Primary school pupils from Trinity Anglican College at Thurgoona are exploring migrant experiences and preparing to build their own heritage collections through a project run by Lysa Dealtry, an Early Childhood education Honours student from Charles Sturt University. Ms Dealtry will lead a field trip to the Bonegilla Migrant Museum at the Albury Regional Museum on Monday (27 November). An important part of the project is the “explore-a-box”, which contains items from the Bonegilla Collection. Ms Dealtry, a descendant of migrant parents and grandparents, is conducting her Honours research project on the teaching and learning that takes place in the classroom. Earlier this year, she was awarded a $5 000 fellowship from the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and the NSW Migration Heritage Centre to develop a mobile display to raise community awareness of migrants and their heritage and identity. The “explore-a-box” resource will be available for use by local school teachers in 2007.