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Warrington Wonder About the Past!

Friday, 29th November 2013

Warrington Wonder About the Past!

Finding gold in the Arrow river!  

  • Warrington Wonder About the Past!Finding gold in the Arrow river!
  • Warrington Wonder About the Past!Playing old fashioned school games during the Historic walk of Arrowtown
  • Warrington Wonder About the Past!Exploring the Huts at the Chinese Settlement
  • Warrington Wonder About the Past!Gold panning at the Arrow River

Denise our educator worked with students from Warrington School on the 28th November. To explore the past this is what these students got up to:

  • A museum visit which included handling artefacts and exploring the museum. Students got to handle a Moa bone and they also got to check out our infamous long drop display!
  • A historic walk of Arrowtown, where Denise took students inside the Old Gaol and taught them different old fashioned school games to play at the Catholic Church.
  • A tour of the Chinese settlement, where students went inside Ah Lums store and learned about the different building materials these huts used.
  • Gold Panning at the Arrow river! Denise taught the students different methods of gold panning, and helped some lucky students even find gold!

What was your favourite part of your visit to Arrowtown?

What was the type of gold that was found in the Arrow river?

What was something new you learned during your museum visit?

Who was Ah Lum?

What did Ah Lum do in New Zealand?

What was your favourite old fashioned school game you played?

Answer my questions and comment about your visit below!


Comments (16)

My favourite thing was panning for gold in the river.

By: Mr Burrow on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:02:20

We liked that We could explore the museum.
We also likened gold panning.

By: Jacob mikey and Harry on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:20:37

I really loved gold panning like the miners did during the goldrush in 1862. William

I liked doing everything during of the tour but my favourite part was gold panning because I found a flake of gold. Oscar

I enjoyed going into the old mining houses. Zack

Gold Panning.
I learnt nearly every thing I know now.
Horse shoes

By: William,Zack,Oscar on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:21:18

My favourite part of arrow town was the museum the gold alluvial gold my favourite old school game was the ball in the hoop

By: Maddy on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:23:51

Our favourite part was looking at all the cool stuff in the arrow town museum!

Our favourite old fashion toy was the rings!

By: Ethan, Eli & Alex on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:26:55

My favourite thing was going to the jail
Ah Lum is a gold miner.

By: Hayley on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:27:13

My favorite part of the museum tour was the cathlioc church
In the arrow river you find alluvial gold
I learnt that schools were very cramped
Ah lum was a Chinese gold miner and shop keeper he could also speak English so he was an important person to the Chinese he also kept their gold safe until they could swap it for money
My favourite old school game was trying to get a ball in to a cup by swing ing it around.

By: Phoebe on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:27:43

Our favourite part was looking at all the cool stuff in the arrow town museum!

Our favourite old fashion toy was the rings!

By: Ethan, Eli & Alex on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:27:52

My favourite thing was going to the jail
Ah Lum is a gold miner.

By Hayley and dion

By: Hayley on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:30:10

My favourite thing was going to the jail
Ah Lum is a gold miner.

By: Hayley on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:33:33

We liked that We could explore the museum.
We also likened gold panning.

By: Jacob mikey and Harry on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:33:42

My favorite part of the museum tour was the cathlioc church
In the arrow river you find alluvial gold
I learnt that schools were very cramped
Ah lum was a Chinese gold miner and shop keeper he could also speak English so he was an important person to the Chinese he also kept their gold safe until they could swap it for money
My favourite old school game was trying to get a ball in to a cup by swing ing it around.

By: Phoebe on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:34:01

This is such a tour this place is definitely one of my favourite places in arrow town!

By: Phoebe on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:39:40

My fav thing was the museum cause I had a crazy fear of dummy's and my friend phoebe had been there before so I always asked her when the dummy's were near by cause I was so scared then she showed me the long drop dummy I looked it in the eye then I smiled then laugh now I love dummy's :-).
P.s I'm the one who held the moa bone!!!!!

By: Myah on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:57:39

My favourite old fashioned game was the rings.

By: Zack on Monday, 2nd December 2013 @ 14:57:48

WOW! It sounds like you all had a great time with Denise when you visited us last week!

We are so impressed with how much you learned during your visit, especially about Ah Lum!

We hope you come back and visit again soon!

By: HandsonHistory on Tuesday, 3rd December 2013 @ 15:17:18