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• TLF-IDL471

Take photos as you move around a school. Find Chinese characters hidden near the things they represent. Notice they are compound characters that share a common radical. Discover the related meanings of each set of characters. Sort all of the characters according to their common radicals. Identify the general pattern that ...

• TLF-IDR2748

This is an excerpt from a 1925 silent black-and-white documentary entitled 'The rising generation'. It opens with the intertitles 'In South Australia the Government provides a liberal education for every child' and 'Each year ten thousand fresh young scholars enter the Public Schools of South Australia'. The intertitles ...

• TLF-IDR3615

This is an oil painting on canvas, measuring 46.0 cm x 61.2 cm, and painted by the Australian colonial artist Nicholas Chevalier (1828-1902) in 1863. It shows a river valley dominated by hills and a rugged escarpment. The time is possibly late afternoon, and shadows have cloaked the river banks in the foreground to the ...

• TLF-IDR3742

This is an 1898 landscape painting of a valley, seen in the evening, by the late 19th-century artist Sydney Long (1871-1955). It measures 91.5 cm x 61.2 cm. The viewpoint is from a hillside, looking down the valley towards a rising moon, which has just appeared over the rim of a distant mountain range. A river (the Hawkesbury ...

• TLF-IDR7880

This is a black-and-white photograph showing a group of nine children on the veranda of the Special Provisional School at Myora (Moongalba) on North Stradbroke Island near Brisbane in Queensland. The school is a single-storey building elevated on wooden stumps with a pitched roof made from wooden shingles. This image first ...

• TLF-IDR8217

This painting by Imants Tillers is a much bigger copy of a painting by Eugène von Guérard, 'North-east view from the northern top of Mount Kosciusko' (1863). It shows a panorama from the summit of Mt Kosciuszko, Australia's highest mountain. Against large sunlit patches of old snow amid rocky outcrops and spring grass two ...

• TLF-IDM002375

This is a black-and-white photograph showing Father Christmas arriving at the Watson family's Christmas Party at South Yarra Primary School. A Christmas tree is set up in a bin behind Father Christmas. The Watsons held the party for their entire family at the school. The photograph was taken in December 1945. The image ...

• TLF-IDM006541

Rowley is working to complete his 1,000 good deeds so that his father will return to the family. He collects horse manure for the market gardeners and firewood for the woman who runs the laundry. He and his friend, Tom Müller, climb the tree to spy on the private school students who are practising to become soldiers.

• TLF-IDM017922

For Timmy Watson, living in a remote community in the Northern Territory is as good as it gets. But there's one drawback: the need to go to boarding school during the final years of secondary school. Find out more in Timmy's Heywire audio story. Could you write or record a story about yourself and/or your community? The ...

• TLF-IDM018094

What was the first day of school like for your parents? This clip shows a group of children arriving at school with their parents in 1974.