Education

Jondaryan Woolshed is a great resource for teachers providing an adventure in learning beyond the classroom. The experience offered by a real place, with real objects and the stories of real people introduces students to the Heritage experience through primary sources: the woolshed, the Jondaryan property and village, animals and artefacts from the lives of the people who lived and worked in and around the Woolshed.

One of the buildings in the Jondaryan Woolshed's historic village is the Woodview State School.

Education programs are based on enquiry and critical thinking and encourage students to make connections between the past and the present in a way that encourages them to actively participate in their own learning. The approach to constructing experiences ensures that mind (cognitive), body (psycho-motor) and spirit (affective) are actively engaged.

Jondaryan Woolshed School Programs are directly linked to the P-10 Curriculum Guidelines for Queensland Schools and cover a broad range of subjects across the various age groups.

Jondaryan Woolshed presents the story of the woolshed from the perspective of traditional cultural history, science and human interaction. To gain the most from your visit prepare students before you arrive by accessing our on-line Teacher and Student resources.

The staff at the Jondaryan Woolshed endeavour to respond to individual and specific requests for information, resource materials and programs.

A THOUGHT

"Every child ought to be made to understand not only something of the world in which he lives, but something of the inheritance from the past to which he is born.

"He cannot take his place worthily as a citizen unless he realises that his life is part of a great stream of national life that has been running for a thousand years, and that this national life is a slow-won civilisation that has been many millenniums in the making.

"To get a child to feel the organic relation of life today with life of the past as a much greater thing, because the facts may only bury his faculties under heaps of stone; but the historic sense, if born in him, is a permanent enlargement of his life, kindling imagination, enriching experience, inspiring character."

William Charles Braithwaite (1909)