2025
Central Australia
Cultural Immersion
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Our unique Explore Serve Journey (ESJ) program is an intentionally designed sequence of experiences grounded in educational theory and research to provide a peak experience to support and equip girls as they grow and transition from childhood to adulthood.
At the end of Term3, some of our Year 8 & 9 girls enjoyed a cultural immersion experience set in the heart of Central Australia. This unique journey offers students a powerful opportunity to deepen their understanding of Indigenous perspectives and to engage meaningfully with the world’s oldest living culture.
Flying into Alice Springs, students will travel through the awe-inspiring landscapes of Uluru, Kata Tjuta (the Olgas), and Kings Canyon. Along the way, they will explore Aboriginal connections to Country, engage in cultural learning with Traditional Owners, and participate in a service-learning project that fosters respect, reflection and community contribution.
This is a peak experience designed to lay a meaningful foundation for younger students ahead of the Year 9 Explore Serve Journey program and Year 10/11 Thailand Service-Learning Trip. It aims to empower students to develop empathy, cultural awareness, and a stronger sense of place in the wider Australian narrative.
The experience links with our focus for Year 8 fundraising, which supports Aboriginal Christian and community organisations. In Term 3 exactly $777 was raised for the Purple House an indigenous-led community-based organisation that supports people in Central Australia via remote dialysis clinics, aged care, primary health care and wellbeing programs through the sale of sweet treats. The girls presented this donation when they toured the facility.
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