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Our camp program offers students from Years 4 to 11 a wide variety of invaluable experiences from across South East Queensland and interstate.
Through new and positive experiences, our girls are encouraged to foster their communication and problem-solving skills, ignite their creativity, and stimulate a sense of independence and adventure.
Developing teamwork and resilience at Thunderbird Park
Year 4 students attend a one-night camp at Thunderbird Park, focussing on teamwork and resilience. Activities include a ‘mud challenge’ course, catapult-making, thunderegg fossicking, creek exploration and an Indigenous culture workshop.
Students are required to work together as a team to solve problems and complete challenges. For most students, this is their first overnight camp that provides a great way to get to know their classmates and teachers outside of the formal school environment.
Focussing on Leadership at Helensvale
Year 5 students attend a two-night camp at BIG4 Gold Coast Holiday Park in Helensvale in Term 3. This camp is an opportunity for students to participate in a variety of activities designed to develop leadership and collaborative skills in preparation for Year 6 leadership responsibilities.
Exploring Reef and Rainforest Environments in Cairns
Year 6 students attend a three-night camp based in Cairns. This camp explores reef and rainforest environments, including Indigenous perspectives. Activities include rainforest walks, snorkelling on the reef, tropical wildlife studies and a scenic railway excursion to Kuranda. Activities are designed to promote resilience and independence.
Learning positive risk-taking through outdoor adventure at Camp Goodenough
Year 7 students attend a three-day camp at Camp Goodenough in the Tweed Valley in Term 1. Following a theme of Connections, students are encouraged to support one another in challenges. This camp aims to inspire confidence, improve communication skills, promote the importance of teamwork, build self-esteem, and ultimately develop positive relationships with peers, new environments and adventure.
Venturing outside of comfort zones at Camp Currimundi
Year 8 students attend Sunshine Coast Recreation Centre’s Camp Currimundi in Term 2. On this Adventure Camp, students are encouraged to participate in activities including caving, team challenges and a range of beach and water-based activities. This camp is designed to expand the girls’ centre of influence by helping them to build new social connections within their year group. Through exposure to new and positive challenges, students develop their resilience, confidence, team-building and communication skills in preparation for Year 9 as leaders of the Middle Years.
Living out core Australian values at Emu Gully
In Year 9, students attend a camp delivered by Emu Gully Adventure Education Group at Helidon in the Lockyer Valley. Students complete activities linked to Australian history and focus on core national values such as courage, mateship, sacrifice and perseverance. Engaging in adventurous, outdoor recreation, students are required to assess and manage risk while exploring their place in the world, and the positive contributions they can make within it.
Camp Laurence
The Year 10 camp at Camp Laurence is located on Lake Moogerah, Scenic Rim. It offers the opportunity to push personal boundaries, offering three levels of ease/difficulty and is focussed on educating our students in the outdoors, connecting with nature and with fellow students to achieve personal goals. It aims to inspire students with strength of character and the determination required to thrive in any setting. Students are immersed in nature, camping out for two nights. It builds self-awareness and critical thinking through an expedition-based approach and features activities including hiking, canoeing, navigating and bush-cooking. The ‘Challenge by Choice’ philosophy offers each camper the challenge to do everything: try new activities, care for each other’s safety and support each other.
Leadership Conference
The Year 11 Leadership Conference is a professionally catered, two-day incursion held in the conference rooms on campus. Students are encouraged to reflect on their capabilities and develop their leadership skills in preparation for Year 12. Students are also supported to consider their future beyond schooling in an inclusive and inspiring environment. This program is designed by external facilitators in collaboration with the Head of Year to ensure that the content is relevant, engaging, and provides meaningful outcomes.