Our youngest students enjoyed their Year 7 Camp experience from 13-17 February, with the Blue, Bronze, Gold, Red and White homerooms spending the Monday and Tuesday nights at Alexandra Adventure Resort, while Green, Jade, Orange, Purple and Silver staying Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Camp is a terrific opportunity for our youngest cohort to build connections with their homeroom peers and their homeroom teachers and challenge themselves with a variety of fun activities. On the two days not on camp, students took part in the valuable Stepping Forward program at school.
We thank the Year 10 Peer Support students for their visits and their support throughout the week.
We are confident our Year 7s are now ready to capitalise on the relationships they have built in the first few weeks and they are ready to put their best feet forward for the remainder of the school year.
Below are some reflections of the camp experience from students in Year 7 Blue:
Camp was an amazing experience filled with lots of laughs, smiles and bonding. On the first day my group did canoeing, orienteering and leap of faith. The next day we did more activities like the giant swing, flying fox and rock climbing. My favourite activity was the flying fox because it was over a lake and I nearly touched the water! At night there were other activities like night walks, sport nights, trivia and meditation. I also liked seeing all the interesting indigenous animals at the animal show. Camp was amazing and I loved making tons of memories and new friends.
— Charlie Clay
I really enjoyed camp because there were loads of fun activities and I had a great cabin. On the first day we did canoeing, orienteering and the leap of faith. And there were many other fun activities the next day. I loved the night walk and camp fire that we got to do on the first night. I had a great time and made so many new friends.
— Emily Thiele
I really enjoyed camp because it was all about team building and it gave me the opportunity to make more friends in my group and in my cabin. I liked all the activities like leap of faith, high ropes course, giant swing, canoeing, the pool and more. For sharing something special I brought a photo of my family. I liked the animal show, especially the frilled-neck lizard, which was my favourite. I also liked the meditation. Overall camp was an amazing experience.
— Lochlan Howcroft
