The small school’s Year 5 and 6 students have been exploring Australia’s Gold Rush past this term and dressed in period costume as goldminers on Thursday.

Their teacher and principal Andrew Rodgers said the dress-up day was the culmination of the unit. 

The unit included a gold game where the 19 students were mining and making gold, getting fines and buying shops on the goldfields once they had made enough money.

They then spent gold at shops and received chance cards along the way.

Mr Rodgers said the students took it so seriously that when the bushranger chance card appeared and bushrangers stole all their gold, the students nearly organised a riot.

“They took it very seriously and worked really hard,” he said.

The dress-up day included gold panning, cooking damper with golden syrup and playing “olden day” games.

“It was a great way to engage them,” Mr Rodgers said.

“The dress-up day was a friendly, fun way to finish off a unit that they’ve been really enthusiastic about.”