The Education Directorate has announced that Birrigai Outdoor School is ready to invite students back for overnight camps in Term Four following the easing of COVID-19 restrictions.
The Directorate said that in a typical year Birrigai hosted around 80 school camps and catered for over 12,000 students, however due to the impact of the Orroral Valley bushfire and COVID-19 restrictions camps had not been permitted to go ahead.
“Despite this year’s restrictions on overnight camps the Birrigai team continued to design and publish online lesson plans for students,” the Directorate said.
“Lessons encouraged students to spend time outside and take advantage of parks and gardens to learn about nature and the environment,” it said.
“The Birrigai team also provided support for the safe and supervised site at Charles Weston School during the remote learning period.”
The Directorate said that when students returned to their classrooms the Birrigai team ran a series of incursions to bring the joy of camping to the schoolyard.
It said that last week students from Miles Franklin Primary School were the first to have their school camp at Birrigai since COVID-19 restrictions came into place and were only the third camp at Birrigai this year.
