Syllabus Content Stage 2

History

HT2-2 describes and explains how significant individuals, groups and events contributed to changes in the local community over time

HT2-5 applies skills of historical inquiry and communication

Key inquiry questions:

Who lived here first and how do we know?

How has our community changed? What features have been lost and what features have been retained?

What is the nature of the contribution made by different groups and individuals in the community?

How and why do people choose to remember significant events of the past?

*identify the original Aboriginal languages spoken in the local or regiona area

*identify the special relationship that Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples have to Country and Place

*respond to Aboriginal stories told about Country presented in texts or by a guest speaker

*using a range of sources, describe and explain how and why ONE area, eg transport, work, education, entertainment and daily life, has changed or ONE that has remained the same in the local area, region or state/territory since colonial times

How do the residents of Hall remember significant events of the past? What evidence do you have of this?

Syllabus Stage 2

Geography

ENS2.5

Describes places in the local area and other parts of Australia and explains their significance.

  • names and locates natural, built and heritage features in their local area and evaluates their significance.
  • gives reasons why particular activities may be associated with particular natural, built and heritage features and places, eg states why the railway station is where it is compares ways in which members of the community use features of the local area to meet their needs.
  • uses geographical terminology to describe natural and built features in their local area
  • recognises that Aboriginal nations and boundaries are a way of understanding the Australian continent
  • gathers information about Aboriginal names for geographical features
  • demonstrates an aesthetic awareness of environments, both natural and built

SSS2.7

Describes how and why people and technologies interact to meet needs and explains the effects of these interactions on people and the environment.

  • examines a variety of systems that have been designed to meet needs in communities and identifies the advantages and disadvantages of their use, eg sewerage treatment works, postal system, electricity system
  • examines possible consequences if a system changes in some way, eg if components are missing or break down, if technology improves
  • explains the changes to a system over time and the advantages and disadvantages of these changes, eg shops, market gardens
  • examines some of the goods and services provided within the community and by community organisations to meet needs, eg veterinary surgery, Community Health Service
  • describes how changes in technology have affected lifestyles and the environment, eg media technologies
  • identifies some ways that religious and/or belief systems operate to satisfy needs examines the contributions made by paid and unpaid workers and voluntary organisations in the community
  • describes some ways in which people cooperate with and depend on one another in their work describes ways in which people obtain goods and services in the local community

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When buildings are no longer needed for their original function they may be used for different functions, moved to another place or recycled. When the school closed in 2006 it became the Hall School Museum. Can you find any other buildings that have changed their function?

Map of Hall

Hall St was named after the original settlers Henry and Mary Hall who were granted 3472 acres in the area.

How do you think Bootmakers Lane, Saddlers Lane, Schoolhouse Lane and Victoria St (Clue:Who was the Queen in 1882?)

Hall was registered on the interim ACT Heritage Register in 2001 as an historic rural village with significant social, historic, Aboriginal and natural values. This means that the houses in the village must not be modernised on the outside and development and tree removal are severely restricted.

What would be good about living in a Heritage Register listed village?

What would be bad about living in a Heritage Register listed village?

The original inhabitants of Hall are the Ngunnawal people. Carbon dating at Birrigai shows an occupation of at least 21 000 years. Stone artefacts have been found around Hall demonstrating their use of the area. Dreaming stories about the creator spirit Budjabulya describe how local landscape features were created.

What features of the landscape made Hall a good place for the Ngunnawal and then the white settlers to live?

The Ngunnawal name for Canberra is Koyanberra, which means “meeting place”. The current site of Parliament House was a major meeting place for the different Aboriginal clans.

The Canberra and Hall area was rich in animal and edible and useful plants and had reliable water.

Bogong Moths were an important source of protein and fat for Aboriginal people in this region. The moths were roasted in hot ashes to burn off the wings and legs, and then mashed into a 'moth meat' which had a nutty walnut taste. Aboriginal tribes would gather at the foot of the mountain ranges where a ceremony would be held before breaking into smaller groups to search for bogongs in the rock overhangs and crevices.

Hall was named after the orginal settlers, Henry and Mary Hall who were granted land in 1833. At their homestead Charnwood they raised 11 children.

New inventions make some services or buildings obsolete. What inventions caused Hall to lose the following services?

a)blacksmiths

b)saddlers

c)Manual telephone exchange

d)cobbler

e)Kerosene lanterns

f)McClung well

What energy sources do the residents of Hall use?

Write down the energy source and the evidence you see for it eg gas- gas bottles at shop

Where does the water for Hall come from? (2 sources) What is the evidence for this? Where did it come from?

What jobs can you see in Hall?

Hall once had a saddler, cobbler, school and a hotel as well as the general store. Why doesn’t it have them now?

There is usually a logical reason why town services or buildings are in the places they are. See if you can think of a reason for the positions of the following services/amenities.

a)showground

b)shops

c)cemetery

d)public toilets

e)village reserve

Thinking about Max-Neef’s Human Needs.How does Hall satisfy these needs. Some of these are tricky because you won’t see a particular place. You may need to look at notices or the internet.

1) Survival

2) Protection

3) Affection

4) Understanding

5) Participation

6) Leisure

7)Creation

8)Identity

9) Freedom

Written by Vivian Harris -Teacher Librarian 30/01/2015