Year 7 Camp – A Wonderful Introduction to Senior School
Held in February each year, the Year 7 Outdoor Camp is part of a highly valuable and compulsory Outdoor Education curriculum and offers opportunities for both leadership and physical challenges for our girls.
As well as helping to build camaraderie amongst the group and providing opportunities to make new friends, the physical challenges such as mountain bike riding, canoeing and surfing are a wonderful way for the girls to understand just how much they can achieve when they are courageous and step out of their comfort zone.
Working as part of a team, preparing their own meals and learning to be self-reliant are also important skills that are developed through outdoor education camps, wherever possible, we also work with members of the local Indigenous Community to provide Aboriginal perspectives of land and country and sustainability.
Outdoor Education Australia also notes that “Providing direct personal contact with nature (the outdoors) – in ways that promote enjoyment of outdoor activity and nature. Such enjoyment can be the basis for ongoing outdoor recreation and nature experiences through their lifespan, supporting personal health and wellbeing and providing the foundations for ecological literacy”. Given MLC School’s inner city location, this is also incredibly important.
– Lisa Moloney
Principal
