartoon creatures into them (cartoon strips)
(Links with Literacy)

History
Learning about different well known Australians—producing short biographies of them;
(Links with literacy)
Looking at how Australia was discovered and learning about how convicts went there;

ICT opportunities-
Use of Word to produce some literacy activities;
Use of various websites such as downunder.com
Use of Powerpoint to produce research findings on reef and rain forest

Year Three’s
Culture Week -
Australia
Australia

Food Technology
Following instructions on how to make Lamingtons
(links with literacy and Numeracy)

PE and Dance
Playing Aussie Rules football and cricket; Planning and performing dances using traditional aboriginal music and traditional tales as stimuli

Planning for Tuesday morning activities

Australian travel Agency area (teacher)
Using price information for flights, hotels and activities to plan and cost a 7 day trip to Australia;
Working out what they would need to put in their suitcase for their holiday
Activity 1

Wildlife Area (any other support if available)
Activity 1
Exploring animals native to Australia and producing information books about 4 different animals.
Activity 2
Voting for which animal they want to adopt from Australia Zoo with reasons. (winning
animal to be announced on Wednesday)
Activity 3

Art Area
How the Animals got their tails (Mrs Williams)
Reading through story as a group and answering simple comprehension questions
Designing a pebble in an aboriginal art style with one of the animals in the story on the top of the pebble.
Exploring use of pastel and paint work to create other designs if time. Activity 2

Origami Area
Working with Miss Barker to follow
instructions to create own origami
Koalas. This group can also take part in the Australia Zoo adopt an animal vote. Activity 4

Finding Nemo Area
Looking at marine life compared to characters from Finding Nemo and finding main facts about each creature. Activity 5

Slip Slop Slap!
Reading information booklet about the dangers of the sun and producing a poster
advising children in Australia.
Activity 7

Write a letter to Oz
Using kangaroo notepaper to write to someone in Australia, telling them all about where you live and what the weather is like/ school life/ hobbies etc.
Activity 6

Each group to spend roughly 30 minutes on each activity then swap. If one group finished with plenty of time then they can do Activity 6 or 7 until we all swap.

The Australian
Art Area
mpany

The Australian
Wildlife Research Centre
Company

Write a letter!

Oh look! It’s Origami!

The Australian
Holiday Company
Company

The Australian Travel Company Booking form
Name ________________
Who would you like to fly with?
_____________________
How much will your flight cost?
__________
Write down 3 choices of hotels and how many days you would like to stay there for
Name of Hotel 1 _________________
Number of days______
Name of Hotel 2 _________________
Number of days ______
Name of Hotel 3__________________
Number of days ______
Total cost of your hotels = _____
Now write down 3 activities you would like to do—don’t
forget to make sure that they are in the same areas as your hotels.
Activity 1 ________________________________
Cost
Activity 2 ________________________________
Cost
Activity 3 ________________________________
Cost
Total cost for Activities __________
Total cost of trip ____________

Activity Days
Visit to Neighbours studio in Melbourne
$30
Penguin watching in Melbourne
$20
Guided tour around Melbourne
$15
Outback guided tour and lunch
$20
Guided tour to Ulurhu for the sunrise
$20
Guided tour to Ulurhu for the sunset
$20
Climb the Sydney harbour bridge
$50
A trip to the Opera house
$30
Diving at the Great Barrier Reef
$60
A visit to Australia Zoo
$25
A trip to the Rainforest
$20

Hotel Prices
Hotel Kangaroo—Melbourne
$10 per night
Hotel Boomerang—Perth
$20 per night
Hotel Koala—Sydney
$15 per night
Hotel Rock—Ulurhu
$30 per night
Hotel Kookaburra—Cairns
$20 per night
Breakfast is $5 a day in all hotels

Flight Prices
Sydney Airlines
$750 return
Air Australia
$200 one way
Top Class Airlines
$400 one way
Awesome Airlines
$300 one way
Brilliant Airways
$ 550 one way
Don’t forget—you need two flights—
one to go and one to come back!

Flight Prices
Sydney Airlines
$750 return
Air Australia
$200 one way
Top Class Airlines
$400 one way
Awesome Airlines
$300 one way
Brilliant Airways
$ 550 one way
Don’t forget—you need two flights—
one to go and one to come back!