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The 2018 Old Gaol experience provided many great moments with the year 6 ‘inmates’. However, these crooked criminals found it hard to think straight after being told no cell phones. Being highly charged, these shady characters found little time for the sun, placed inside for hard time after committing crimes at school like:

• Stealing the Moorak soap and trying to make a ‘clean get away’
• Getting caught red handed after stealing from the blood bank
• Falling in the wet cement and becoming a ‘hardened criminal’
• Stealing the classroom calendar and getting a 12-month suspension
• Falling into the poison ivy starting a ‘rash of breakouts’
• ‘Poaching’ the eggs in the kitchen area,
• Fibbing about pinching a doughnut, their story had too many holes in it
• Being ‘booked’ after speeding in the library
• ‘Stalking’ in the vegetable garden
• Eating ‘jaily-bean’ lollies in class
• Not eating enough ’celery’ in their diet
• Taking acne medicine hoping it would keep them from ‘breaking out’
• In English, not placing a punctuation mark at the end of the ‘sentence’
• Being ‘charged’ for attempting to replace batteries in the laptops

After the 3-day sentence, the guards found the inmates a ‘highly captive’ audience. Word has it the inmates found the whole show wonderful, no wonder it was a ‘cell-out’!

Ian Ross | Head of Middle School

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