School Excursions in Newcastle
/School’s back and it’s a great time to start planning educational and fun excursions for your students. Get them out of the classroom and into the real world with educational excursions by Newcastle Afoot so they can experience lessons firsthand in a dynamic and fun way.
We have a range of excursions that show your students the significance of place, let them experience old and new side by side, immerse themselves in different environments and engage with their learning hands-on.
All of our curriculum-linked walking tours have been developed in close consultation with academic educators and practising classroom teachers to ensure that they cover student learning outcomes from kindergarten to Year 12.
Geography
Our tours are designed to help your students connect with geography in a hands-on experience in the many environments of Newcastle Harbour. They’ll discover Newcastle’s natural environment and urban renewal in the ultimate outdoor classroom.
Perfect for Stages 1- 6, our curriculum-linked walking tours will let your students investigate the significance of place, explore different environments and ecosystems and understand their own impact and place.
Our range of Geography excursions in Newcastle includes:
Stage 1 Old and New Newcastle Features of Places; People and Places
Stage 2 Creek Creatures The Earth’s Environments and Places are Similar and Different
Stage 2 Muloobinba Wander Places are Similar and Different
Stage 3 Change and Connection Factors that Shape Places
Stage 4 Liveable City Landscapes and Landforms; Place and Liveability; Interconnections
Stage 5 Shaping Sands Environmental Change and Management
Stage 5 Urban Newcastle Changing Places
Stage 6 Renewing Newcastle Urban Places (Urban Dynamics)
The significance of place
Places hold significance to individuals, communities and the environments that surround them. Our school excursions lead your students through Newcastle’s range of environments, historical memorials and modern sites of significance to let them investigate a range of places and identities.
With activities, stories and exploration we want to help your students learn to identify the features of places, investigate the differences and similarities between them and understand how humans shape the spaces around us.
One city, many environments
Our walking tours take advantage of Newcastle’s diverse range of environments to show your students how interwoven natural and urban areas are. They can explore the mangroves along Throsby Creek, the coastal systems of Newcastle East, and urban environments in the city itself.
With case studies, historical art, and lots of activities, your students will be able to investigate the ways that these environments interact, influence and rely on each other. They will be able to see firsthand the ways that these environments have changed and the ways we manage them.
History
Newcastle is a city filled to the brim with history and it has evolved several identities over its lifetime. It’s a place where old and new can be seen side by side. Watch your students walk through time and experience Newcastle’s unique history with Newcastle Afoot’s history excursions.
Your students will be immersed in the history of the Awabakal and Worimi peoples, first contact and colonisation, early convict life, the industries that shaped the city and its modern renewal.
Our range of history excursions in Newcastle includes:
Stage K Our Place Personal and Family Histories
Stage 1 Old and New Newcastle The Past in the Present, Present and Past Family Life
Stage 2 Muloobinba Wander First Contacts and Community and Remembrance
Stage 3 From Rough to Ready The Australian Colonies (19th Century), Australia as a Nation
Stage 4 Contact History Depth Study 6: Aboriginal and Indigenous Peoples, Colonisation and Contact History
Stage 5 Newcastle’s Place in the Modern World Site Study: The Modern World and Australia
Learn lessons from the past
Our tours are designed to immerse your students in the past lives, events and stories that have shaped the Hunter Region and Australia, right where they happened.
On a Newcastle Afoot educational tour, your students will explore and engage with historical sites and memorials like the Nobbys Head / Whibayganba headland, the Convict Lumber Yard and Newcastle’s historic station. Watch as your students learn to identify the history surrounding them and understand why and how we choose to commemorate the past.
A city reinvented
Taking their knowledge of the past, your students will be able to understand how our history often influences the changes we create in our present. Newcastle’s unique history is still being written and An excursion with Newcastle Afoot will help your students understand their place in the tale.
Through stories, observation and experiences, your students will be able to employ their classroom lessons to real-world history. Noting the changes to the city as Newcastle reinvented its identity throughout time and exploring the influence, commemoration and erasure of our past by our present.
Our passionate and dedicated team believe Newcastle is an incredibly unique place for hands-on and immersive learning. Let Newcastle Afoot ensure your school excursion is a fun, educationnal and engaging experience for any year group.
Looking to book an informative and immersive history excursion for your students, click the button below and enquire and/or tentatively hold your preferred date.
The Newcastle Afoot Education program is proudly supported by our major sponsors, the Hunter and Central Coast Development Corporation.
