SPORT & OUTDOOR RECREATION

ALUMNI

Sport and Outdoor Recreation is an elective that runs from Year 8 until Year 12. In Years 10, 11 and 12 the students work towards achieving a Certificate II in Sport & Recreation. These camps and excursions are used to take our students out of their comfort zone, while travelling to the South West of WA, and to put into action the skills that they have learnt in the classroom. This year, the Year 9 course is only a semester long, however the students can choose to complete it twice and participate in two camps. These camps are down in Dwellingup where they participate in activities such as abseiling, mountain biking, canoeing and raft building.

DISCOVERING THE OUTDOORS Our Year 9 students base themselves at Camp Kelly (Trinity College’s facilities) which is a dorm based accommodation, only a few kilometres out of the town of Dwellingup.

Our Year 10 classes have the opportunity to complete a Certificate I in Sport and Recreation, while getting the task of climbing the highest peak in the south West, Bluff Knoll. The group spent time getting their hiking fitness up and during the 3-day camp in the Stirling ranges not only climbed to the top of Bluff Knoll, but followed it up in the afternoon by climbing to the Castle Rock look out in the Porongurups.

Enjoying the amazing scenery and reflecting on the difficult challenge they had just accomplished, our Year 10 students were lucky enough to camp at the Stirling Range Retreat, which is only a few kilometres from the base of Bluff Knoll.

The students were in charge of their meals whilst on camp and we must say, there were some delightful meals that were cooked up for dinner.

The Year 11 Sport & Recreation class had fine weather on Rottnest Island for the 3-day camp, and tested their snorkelling skills and learnt their limits at the iconic “Basin” and then again at Salmon Bay and Little Parakeet Bay. All of the students had the opportunity to cover a few units of their course, including Snorkelling, Mountain Biking and Maintaining an Overnight Stay (camping). The Year 11 students were very lucky to experience good weather, which allowed them to take part in snorkelling at the various bays around Rottnest Island.

The Year 12 Sport and Recreation class completed a different hiking challenge from previous years.

They ventured down to Margaret River and completed three separate day walks along the Cape to Cape Trail. The Cape to Cape trail is a hiking trail between the Cape Naturaliste Lighthouse and the Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse near Augusta.

It spans 135km, along the coastline in the South West of Western Australia. The students loved the views and they were lucky enough to see whales breaching as we walked along the hiking trail.

I would love to take this opportunity to thank all the staff that were involved with all of these camps throughout 2017. The students also need to be commended for their behaviour and we all hope you that they have created great memories of what proved to be a fantastic year in Sport and Outdoor Recreation.