Arbury Park Leadership Camp 2022
In mid-May Green Adelaide Education ran the annual YEC Leadership Camp at Arbury Park Outdoor School in the Adelaide Hills.
Fifty students were involved in both outdoor and indoor activities with the aims of building leadership skills, linking explicit learning to real world practice, and developing and planning the environmental projects they’ll carry out as part of their involvement in the YEC.
The student projects are based around sustainability issues that they consider important in their school, local community or more widely. Among the wide range of topics they hope to tackle with their projects are revegetating to increase biodiversity; educating people about climate change; creating bee hotels; waste recovery at school; encouraging people to clean up dog waste; establishing a native food garden; and beach clean-ups.
Arbury Park Outdoor School is situated in the hills, and the property contains a series of interconnected wetlands, native woodland, a revegetation area alongside Cox Creek, and other engaging outdoors learning areas. These provided ideal conditions for students to deepen their knowledge of sustainability issues and increase their leadership, problem solving and team building skills.
Staff from Green Adelaide Education and the school collaborated to deliver a fun program that actively encouraged the students to connect with nature, challenge themselves and think deeply about their goals.
The students were asked for their favourite activity at the camp, with many listing orienteering; the night frog walk; Landcare along Cox Creek; hearing from mentor Keira about her experiences volunteering; team building activities; and project planning as highlights.
Fifty students were involved in both outdoor and indoor activities with the aims of building leadership skills, linking explicit learning to real world practice, and developing and planning the environmental projects they’ll carry out as part of their involvement in the YEC.
The student projects are based around sustainability issues that they consider important in their school, local community or more widely. Among the wide range of topics they hope to tackle with their projects are revegetating to increase biodiversity; educating people about climate change; creating bee hotels; waste recovery at school; encouraging people to clean up dog waste; establishing a native food garden; and beach clean-ups.
Arbury Park Outdoor School is situated in the hills, and the property contains a series of interconnected wetlands, native woodland, a revegetation area alongside Cox Creek, and other engaging outdoors learning areas. These provided ideal conditions for students to deepen their knowledge of sustainability issues and increase their leadership, problem solving and team building skills.
Staff from Green Adelaide Education and the school collaborated to deliver a fun program that actively encouraged the students to connect with nature, challenge themselves and think deeply about their goals.
The students were asked for their favourite activity at the camp, with many listing orienteering; the night frog walk; Landcare along Cox Creek; hearing from mentor Keira about her experiences volunteering; team building activities; and project planning as highlights.
