It is far from the typical day when Willy Wonka takes a seat next to Scooby-Doo in a high school English classroom.
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Actually, it has been far from the typical year as the class of 2020 bids farewell to their life at Wagga High School.
Plenty of their final week activities have had to be cancelled.
This year group will not be able to have their final full-school assembly, and for a time there was even a cloud over whether they would have a formal.
But the school's 131 graduating students are determined to keep the fun alive in whatever ways they can.
"We've had a dress-up theme every day for our final week," said year 12 student Mackenzie Purtill-Wright.
On Wednesday, the students dressed in 'formals from the ages', which 17-year-old Laura Phillips described as being the substitute "playing on the idea that we almost couldn't have a formal".
On Thursday, the theme was 'dynamic duos'. In between classes, the students also participated in an Amazing Race across the school.
Clues distributed across faculty areas saw the students competing in some avant-garde ways.
"We had to find three native conifer plants and write their Latin names," Mackenzie said.
"We also had to re-create our school song but in a COVID-19 safe way without singing."
Though none could agree on which team actually won the challenges, all agreed there was one particular task that hurt more than others.
"For the English faculty we had to write a poem about why we hated or loved English," Laura said.
"Most wrote that they liked it so that the teachers would pass them onto the next challenge. Mine was honest though."
Regardless of how this week plays out, and what happens during their HSC next month, when the graduating classes of 2020 walk out of the school gates for the final time on Friday, they can be confident of the fact they have made history.
Theirs will be forever remembered as the HSC year that faced COVID-19.