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The village is available for school visits and projects.
Please call the village on 07 4696 6309 or visit at 73 Wirraglen Rd Highfields.
HOW TO BOOK YOUR SCHOOL EXCURSION
email: Highfieldspioneervillage@hotmail,com
phone: 07 4696 6309 (hours 10am 4pm)
Cost per pupil $8.00 (this includes morning tea) bring your own lunch
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Program to include Core Segments 1, 2, 3, 4
plus optional segments to suit time available
See following page for risk assessment
HIGHFIELDS PIONEER VILLAGE LIFESTYLE OF THE PIONEERS
CORE PROGRAMME Half hour segments
1 Horse works Corn growing, husking, and cracking for farm use and as a
cash crop. The use of draught horses as a source of power
to work stationary machinery, horse whim demonstration
2 Puppet show Animated wooden toys tell the story of land settlement on
(in the Gallery) the Darling Downs, from 1840 to 1900 (suit all ages)
3 Slab cottage Housing Grinke slab hut and Raatz stone cookhouse
(1889)
(guided tour) home made furniture, hides as carpets, hand made fly screen,
open fire, fountain, vegetable garden, washing machines
4 Damper eating Billy tea, damper, golden syrup at tables in the damper shed
(morning tea)
OPTIONAL Half hour segments (choose maximum of three)
5 Damper making Dough making, open fire cookery in camp ovens
(demonstration)
6 Heritage chapel History and current use of the Meringandan Congregational
Church (1909), conducted inside the chapel
7 Blacksmithing Working with iron - forge and anvil
(demonstration) Horseshoe making
8 Water wisdom water - guttering and tanks, divining for underground water,
(participatory) boring and windmills wood-fired pumps, log stock troughs.
Manually operated geared water pump demo (suit Years 4, 5, 6)
9 Harvesting machines A guided visit to the machinery shed. Stripper, winnower,
thresher, reaper & binder, Harvesters 1838 to early 1900s
10 Southern Cross A guided walk through the Southern Cross Museum
Products made by Toowoomba Foundry 1876-1980s
11 Free time There are many buildings with stationary exhibits to explore
Pupils to be in small groups with an adult
Note: If one of the demonstrators is away sick another segment will be substituted
RISK ASSESSMENT
(1) Activity (2) Hazard (3) Risk (4) Risk level (5) Management
(1) Horse Works (2) Draught horse (3) Contact (4) Low (5)Pupils seated remote from horse
(1) Puppet show (2) None (3) None (4) Nil (5) Pupils seated in gallery
(1) Slab cottage (2) Washing Machine (3) Catch in Ringer (4) Low
(5) Demonstrators standing each side of machine
(1) Damper and Tea (2) Hot beverage (3) Scalding (4) Low
(5) Pupils seated at tablesand tea Tea cooled with milk
(1) Damper (2) Open fire (3) Smoke (4) Low (5) Pupils well back from
making inhalation fire
(1) Heritage (2) None (3) None (4) Nil (5) Pupils seated in chapel
chapel
(1) Blacksmithing (2) Sparks (3) To eyes (4) Low (5) Solid half-wall
preserves distance
(1) Water wisdom (2) Divining wires (3) Jabbing (4) Low (5) Adequate spacing
(1) Harvesting machines (2) Machinery (3) Jostling (4) Low (5) Machinery stationary behind weldmesh
(1) Southern Cross Museum (2) None (3) None (4) Nil (5) Exhibits roped off/No running in building
(1) Free time (2) Mishaps (3) Climbing on railing (4) Low (5) Small groups under adult supervision
