Outdoor Education
The Best Lessons Aren’t Always Confined to Classrooms
We believe successful learning happens when children better understand the world around them, are open to adventure and can participate in broad experiences.
Our Outdoor Education Program helps students develop life skills and connect with the environment from their early years to Year 12.
CEEd
Part of the fabric of the CEEd and Junior School curriculum, our Bushlings, Bush Kinder and Prep students use the spacious natural environment of the Ballarat Grammar campus to connect with nature in all types of weather, experience measured risk-taking and, often, get dirty!
Junior School
Students participate in developmental camps in various coastal, bush and regional environments.
Middle School
Students participate in four outdoor education experiences. As a special experience, year 10 students can undertake a very challenging alpine camping experience.
Senior School
Students can participate in a wide range of outdoor education activities with specific camps for cross-country skiing, sailing, horse riding, scuba diving, rock climbing, surfing and canoeing.
By year 11 students have the chance to become Outdoor Education Leaders. They act as role models, often assisting with younger students, organising logistics, and promoting safety and sustainability during outdoor programs.
Acknowledgement of Country
Ballarat and Queen’s Anglican Grammar School acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we learn, live and work, the Wadawurrung People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
Commitment to Child Safety
Ballarat Grammar maintains a zero-tolerance approach to all forms of child abuse and actively implements measures to identify and manage any risks of harm to students within our school environment. The care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people are central and fundamental responsibilities of the School. We are firmly committed to fostering a child-safe culture that provides an environment where students are safe and feel safe, where their participation is valued, their views respected, and their voices heard in decisions that affect their lives. Ballarat Grammar values diversity and strictly prohibits any racist or discriminatory practices. All members of our school community share the responsibility to care for children and young people by promptly raising any concerns regarding their safety, promoting their wellbeing, and protecting them from all forms of harm or abuse.
