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Outdoor Education at Marist College is about students practising skills which help them think critically and creatively as well as developing skills which build toward independence.
The program is as follows:

Year 8 (more)

This is a 4 day 3 night residential program based at Mt Barney Lodge.  Students have the opportunity to:

• manage their own food personal organisation
• explore a creek environment, and,
• learn to rock climb.

Year 10

This is a 5 day residential program with the focus on students making responsible personal decisions.  Each student chooses from one of the following programs:

• Sailing on Moreton Bay crewing the STS South Passage, a 100 foot schooner
• Learning to surf at Byron Bay with Byron Surf School, camping at Broken Head
• Cross country mountain biking in national parks and state forsests of South East Queensland and possibly Northern New South Wales
• White Water canoeing on the Clarence or Nymboida Rivers
• Hiking in some of the most spectacular National Parks in South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales, including Mt Barney National Park and Girraween

Year 11

Outdoor Education also supports Year 11 students studying the Recreation subject.  The expedition component of this subject has seen students involved in:

• Sea kayaking on the Noosa River and in Moreton Bay
• Canoeing down the Brisbane River

• Surfing at Noosa & Caloundra
• Single track Mountain biking in Noosa National Park
• Rock climb at a variety of indoor and outdoor venues including Kangaroo Point and the Glasshouse Mountains

• Cable skiing at Bli Bli

 

AIMS OF THE PROGRAM

Students use reflective processes in reviewing their participation in those procedures, skills and techniques particular to the field of endeavour they have chosen and which help build positive relationships within the community they create.  Each year program has the following aims and goals:

• To understand personal responsibility within a community
• To identify threats to the environments we visit
• To implement strategies that reflect respect for the environment
• To contribute to developing and maintaining a positive social and learning environment
• To set individual and team goals, and meet challenges with determination and perseverance
• To experience success through endeavour
• To make decisions and choices that reflect good judgement
• To maintain good hygiene
• To use and care for equipment
• To manage and prepare food, and
• To have fun

in achieving these goals we create a learning environment which places responsibility on the students and allows them to make decisions which affect them personally as well as affecting their peers.