Stage 3
Leadership Day
Location
Kamay Botany Bay Environmental Education Centre, Kamay Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell
Overview
The leadership program is designed to develop the essential qualities and skills needed to excel as a student leader. Working collaboratively in groups, students will participate in team-building activities that foster leadership skills such as critical thinking, effective communication, decision-making, and teamwork.
Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between human activities, the environment, and the cultural and natural heritage of Kamay Botany Bay National Park. They will also assess bush trails and use a GPS device to collect information.
As part of their learning, students will plan and design solutions to improve equal access to information for all audiences, considering the needs of people with disabilities when accessing sites, monuments, and sculptures.
Optional Activity:
Students will plan and design inclusive solutions to improve access to public spaces for all audiences, including individuals with disabilities. This may include evaluating access to sites such as shopping centres, public transport, events, and buildings.
This immersive program transforms your school into a living classroom, where students engage with real-world challenges and develop practical strategies for effective communication and inclusive leadership.
Tailored to suit your school’s context and student needs, this incursion offers a cost-effective alternative to excursions—bringing rich, curriculum-aligned learning directly to your students without the need for bus travel.
Outcomes
- PH3-RRS-01explains and applies skills and strategies to manage respectful relationships
- GE3-2 Explains interactions and connections between people, places and environments
- GE3-3 Compares and contrasts influences on the management of places and environments
- GE3-4 Acquires, processes and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry
- ST3-2DP-T Plans and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
Key Inquiry questions
- How do people and environments influence one another?
- How do people influence places and the management of spaces within them?
Focus question
- Why are the characteristics of materials important when designing and producing?
Activities may vary based on school context — examples provided below:
- Walk through the school grounds and in groups, complete several observations and investigations.
- Explore their school site using GPS devices to collect information for solving a puzzle.
- Participate in a variety of team-building activities to develop the essential qualities and skills needed to excel as a student leader.
- (optional) plan and design inclusive solutions to improve access to public spaces for all audiences, including individuals with disabilities. This may include evaluating access to sites such as shopping centres, public transport, events, and buildings.
Learning across the curriculum content
- Critical and creative thinking
- Information and communication technology capability
- Personal and social capability
- Literacy and numeracy