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In order for the students to aim for these experiences, the program goals are set out as follows:

1. To give all students the opportunity to:acquire basic information on the nature of their physical and biological environment;
   • acquire an understanding of their dependence on the environment;
   • come to value the Australian countryside.
2. Acquire basic information and practical skills necessary for successful hiking, camping and bush survival.Develop independent living skills.
   • Develop a sense of initiative, self-esteem, self-confidence and self-reliance based on this knowledge and these skills.
   • Accept and overcome personal challenges.
3. Realise the need for community service.
   • Develop the ability to co-operate with other students and staff under conditions other than those dictated by the classroom situation.
   • Work as a member of an interdependent community.
   • Develop the ability to use leisure time profitably.
4. Better integrate their spiritual and temporal life

SAMPLE LEARNING EXPERIENCES

• Basic first aid
• Group initiative games
• Hiking in groups
• Cooking and eating in small groups
• Sharing facilities, rooms and equipment
• Taking turns at all jobs
• Relying on others
• Planning assembly and devotions (in random groups)
• Daily tasks (in random groups)
• Helping neighbours and local farmers where possible
• Caring for hiking country
• Concerts/Skits
• Games
• Simulation games
• Sing-a-longs
• Worship times
• Meditation and prayer
• Daily devotions
• Voluntary singing, prayer and praise times
• Discussions
• Hiking and camping in the countryside
• Debriefing challenge activities
• Living in the country
• Isolated from:
  • civilisation
  • junk food
  • modern appliances
  • modern communication
  • packaged entertainment 
• Camping with basic / essential facilities
• Hiking through forestry and across farms
• Pioneering
• Visiting farms
• Environmental awareness activities
• Bush art
• Meditation
• Campfires and Sing-a-longs
• Caring for a vegetable garden and site beautification
• Initiative games
• Orienteering exercises
• Map and compass use
• Woodchopping and firelighting
• Cooking for self and others
• Handling small animals
• Challenge Ropes Course
• Climbing activities
• Other challenge activities
• Leading assembly and devotions
• Involvement in worship services
• Hiking and camping
• Building and construction projects
• Maintenance tasks/Vegetable gardening
• Food Safety and Hygiene
• Responding to an emergency