Its expedition week on the program! This week is one of our most important weeks as it is our three day camp and is our assessment week for the young people. We picked everyone up from Collingwood station and brought them back to CAS to pack our bags. After covering the basics of what we will be doing we packed the essentials and made our way to Break Away Caravan Park. The drive there was pleasant and before we knew it we were saying hello to Pagey and Neil form Rubicon. After a quick introduction we started pumping up the canoes and packing everything we needed for the journey. It was great to see how efficient the group were in doing this and how great their teamwork skills are. We loaded
Week 6 on the program and the term is flying by! This week is jam packed full of big activities that are working both our body and mind. We started the week by going caving at Britannia creek caves. Caving is an activity that is mentally challenging as it takes us out of our comfort zone and can provoke anxiety. We picked up the young people from Collingwood station, put the playlist on and made our journey to the cave. Once at the cave we geared up in our overalls, helmets, head torches and went through the safety brief. After getting a idea of how we were all feeling we dove straight into the cave. This activity brings out the best in groups as it requires a lot of team work and team encou
Week 5 is here and it is an exciting one as we are going on our surf camp this week! The Wednesday started much like it has before with a session at the gym with Andrew. We picked up the young people from Collingwood station and drove straight to Richmond gym. Once here we got stuck into our workout by doing 10 minutes of cardio. After this Andrew put us to work with a tough 9 station circuit that we went through 3 times. The circuit included exercises such as squats, push ups, crunches, step ups and more. It was a tough circuit but one that the students took on well. We then did 10 more minutes of cardio and finished the session with two rounds of an abdominal workout. After this we drove
This week is a warm one with everyday reaching over 30 so we all settled in and prepared for a sweaty few days! Wednesday started with a visit to the Collingwood Children's farm to do some volunteer work. We picked the team up from Collingwood station and met with Toni to find out what we would be doing on the day. We are extremely lucky here at Newstart to have been working with Toni and the Collingwood Children's farm for years now. We started the session by slopping on some sunscreen and getting straight into feeding the goats. After this Toni put us to work by giving us a section of fence to weed. Everyone did really well to stay on task and get the job done. After roughly 45 minutes of
