Cocurricular
Great Southern Grammar recognises that a broad cocurricular program is essential to the overall development of our students. Next term will see the introduction of three new cocurricular activities.
- regular visits to local aged-care facilities
- a seven-week clay/ pottery course
- a project-based woodworking opportunity
In general, these opportunities will run until 4.30pm. Please encourage your child to check Daily Notices over the coming days to register their interest. These opportunities, combined with our sporting and music offerings, make sure that there is something for each student who attends GSG
This week in assembly we heard from our Year Eight students after their camp experience. Please see some of their recollections below
Lucy Bailey - Introduction to camp and the Bald Head Walk
On 7 March, the Year eight class set off on the buses to Camp Quarunup. It was around a 40 min drive. When we got to camp, we were told the safety rules around the camp and were allocated our dorm rooms. During camp, we did lots of things to get us out of our comfort zones and into our stretch zone.
One of these challenges was doing the Bald Head Walk, this walk is 12.5 kilometres. There were two groups – Wilson and Camfield, and Baudin and Mokare. Mokare and Baudin went on Wednesday and Camfield and Wilson went on Thursday. The walk was very challenging because most of the walk was either up or downhill. We managed to get to the halfway point in around two hours. At this point, it was a spectacular view and there was a container with a diary where we could write so after we had our lunch and wrote in the diary we headed back, with a few biscuits or two on the way back we eventually finish.
Riley Jenkins - Aged Care Home Visits
The aged-care visit was very enjoyable, talking to friendly people who were happy to talk to us. It pushed a few of us out of our comfort zone, but most of us including myself enjoyed this experience to interact with the elderly and getting to know them and talk to them. They were really friendly and even though we were a bit nervous before we met them and talked to them we talked to them, ate biscuits, we asked them questions, they asked us questions and they said that they enjoyed seeing us and that they wanted us to come again. It was a really nice experience.
Riley Jenkins - Fishing & Canoeing and Year Twelve Leader’s Visit
On Thursday night we were visited by our Year Twelve Leaders who ran a reflection session on what we had learned during the camp. We appreciated the visit from our Year Twelves and realised that we had spent a lot of time outside of our comfort zones but still had fun. On Friday we cleaned our dorms, and then moved through four activities. I really enjoyed the fishing and canoeing as it was a chance to get wet, have some fun and relax after a very busy camp week.
Fenella O’Neill - Self Defence & Cultural Awareness
On the last day of camp, we all got split up into four random groups and all went off and did different activities. Two of the activities were cultural awareness and self-defence. In self-defence we learnt how to get out of a situation if someone grabs you by your hair or shirt, we got taught that you have to change the angle and grab the leg to put yourself in a safer position, which I think everyone enjoyed practicing this on their partners. One of the other activities we did over the day was cultural awareness where Uncle Larry taught us about the native bushland and what plants they used for food and medicine which everyone tried. Overall, I thought the camp was pretty good and we learnt a lot about pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones, which I thought everyone did well.
Mr Ian Robson | Head of Cocurricular