At the end of Term 3 Miss Creeley, Mrs Lilburne, Miss Nicholson, and Mr Fraser took the Year 9 Cohort away for 4 days of camp at QCCC Noosa. Camp is always such a great experience for both students and teachers. This year we had the pleasure of seeing the Year 9 students come together and work as amazing teams, full of motivation and curiosity. Despite sleeping in tents, every morning the students woke up with smiles on their faces ready to tackle whatever the day brought. They encouraged each other and helped their teammates at every opportunity. They built many skills including resilience and persistence. The students were so amazing that our experienced camp instructors couldn’t help but rave about them all week, one even saying this group was the best she’s ever had.

Thank you Year 9 for the amazing memories. We hope you cherish them as much as we teachers do! Penny, Ollie and Gabby have put together a short story on their camp experience.

Year 9 Camp from Gabby, Penny and Ollie

On 13September, the Year 9 cohort departed from Dalby to later arrive at QCCC at Noosa which is a great outdoors survival camp that taught us many skills for real life situations. When we arrived everyone met Kerry, the leader of an Aboriginal organization called Tribal Link.  He introduced us to the land on which we had the best time ever! We separated into our groups; Red Group was called Joe Dada lead by Miss Nicholson and camp leader Joe, Yellow Group were The VegeMIGHTS with Mrs. Lilburne and camp leader Millie and Orange Group, Tingling Tangerines were with Mr. Fraser and camp leader Amelia. Miss Creeley was a supervisor and spent time with each group. Day 2,  there were groups doing everything from one group doing rafting to another doing a find and rescue. The groups had been separated with very low contact with each other. As the Tingling Tangerines and Joe Dada would know the VegeMIGHTS would bark at anyone who walked past their campsite! That night we had tribal wars filled with war cries and fun activities which were all a competition for the grand prize of chocolate! In third place was the VegeMIGHTS, second was Tingling Tangerines and First was Joe Dada. On Day 3 everyone enjoyed some good meals that were well deserved by finding clues in the bush and working as a team. Day 4, the last day, we put our skills of fire making, naturally filtering water, search and rescue and teamwork to the test. This was a competition between all groups with Tingling Tangerines coming in third, Joe Dada second and in first place the VegeMIGHTS with the return home later that day. Throughout this camp we had amazing camp instructors and they taught us how to build a raft, fire, water filter, the skills for search and rescue with so much more. Thank you to the teachers that came who made this camp experience possible.