Our Year 5 students have spent the past two days attending the Sovereign Hill Costumed School experiencing life and schooling in a Goldfields school of the 1850’s. The costumed school experience is tailored to Year 5 and 6 students. As part of this program students were given the rare opportunity to go behind the scenes in many of the Sovereign Hill businesses and experience first-hand life on the diggings. The two day excursion is an important part of our school curriculum, particularly in the light of the Year 5 history focus on ‘Early Colonisation and the Goldfields’.