Our Compass and Duke of Edinburgh’s Award group started their activities this week. On Tuesday 19th March after school our students made their way to Clifford Park activity Centre in Wonga Park.

Our New Year 11 OES group were ready to journey to Phillip Island for their investigation. We left the school in rainy, gale force winds Tuesday afternoon. The rain and wind continued throughout the night reaching gusts of 80km per hour at times with heavy rain impacting our tents.

Well done to all our award students who attended the celebration and social afternoon. There was a variety of students across the year levels from year 7 to year 11.

This was to be our final Middle School Outdoor Ed experience for the semester; a two day hike from one end of the Cathedral Range National Park to the other.

Our Outdoor Education group explored the rapids along the Yarra River today in double kayaks.

Our Bronze Award students completed their assessed adventurous journey over the last 2 days

Well done juniors on their first adventurous journey. They were excellent throughout the day walking carefully with their packs over different challenging terrain.

At the high ropes students realised what perceived risks were and what they felt like whilst waiting to drop from the 15m platform. There was no way they would fall to the ground, but actually leaping off and relying on the harness system was pretty hard enact.

It has been a challenging couple of days in various ways for the students. Walking in the rain with full hike pack created some hazards on the slippery tracks. All students coped very well and developed their navigation techniques.

Congrats to our current middle school outdoor ed group! They completed their second MTB session to and around Lilydale Lake Bike Skills Park.

The year 12 Outdoor environment studies group have reached the end of their OES camps this week.

We had another awesome trip to Central Australia last term.