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LAUNCHING YOUR TRIP SCHOOL PRICE 8290
• Return economy flights • Comprehensive/premium travel insurance • Information meetings and preparation support • Training day • Highly-trained World Challenge leader • 24-hour operations centre support • In-country costs (food, accommodation, transport etc) • Group kit
– medical kits, satellite comms, tents, stoves, safety gear
• Financial contribution to local community initiatives
INCLU SIONS
ARRIVAL DATE *
29th November 2024
DATE ISSUED 17th October 2023
VALID UNTIL
17th November 2023
IT’S EASY TO LAUNCH YOUR TRIP. HERE’S OUR SIMPLE GUIDE
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For more details on your booking, please see the form overleaf.
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A LIFE OF S E I T I L I B I S S O P We believe that overseas travel is one of the most empowering, life-altering forms of learning possible. We’re passionate about what we do and have dedicated ourselves to the pursuit of creating unique school trips that educate, enrich and inspire the next generation. For over 35 years, we’ve enabled transformative travel experiences right around the world. These experiences complement school learning, giving students the opportunity to become true life-learners and global citizens. It’s the kind of learning that students will carry with them long into the future; learning that can only come from experiencing this amazing planet and the unique cultures that inhabit it. We give students the opportunity to write their own stories, make their own mistakes, live their own adventures, learn and grow with peers, and see the world with open eyes that are focused on those around them. We’ve watched as these life-changing experiences have brought out the best in our challengers for many years, since 1987 in fact. It’s perhaps best brought to life by our 150,000+ alumni that have returned home forever changed, many being inspired to continue the pursuit of positive global citizenship, from advocacy work in foreign nations through to leading world-shaping environmental initiatives. We offer much more than a trip overseas. That said, it all begins with saying yes to adventure, yes to ignoring comfort zones, yes to embracing the unknown. A world of possibility awaits.
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A E V A H S IP R T E S E “TH N O T C A P IM E IV IT S O P D N A S R E E R A C ’ S STUDENT .“ L A R E N E G IN S E IV ON THEIR L TRAVELLING SCHOOL LEADER 2022
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EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCES ACROSS FOUR UNIQUE CATEGORIES LEADERSHIP EXPEDITIONS
LEARNING SERVICE JOURNEYS
Inspiring leadership through student-led expeditions.
CURRICULUM TOURS
Achieving educational outcomes through applied curriculum learning.
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Shaping global citizens through tailored journeys of culture.
SPORTS TOURS
Developing skills and creating life-long memories through sport.
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OUR COMMITMENT TO EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES Together with our teachers, students and trip leaders, we’ve created a strong legacy of delivering the best, most cost-effective, life-enriching experiences possible. We believe in the power of travel to educate and inspire young people. From providing online pre-departure learning resources to facilitating experiences on trips, we aim to maximise educational opportunities. We hope this will create a lasting impact, as travellers move into adulthood with a greater awareness of themselves and the world around them.
Our educational outcomes Students will gain a greater understanding of how to act for a more sustainable future, at both local and global levels.
Students will be empowered to build on their self-care strategies, enhancing their physical and mental wellbeing.
Students will be immersed in different cultures and experiences, growing to understand their role within our global community.
Students will experience and reflect on the power of being pushed outside of their comfort zone, allowing the development of initiative, confidence, and resilience.
Students will be challenged to think critically about topical issues that affect our past, present and future around the world.
Students will build a deeper connection to their own identity and personal values, developing their independence and sense of self.
Measuring success We asked our trip leaders for feedback on the learning and growth experienced by students on their trips in 2022. Here’s what they reported: 4%
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GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP
37%
PERSONAL GROWTH
WELLBEING
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Did students demonstrate consideration of responsible travel in their decisionmaking on trip?
Did students demonstrate recognition of learning through reflection on experiences outside of their comfort zone?
Did students demonstrate that they were comfortable using self-care strategies on the trip?
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Sometimes
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GIVING YOU PEACE OF MIND We have a proven track record of giving our students, teachers, parents and schools the most secure financial and physical safety support available.
TRIP LEADER
Our experienced leaders offer you reassurance that students are fully supported while still taking responsibility for their trip. They are highly trained and passionate about impacting young people and forging bonds with both students and teachers.
