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Year 9C, 9D, 9E, 9I and 9J attended Sovereign Hill in Ballarat as part of our humanities classes.
The students during the day all went down the Quartz Mine to learn about working conditions and how gold is found.
Whilst they were exploring Sovereign Hill they also took the chance to see how immigration affected the gold fields. All classes had the opportunity to see a Gold Pour as well.
The sweet shop at Sovereign Hill was also a huge hit with our boys!
All of this information is being used in their Humanities classes to apply their understanding of the content in Year 9 History. The remaining 5 classes are attending this excursion in May.
This is what one of our boys said about the trip:
“Our favourite part of the Sovereign Hill trip was the Mine Tour. This is because it showed us what it was like to be a miner during the gold period. We also learnt interesting facts along the way and got to see a very big gold nugget.” Liam N
