Our Day Trip to the Brunner Mine Site

  

 

Hello.  This week on Monday 18th we went to the Brunner Mine Site for a school trip. We learnt heaps out there.  

One thing I learnt was that they also made coke from the little pieces of coal out there.  We saw the coke oven and where they used to make bricks.

After morning tea we dressed up as people being sad when the mine exploded for photos.  We also acted out scenes from the book "The Mine's Afire!" which is about the Brunner Mine Disaster in 1895. 

We had lunch out there and then we went to the cemetery where most of the miners from the disaster were buried.

My favourite activity was going on the bush walk because i like walking in the bush and seeing the mine entrance for the coke and clay for the bricks.

The Mines Afire Prediction

For this week we are beginning our study on the Brunner Mine Disaster.  As part of this we are going to be reading the novel, The Mines Afire.  Next Monday we are going to the Brunner Mine Site for a school trip so we are preparing for it. I like this topic we are working on.