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Top School Camps, Excursions, Incursions and Activities
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Top School Incursions and Activities
Some of the Great Benefits of School Excursions, School Camps and School Incursions are:
- Building social skills and confidence - School excursions, camps and incursions often require students to spend time in small groups, observing, chatting and learning which can assist in building language skills, social skills, confident and motivation.
- Exposure to new experiences that are not available at school, such as different cultures and tours/visits to iconic buildings and areas, rare and exotic wildlife and plants. This exposure to nature helps students appreciate the environment and understand the importance of preserving it.
- Personal Growth - School camps, excursions, and incursions help students develop personal skills, such as teamwork, leadership, independence, and self-confidence. These skills are necessary for personal growth and development and important life skills like how to look after themselves and make good and healthy choices.
- Educational and fun school excursions and camps will help students retain the information they have learnt on their trip.
- Developing a strong, positive relationship with their teacher/s can help assist childrens learning. School camps and excursions can help these relationships and gives teachers and students an opportunity to get to know each other outside of the classroom by working together on fun and educational projects.
- Helps reinforce what has been learnt in the classroom by learning in a new environment with different teachers or instructors.
- Increased environmental awareness - at school camps and excursions, students are exposed to real nature-based experiences. Hands-on activities in the outdoors stimulate all senses and help learning making students more aware of the environment.
- Students get to see and learn about new things in a hands on environment by someone who is an expert in their field.
- Enhanced Learning - School camps, excursions, and incursions provide students with a different learning experience, where they can learn through real-life situations and hands-on activities - this offers teachers an opportunity to enrich the curriculum and provide students with unique learning experiences that cannot be achieved in the classroom helping to keep the students engaged and interested in the subject, enhances their understanding of the subject and helps them retain the information.
- Cultural and Historical Education. Excursions and camps provide students with cultural and historical education through visiting museums, historical sites, or places of cultural significance. This helps students develop an appreciation for diverse cultures and historical events.
Visit our blog page to read our great teacher articles featuring everything from Sustainable School Camps and how to plan an awesome school camp concert to Teacher Tips/Hints for the Classroom, ideas to bring learning to life with VR excursions as well as some great health and wellbeing articles for both teachers and students such as dealing with stress