Year 7 Camp

Building Relationships

The focus of this camp is on building on new relationships. The girls spend time with their Pastoral Care classes and teachers and challenge themselves to a range of challenging activities. This camp is activity-filled and the girls learn a great deal about themselves and each other as they face the various physical challenges, most popular of which are the giant swing, dual flying fox and sailing.

Year 7 Benedictine Day

Our Good Samaritan History and Values

This is a reflective day focussing on our Good Samaritan history and Benedictine values. It introduces the girls to the unique culture and outward focus of a Good Samaritan community through discussion, group work and meditation.

Year 8 Retreat

Finding Your Groove

The girls focus on their personal identity and shaping their self worth. This is a time when the girls are framing the values that will take them into their adult life so on this retreat they explore concepts of beauty, kindness, resilience and faith within a Benedictine framework.

Year 9 Camp

Self-confidence

It’s a refreshing change of scenery for the girls to get out of Sydney and into the great Australian bush – not a beach in sight! At a time when friendship groups are changing and girls are most actively exploring their identity, this camp offers them the chance to discover new friends and boost their self-confidence by meeting the challenges, physical and otherwise, available to them.

Year 10 Retreat

Choose Your Own Adventure

This retreat is a time for individual and community development as the girls begin to make decisions for their future and embark on their senior years at the College. They reflect on some of the Benedictine values that can shape the choices they will make: compassion, stewardship, hospitality, peace and humility.

Year 11 Retreat

Walking the Tightrope

Term 4 of Year 11 is actually considered the first term of Year 12. This three-day retreat is geared towards preparing the girls for the final stretch of their HSC journey and life beyond the College. It focuses on the balance required to thrive at this difficult time: academically, emotionally and spiritually. We have two visiting facilitators who inspire the girls to translate words and ideas into action:

Luke Tobin, Catholic Mission Australia
Donna Mulhearn, journalist and peace activist, Ordinary Courage