After a year punctuated by lockdowns and COVID restrictions, our Year 3/4 students and their teachers escaped to Camp Kangaroobie with only 14 hours notice the night before!! Kangaroobie is an adventure camp on the Great Ocean Road and allowed the students to partake in daily farming routines and promoted many of the features of our South West region. The students really relished getting ‘down and dirty’, literally, and experienced activities including running an obstacle course, feeding animals, hut building, riding in a trailer on a farm track and just 'kids being kids!' Last term's Science topic,'Feathers, Fur or Leaves', was reinforced with the 'Life and Death' game that featured role playing with students running through the bush being either herbivores, carnivores, hunters or viruses. Facilitators from the Worn Gundidj cooperative provided an Aboriginal interpretation session to give the students a greater understanding and appreciation of the traditional owners of the land on which Kangaroobie stands and included a lesson about bush tucker, throwing spears and boomerangs. Thanks Matt, Sophie and team for letting our students rebound out of lockdown with such engaging, team building exercises and our creative Year 3/4 teachers who faced real time constraints to bring this valuable camp experience to life in such a short timeframe. Comments are closed.
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