Students at Mount Austin High School enjoy the opportunity to participate in a wide range of excursions.
Excursions are important
An excursion is defined as any activity beyond the school grounds. School excursions vary in terms of the curriculum focus, the students involved, the duration of the excursion and the excursion venues. The student group participating in the excursion may be a class or classes or students drawn from a number of classes. They may be, for example, a team, a performance group or an audience for a performance. An excursion can range from a brief visit of less than one hour to a local point of interest, to an extended journey occupying a number of days or weeks requiring overnight or long term accommodation.
The school’s excursion program enables students to further their learning and social skills development in a non-school setting. Excursions complement, and are an important aspect of the educational programs offered at Mount Austin High School. Excursions are part of quality teaching and learning programs.
Excursions aim to reinforce, support and extend learning opportunities beyond the classroom and to develop an understanding that learning is not limited to school, and that valuable and powerful learning takes place in the real world.
