A step-by-step guide for teachers
Want the latest guidelines on dealing with allergy? Want the latest listings for new camps and excursions? Want to know how to make billy tea and damper around the campfire?
The Australian Directory of School Activities, Excursions and Accommodation is your one-stop resource for keeping you and your school in the loop – so you can plan fabulous and awe-inspiring excursions and camps!
Together you will push yourselves to the limit, try something different, learn something new and forge new dimensions to your relationship. But it’s absolutely crucial that you do it all within a safe environment.
Australia’s national parks are a living showcase of natural beauty and heritage.
It’s not always easy to get away for school excursions. At remote rural schools, the financial burden of travelling long distances can add substantially to the cost of even simple activities.
Any teacher who has ever had the responsibility of planning and implementing a school excursion, school camp, curriculum-based field study, social outing etc for students understands how time-consuming the planning process can be and how much responsibility is involved.
School excursions and activities outside the school gate give students and teachers a fantastic opportunity to bring the classroom curriculum alive with a unique learning experience in a novel setting.
The joys and pitfalls of water based camps.
Plenty of school camps involve getting wet, probably because most
kids love a good splash down and it is far removed from the usual school
curriculum. In or on the water, opportunities for educational
This, of course, means there is
increased pressure on teachers and other supervisors during camps to
ensure bullying does not occur, and to watch for signs of it.
Society's expectations about how schools can educate students about
health and diet are influencing what is eaten in and out of school
grounds.
There's an old cliché suggesting that the way to get into a bloke's good books is "through his stomach".