Year 9 Outdoor Transition Camp

At Lake Joondalup Baptist College we recognise that Year 9 is a vital and pivotal year in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood. The Year 9 camp provide a variety of diverse opportunities to experience and engage in different levels of challenge, adventure and cross-curricular educational opportunities to enhance learning experiences. The camp helps to encourage and develop young peoples’ natural instinct for adventure by providing a range of outdoor-based activities that assist in promoting the exploration, development and growth of personal and social capabilities, as outlined and promoted in the Australian Curriculum, such as self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and social management.

Our experience has shown that time in nature is a critically important aspect of a students’ education at LJBC. We hope that Year 9 students take advantage of these opportunities to continue to grow in self-belief, maturity, independence, face fear, anticipation, and call upon their resilience to find exhilaration and growing confidence in themselves and their own decisions. These experiences can also help to boost wellbeing, and through adventurous activities to practice and learn to be brave.

Challenge refers to activities that are mainly about journeying from one place to another, often using self-propelled power, and which provide a clear objective and destination. The focus of the experience is on the day to day journey and the voyage of personal self-discovery. These experiences are often physically challenging and require students to make an informed choice about what it is they are about to tackle.

Journey aims to stimulate and promote the sense of personal and group endeavour and pioneering spirit in our students. These experiences seek to imbue our students with a sense of discovery and the rich rewards that result from working collaboratively towards a common goal. While a number of activities provide a level of physical challenge, others offer a more relaxing way in which to explore our natural environment.

A key aspect of the Year 9 Camp is the transfer of learning from a students’ experience to their ‘normal’ life at school and home. Realising this while in a challenging and stimulating environment can be a catalyst for change to begin the transformation from adolescence to young adulthood.

Further information related to the Year 9 Camp timetabled for Term 4 in November 2019 will be handed to all Year 9 students in the week beginning Monday 9 September 2019.

The 2019 Year 9 Camp is yet to be finalised as we await confirmation from some of our external providers. Costing is still to be finalised as we endeavour to minimise costs to parents to provide greater opportunities for students.

I look forward to your child’s involvement in this unique, challenging, fulfilling, fun and highly rewarding camp.

Please do not hesitate to contact me throughout the year should you wish to discuss any aspect of the Year 9, 2019 camp.

Helen Del Frate

Dean of Students