sentences:  Attendance at a school for sixty days in a year had become compulsory in Queenslnd in 1875.Some of the children in the area in late 1880s were aged between six and twelve years, but becaue their parents lived more than from the nearest school, the children were exempted from attending school.However one family, the Peatlings, sent their youngest son Frederick John, to the Diddillibah Provisional School that opened in 1885.