REFUNDABLE PAYMENTS
If we have to cancel your trip or you are prevented from travelling due to COVID-19, you will receive a full refund.
COVID-SAFE DESTINATIONS
We’ll only travel to destinations deemed safe by official government advice. If, after booking, your planned destination becomes unsafe due to COVID-19, we can provide an alternative at no extra cost.
TEAM SAFETY AND ENHANCED HYGIENE
We’ve always been meticulous about trip hygiene, and we’ve stepped this up with COVID-specific protocols that include Prevention of Spread of Infection (POSI) procedures. Our risk assessments provide further guidance.
YOUR DEDICATED POINT OF CONTACT
You will be assigned a personal World Challenge school relationship manager who will guide you through the predeparture program and prepare you and your team for the trip.
STRONG FINANCIAL BACKING
World Challenge is part of Travelopia, the world’s largest collection of specialist travel brands. We benefit from its financial strength, global reach and operational experience.
OUR ACCREDITATIONS
These assurances sit alongside our long-standing in-country health and safety audits to ensure that our travellers are safeguarded in the very best ways possible.
BOOKING WITH CONFIDENCE Full details and terms of our refund policy and safe travel protocols can be found on our website weareworldchallenge.com
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SAFE AND SECURE TRIPS PRE-RISK ASSESSED TRIPS In a post-COVID-19 world safety has become more important than ever. Our trips follow a set itinerary that has been risk-assessed to the highest standards. From pre-booked and audited transport to carefully selected accommodation and activities, you can rest easy – we’ve done all necessary work before departure to mitigate the risk of things going wrong in-country. If anything unexpected comes up overseas our experienced ground teams and 24/7 operations centre will be on hand to assist. We have a dedicated team managing our operations centres in both hemispheres, utilizing the best safety and risk management systems and processes available.
24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK Our technologies integrate real-time government and private security advice that informs all our plans. We’ve built a unique auditing system to monitor the safety and professionalism of all our in-country partners, which continually screens all pre-booked transport, accommodation, and activities. Together all these initiatives have resulted in the average number of incidents on our trips reducing by well over 50% since prior to COVID-19. We’re dedicated to safety and risk management above all else.
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WE CARE ABOUT OUR PLANET We measure, reduce and mitigate all of our emissions, including those from flights. We remove more emissions than we generate, making us a climate positive organisation.
REFORESTATION We plant five trees for every passenger who travels with us.
SINGLE-USE PLASTICS
ANIMAL WELFARE
We’ve eliminated single-use plastics from our operations and provide advice to travellers about how they can do the same.
Activities that involve interactions with animals on our trips are pre-approved against our animal welfare policy.
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COMMUNITY INITIATIVES Our initiatives provide authentic opportunities for community engagement. Through meaningful, hands-on and culturally immersive experiences, students can make a positive impact, bringing home greater humility and a sense of place in the world.
ETHICAL APPROACH
POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION
CHILD WELFARE
Initiatives focus on fostering global values and upholding a high standard of ethics.
Our community initiatives are carefully selected to enable young people to collaborate on programs that make a lasting impact, long beyond the end of the visit.
We don’t visit orphanages and have a detailed child welfare policy.
We base our sustainable travel initiatives upon the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and work to support these through our travels.
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R O F G N I R A P E R P YOUR TRIP
As part of their pre-departure preparations, your students will have access to a mixture of bo maximise educational outcomes. Students will arrive in-country ready to create a positive imp
The Development Journey is built around three key pillars. For each pillar we provide a numb
GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP Our Global Citizenship modules are a foundation of learning on prominent global issues. Students will be engaged to better understand topics that they will encounter on their trip, but also into the future, empowered with a baseline of knowledge that will allow them to make informed decisions about their behaviours from a global perspective.
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WELLBEING Our Wellbeing modules enable students to develop an awareness of what a healthy wellbeing means for them. They learn that there are simple, positive ways to help them cope and adjust to new or challenging situations.
We encourage you to empower the students to organise and run the modules themselves, although they will likely need your support in facilitating the discussions in each module. This guide details an overview of each module, what resources are required, as well as giving you some tips for facilitating the discussions.
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BOOKING FORM
TRIPS BOOKED DIRECTLY BY STUDENTS YOUR TRIP
SCHOOL LEADER DETAILS
The number of travelling School Leaders included in the fee is outlined in the School Leader Policy (here) unless detailed otherwise on this Booking Form.
