b'The Great Eastern Mail SEPTEMBER 23, 2022 21school talkBy St Brendans CatholicYear 5 Sovereign Hill CampPrimary School EARLIER this month the year five students from St BrendansAura Light Show also explained how candlesGold Pouring back in 1851, looking for gold. Catholic Primary School wentOne of the best activities wewere made back in the 1850s.When we went to camp, one ofWe went into this big room on their camp to Sovereigndid whilst on camp was theSome of our class paid to dipthe activities was watching theand on the rocks, there was Hill. Our school has attendedAura Light Show. The namea candle in their favouritegold pouring. a hologram of a story about this camp for many years, andmight be confusing, but Ill tellcolours. We all enjoyed the We saw an Industrialtwo Chinese brothers and as you can tell from the articlesyou what it means. experience and the history ofBlacksmith talking abouttheir journey finding gold in below, it is still leaving a strongAn Aura Light Show is ancandles.how he needs to put mercurythe underground mines of impression with our students. outdoor activity where youAfter we saw the candleand gold together into aBallarat. Hill Mine Tour was a really watch a story happen or itdemonstration we made our1200-degree furnace to makeAfter watching and listeningfun experience for us all, and Gold Panningcould be an indoor 3D theatreway to confectionery makinga 24k carat gold nugget. It tookto the story we travelled byit showed us how much hard Whilst on camp one of theand a live action movie as well.where we saw a man make1 hour to smelt, which is liketram back to the surface. work it took to be gold mining activities was gold panning.It told us the story of how goldSovereign Hill s most favouritemelting the gold. He said he By Aaliyah Jackisch. with a very small chance of There was a man who showedmining and panning evolvedsweet, the raspberry drops.smelts the gold about 11 timesbecoming rich.us how to pan for gold. Weat Ballarat. He made a batch of raspberrya day. The nugget was donatedRed Hill Mine Tour By Sierra Lazzarottodug the rocks and sand out ofIt was one of my favouritedrops and rolled them intoto Sovereign Hill many yearsAt camp, one of the activities the bottom of the creek intothings that I experienced onthe mould. He explainedago and costs about $250,000.we all enjoyed was the Red HillJump and Climbour pan. We moved the pancamp. It lasted for around anthe process from start to By Nathan Nguyen andMine Tour. We climbed downOn our way home from underneath the water andhour and a half. finish of how they make theLochie Yates to a dark indoor track whereSovereign Hill, we stopped at removed some rocks.We also got from the 3Dconfectionery. In the end ourwe were underground. It wasTraralgon and went to Jump The gold would stay on thetheatre to the Aura Light Showclass got to enjoy a sweet treatThe Secret Chamber really cool, there were voicesand Climb. When we entered bottom, because it was heavier,by a type of tram? It was ato end our fun experience.Year five camp was awesome!of a man guiding us throughthe car park of Jump and and we were sometimes leftfantastic feeling! I really feel By Mia Hamer But one thing that I enjoyedthe mine.Climb, everyone was getting with little flecks of gold. Someyou should go to Sovereignthe most was The SecretWhen we were almostreally excited, and they all tried of us found flecks of goldHill as well; it is so much funChamber. finished there was a hologramgetting off the bus first. and brought a small bottle toand there are loads of activitiesThe Secret Chamber isof this fake person who lookedWe lined up to get our socks keep them in. We all enjoyedto do there including the Auraunderground, and you travelvery realistic, he was doing aand waited to get through learning how to pan for goldLight Show! down by a fenced-off tram.replica of what gold miningthe gate to jump. When we and had a lot of fun. By Anabelle Nelsson Once you arrived in thewas like back in the 1850s. Hegot through the gate to jump By Cobie Gilbert chamber, we were with a staffwas very lucky to find a gold everyone scattered around Candle Dipping andmember of Sovereign Hill. Wenugget worth 10 thousandeverywhere. Kids were at Confectionery Making were in a huge undergroundpounds. 10 thousand poundsdodgeball and others were at During camp one of theroom, with many other roomsin the 1850s was a really reallythe airbag jumping. By the end exciting activities we all sawand tunnels connected to it. huge amount of money.of our jumping, we were all was candle dipping. Our wholeIt was an amazingAfter that, we saw a replicapuffed out and we went to eat class went into a small roomexperience to be down thereof the biggest gold nugget everlunch on the gravel outside of and a lady demonstrated howand thinking of all of thefound, it was found 60 metresJump and Climb.to make and dip candles. Sheminers and their lives wayunder the ground! 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