Student Work Samples

Your students' participation in the Sovereign Hill Costumed School is not a stand-alone experience. It is an important part of your unit of study into the gold rush.

Sovereign Hill School relishes the opportunity to facilitate a professional network of teachers who utilise the Costumed School experience to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom. By uploading student work samples and teaching documents to this site, your ideas may well be an inspiration to others.

If you would like to be a part of this network, please send photographs and/or teaching and learning documents to sovereign.hill.sch@education.vic.gov.au

Please ensure that:

the appropriate permissions are obtained from parents/carers, students, staff and school leadership to publish photographs and units of work on this site
students are not identifiable e.g. full names
you follow your school's policies and practices regarding student privacy and the uploading of photographs and student work samples

Note: the link to this site is sent to school coordinators and is found on the Sovereign Hill Museum website. Please be mindful of this as you submit documents and photographs.

sample character profile 1.pdf

sample character profile 2.pdf

sample character profile 3.pdf

Character Profiles

Students are encouraged to think about the character they will be portraying by writing a Character Profile. This is best completed after reading/watching Bound for the Colonies and active involvement in the subsequent class discussion and explicit teaching. Some students may require support with this task. You'll find sample Character Profiles to the left.

Letter Writing

After viewing Bound for the Colonies, and prior to their Costumed School experience, students think about the role they will play. With explicit teacher instruction, students complete a character profile (see the Pre-visit Activities tab). This is emailed to the Costumed School to support the development of a program that suits each school's needs and to offer students the opportunity to have voice and agency.

Some schools also ask students to further develop their character believing that this deeper dive into the life of an 1850's child will help prepare their students for the experience.

Thanks to Bea and Hannah from Ballarat Grammar for sharing their letters with us.

Bea's letter.pdf

Hannah's letter.pdf

Reflection of the Costumed School experience

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