Hovercraft Academy (Strengthening resilience and identity)

Please find the structure for the 2hr workshop as listed below:

Part 1: Strengthening Identity
Students receive their Empowerment Journals and identify personal strengths. They explore how individual mindsets prepare them to tackle the ultimate hovercraft challenge as a cohesive unit.

Part 2: Resilience in action
Teams apply critical and creative thinking to build and problem-solve. When technical challenges arise, students practice “bounce-back” grit and persistence to keep the project moving forward.

Part 3: Respectful relationships
As the build intensifies, students examine how their behaviour and communication influence their ability to work as a team. They focus on breaking down social barriers to ensure an inclusive construction zone.

Part 4: Building wellbeing
Students use their Empowerment Journals to reflect on Self-Management. They analyse how their attitudes and emotional regulation impact both their personal well-being and the group’s success.

Part 5: Identity & Belonging Lift-off
It’s time to ride! Students lift off and glide, celebrating the shared success of the hovercraft challenge. This high-energy finish strengthens identity and belonging, with students taking home their Empowerment Journal to cement their growth.

This program aligns with the Victorian Curriculum. Relevant content descriptions and achievement standards are outlined below.

Personal, Social and Community Health – Health Education

Identities and change

• investigate how success, challenge, setbacks and failure strengthen resilience and identities in a range of contexts VC2HP4P01
• plan, rehearse and reflect on strategies to cope with the different changes and transitions they experience, such as physical, social and emotional changes VC2HP4P02
• describe how choices and actions can be influenced by stereotypes VC2HP4P03

Interacting with others

• select, use and refine personal and social skills to establish, manage and strengthen relationships VC2HP4P04
• describe how valuing diversity influences wellbeing and identify actions that promote inclusion in their communities VC2HP4P05
• explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions VC2HP4P06

Contributing to healthy communities

• interpret the nature and intention of health information and messages in their community, and reflect on how these influence personal decisions and behaviours VC2HP4P09
• investigate and apply strategies that contribute to their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing VC2HP4P10

Our high-energy Hovercraft workshop is $2,000 + GST Now $1,499 + GST (discount automatically applied at checkout!).

This price includes:

• A pre-completed Risk Assessment to make planning easy;
• Full administrative support from our team;
• All materials and equipment provided, you bring the kids, we’ll bring… well, everything else;
• Enthusiastic and knowledgeable Rangers leading the fun;
• A syllabus-aligned program designed to deliver real learning in a hands-on, exciting way.

Each session is capped at 60 students.

For larger groups, we recommend booking multiple sessions across the day to ensure every student receives the full, high-impact experience. We can run multiple stages per day.