VCAL

Melbourne Gaol

VCAL students attended the Melbourne Gaol on Monday the 6th of June. Students were taken on a tour where they visited Ned Kelly’s cell and were shown where he was hanged.

Students were shown historical artifacts including the ‘silence’ masks which prisoners were forced to wear as a form of isolation.

They were mock ‘arrested’ and thrown into the holding cells, as well as given the chance to act out Elizabeth Scott’s trial – the first hanging in Victoria - using costumes and scripts.

Students were then asked to present the information they learned from the excursion in an oral. Students had to be ‘tour guides’ promoting the gaol (or any other attraction we have visited this year on excursion) to tourists. They needed to describe the historical significance of the attraction, explained the features, describe and explain at least one interesting fact about the attraction.

Students were also assessed on their use of vocab, grammar, tone and oracy skills.

Tanele Spiteri

VCAL Learning Coordinator