Adventure Outlook for students in the Primary Years (Years 3 - 5)

Adventure Outlook Camping program includes activities that support the achievement of the following Essential Learnings contained in the South Australian Curriculum, Standards and Accountability (SACSA) Framework:

Futures
Developing perspectives to critically reflect upon and contribute to creating preferred futures, including:
• recognising patterns and connections within systems
• identifying, researching and analysing challenges for the future
• understanding world views and how they are constructed and manifested
• taking ethical action to affect personal and social change.

Identity
Critically understanding and developing personal identity, group identity, and relationships, and acting to shape these, including:
• understanding and engaging with diversity
• developing self awareness and understanding with a strong sense of self-worth
• making changes to those values and practices that are harmful
• developing understanding that identities are constructed around personal and social values, ethics, systems and practices
• negotiating ways of relating to others in a range of learning, social and working contexts.

Interdependence
Developing a sense of connectedness with other people, and systems, reflecting on and taking action to shape local and global communities, including:
• understanding that all living things are connected and interdependent
• understanding needs, feelings, capabilities and interests of others
• identifying how human actions have had a positive or negative impact on other living systems or things
• contributing as a member of a team to achieve individual and shared goals
• taking action to achieve preferred social and physical environments.

Thinking
Developing creativity, enterprise, wisdom and the capability to evaluate and generate ideas and solutions, including:
• taking risks in thinking, uses creative and imaginative processes
• using enterprising attributes to identify areas for change, growth, innovation or future development
• exploring and responding to questions

Communication
Developing knowledge, skills and dispositions required to construct and deconstruct meaning, and to critically understand the power of communication and its technologies, including:
• using different forms of communication and adapting and selecting communication for different people and contexts
• developing a confident interpersonal style based on open, respectful communication being able to use effective communication to solve problems when working individually or with others
• using technology and appropriate tools and resources to research, collect, plan, analyse and organise information and share findings with others.

Adventure Outlook for students in the Middle Years (Years 6 - 9)

The Adventure Outlook Camping program includes activities that support the achievement of the following Essential Learnings contained in the South Australian Curriculum, Standards and Accountability (SACSA) Framework:

Futures
Developing perspectives to critically reflect upon and contribute to creating preferred futures, including:
• understanding connections, continuity and change in past, present and future contexts
• understanding the critical connection between natural and social environments
• challenging assumptions about the past, present and future
• critically examining diverse world views, ways of living, ways of working, relationships and values
• creating new knowledge from insights of the past, understandings of the present and foresights of the future and applying this in building future scenarios.

Identity
Critically understanding and developing personal identity, group identity, and relationships, and acting to shape these, including:
• understanding and critiquing key ways in which groups, cultures and social constructs contribute to forming identities
• developing self awareness and understanding with a strong sense of self worth in a social context
• confidently choosing and understanding the effects and consequences of choices made about identity
• understanding group dynamics and acting appropriately with and in relation to others.

Interdependence
Developing a sense of connectedness with other people, and systems, reflecting on and taking action to shape local and global communities, including:
• demonstrating respect for difference in cultural and social practices
• developing personal skills and abilities to create and maintain rewarding and effective relationships with individuals and groups
• identifying changes which would benefit community development and taking appropriate action
• engaging in social action in powerful and constructive ways.

Thinking
Developing creativity, enterprise, wisdom and the capability to evaluate and generate ideas and solutions, including:
• understanding how to create personal relevance through reflection and metacognition (knowing oneself as a thinker and learner)
• developing habits of mind that use incisive and critical thinking
• using a range of thinking modes and styles to recognise and develop connections among ideas
• applying creative and enterprising thinking to the generation of ideas and solutions.

Communication
Developing knowledge, skills and dispositions required to construct and deconstruct meaning, and to critically understand the power of communication and its technologies, including:
• receiving and sharing meaning through different forms of communication eg. dramatic performances
• thinking critically about communication, recognising multiple interpretations, challenging assumptions and providing alternative possibilities
• being able to effectively use a range of communication modes to solve problems when working individually or with others.