Outdoor Education
Flexible, customised and outcomes based
Flexible educators capable of customising learning experiences to the needs of your group.
Our education adventures link directly to Geography, Outdoor Education and Environmental Sciences.
We approach each session with an adventure mindset, creating moments of discovery that support stronger recollections once the moment has past.
Combining local knowledge, scientific and cross-cultural narratives we encourage a perspective of a dynamic and inter-connected place.
Experienced outdoor education teachers design hands on activities that use place-based pedagogical principles to bring each element to life.
What we offer
Shoreline Ecology
We explain what shapes shoreline ecosystems revealing how it’s tough inhabitants survive and thrive.
sustainbable futures
We highlight our future as a sustainable one. Solutions focussed with positive outcomes.
VCE OES logbooks
We connect classroom theory to in-the-field examples combining many key knowledge areas.
active mindfulness
We guide people towards an integrated relationship with themselves and the world around them.
shoreline ecology
The shoreline is a fascinating place above and below the shoreline. Choose from or combine:
- Marine Science and Ecology
- Sand Dune Dynamics
- Beachcomb Treasures
- Survival Adaptations
Students make sense of the amazing diversity of life found on our shorelines and discover the fantastic adaptations that help life to survive in the harsh intertidal environment. Some examples of key knowledge will include; food chains and food webs, identification of marine and dune biota, dynamics of coastal processes, impacts of maritime plastics.
sustainable futures
With the resource rich Warrnambool shoreline as our classroom, we explore how change has occurred in the past and what people are doing to mitigate the changes that the future may bring. Choose from or combine:
- Coastal Change and Pressures
- Coastal Conservation Practices
- Plastics Maritime Usage and Behaviours
- Renewable Energy
- Seaweed Ecological and Commercial Values
Students make sense of how a coastal place has changed over time. Some examples of take homes may include; maritime uses of plastics and how citizen science is influencing change, the significance of renewable energy for a sustainable future, how and why natural sciences are important in shaping our sustainable future.
VCE OES logbooks
Warrnambool has an abundant amount of VCE Outdoor and Environmental Studies resources available to you.
We customise our learning experiences to accomodate the selected key knowledge areas that have been previously chosen by a teacher for student logbooks or, can make suggestions as to which areas are most well aligned for your consideration.
With the inclusion and extra weighting of the logbook, we provide you with a second voice that supports a teachers classroom practice, helping to streamline theory and practical experiences to address key knowledge areas in the OES study design.
Active wellbeing ! move this content to customise programs and reword below for student mindfulness
When we visit the beach and its shoreline there is a significant opportunity to improve our sense of wellbeing. Choose from or combine:
- Mindfullness Activities
- Motivational Interviewing
- Strengths and Values identification
- Full Body breathing
- Surf Therapy
Our approach is to combine evidence-based therapeutic methods with moments of discovery to create meaningful opportunities that recognise core strengths and values. The structured outdoor activities can also help a person to recognise and reflect on habitual ways of thinking and being in the world, allowing time for them to explore if these are supporting the life experiences they wish to have. In doing so a person has an opportunity to make informed decisions about living more closely aligned to their strengths and values with fresh perspectives about what’s most important in their lives.
* We are not a practicing counselling service and do not encourage disclosure of significant life events nor provide advice. We adopt a do-no-harm stance in all our engagements. Please see our ‘about’ page for more information.
