Programs

Launceston Church Grammar School’s Outdoor Education program is renowned for offering a unique Tasmanian experience, fostering a lifelong interest in the natural environment. Students from Grades Seven to Twelve engage in various outdoor activities such as bushwalking, rock climbing, kayaking, cycling touring, which are aimed at igniting their sense of adventure.

Grade Seven
Students embark on a four-day introductory trip to Hanleth in the Fingal Valley during the second week of Term One.This experience fosters bonding among students, giving them the opportunity to form friendships and acquaint themselves with their peers and teachers. The pristine Maria Island frames their second trip, a tradition spanning over 60 years. This provides an experience students can look back on with fond memories.

Grade Eight
Venturing to Freycinet National Park in small groups, Grade Eight students spend a week engaged in activities like bushwalking, bivouacking, and rock climbing. This immersive experience aims to cultivate resilience and interdependence in an outdoor setting, challenging students physically, socially, and emotionally.

Grade Nine
The Mount Cameron experience, the longest on the Outdoor Education calendar, combines previously acquired skills with new ones like kayaking and mountain biking. Students navigate challenges in small groups, including off-track navigation, and raft-building using rudimentary materials. These challenges develop student’s capacity to make sound evidence-based decisions to develop their leadership and communication skills, to demonstrate resilience when required and to effectively contribute to meeting group objectives.

Grade Ten
As the final compulsory Outdoor Education adventure, Grade Ten students select from a range of expeditions, such as whitewater rafting, sea kayaking, bushwalking, and bike tours.

Grades Eleven and Twelve
The elective course, Outdoor Education(OXP215113), focuses on developing independence and self-sufficiency through approximately 150 hours of fieldwork. Students attend a minimum of two school camps over the year, enhancing their leadership skills and environmental awareness.

Outdoor Leadership
Outdoor Leadership (OXP315113), a more advanced elective, contributes to ATAR calculation. Combining fieldwork with classroom sessions, students delve into effective leadership techniques and environmental conservation, preparing them for leadership roles in a global context.

Our purpose-built mountain bike track coupled with passionate Mountain Bike Australia accredited skills instructors, delivers a co-curricular mountain bike programme which is well subscribed.