Year 9 Residential Program

Our Year 9 Residential Program is a four-week outdoor education program held at Pymble’s bush campus at Vision Valley. Students live and learn away from home in a technology-free environment with the time and space to connect with themselves, each other and the environment.

Residential Program Intentions

  • Grow in independence and resilience
  • Detox from technology and rediscover face-to-face time
  • Develop mutually respectful relationships
  • Connect to self, others and the natural environment

Knowledge

Partnerships with Quantal Bioscience (microbiology and genetics); Girri Girra (First Nations); Civica (Data Science, Arboriculture)

Character

Adventure-based learning; Birrong (off-site expeditions); Community living; 24-hour Solo

Skills

Outdoor Education; Dulumi (service-based learning and problem-based learning); Electives

Meta Learning

Dislocation; Cooee (wellbeing program); Digital detox; 24-hour Solo