KOKODA PARK

Our Program

We promote independence through environment and facilitate the lifelong skill of team work through nature, connection, responsibility, creativity and free play.

This fosters growth and is a crucial part of childhood development.

STIMULATE ADVENTURE, SELF-CONFIDENCE, IGNITE INDEPENDENCE, CREATIVITY AND PROBLEM SOLVING

Individual Outcomes

  • Challenged to reflect and review their participation style
  • Opportunities to explore their potential
  • Learning through doing
  • Apply their learning into their everyday life
  • Development of independence, confidence, resilience and self-awareness
  • Develop the ability to reflect and process experiences to establish learning and growth
  • Learn to value challenge and individual strengths and weaknesses
  • Reflect and have fun away from the distracting technological world we live in today

Group Outcomes

  • Explore and expand social skills such as developing and maintaing positive relationships as well as resolving confrontational situations
  • Enhance awareness on age appropriate development issues such as positive risk-taking, behaviour and the impact of those choices
  • Explore positive leadership and role modelling
  • Understanding group dynamics and individual influences
  • Explore and understand the effect of bullying and negative behaviour
  • Group goal setting and the process of getting to that point
  • Working together constructively
  • Bonding and supporting each other through negative and positive experiences

Community Outcomes

  • Promote positive community interaction
  • Reinforce school values and culture
  • Focus on realistic themes affecting communities such as valuing challenge, bullying, leadership, developing cohesive groups and positive team building behaviours, community citizenship and rites of passage
  • Reinforcing the positive messages and behaviour to the wider community and role modelling to the younger generation