HSIE

=Welcome to the Year 4 HSIE page =

=**Places to Visit - Passport Homework Activity**= The link below has information on a long list of places in the local area worth visiting to improve your knowledge of Blacktown and its history. For directions, opening times and other general information click here

=**Coat of Arms Homework Activity**= Activity: Design your own family or suburb Coat of Arms. BEFORE YOU DO... check out Blacktown's Coat of arms and what each part of it represents! Here is information taken from Blacktown Council's Coat of Arms info

Coat Of Arms
In 1979, Blacktown City Council became a City. During that time, Council resolved to investigate the feasibility of establishing its own, "Coat of Arms". This document sets out to provide information about the Blacktown City Council, "Coat of Arms" and to further provide the history about its creation. The Blacktown City Council " Coat of Arms " embraces an Aboriginal head, wattle & boomerang. The shield is supported by a horse and kangaroo and is finished with a kookaburra at the top flanked by a boomerang. The reasons for the inclusion of these features was an agreement following a request made by Blacktown City Council to the Blacktown Historical Society to prepare a submission outlining the history, major features and future aspirations of the City of Blacktown for the purpose of submitting a proposal to the Chester Herald of Arms, College of Arms, London. Obviously, most of the symbols are representative of Australian Native Flora & Fauna and, before colonisation would have been abundant in the Blacktown Area. The Aboriginal head depicts the human population of the area pre - colonisation therefore the boomerang is self explanatory. The horse, more accurately, bush brumby, relates to the years 1810 - 1850 where the breeding of horses was the single most prolific industry in the Blacktown Area.
 * So, how did Council obtain it's 'Coat of Arms'?**
 * Blacktown was proclaimed a City in 1979.
 * A request was made of Mr D. H. B. Chesshyre, Chester Herald of Arms, at the College of Arms, London to design an appropriate Coat of Arms . The first enquiry was made in March, 1979 however the process was not complete until March 1981.
 * At it's meeting April 1st, 1981 Council resolved to adopt the Coat of Arms.