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Students at Normanhurst Boys High School are involved in week long cross-curricular learning experiences. In additional to the opportunity for the rich tasks and hands-on multi-disciplinary learning these create, they also provide the boys with opportunities to bond together and make lifelong friends. These camps are experiences which the boys will never forget.
Year 7s to Bathurst, Katoomba and Wellington Caves
Year 9s to at Bungarra Alpine Centre and Mount Kosciuszko
Year 11s to Lake Burrendong Crossroads and driver education program
The annual Year 7 Great Western Explorer to Lake Burrendong Camp is an extraordinary opportunity for Year 7 to come together and engage in activities and experiences that become a shared memory for the year group. It is through these activities which are central to Normanhurst Boys holistic education and shared memories, that Year 7 can learn cooperation and commitment to each other in a different context to an ordinary school day. The Year 7 Camp is the first extended opportunity for our students to begin to understand the motivation behind “Team Normo” which is central to the effort and commitment made by our Senior students as they work towards their HSC.
The Great Western Explorer to Lake Burrendong Camp is a multi-disciplinary academic and culturally authentic learning experience that immerses students in activities each day that include:
· investigating the geography, flora and fauna of the Blue Mountains;
· traveling through the Central Tablelands farming districts from Orange to Dubbo, NSW;
· visiting one of the oldest farms in Australia at Brucedale hosted by David Suttor for a Welcome / Acknowledgement of Country of descendants of the Wiradjuri Peoples and Brucedale farm ‘day in the life’ talk;
· story-telling and a direct historical connection to Aboriginal history, culture and the great Wiradjuri warrior ‘Windradyne’ on Country near his resting place;
· exercising through physical fitness, fun and self-development activities at the Lake Burrendong Sports and Recreational campus;
· discovering in Zoological seminars and exploring at Taronga Western Plains Zoo;
· learning about the NSW Justice system from time in the Old Dubbo Gaol;
· descending into the depths of Wellington Caves for exciting discoveries in the home of a Marsupial Lion and ‘Mega Chonk’ Skink!; and
· living a life in colonial Australia at the Bathurst Goldfields Museum and a Gold-panning adventure.
While primarily a HSIE-focused experience, opportunities are taken to involve facet of learning from across the curriculum.
Students commence the Year 11 camp program with the RYDA driver safety program on the Monday before departing for Wellington in Central West NSW.
The camp component is situated in the mid-west of NSW on the shores of Lake Burrendong. Students take part in a number of recreational activities including low and high ropes, indoor rock climbing, an initiatives course and archery as well as being involved in the Crossroads program which addresses welfare issues which will assist them in the years ahead.
All government run secondary schools are required to deliver the Crossroads program for a minimum indicative time of 25 hours. Crossroads is designed to help senior students address issues of health, safety and wellbeing at a time when they face significant changes and challenges in their lives. It aims to prepare and support these students as they encounter situations related to identity, independence and their changing responsibilities.
Prior to 2019, students in Year 7 were taken on an excursion to the Central West of NSW and to Jenolan Caves. The Jenolan Caves excursion had proven to be one of the most rewarding and memorable experiences for the students of the school.
Students spent the first night at the Bathurst Sheep and Cattledrome and then three nights at Jenolan Caves. During the week, they visited Scenic World at Katoomba, relived the past at Hill End and explore around and in the caves at Jenolan. The high point of the excursion was the time spent viewing the show and adventure caves themselves.
The experiences on the excursion, apart from the importance in the personal and social development of the student, were related to school work in all faculty areas. The academic component was complemented by the lessons that students learned in being part of a group, in making friends and in co-operating and being tolerant in a variety of situations. The year 2019 marked 60 years of association between Normanhurst Boys High School and Jenolan Caves.
Unfortunately, this camp has had to be modified due to the accessibility of Jenolan Caves.
A brief history of the Jenolan Caves excursion (PDF 55 KB) is available.
At Jenolan Caves
Depart Jenolan Caves, arrive school at approximately 5 pm
address
54-72 Pennant Hills Road
Normanhurst NSW 2076
(Entrance from Fraser Road)
telephone 02 9489 1077
website https://normanhurstboys.nsw.edu.au
We would like to pay our respects and acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land and also pay respect to Elders both past and present.
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