Outdoor Education

Outdoor Education provides an opportunity for the development of important personal, social and physical skills and environmental awareness, which cannot always be achieved in the normal classroom environment.

Year 2 Sleepover

Venue: College campus 

Duration: 1 night

A precursor to camps by giving an opportunity for the students to engage in an overnight stay with their year level. Aimed at developing the resilience needed to attend a camp independently. Students in Year 2 return to school at a designated time and commence sleepover activities in the new Junior School building.

Evening meal individual provided with Games, devotion time, story time and movie before bed Time

Pickup by 7:30am in morning

Mill Valley Ranch

Venue: Mill Valley Ranch, Tynong North

Travel mode: Coach

Journey length: 20 minutes

Duration:  2 nights / 3 days

A precursor to camps by giving an opportunity for the students to engage in an overnight stay with their year level. Aimed at developing the resilience needed to attend a camp independently. Students in Year 3 attend Mill Valley Ranch in Tynong where they stay over two nights.

Activities:

• Archery
• Obstacle Course
• Horse riding
• Frisbee Golf
• Night walk
• Amazing race
• Raft building
• Arts and Crafts
• Team games

Burnside

Venue: Camp Burnside: Anglesea. Baptist camping 

Travel mode: Coach

Journey length: 2 ½ hours

Duration:  2 nights / 3 days

Activities:

• Beach
• Night walk
• Bonfire: sing along / marshmallow toasting
• Mountain Bike Riding
• Orienterring
• Archery
• Flying Fox
• Low Ropes
• Climbing Wall

Burnside is an ‘activity’ based camp, where the students are broken into groups and spend time completing activities.

The students connect through the designated activities with opportunities to connect throughout meal times and activity times too.

Benefits of the Year 4 Camp

• The itinerary allows for ‘hands-on’ learning and student involvement

• Camp allows the teachers and students to get to know each other a little better

• The time away develops important skills and forms bonds that enhance learning and the classroom environment long after the camp is over

Sovereign Hill

Located 2hr 12 minutes from Pakenham, students in Year 5 will be attending a three day (two nights) camp at Sovereign Hill travelling by Coach.

Activities:

• Gold Pouring
• Gold Panning
• Education sessions
• Theatre Shows
• Aura Sound and Light Show
• Candy-making demonstrations
• Candle making
• Walking mine tours
• Self-guided tours of the living museums

Year 5 camp directly relates with our integrated studies unit exploring the period of Australia’s development between the arrival of the First Fleet and Federation.

By visiting Sovereign Hill, students are granted the opportunity to experience first-hand the trials and tribulations of persons living in 1800s Australia.

Sovereign Hill and the Gold Rush period of the 1850s, is a perfect period for young students as this is the time when Australia experienced massive growth due to an influx of migrants from around the globe

Sovereign Hill is an award-winning camp that advertises itself as being a living museum. Students engage in practical, hands-on activities such as panning for gold, dressing up and participating in education sessions modelled on the school experience of the 1850s.

Moreover, students have the opportunity to create new and consolidate their existing, social relationships with each other.

Students will bunk together over two nights; they will also be separated into small groups to explore the living museum together.

Students also have the opportunity to participate in recreational activities such as talent shows and group activities to help them grow their social bonds.

Canberra

Located 7hr 48 minutes from Pakenham, students deepen their understanding about Australia - past, present and future. The week’s common theme is centered around the driving question of telling and preserving stories of the past for the present and future.

Venue: Canberra

Travel mode: by bus

Journey length: 12 hours

Students in Year 6 attend a camp in Canberra, ACT. This will be a five day (four nights) camp held from Sunday – Thursday

Activities:

• Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre - stories about the different people who had ventured through this centre.
• Parliament House - deepened our knowledge of our democratic system and a mock House of Representatives sitting; knowledge on how laws are made, and the multiple tiers of government.
• National Gallery, hearing stories and analysing art works of Jackson Pollack, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichenstein and Emily Kam.
• War Memorial to further extend our knowledge and understanding of Australian history. Here we prayed around the tomb of the unknown soldier, and learned about Jack Edmenson, Charles Bean, the Rats of Tobruk and the sinking of the HMAS Sydney.
• Visit Mt Ainslie looking back over Canberra
• The Australian Institute of Sport
• National Capital Exhibition
• The Electoral Office to learn about Preferential Voting, and the history of voting in Australia.
• Old Parliament, opened in 1927, to learn about the stories of key political figures and social activists.
• Questacon
• National Museum
• Governor General’s House and the role that he plays in Australia’s Political System
• Royal Mint to learn about the stories of Australian currency, specifically coins
• Embassies and High Commission

Benefits of the Year 6 Camp

• The program aligns with learning outcomes for our Year 6 Integrated Studies curriculum.
• The itinerary allows for ‘hands on’ and ‘real life’ cooperative learning experiences.
• This camp will continue to build upon and support important sustainable learning relationships among staff, peers and self.
• The learning experiences offered will further enhance fundamental self-regulatory skills necessary for future learning.