Program dates and details Sunday 7 August to Friday 2 September 2022 (Weeks 4 to 7 of Term 3). ARRIVAL AT VISION VALLEY Families are asked to transport their daughters to Vision Valley on Sunday 7 August. Following check-in, Pymble and Riverview parents and students will enjoy icebreaker activities, a site tour and a community luncheon on Sunday 7 August before all parents are invited to depart the site.
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COLLECTING AND CELEBRATING OUR RETURNED PIONEERS
ROOMING AND GROUPING ARRANGEMENTS
Students will arrive back at the College from their ‘Great Return’ (see page 11) on Friday 2 September. Families are warmly invited to meet their daughters at the College and join our returned pioneers for an early evening barbecue and celebration on Gloucester Lawn.
Girls will be placed randomly within one of two pods of 25 students. To begin the experience, we will endeavour to ensure each girl has at least one chosen friend within their pod. Students will move rooms at least once during their residential experience and be placed in random groups for all Outdoor Education expeditions. All students will live communally within Stringybark Lodge and, as such, will get to know all 50 students attending the program.
PRE-PROGRAM ‘GETTING TO KNOW YOU’ ACTIVITIES Building supportive relationships is a key element of the program. Pymble girls and their Riverview counterparts will engage in the following ‘getting to know you’ activities before they reach Vision Valley: 6
Year 9 Residential Program at Vision Valley
Pymble afternoon tea based on the theme ‘Knowing people’. 2. Paired letter-writing activity with a Riverview student. 3. Afternoon at Riverview with associated icebreaker activities. 4. A return afternoon at Pymble based on the theme ‘Knowing Pymble.
