Hovercraft Institute (Building Respectful Relationships, Identity, Belonging, and Change)

Part 1: WELLBEING
Your students receive their Empowerment Journal and explore wellbeing concepts as they prepare for the ultimate hovercraft challenge.

Part 2: SOLVE A CHALLENGE
Teams apply critical and creative thinking to plan, build and problem-solve throughout the hovercraft design process.

Part 3: SAFETY & HEALTH
Students examine how personal choices, behaviour and environments influence health and safety in their everyday lives.

Part 4: BUILDING WELLBEING
It’s time to reflect in our Empowerment Journals on how attitudes, behaviour and communication impact wellbeing.

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.

Our Hovercraft workshop links directly to NSW syllabus outcomes. Relevant outcomes are shown below:

Respectful relationships

Building and managing respectful relationships to support health and wellbeing

• Investigate the characteristics and qualities of various types of relationships and how these can impact safety, health and wellbeing
• Examine the changing nature of relationships and propose strategies that build and maintain respectful relationships
• Practise skills and strategies to safely advocate for positive and equal power in relationships for themselves and others

Applying self-management and interpersonal skills to enhance respectful relationships

• Explain how rights and responsibilities contribute to safe and respectful relationships
• Demonstrate and explain how respect, sympathy and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships
• Evaluate and practise communication skills that build and maintain respectful relationships, including active listening
• Demonstrate how decision-making, negotiation and problem-solving skills can help resolve conflict
• Explain how emotional responses can impact relationships and propose strategies to facilitate positive outcomes in a range of situations
• Identify attitudes and practise skills that enhance resilience, perseverance and adaptability to change
• Propose and review personal goals that enhance the potential for success and improved health outcomes

Identity, belonging and change

Building a healthy sense of identity to enhance wellbeing and inclusion

• Explain how personal strengths, characteristics and contextual factors shape personal identity
• Examine and propose skills and strategies that support a positive sense of identity and discuss how this enhances health and wellbeing
• Investigate the changing nature of personal identity and how it can differ in various contexts
• Identify and demonstrate ways to join a team or group and explain how this can enhance wellbeing
• Investigate practices that create safe environments and support inclusivity in the areas of culture, disability, age, religion, sexuality and gender, and how these influence a sense of belonging and wellbeing
• Explain how a sense of belonging can influence safety, wellbeing and self-worth

Managing growth and change

• Refine skills and strategies for managing changing roles and responsibilities
• Explain strategies that enhance resilience, health and wellbeing in response to stress, loss and grief

Our high-energy Hovercraft workshop is $1,499 + GST, Flat Rate per 2 hr Session.

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.