School name Norwood Secondary College School postcode 3134
Main school leader Rodney Mitchell; Annie Hearne
Destination Borneo
Email Rodney.Mitchell@education.vic.gov.au; Annie.Hearne@education.vi
Nights in-country 20
Mobile
Preferred departure airport* MEL
Will this school leader be travelling?
Trip fee (per person) 8290 Based on booking minimum of
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YES ✔
NO
* We will always try to secure flights from the school’s preferred departure airport, but this may not always be possible due to schedules, routings and cost. We will advise you of your actual departure airport when booking flights - please note that it is the school’s/traveller’s responsibility to organise travel to and from the airport.
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ARRIVAL DATE(S)** Team 1
Date
Product code
29/11/2024
EXP-BOR-20-7
Team 2 Team 3 Team 4 ** The exact trip dates will be confirmed when we know how many teams will be travelling from the school and when flight schedules have been released (typically 10 months prior to the departure date range).
SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
DATES FOR THE DIARY
STUDENT PRESENTATION (S)
PARENT PRESENTATION
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Date 25th October 2023
Date 31st October 2023
Date 14th November 2023
Time
Time 6PM
Initial Instalment due
Date
Parent presentation
Time
Remote ✔
Date On sign up
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Link for parents presentation meeting: https://weareworldchallenge.zoom.us/j/7813396139 The Terms of Business overleaf set out the terms and conditions on which you (the “school”) contract with World Challenge Expeditions for us to provide you with services relating to a trip to be purchased by parents/guardians of students or other participants (“participants”) associated with your school. By signing and returning a booking form, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by them.
TERMS OF BUSINESS
SCHOOLS FACILITATING TRIPS BOOKED DIRECTLY BY STUDENTS Services we provide to the school Although the contract to arrange delivery of travel arrangements is between us and participants, we still provide the school with services in relation to the trip. These services are limited to: 1.
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Trip advisory services, including: i.
Itinerary planning and consultations
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fielding queries and questions relating to the trip from parents and students on behalf of the school
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providing risk management information in order to get the trip ‘signed-off/endorsed’ by school SMT/local authorities
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providing some preparatory training to help travelling teachers fulfil their role on the trip
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keeping key contacts at the school informed and involved in any on-trip incidents, whilst maintaining responsibility for communicating with parents directly
Provision of travel arrangements for school leaders (see below)
Your obligations to us In consideration for us providing the advisory services you agree to: a.
use reasonable endeavours to promote the trip to participants and to facilitate bookings by participants;
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procure that school representatives (in the number specified by us in our booking request confirmation) attend the trip to be primarily responsible for the welfare and conduct of participants in accordance with the responsibilities set out in the School Leader Policy (here); and
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provide to us such other assistance and information as we may reasonably require to arrange the delivery of the travel arrangements forming the trip.
Our liability to you To the fullest extent permitted by law our maximum liability to the school for the provision of the advisory services and in connection with the trip generally whether under these Terms of Business, in tort (including negligence) or at law is limited to resupplying the advisory services or paying to have them resupplied.
Cancellations & amendments As the contract for delivery of travel arrangements is with an individual participant, any notice of cancellation or amendment requests must be given by the individual participant, or the school must be authorised by the participant to give such notice. Participants are subject to our booking terms and conditions (here). Cancellation and amendment charges are payable by participants under these terms and conditions.
School leader travel arrangements The school acknowledges and agrees that the funding of school representatives to attend the trip will be determined in accordance with the School Leader Policy (here). Our liability to the school and any school leader who participates on a trip is limited in the manner set out in the participant booking conditions. The school must ensure that all school leaders are made aware of the existence of the participant booking conditions and that they are subject to them.
General These Terms of Business are governed by the laws of the State of Victoria, Australia. Any disputes shall be dealt with by a court with the appropriate jurisdiction in Victoria. If any provision of these Terms of Business is found to be unenforceable, then to the extent possible it will be severed without affecting the remaining provisions.
FIND YOUR PLACE IN THE WORLD CONTACT Oliver Einsidel oeinsiedel@worldchallenge.com.au 0491 218 146
Australia 1300 728 568 New Zealand 0800 456 134
World Challenge is part of the Experience Education family, enriching lives though experiential travel