Today..bright and early....the Year 13 Geography students from John McGlashan listened to a presentation on Queenstown as a tourism destination. Using annotated maps they tracked the spatial and temporal changes in tourism over time. Divided into three periods the first tourists came in the Victorian era for to marvel at the great outdoors...then came SKIING in the 1950s and package tours....through to ADVENTURE tourism, heli skiing, bungy, jet boating, rafting...in the 1980s.

We hope you have gone away with some useful information for your Level 3 NCEA Geography course and wish you well with your examinations later in the year.

Today, saw more excited students from Cromwell Primary venture through the gorge road to learn about life in the past at the Lakes District Museum!

Students had a great understanding of life during the goldrush when they arrived and hopefully now they know even more! Would you like to be a student in Miss Grey's class? How many difference can you think of when you compare your class with an 1880s classrooom? Would you have survived as a Chinese miner?

We hope you had a good time - we certainly did! Tell us what you liked the best on this blog!!

Today saw the first of the Cromwell Primary visits to the museum to learn all about life in the past!

They completed three activities - exploring the Chinese village and seeing the very small huts they lived in; hunted for different objects from the past in the museum and survived a class with Miss Grey!!

What was your favourite part? would you like Miss Grey as your teacher? do you think you could survive in a Chinese hut?

We really hope you had a good time and look forward to hearing about it on this blog!!

Today saw two Year 4 classes from Remarkables visit the museum and participate in the GOLD programme. Students headed down Buckingham street looking for buildings from the past and discovering where the miners did their shopping, banked their gold and parked (!) their horses - can you remember what that was called? The sun shone brightly as they tried their luck at panning, washing clothes using soap and a washboard and making butter! Students also explored the museum and everyone saw the man on the lavatory!

We hope you had a good time....tell us about it on this blog!

Today saw the Year 5 & 6 students from Remarkables Primary learn all about the GOLD RUSH! Students armed with ipads, digital camera's and lots of energy expanded their knowledge about life on the goldfields.

All part of their gold inquiry they gaining valuable information about historic buildings in Arrowtown which they will be able to use when designing their own gold mining village! Can you remember the two main building materials used? Can you recall the different shops the miners purchased their supplies from?

They also experience life on the goldfields and completing several chores a miner would have to do during their day....would you like to make butter the way the miners had to?

We hope you had a good time...tell us about your visit on this blog!

Today saw the first of three visits by Remarkables Primary school Year 5 & 6 classes. They came to the museum already full of lots of knowledge about life on the goldfields and impressed the educators with their answers!

Students participated in the GOLD programme, three activites about the goldrush of the 1860s. They searched for all things gold in the museum, walked up Buckingham street looking at old buildings from the goldmining era and finally reacted the life of a miner...washing clothes in the freezing Arrow River, digging a long drop, making butter and of course panning for gold!

We hope you had a good time and look forward to hearing your stories on this blog!