Following the success of our COLONIAL SHOW we now offer another spectacular performance - The Colonial Gold Show.

The discovery of gold was to give Australia its start as a nation. Gold was treated as ready money. The Colonial Gold Show is based on the unit GOLD in the Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE) Syllabus and can ALSO be incorporated in the Connected Outcomes Group Support Curriculum (C.O.G.S) Syllabus. It allows students to learn in an enjoyable way and participate as the GOLD RUSH comes alive in front of them. The show heavily relies on students becoming involved and taking on the roles of characters as they, the children, begin experiencing life on the goldfields.

The Colonial Gold Show presents a Gold Experience - living history of the diggings - a journey as seen through the eyes of the diggers on the Goldfields of New South Wales. This insight is presented by the characters from the gold diggings near Hill End and the Turon River of New South Wales in the Bathurst and Sofala area.

Students will meet Lucky, that’s his nickname on account of the luck he has on the diggings – or is it? They will get to laugh with his wife Ellen and be baffled with the antics of their hired help Bluey. The students will learn about Reef and Alluvial gold that were present and the ways of mining each type in 1852, an era when the Military and Gold Commissioners had control of the gold fields. Let us take your school back to the period of time between 1851 from the first public discovery of gold at Ophir to 1855 and twelve months after Peter Lalor led the Eureka Stockade in Victoria and the Sovereign Queen is Queen Victoria of England.

With our Colonial Gold Show the students have every opportunity throughout the performance to interact with the characters. The performance interactively begins depicting each character conducting half hour demonstration throughout the first part of the morning focusing on the their life on the diggings, diet and food, games, mud brick building, gold panning, Miner’s Rights and the talk of rebellion against the Miner’s Licences with the digger’s cry “No Licence Without  Representation” and bushrangers. This will allow students to explore the influences gold had on the Australian identity. They will interact with the Troopers, nick named Joes and Traps, and hear the stories of the main characters and discover the reason they are in the Colony. A recruitment of troopers by the Sergeant of Troopers involves the children even more as they carry out a license hunt which results in the arrest of Lucky for not having his Licence.

It continues with the trial of the Lucky ... can he be Lucky again?

There is only one way to find out ... Call or Book "The Colonial Show" and let your students experience the most productive education excursion in Australia.

The question is "Are you or your students LUCKY" enough?

The Colonial Gold Show is also suitable for Years 7 and 8.

THE COLONIAL GOLD SHOW IS A REVERSE EXCURSION or an INCURSION

Prices start from $14 per child.
Group Discounts* Available:
Between 80-100 children save up to 37.5% per child.
Between 101-159 children save up to 55% per child.
More than 160 children save up to 68% per child.

* Discounts is calculated on the base show price, per child.