Director of Tallong Campus

For most of our College students, school will finish this week. However 24 Year 9 students will be attending a specialist program at Tallong from 12 to 15 December. These students have been selected to become our student outdoor education leaders for 2023. Upon successful completion of the outdoor education student leaders course at Tallong, these students will attend and assist with the running of the sequential camps held at Tallong throughout the year. These camps will include all the programs from Year 3 to Year 7. These student leaders form a vital link between our outdoor education instructors and the groups of students they are working with. They become mentors to our younger students and help guide them through the numerous learning sessions that take place at the camps. 

 

The leaders course they will participate in will push their comfort zones and take them into areas of the Tallong surroundings that they have not been to before. An overnight hike along the Shoalhaven River will then see them make an arduous climb up a long steep ridge to finish at Bungonia at the end of their program. The climb up out of the Shoalhaven River to Bungonia is a metaphor for leadership – leadership is a contact sport – in that it takes grit, persistence, teamwork and empathy to be an effective leader and role model. This program that we run at Tallong for our student outdoor education leaders is unique and forms a very special component in the College’s development of young women.

 

To finish off, here is a photo of some of our parents at the recent Parent-child camp held at Tallong.