Education

The National Trust runs innovative learning programs and school excursions for students of all ages.

Enjoy an education program at one of our major properties or take a special tour that meets your needs at any one of our many heritage properties throughout Victoria.

Places to go for a school excursion

	Old Melbourne Gaol, Court Room Drama & City Watch House Russell Street between Victoria & Latrobe Streets, Melbourne www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au Bookings line: 8663 7223
The Old Melbourne Gaol Crime and Justice Experience is Melbourne’s legal heritage precinct and has interactive programs for students from Year 5 through to VCE, ESL and tertiary groups. This includes Court Room Dramas, the City Watch House and Old Melbourne Gaol Tours. We have also newly launched the Kelly Quest as a complete day excursion across 3 venues in Melbourne's CBD.

	Como House & Garden corner of Lechlade Avenue and Williams Road, South Yarra. www.comohouse.com.au Bookings line: 8663 7263
Como in South Yarra, one of Australia’s finest historic mansions, provides a glimpse into the indulgent lifestyle of one of Australia’s wealthiest pioneer pastoral families. Our primary program offers a full day of activities including history detectives, a special mansion tour and heritage garden walk. A new VCE Geography field exercise is now available.

	Rippon Lea House & Garden 192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick www.ripponleaestate.com.au Bookings line: 8663 7261
We have developed a new Rippon Lea primary program to help connect students to their past at Rippon Lea, a grand suburban estate and pleasure garden located in Elsternwick. The full day of activities includes an introduction ot the world of work and a time machine experience.

	Gulf Station Melba Highway, Yarra Glen - 1km North of township. www.gulfstation.com.au Bookings Line: 8663 7262
The Bells were pioneering family of farmers in Yarra Glen. Gulf Station offers students from primary to secondary an insight into the struggles and hardships faced by an early rural settlers on a real colonial farm.

	Barwon Grange at Geelong in the Bellarine region is an elegant upper middle class home capturing and conserving an interval of time from 1855 -1856. The Spirit of Time & Place program offers a varied day program for P-Yr 10 students and is fully aligned to VELS.

	You can arrange for your students to visit any one of our many special properties with their unique stories around Melbourne and nearby. Visit the home of an early Port Phillip settler at Mc Crae homestead , or Mulberry Hill the home of Joan Lindsay the writer of Picninc at Hanging Rock.