Our Compass and Duke of Edinburgh’s Award group started their activities this week. On Tuesday 19th March after school our students made their way to Clifford Park activity Centre in Wonga Park.

Once again this year, the Year 10 Peer Support classes headed down for a day at Year 7 camp.

Students had planned various beach activities for the afternoon and enjoyed seeing the camp site again after a few years – they shared stories of their own experience of Year 7 camp on the way down.

On Tuesday 12th March, 4 student representatives from the SIRC attended the GRIP Student Leadership Conference in the city.

Students learnt about various different aspects of successful leadership as well as useful tips on how to advance the SIRC in 2019.

Our New Year 11 OES group were ready to journey to Phillip Island for their investigation. We left the school in rainy, gale force winds Tuesday afternoon. The rain and wind continued throughout the night reaching gusts of 80km per hour at times with heavy rain impacting our tents.

Well done to all our award students who attended the celebration and social afternoon. There was a variety of students across the year levels from year 7 to year 11.

This was to be our final Middle School Outdoor Ed experience for the semester; a two day hike from one end of the Cathedral Range National Park to the other.

Our Outdoor Education group explored the rapids along the Yarra River today in double kayaks.

Our Bronze Award students completed their assessed adventurous journey over the last 2 days

Well done juniors on their first adventurous journey. They were excellent throughout the day walking carefully with their packs over different challenging terrain.

At the high ropes students realised what perceived risks were and what they felt like whilst waiting to drop from the 15m platform. There was no way they would fall to the ground, but actually leaping off and relying on the harness system was pretty hard enact.

It has been a challenging couple of days in various ways for the students. Walking in the rain with full hike pack created some hazards on the slippery tracks. All students coped very well and developed their navigation techniques.