The Board’s K–6 website has some excellent resources that can be used to enhance the teaching of HSIE. Click here to view useful links to exhibitions, texts, websites, organisations and other useful contacts.

In addition, the Board’s K–6 website contains Primary Background Sheets. They relate to Stage 2 – British colonisation of Australia, Stage 3 – Gold! and Stage 3 – Australian democracy. Topics covered are:

1. Brief profiles of significant people
2. European exploration in the Northern Hemisphere 1488­–1664
3. Overview of European exploration in the Southern Hemisphere 1567–1772
4. Exploration within the region: Stage 2 ­– British colonisation of Australia
5. Conditions in England in the 1780s: Stage 2 – British colonisation of Australia
6. Letter: `My dear husband ...', Janet Kincaid: Stage 2 – British colonisation of Australia
7. Convicts: An alternative look: Stage 2 – British colonisation of Australia
8. Incidents between Aboriginal people in NSW and the British colonisers 1770–1792: Stage 2 – British colonisation of Australia
9. Incidents between Aboriginal people in NSW and the British colonisers 1792–1809: Stage 2 – British colonisation of Australia
10. Incidents between Aboriginal people in NSW and the British colonisers 1810–1822: Stage 2 – British colonisation of Australia
11. The Gold Rush 1823–96: Stage 3 – Gold!
12. Towards NSW representative Government: Stage 3 – Australian democracy
13. Tracing the history of citizenship and rights for Indigenous people.

The resources are relevant to the current syllabus and will be applicable when the new syllabuses are introduced. They also provide opportunities for cross curriculum integration with new and existing syllabuses.

In 2016 K–6 schools will start teaching the new History syllabus in place of the Continuity and Change strand in the existing HSIE K–6 Syllabus. However, schools have the option to implement the new syllabus a year early in 2015.

For more information, contact:
Christine Taylor
Board Inspector, Primary
christine.taylor@bos.nsw.edu.au
(02) 9367 8199