Googa Outdoor Education Centre

Googa is an outdoor education camp set in the ranges outside the township of Blackbutt, about two and a half hours from Noosa.

Grace Lutheran College, Rothwell, Grace Lutheran Primary School, Clontarf, and Good Shepherd Lutheran College, Noosaville, own Googa, an Outdoor Education centre and Christian retreat.

Year 10 school groups spend four weeks at Googa undertaking an outdoor education programme under the direction of the Director, Andrea Newton and staff.

The main goals of the outdoor education programme are:-

• To give all students the opportunity to:
  • acquire basic information on the nature of their physical and biological environment;
  • acquire an understanding of their dependence on the environment;
  • come to value the Australian countryside.
• Acquire basic information and practical skills necessary for successful hiking, camping and bush survival.
  • Develop independent living skills.
  • Develop a sense of initiative, self-esteem, self-confidence and self-reliance based on this knowledge and these skills.
  • Accept and overcome personal challenges.
• Realise the need for community service.
  • Develop the ability to co-operate with other students and staff under conditions other than those dictated by the classroom situation.
  • Work as a member of an interdependent community.
  • Develop the ability to use leisure time profitably.
• Better integrate their spiritual and temporal life.

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