Year 3/4

Polly Woodside & Cook's Cottage Excursion

As part of our study of Maritime Exploration and First Contacts in Term 4, Year 4 students have an excursion to Polly Woodside at South Wharf and Cook's Cottage in the Fitzroy Gardens:

• 34F, 34L & 34T on Wednesday 9 October; and 
• 34N, 34R & 34Z on Wednesday 16 October.

Launched in 1885 in Belfast, the Polly Woodside is a three-masted, iron-hulled barque that made 17 trips around the world and operated between Australia and New Zealand. She was used as a coal ship following World War Two, and by 1968 was the last square-rigged deep-water commercial sailing ship still afloat in Australasia, and is now preserved and forms the central feature of the South Wharf precinct. Students will participate in an educational program at Polly Woodside. 

Students will also visit Cook's Cottage in the Fitzroy Gardens in East Melbourne. Originally located in Yorkshire, England, and built by the parents of Captain James Cook, the cottage was brought to Melbourne by Sir Russell Grimwade in 1934. Astonishingly, each brick was individually numbered, packed into barrels and then shipped to Australia.

Excursion information has been published on Compass. Consent and payment is due now and not later than Sunday 6 October for 34F, 34L and 34T, and Sunday 13 October for 34N, 34R and 34Z.