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Curriculum links for your school camp

Every activity at Camp Sunnystones is mapped to the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0, from Foundation to Year 10. Choose your year level and the activities your students will do, and the planner below builds the curriculum links for you.

School council wants to know what camp is for, and the Department’s Excursions policy asks you to set out each camp’s educational purpose before you go. That is a real piece of work, usually done from scratch, usually late at night. This page does the mapping part for you.

Pick a year level and tick the activities in your program. You will get the matching curriculum codes, the content descriptions behind them, and a plain explanation of how each activity delivers that learning. Every link is graded strong, moderate or indirect, so you can see which ones carry real weight and which need a classroom debrief to land. Then download a printable page to drop straight into your camp proposal or council pack.

The activities covered are The Walk In, the Instincts for Survival game, bush hut building, geocaching, campfire, night walk, archery, canoeing, the low ropes course, raft building, bush cooking, the bouldering wall and Dreamweaver, and bush art. All codes were checked against the official Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 in October 2026.

What is covered

Learning areas a Sunnystones camp reaches

Camp is not only Health and Physical Education. Across Foundation to Year 10 the planner draws on every one of these.

  • Learning areasEnglish
  • Mathematics
  • Science
  • Health and Physical Education
  • The HumanitiesGeography
  • History
  • Civics and Citizenship
  • Economics and Business
  • The ArtsVisual Arts
  • Drama
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Media Arts
  • Visual Communication Design
  • TechnologiesDesign and Technologies
  • Digital Technologies
  • LanguagesLanguages
  • CapabilitiesPersonal and Social Capability
  • Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Ethical Capability
  • Intercultural Capability
  • Cross-curriculum prioritiesAboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures
  • Sustainability

Ten curriculum links, as an example

A sample of what the planner produces. These ten span six learning areas and several year bands.

  • VC2HPFM03 · Foundation

    Health and Physical Education: Movement and Physical Activity

    Content: Participate safely in a range of activities in outdoor environments and explore the benefits of being active.

    At camp: Walking into camp along the Coimadai Track with a Sunnystones guide gives young students real practice in moving safely outdoors: staying with the group, carrying their own day pack and drinking water.

  • VC2S2U03 · Foundation to Level 2

    Science: Biological sciences

    Content: Plants and animals have external features that help them survive.

    At camp: On the night walk, looking for animals such as the tawny frogmouth, which is hard to spot against a branch, shows how features help animals survive.

  • VC2HG2K01, VC2HG2K03 · Foundation to Level 2

    Geography: Geographical Knowledge and Understanding

    Content: Why places are important, and the connections between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and Country and Place.

    At camp: Walking through a protected reserve on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country shows that places belong to people and need care.

  • VC2M3SP02, VC2M4SP03 · Levels 3–4

    Mathematics: Space

    Content: Interpret two-dimensional representations of familiar places; create and use grid reference systems.

    At camp: Geocaching has students read a map to reach waypoints.

  • VC2TDE4D03, VC2TDE4D04 · Levels 3–4

    Design and Technologies: Creating Designed Solutions

    Content: Select materials and tools to make designed solutions, and evaluate them against design criteria including sustainability.

    At camp: In raft building, teams plan, build and test whether their raft floats, which is the full design cycle.

  • VC2E3LY11, VC2E4LY10 · Levels 3–4

    English: Literacy

    Content: Create informative texts, written and spoken, such as procedures.

    At camp: Bush cooking damper and chocolate cake in an orange gives an authentic sequence of steps to write up.

  • VC2HH4K01 · Levels 3–4

    History: Historical Knowledge and Understanding

    Content: The significance of Country and Place to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

    At camp: The Walk In takes place in an Aboriginal cultural landscape. The link depends on using Traditional Owner-endorsed content.

  • VC2CP4S04 · Levels 3–4

    Personal and Social Capability: Self-awareness and Management

    Content: Strategies that support persistence and adaptability when facing challenges.

    At camp: The bouldering wall’s graded levels let every student set and meet a personal challenge.

  • VC2CC6M02 · Levels 5–6

    Critical and Creative Thinking: Metacognition

    Content: Thinking processes suited to different contexts, and when to use them.

    At camp: On the low ropes course, groups talk about what worked and why after each element.

  • VC2TDI6S02 · Levels 5–6

    Digital Technologies: Digital Systems and Security

    Content: How digital systems form networks to transmit data.

    At camp: Geocaching GPS devices use satellite signals to fix position.

Plan your camp

Build your curriculum map

Choose a year level, then build your camp program or browse by curriculum area or activity. Download a printable page for your camp proposal or school council pack.

Year level

Results

Strong means the activity directly delivers this learning. Moderate means it clearly supports it, and a short debrief makes the link explicit. Indirect links count when paired with the classroom extension shown.

Campfire and Night Walk are run by school staff, so their curriculum value depends on teacher planning. Archery, Canoeing, Raft Building, Geocaching and Instincts for Survival are offered from Year 3, and the Low Ropes Course from Year 2.

All codes were checked against the official Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0 website in October 2026. Science, Geography and Ethical Capability treat Foundation to Level 2 as one band. Languages codes differ for each language.

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