Adelaide Gaol offers education tours mapped to the Australian Curriculum and SACE.
Adelaide Gaol offers education tours mapped to the Australian Curriculum and SACE.
Guided education tours run for 60 minutes. Please arrive 10 minutes before your booking time so tours can start promptly. Tours are interactive. Early and primary school tours emphasise life as a prisoner inside Adelaide Gaol, middle years are based around a Poetry Slam competition where students compose Haikus and the senior secondary tour culminates in a subject-specific debate.
All students have the opportunity to explore the gaol yards and cells, touch artefacts such as handcuffs and escape ropes, and contemplate South Australia’s dark history.
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Our OSHC Great Escape Program is a kinesthetic, play-based day out. Children are split into teams and rotate through four activity areas to experience and learn about life at Adelaide Gaol.
OSHC Staff will be given maps and activity sheets to lead children between the activity areas. Children rotate around four activity areas, spending 30 minutes in each area. One of the areas includes eating lunch (students bring their own lunch).
Our Early Years Education Tours are kinesthetic, play-based activities where students participate in Adelaide Gaol's 'Guard in the Yard' (it's our take on the Christmas 'Elf on the Shelf'). Children follow a magical puppet guard who hides in each yard and tells them interesting things about the gaol.
Our Primary Education Tours are interactive and allow students to experience what it would have been like as a prisoner at Adelaide Gaol. Let you Years 3-7 students explore one of South Australia's oldest Colonial buildings.
Our Middle Years Education Tours are interactive and structured around teams finding inspiration to write Haiku poems to present in a poetry slam competition held in the Visitor Centre at the end of the tour.
Our Secondary Education Tours are interactive and structured around teams finding evidence to defend their position in a debate which is held in the Visitor Centre at the end of the tour. Tours are mapped to SACE curriculum subjects: English, Legal Studies, Modern History, Nutrition, Philosophy, Psychology, Outdoor Education, Society and Culture.
Education tour cost
A standard $86 fee applies for the 60 minute education program
| Type | Price (per person) |
|---|---|
| Primary and Secondary student | $8.50 |
| Tertiary student and Adult | $14.00 |
| Adult | $14.50 |
| Carer | Free |
*Guided and self-guided programs are available Monday-Friday 10am-4pm. A minimum of 10 guests is required to secure an education tour booking.
Please note these fees are only applicable when booking a Guided Education Tour. Self-guided fees are available here.
Free of charge (FOC)
DECD defined ratios for teachers/supervisors
| Learning band | FOC ratio |
|---|---|
| Preschool | 1 FOC to 6 paying students |
| Reception to Year 2 | 1 FOC to 6 paying students |
| Year 3 to Year 7 | 1 FOC to 10 paying students |
| Secondary/tertiary | 1 FOC to 15 paying students |
| Out of school hours care (OSHC) | 1 FOC to 8 paying students (Pre-school aged children) |
| Ratios are set by the Education Standards Board. | 1 FOC to 15 paying students (School-aged children) |
