The students visited the children's hospital and learned about different areas and roles. They met guides, volunteers, doctors, nurses and other staff. The students brought a gold coin donation to help sick children. They observed offices, medical equipment like x-rays and stethoscopes. They learned about healthy eating and exercise in physiotherapy. The students had an educational tour of the hospital.

1. Our Visit to the
Children’s Hospital
By Year 1

2. At the hospital we met Nicola our
guide and Katinya who is a
volunteer.
We listened carefully to
instructions and learned we must
walk quietly. We should smile and
wave to the patients.
We brought a gold coin to help ba-
bies and children like this who are
sick.
Research can help doctors find out
how to make people better.

3. We saw offices,
asked lots of questions
and heard a story about a girl who did not wear a
helmet when she rode her scooter.

4. We met a doctor and learned about our skeleton and our organs.

5. We used a stethoscope to listen to our heart.

6. Ted and Zelda showed us how surgeons get
ready for an operation.

7. We met a play therapist.
She explains to children what
treatment they will have, where
they will need to go and what will
happen.

8. Next we played
Hospital Bingo ...
until we had the
winners.

9. We looked at X-rays,
a broken arm, a swallowed coin
and a broken leg.
We even saw one of a frog.

10. You need to wear a special
vest.
We met the radiologist who
told us how x-rays are
taken.

11. We had a healthy morning tea in the
Fairy Garden.
Look! Was that a fairy?

12. We visited the Starlight Express Room
and met Captain Starlight and his
helpers.
Sick children can come here for some
fun.

13. We met the dieticians who help children eat the best food for them. Blyth and Angus sorted
healthy food from sometimes food. We met the teacher in the hospital school. Shawn and
Miyazake had to cut paper with the hand they don’t usually use.

14. In Physiotherapy
Mundarra had his
heart rate measured.
He went on the
walking machine and
it went up.
Other children might need different exercises. Sophia put a weight on her leg to make it
stronger. William showed how you might need to play with a ball or jump on a trampoline like
Audrey.

15. We learned so much
in one day!
We’re already
looking forward to
our next excursion.
Year 1 Frogs and
Turtles 2015