Australian nurses (primary)

This resource is for primary students. Secondary students will find resources here.

Australian nurses have been serving in war for over 100 years. The Memorial is honouring their service in a special exhibition, Nurses: from Zululand to Afghanistan.  From 16 February 2013 to 27 August 2015, the exhibition will be travelling
around Australia.  

We have developed the following activities for Australian primary school students in line with the themes of National curriculum in history.

Part 1: Curriculum and skills

• Curriculum links: Year 6 (41.01 KB)
  (423Kb PDF file)
• Historical skills (123.61 KB)
  (124Kb PDF file)
• In the beginning: Florence Nightingale (312.31 KB)
  (323Kb PDF file)

Part 2: Boer War

• Introduction to the Boer War (1899-1902) (545.53 KB)
   (550Kb PDF file)
• What was it like in the Boer War? (732.17 KB)
  (733Kb PDF file)
• Matron "Bessie" Pocock (608.1 KB)
  (323Kb PDF file)

Part 3: First World War

• Introduction to the First World War (1914–1918) (808.33 KB)
  (748Kb PDF file)
• What was it like in the First World War? (933.7 KB)
  (934Kb PDF file)
• Sister Rachael Pratt (453.34 KB)
  (545Kb PDF file)

Part 4: Second World War

• Introduction to the Second World War (1939-1945) (383.3 KB)
  (3488Kb PDF file)
• What was it like in the Second World War? (1.25 MB)
  (1282Kb PDF file)
• Sister "Betty" Jeffrey (769.32 KB)
  (721Kb PDF file)

Part 5: Nurses’ activities

• Online activities (354.33 KB)
  283Kb PDF file)
• Examine the source online activity (386.18 KB)
  (348Kb PDF file)
• Nurses’ uniforms and activities (599.33 KB)
  (600Kb PDF file)
• We served too... (568.92 KB)
  (569Kb PDF file)
• Nurses in art (516.94 KB)
  (517Kb PDF file)
• Nurses in poetry (278.4 KB)
  (266Kb PDF file)
• We will remember them (280.23 KB)
  (281Kb PDF file)
• Glossary ( (208.09 KB)
  (209Kb PDF file)
• Bibliography and resources (247.78 KB)
  (248Kb PDF file)