YEAR 4 - YEAR 6 60 students max/day
FULL DAY PROGRAM
9.15 am - 2.15 pm
Curriculum Links
- Personal and Social capabilities
- HPE
- Sustainability
High Impact Pedagogies
- Real-life forest context
- Hands on
- Problem solving, collaboration, communication
Students
practise the skills required to be a leader through team building activities
that focus on the skills of communication, co-operation, problem solving and resilience.
Students will be able to:
- identify their own character strengths and areas for development.
- practise communicating and cooperating effectively.
- participate in problem solving and challenging activities to develop these skills and resilience.
Overview of day
Students arrive at Bunyaville Conservation Park picnic area and are introduced to the four strengths of: communication, problem solving, resilience and cooperation. They are asked to use these to help complete the activities during the day and to ultimately figure out the code to the treasure chest (collecting numbers at the completion of each activity).
The students then undertake two team building sessions:
Forest adventure: Students navigate around the forest tracks completing team activities based on the four strengths. To enhance the practice of the four skills, students lead the walk with adults acting as 'safety' supervisors only.
Picnic area team building activities:
Build a shelter - students work together to build a shelter with limited materials provided. Working together and with a time limit, the students need to build a shelter that can withstand the rain.
Water carrier – students work together to build a water carrier in order to transport water from a container on one side to a container on the other. Whose design is the sturdiest and who can take the most water to the otherside?
The program culminates when all students come together to work out the code to the treasure chest and open to it to reveal its contents.