Hovercraft Masterclass (Identity, Self-management, Health and Wellbeing)
Stage 3
PDHPE 2-Hour Incursion
Strengthening Identity, Self-Management, Health & Wellbeing | NSW Stage 3 PDHPE
Empower your students to take the lead as they collaborate to bring a giant, fully functioning hovercraft to life. This immersive experience is a sophisticated journey into Self-management and Identity, meticulously tailored to the NSW Stage 3 PDHPE syllabus.
Guided by our expert Rangers, your students transition from learners to active decision-makers. They navigate leadership rotations that demand emotional regulation and critical thinking under pressure. Through the Health, Wellbeing, and Relationships strand, they discover how their personal identity shapes their leadership style and impacts the group’s success.
Using an Empowerment Journal, your students audit their unique strengths and refine the self-management strategies needed to "bounce back" from challenges. They leave with a heightened sense of self-belief, the maturity to lead with empathy, and the collaborative courage to rise together.
Part 1: STRENGTHENING YOUR IDENTITY
Your students are welcomed and introduced to the challenge. They receive their Empowerment Journal, form teams, and reflect on who they are and what they hope to achieve during the experience.
Part 2: MANAGING RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS
With roles assigned, students take charge and work together to construct the foundation of their hovercraft.
Part 3: BUILDING INTERPERSONAL SKILLS
Through planning, constructing, and refining their hovercraft, students strengthen communication, leadership and teamwork skills.
Part 4: HEALTH & SAFETY
Your students explore how making safe and healthy choices in everyday life supports their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others.
Part 5: WELLBEING LIFT-OFF
It’s time to ride! Students lift, race, and glide across the hall in their own custom-built hovercraft, a high-thrill ride where grit and teamwork collide to defy gravity. Every student will get to take their Empowerment Journal home as a tangible toolkit for their ongoing growth and resilience.
Our Hovercraft workshop links directly to NSW syllabus outcomes. Relevant outcomes are shown below:
Identity, health and well-being
Changes and factors can promote a positive identity
- Examine life changes and develop management strategies
- Investigate how family, culture, peers, media, education and place can impact actions, influencing identity, health and wellbeing
- Explain strategies that enhance a positive sense of identity and support health and well-being
- Explain how personal strengths can support the management of challenges
Self-management and interpersonal skills
Self-management skills are supported by informed decisions
- Explain how emotional responses to situations can impact decision-making and relationships
- Evaluate and apply self-regulation strategies to manage responses in offline and online situations
- Apply problem-solving and decision-making actions across contexts
- Explain and demonstrate when resilience strategies can be applied across a range of contexts
- Apply goal-setting strategies and evaluate the effectiveness
- Respond to peer and teacher feedback to refine skills and strategies in a range of contexts
Creating written texts in PDHPE
Creating written texts supports understanding of health, safety and wellbeing
- Use connectives to link ideas between sentences, describing the effects of choices and behaviours on health, safety and wellbeing
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.
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Please note this is a tentative booking. After your booking request is submitted, we will be in touch via email to confirm the requested date and arrange the final details for the booking.
All prices are +GST. As this program is an educational service, all GST charged can be reimbursed in its entirety by the Government.
FAQS
What is a hovercraft?
A hovercraft is a vehicle that operates by forcing air beneath the craft to create lift, allowing it to glide on a cushion of air. In our program, it only works when students collaborate, communicate, and problem-solve together, engineering both the hovercraft and a strong sense of wellbeing and teamwork.
What space/ equipment do I need to prepare?
One thing only: a large hall space with a polished timber floor or smooth polished concrete. If you are unsure about your floor, you can send us a picture or give us a call to discuss.
 We handle the rest, bringing all hovercraft equipment and materials, plus a get-to-keep Empowerment Journal for every student.
Do all of your staff hold a valid Working With Children Check (WWCC)?
Yes, of course. All Ranger Jamie staff hold current, valid Working With Children Checks and complete all required child safety training. We’re happy to provide documentation in advance upon request for your peace of mind and compliance.
What time will the Rangers arrive?
Our Rangers arrive approximately 45 minutes before the session to get everything adventure-ready. If parking is available close to the school hall, it certainly helps with a smooth and efficient setup.
I need a Risk Assessment. Where can I find this?
A comprehensive, fully compliant Risk Assessment is provided upon booking. It’s designed to meet school requirements and support planning and approval processes, and yes, it’s principal-approved.
Will my students have fun?
1,000 YES. And we guarantee you will too.

