'Crime' Tour

On the 9th of March 2021, one of our Year 12 VCAL classes organised a literacy excursion for our semester theme of ‘Crime’. 

We headed to Melbourne to take on an Escape Room experience as well as a Cold Case Crime Tour around Melbourne.

We caught the train early in the morning and we headed to Flinders Street Station where our walk was to start. The tour guide met us at Federation Square and he then took us all through Melbourne stopping at many different places such as restaurants, alley ways and stores which had all different crimes and events that related to the area. The walk went for around two hours and we learnt about the interesting darker history of Melbourne, dating back to the early 1800’s. 

We will now use the information we gathered to write our Cold Case Crime Informative Report.

Once we finished the walk we then made our way to the Escape Room at Lost. Here we had 60 minutes locked in a series of rooms, working together to find different clues and hints that eventually led us to escaping the room. It was really quite tricky and we really had to work together to successfully solve the clues; but we did have a little bit of help from the assistant. We managed to escape the room with four minutes to spare. We then started the journey back home.

Overall we had an informative and interactive day where we got to hear about Cold Case Crimes in the CBD and we then worked together in a fun and challenging way to escape later at Lost.

Abbey Grimaud