What is outdoor education?
Our Outdoor Education program includes a wide range of curriculum and cross-curriculum experiences that contribute to our boys’ holistic growth on their journey to becoming young men.
We encourage and challenge the boys to develop the following skills and attributes and set learning goals across the year levels.
Personal Skills:
– Positive mindset and strengths-focused approach
– Self-Management: Reminding the boys to be “Ready to Learn” in the outdoors.
– Choose your challenge: Encourage the boys to push beyond their comfort zone, challenge themselves and try new things.
Social Skills:
– Developing positive relationships: Meeting new peers and teachers; developing new and existing relationships in an environment beyond the traditional school context.
– Teamwork: Structure and defined roles.
– Student Leadership: This is an important part of the BGS way by offering the opportunity and agency to lead themselves wherever possible.
Environmental Awareness
– Leave No Trace principles
– Appreciation for natural environments
– Waste Management. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Outdoor Journeying Skills
– Trangia cooking
– Compass and map navigation
– Packing packs
– ‘Tarpology’
– Moving as a team
– Reading landscapes.
Your team
We have experienced adventurers in the specialist BGS Outdoor Ed teaching team who are supported by external experts and BGS teaching staff, depending on the nature of the outdoor experience.
“You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to." - Bilbo Baggins
The climb
The Outdoor Ed program begins at Prep and continues to Year 12, with each year building on the skills learned and challenges faced the previous year.
I've been everywhere man
The core programs are at locations all over Victoria, with optional programs in other states.
