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Persevering through the Waves

It was our first session of surfing and the waves were great because everyone was wiping out with a face full of sand, our mighty surf instructors Mel and Pete from the Surf Shack rocked up to East Cape Conran to teach us our gnarly surfing skills to rip up the waves on our perfect sunny day and not a cloud to be seen. We practiced on the beach before going into the water so when we went in we were the most skilled people ever to be seen on the beach. Together we all ran towards the beach to hit the waves but when we touched the water our feet were swept away by the huge oncoming waves that were bigger than all of us, we all persevered through the giant waves and made it to the outer water where we caught the monsters to the beach and celebrated with some well-deserved cookies. After our surf we felt like our arms would fall off from all the paddling but in the end it was worth it and on top of that we had to carry the surfboards up the huge hill to the safety of the surf bus. Once we got back we had a water fight which drenched everyone. No one was safe.

Tejay - North Geelong & Niamh - Timboon P-12

 

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School for Student Leadership is a Victorian Department of Education and Training (DET) initiative offering a unique residential education experience for year nine students. The curriculum focuses on personal development and team learning projects sourced from students' home regions. There are four campuses in iconic locations across Victoria. The Alpine School Campus is located at Dinner Plain in the Victorian Alps. Snowy River Campus is near the mouth of the Snowy River at Marlo in east Gippsland. The third site is adjacent to Mount Noorat near Camperdown in Victoria’s Western District, and is called Gnurad-Gundidj. After consultation with the local aboriginal community, this name represents both the indigenous name of the local area and an interpretation of the statement "belonging to this place". Our fourth and newest campus, currently known as the Don Valley Campus is located at Don Valley, Yarra Ranges.
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Our school community acknowledges the Gunaikurnai and Monero-Ngarigo people as the traditional custodians of the land upon which our school campus is built. We pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their Elders past and present, and especially whose children attend our school.