Stage 3
![Students sitting on the hillside, creating a watercolour painting of the view towards the Blue Mountains.](https://images.mhnsw.au/fotoweb/embed/2024/03/22fd8794cae64a46b53b0c926fda2dc2.jpg)
Onsite
A Colonial Eye
Students investigate the role of artists during the early colonial period and consider how they contributed to the development of the colony
![Two girls dressed in costume in large dormitory style room.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/bcbccfe4e0f34c9c9f1f37d8f4bf70f3.jpg)
Virtual Excursion
A new home: female migrants at the Barracks
Learn about female Irish orphans who migrated to Australia in the 1800s and stayed at the Hyde Park Barracks
![Woman in vdieo with overlay of activity sheet.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/ff4e3cb53a34446f8a2e51aba73fa5d5.jpg)
Activity: draw a convict from an indent
Watch this short video and learn how to use an original Convict Indent listing to draw a real convict
![Kneeling man farewelling seated woman.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/0e610fd4c5a0473288acd49504a8ef1c.jpg)
Activity: make your own convict love token
Learn about convict love tokens and some of the convicts at the Hyde Parks Barracks
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Onsite
Bailed Up!
Students explore the impact of the gold rush on law and order in the colony of NSW, and of bushrangers on the Australian identity
![Child convicts of Australia - Chapter 1 Transportation and the First Fleet](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/bdb10f26dc7f42458766ab0f3ca87345.jpg)
Child convicts of Australia
For more than 50 years, convicts were transported from Britain to New South Wales. These included children as young as nine years of age
![Illustration of goldfields with figures dressed in Chinese-style clothing working.](https://images.slm.com.au/fotoweb/embed/2022/12/d10f663c206440ce8a196403f8d8cce3.jpg)
Chinese on the goldfields
By the early 1850s, news of a gold rush in Australia sparked an influx in Chinese migration to Australia.