Students from the Diggers Rest Primary School stepped back in time to find out what it was like at the first school house.
What happened that day...
When we got there, the train came and half of the grade was on one side of the crossing and the other half was on the other side. Charlie said that he rode to school on a horse....Matt
On Friday the Grade 3 /4’s went to the old school house. On the way there, we were half way through the train crossing. The train was about to come. Most of us were on the other side, but some of us got stuck on the other. When we got there Charlie and Betty were there talking to us about their school life. My favourite part was when he told us that they used to ride horses to school and sometimes he was kicked off by his cousins. Then he had to walk home!.....Sophie
On Friday we went to the old school house. I learnt that Charlie went to school on his cousin’s horse. There were 20kids when Charlie started school. They used to write with an ink pen….Hannah
I learnt that the old school house was built in 1882. Charlie’s dad’s principal had Anderson in his blood. Harry Houdini flew over Diggers Rest. Diggers Rest was named after where the diggers rested on the way to the gold fields….William
We went to the old school on Friday. Matt, Hannah, Simone and I got stuck on the other side. We met Charlie. He is a nice person. We got to look around the old school house….Noelle
On Friday we went to the old school. There was a guy there. His name was Charlie. When he was little, he had to write with an ink pen. Charlie did not have a horse, but his cousins lived close by and they had a horse. They kicked him off the horse….Jaymee
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We went to the old school house on Friday. Charlie told us about the school in the old days. Charlie let us look around. When Charlie was little, there were too many people on the horse, so they pushed Charlie off the horse….Carter
On Friday we went to the old school house. It is next to a sign where an American digger was buried. It is also next to a plane showing the first flight. Charlie told us that if you were naughty, you would put your hands out and the teacher would smack your knuckles with a ruler….Daniel
On Friday grade 3 /4 went on an excursion to the old school house. We learnt heaps of information from Charlie and Betty Watson about the old school house. I learnt that he rode a horse to school with his 2 cousins….Cara
Last Friday we went to the old school house. Charlie told us about when he was going to school and coming back from school. If Charlie was naughty, he would get dropped off at the corner and he had to walk back….Kayla
Last Friday we went to the old school house. Charlie Watson was there. The boom gate closed and half of the grade was on one side and the other half was on the other side. I loved the old school house…Lisa
On Friday we went to the old school house and saw Charlie and his wife. Charlie used to go to the school when he was a kid. Charlie told us that at the start, school finished at 3:30pm. When we were walking, there we were crossing the train tracks when the boom gates went down! We were only half way across! It was really fun!....Kirsty
When we went to the old school house, we learnt lots of things. Firstly, if you were bad, you would have to out your hand on the table and you would get hit on the knuckles. On the way to the old school house, we saw Harry Houdini’s plane. It wasn’t his real plane though. When Charlie was at school, he had no homework…Robert
It was a terrific day organised by teacher, Lyra Benbow
