Kids vs Wild
Kids vs Wild
PDHPE
About this program
In this adventure-style program, students are involved in working out bush survival challenges in small groups. Challenges include navigating through the forest using a map, building a shelter and cooking their own lunch. The program is designed to give students a chance to develop and hone social and emotional capabilities, including persistence, organisation, getting along and resilience.
Activities
Introduction: Learn the rules of the program and develop teams.
Navigation lesson: In the classroom, learn how to read an orienteering map to find your way to each cache and to the final rendezvous point.
Navigating: In small teams, students will head out into the bush to find a number of caches that hold supplies that will be important for future challenges. They then need to find the spot to meet up with everybody else.
Alone time: Students head out into the forest to spend a short time by themselves and think of adults in their life that they admire and respect.
Shelter building: With "rain" imminent, each group must create a shelter from the supplies they have collected that will protect their group.
Fire Lighting: Using a flint and steel, each student group will need to construct a cooking fire to cook their lunch.
Lunch cooking: Students will cook their own sausages on a portable BBQ over the small cooking fire that they have made.
Important information
Outcomes:
* Examines and explains factors that influence identity, health and wellbeing of individuals and groups PH3-IHW-01
* Evaluates and applies self-management and interpersonal skills in a range of contexts PH3-SMI-01
Content:
Identity, health and wellbeing
Changes and factors can promote a positive identity
* Explain strategies that enhance a positive sense of identity and support health and wellbeing
* Explain how personal strengths can support the management of challenges
Self-management and interpersonal skills
Self-management skills are supported by informed decisions
* Explain how emotional responses to situations can impact decision-making and relationships
* Apply problem-solving and decision-making actions across contexts
* Explain and demonstrate when resilience strategies can be applied across a range of contexts
Interpersonal skills enhance positive interactions and effective communication
* Apply and evaluate interpersonal skills to make decisions that support the wellbeing of themselves and others
* Describe and demonstrate respectful and effective communication to promote leadership, inclusion and collaboration
| 10.00am | Activity 1: Forming teams, learning the rules |
| 10.20am | Activity 2: Learning to read a map |
| 10.45am | Morning Tea |
| 11.00am | Activity 3: Navigating through the bush |
| 11.45am | Activity 4: Alone time |
| 12.00pm | Activity 5: Shelter building |
| 12.40pm | Activity 6: Fire making |
| 1.10pm | Activity 7: Cooking Lunch |
| 1.40pm | Activity 8: Eating Lunch |
| 2.20 pm | Program ends |
| What to bring |
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| Extreme or wet weather |
Program may be modified, postponed or cancelled due to predicted extreme temperatures, bush fire danger, heavy rainfall, high winds or dust storms. Check the weather forecast for the Armidale area. |
| Medical notifications | Notify us by completing and returning the student welfare form at least one week before the excursion. This form will be sent out upon confirmation of booking. |
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