Programs — Camps

Beaufort Secondary College provides experience in camps and excursions, including overnight camps, for students at all year levels from 7 to 12. Such experiences are organized to include experiences that are:

• Educational
• Designed to aid social development
• Able to provide knowledge and appreciation for local areas of commercial,
  environmental and recreational value, and
• Reasonable in terms of costs to individual students and their parents.

The Camp Program includes the following:

1. Year 7 Roses Gap - field excursion, base camp and social development with education
   experiences from Year 7 subjects, conducted in Term 1.
2. Year 8 Lorne – Coastal environment. Base camp and social development with educational experiences from Year 8 subjects, conducted in Term 4.
3. Year 9 Adventure Camp for as many students as possible using either of the DE&T’s Rubicon or Bogong camps. The remaining students should follow a set of daily local educational and environmental awareness excursions. (Conducted in Term 2 or 3 preferably).
4. Year 10 - Urban Awareness experience set in Melbourne (Term 3 or 4).
5. Year 11 - A subject-based, school week length experience is encouraged. For example Biology and Geography have in past years conducted Queenscliffe excursions.
6. Year 12 - Annual MWC student study camp and staff professional development program at the University of Ballarat early in Term 1.
7. Other subject based camps/excursions, one day or overnight, school days or weekends or vacation are also a part of our overall program.

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