Authentic Learning – 2024 HSIE Sustainability Tour

During this winter term break a group of students from Years 9 and 10 will be travelling to sunny Far North Queensland with Natalie Fairfax and me on the 2024 HSIE Sustainability Tour. The purpose of this experience is to give students an opportunity to strengthen their understanding of the importance of sustainability.

Students will work on sustainability projects with First Nations groups and engage in authentic fieldwork and geographical inquiry within the unparalleled UNESCO World Heritage sites of the Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef. We look forward to snorkelling and swimming in the Great Barrier Reef to collect data, experiencing the Daintree Rainforest biodiversity, investigating our extraordinary environment through the lens of First Nations Peoples and marvelling at the unique flora and fauna such as crocodiles when attending wildlife parks and travelling by boat and the Skyrail Cableway.

The College will publish our updates on Instagram and Facebook while we are away.

Off we go on this fabulous adventure!

Brigida Zagora
Head of HSIE (Humanities and Social Sciences)