Duke of Edinburgh Holiday Trips

Over the Term 3 holidays we had a number of students undertaking their Adventurous Journeys and Residential Projects.

While a few took part in Open AJ’s provided by external providers, a mixture of Year 9 and 10 students headed to Central Australia on the MLC School run trip. The students were lucky to see the waterfalls of Uluṟu in action, as the area experienced one of its rare rain days. As is the case in Central Australia, the rain quickly moved on and was replaced by blue skies. Students continued on to visit the Valley of the Winds at Kata Tjuṯa, circum-navigate Kings Canyon, including venturing down to the Garden of Eden and finished off with a 3am wake up call to climb Mt Sonder for sunrise. The final day was about recovery, so a swim in Ormiston Gorge was organised, wrapping up the trip with relaxing campfire on the last night.

I would like to thank Felicity Powell, Marie Cassar and Michelle Wyatt for looking after the students over the week long trip.

DofE meetings are held every Monday lunchtime in SCG01. Where students can identify and plan for their AJ’s, Residential Projects and everything DofE.

– Glen Mole
Duke Of Ed Award Leader

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