There’s nothing like the chance to impress your schoolmates with fine work, and that’s precisely what Year 5/6 students at Cobram Anglican Grammar School have done.
On Thursday, September 11, students donned their best historical garb and proudly displayed various dioramas, created as part of a class assignment, to schoolmates, teachers and parents.
For Year 6 student Kadeyn Duggan and the rest of his classmates, the project came with lots to learn about Australia’s colonial history and one particular character: namely, for Kadeyn, the 19th-century Ballarat gold miner John Dunlop.
“He discovered Ballarat. Well, Aboriginals discovered it, but he made it sort of famous and discovered gold there,” Kadeyn said.
Unfortunately for Mr Dunlop, as his 21st-century likeness explained, fame and wealth can be but fleeting delights.
“He tried to keep it a secret, and he did for a week, until someone followed him,” Kadeyn said.
“Then everyone started going there and made it a town.”