Future Makers Camp

Resilience, Team Work & Environmental Awareness

 

A very lucky group of 35 Year 9 students attended the annual Future Makers camp at 15 Mile Creek over the past two weeks. The 12-day camp, with a focus on personal skills and capabilities, as well as connection to country and sustainability of the environment, tested students through a range of fun and challenging activities. 

 

Throughout the first four days students competed a range of team building activities, with a focus on collaboration and connections with group members they may not normally work with. They built their paddles from scratch, learnt how to canoe, and completed many camp activities such as orienteering, flying fox and rock climbing.

 

On the fourth night students discovered what they needed for their journey and packed everything into their hiking pack – tents and eating utensils included! They then spent the next four days canoeing down the Murray River in their groups. 

 

The group teachers were there to support and guide them, however they were primarily responsible for their journey, including camp set up, pack up and cooking meals. Highlights of the journey included a dawn paddle watching the sun rise while on the water, and one group found a giant mud pit and had a ball jumping in it over and over, one student landing almost up to their waist in mud!

 

Although exhausted from their journey, this didn’t stop the students making the most of their final days back at 15 Mile Creek, sledding down the King River and working with Landcare in Moyhu.

 

Although many found it challenging to be away from home with no contact for 12 days, they said it was a fantastic experience and would highly recommend it to others. The persistence, resilience and determination shown by all over the course of the camp is to be commended!