Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Somers School Camp

Mr McCURDY: I call on the Victorian government to keep their hands off Somers School Camp. Somers camp has played a mentoring role within the camp for primary-age students going back decades. This is still the best opportunity to give metropolitan and regional students the confidence and courage to develop new skills. The Victorian government’s meddling with the Somers camp is dangerous. One of the changes this framework is set to introduce is to reduce the nine-day full program to a five-day approach, meaning that students will only have a three-day adventure camp instead of the full curriculum delivery as outlined in the school’s mission statement. Somers camp is not broken. Leave it alone, and let Somers camp develop our kids as it has done for decades.