On Monday 1 March, our brave yet white-knuckled Intermediate VCAL students valiantly vanquished the challenge 'Harrow Park Trees Adventures’ high ropes and obstacle courses provided. Demonstrating bewildering feats of strength, dauntless determination and cheerful camaraderie with their fellow students, the MLMC crew successfully conquered all obstacles posed by the park.
The purpose of this expedition you ask? To encourage resilience, cooperation skills and explore what it takes mentally to overcome the phantom of fear when it stands in dogged defiance of us achieving our goals. Who isn't afraid of heights after all?
Within Intermediate VCAL this term, the unit topic is ‘Personal Strengths and Stories of Survival’. The purpose of this unit is to assist the students to develop life skills that will help our future alumni achieve their goals within the ‘real world’ post-school. The skills include assertiveness, courage, teamwork and tenacity — all required to overcome a high ropes course, which made the park the perfect whetstone to hone these aforementioned attributes.
Our time at the Adventure Park has supplied the cohort stimulus for group discussions, captivating content to write about within Literacy class and fitted perfectly within the broader unit of study where we look at survival success stories and the endless limits of human hardiness when faced with extreme hardship.
Congratulations to every student who attended the day and gave the course an honest crack. In particular to those who were most fearful, yet pushed themselves through to the end despite the nerves. To act courageously isn’t to act absent of fear; rather it is to act regardless of its pronounced presence.
