Library Guides: COVID-19 Community History: Overview

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Preserving your school community's history and experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic for future generations.

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COVID-19 Community history | Overview: Introduction

In 2020 Mentone Girls' Grammar School, along with the rest of Australia, was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The School stayed open but students, other than students whose parents were essential workers, learned remotely from home.

During the 1918-1919 Spanish flu pandemic the School was closed but we have very little history from this period. This community history project is designed to capture our history and stories from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown so it is available for future generations. The focus is on: what happened, how did we respond, how did we come together as community, how did we feel, what did we create, and what did we learn.

Explore the collections located in the left hand menu and use the contribution form to add your experience to your school's history.

COVID-19 Community history | Overview: Announcements

COVID-19 Community history | Overview: Online resources

Many of the items and artifacts featured in this community history are housed in the Mentone Girls' Grammar School digital archives social history collection. See the following link for details.

Mentone Girls' Grammar School Digital Archives
Mentone Girls' Grammar School Digital Archives showcases the remarkable people and events that make up over 120 years of girls' education. Please note: access to some collections are open to the public, while other collections require a mConnect or Mentone Girls' Grammar School community login.

#Kingstoniso Project
Capturing local experiences of COVID-19 for the Kingston Local History collection.
Memory Bank: the collective isolation project (State Library of Victoria, n.d.)
"Memory Bank is a long-term collecting project that invites you to share your everyday observations of pivotal moments in time.... each week [the State Library is] going to invite you, our citizen collectors, to undertake a specific task or respond to a prompt. (State Library of Victoria, n.d.)
Bridging the Distance (National Museum Australia, n.d.)
"The National Museum is inviting Australians to share their experiences, stories, reflections and images of the COVID-19 pandemic.... Bridging the Distance — Sharing our COVID-19 Pandemic Experiences is a national conversation about an event which is already a defining moment in our nation’s history." (National Museum Australia, n.d.)
A journal of the plague year: an archive of COVID-19
An international curatorial collaborative platform to "share your experience and impressions of how CoVid19 has affected our lives, from the mundane to the extraordinary, including the ways things haven't changed at all." (A journal of the plague year: an archive of COVID-19, n.d.)
COVID-19 Educational Disruption and Responses (UNESCO, n.d.)
"The number of children, youth and adults not attending schools or universities because of COVID-19 is soaring. Governments all around the world have closed educational institutions in an attempt to contain the global pandemic(link is external). According to UNESCO monitoring, over 100 countries have implemented nationwide closures, impacting over half of world’s student population. Several other countries have implemented localized school closures and, should these closures become nationwide, millions of additional learners will experience education disruption. UNESCO is providing immediate support to countries as they work to minimize the educational disruption and facilitate the continuity of learning, especially for the most vulnerable." (UNESCO, n.d.)

COVID-19 Community history | Overview: Curriculum alignment

This Mentone Girls' Grammar School LibGuide supports the following Victorian curriculum outcomes. Click on the links to explore more.

History / Levels 3 and 4 / Historical knowledge / Community, remembrance & celebrations [VCHHK073]
A significant example of change and a significant example of continuity over time in the local community, region or state/territory

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Elaborations:
* investigating changes and continuity in relation to transport, work, education, natural and built environments, entertainment and daily life
* investigating a development in the local community from the time of European settlement to the present day, for example, through photographs, newspapers, oral histories, diaries and letters
* comparing key similarities and differences in photographs from both the past and present of a specific location to identify change or continuity
Learning in History | Historical concepts and skills
In the History curriculum, students have the opportunity to develop historical understanding through the application of the following historical concepts and skills:
• sequencing chronology
• using historical sources as evidence
• identifying continuity and change
• analysing causes and effect, and
• determining historical significance.
These concepts and skills are fundamental in giving the discipline of history its structure.

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COVID-19 Community history | Overview: Introduction

Explore the collections located in the left hand menu and use the contribution form to add your experience to your school's history.

COVID-19 Community history | Overview: Announcements

COVID-19 Community history | Overview: Online resources

COVID-19 Community history | Overview: Curriculum alignment