Outdoor Education
Using the natural world as a classroom for personal development.
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The Outdoor Education program at Trinity uses the natural world as a classroom for personal development.
Students learn and use outdoor skills, challenge themselves in an environment outside their comfort zones and extend their personal and social relationships.
Those in older year levels help lead the camps of their younger peers as part of their leadership and mentoring development.
Locations
Trinity has two beautiful, expansive Outdoor Education locations in Nillahcootie and Licola respectively, which cater for camping, sailing, canoeing, bushwalking, rock climbing and abseiling.
These activities are intended to challenge and improve confidence, resilience, teamwork, communication, leadership and problem-solving skills.
- Length: 5 days
- Location: Lake Nillahcootie, Mansfield
- Activities: mountain biking, rock climbing and abseiling, sailing, canoeing, raft building, bushwalking (day hike with day packs), camping in tents each night, cooking meals on fires and camp stoves
- Student leaders: Year 10s
- Length: 5 days
- Location: Gippsland Lakes, Banksia Peninsula
- Activities: Sailing 35ft yachts, sea kayaks, bushwalking, camping in tents each night, cooking meals on fires and camp stoves
- Student leaders: Year 11s
- Length: 8 days
- Location: Licola/MacAlister River, Gippsland
- Activities: Two days of hiking with full packs, three days of white-water rafting, environmental project, camping in tents each night, cooking meals on fires and camp stoves
- Length: 8 days
- Location: Interstate (past options have included Freycinet National Park/Wine Glass Bay Circuit in Tasmania, Larapinta Trail in West MacDonnell Ranges Northern Territory, and a Murray River journey from Yarrawonga, Victoria to Tocumwal, New South Wales).
- Activities range from hiking to canoeing, sea kayaking, abseiling and rock climbing, camping and more.
Junior School Camp program
The suite of camp experiences in the Junior School are tailored to suit each age and stage.
The combination of fun and challenging activities is intended to foster and build confidence, independence, leadership, communication and teamwork.
Camp experiences such as these also provide opportunities for learning links to IB transdisciplinary themes such as ‘How exploration changed Australia’ and ‘Where we are in place and time’.