Round Square Adventure Day – Reflections

Towards the end of Term 4 last year, ten students from Year 7 and Year 8 (2025) travelled to Newcastle Grammar School to take part in the Round Square Adventure Day. The event brought together students from different schools to collaborate, problem-solve and explore the Round Square IDEALS in action. Our students conducted themselves with maturity and enthusiasm, proudly representing MLC School and demonstrating the values of leadership, service and adventure throughout the day.

Student Reflections:

‘We as part of ten people from Year 7 and Year 8 (2025) journeyed two hours up the coast to Newcastle Grammar School. As part of a Round Square initiative, we met with like-minded students from other schools to engage in a fun and thought-provoking scavenger hunt around Newcastle. While exploring the beautiful locations, we worked as a team across multiple groups to complete a myriad of challenges from making human pyramids to answering engaging questions surrounding the Round Square IDEALS. After some friendly competition and mingling, we sat down to listen to an inspirational guest speaker, Natalia Hogan, who provided a lasting message on fundraising and perseverance, giving us inspiration in regard to IDEALS of Service and Adventure. Despite dense traffic and an early start of 7.30am, we had a remarkable time, bonding with people across schools and cohorts.’

– Sophia Clarke and Joumana Reehman (Year 9)

‘As a part of Round Square, myself and nine other students in Year 7 and Year 8 (2025) went to Newcastle Grammar School for an adventure day. At Newcastle we were split into random groups with other schools and went for a scavenger hunt around the city where we completed tasks at curtain locations. We learnt about the Round Square Ideal of Environmentalism by helping clean Newcastle by picking up rubbish around the city. We then returned to Newcastle Grammar School and had a wonderful sausage sizzle and finished the day with a speech from Natalia Hogan in which she told us of her journey from being homeless at 14 to running a marathon from Sydney to Newcastle so she could fundraise for kids facing youth homelessness. Altogether it was a brilliant experience where we made a lot of new friends and connections.’

– Ellie Moran (Year 9)

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