Hovercraft Summit (Managing Respectful Relationships, Managing Growth and Change)

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

Part 1: HEALTH & WELLBEING
Your students receive their Empowerment Journal and analyse how health and wellbeing are shaped by choices made throughout the hovercraft challenge.

Part 2: ENHANCING HEALTH
Your students apply strategies that enhance physical, mental and social health while planning and building their hovercraft.

Part 3: EVALUATING SELF-MANAGEMENT
Students critically evaluate their self-management during the planning, construction and testing of the hovercraft.

Part 4: INTERRELATIONSHIP OF ATTITUDES
Students analyse how attitudes and values influence behaviour, teamwork and performance during the challenge, and everyday life.

Part 5: IDENTITY 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:

Enhancing wellbeing through healthy lifestyles

• Propose, implement and evaluate strategies and actions that enhance their own and others’ mental health and wellbeing

Managing risk and enhancing safety

• Investigate contextual factors that influence risk-taking behaviours and decision-making, and assess their impact on safety, health and wellbeing

Thinking critically to enhance health and wellbeing

• Use subject-specific language to communicate concepts of physical activity, safety, health and wellbeing

Building and managing respectful relationships to support health and wellbeing

• Investigate the characteristics of inclusive, equal, safe and respectful relationships and propose strategies to enhance current and future relationships
• Reflect on ethical behaviour and explain how it can build and maintain respectful relationships
• Assess how respectful relationships can nurture personal growth and create safe and supportive environments for individuals and communities
• Examine skills and devise strategies to promote healthy and respectful relationships and limit or end harmful relationships
• Examine how power balances impact respectful relationships in contexts such as school, home, the workplace or with friend

Applying self-management and interpersonal skills to enhance respectful relationships

• Examine and refine interpersonal skills and actions to take greater responsibility for the safety, health and wellbeing of themselves and others
• Explain and demonstrate how being resilient and assertive can assist in managing a range of situations
• Demonstrate skills in conflict resolution and evaluate strategies that assist with managing emotions
• Assess and apply leadership skills that support inclusive and respectful relationships
• Evaluate the influence that respect, empathy and self-awareness have on establishing and maintaining respectful relationships
• Develop personalised goals and evaluate how goal-setting can promote personal growth, motivation and success in a range of situations

Building a healthy sense of identity to enhance wellbeing and inclusion

• Analyse how contextual factors and the perspectives of others can shape personal and community identity
• Propose and evaluate skills and strategies that enhance identity and a sense of belonging for themselves and others
• Investigate family, community and cultural responsibilities and how they shape identity
• Analyse how a sense of belonging and inclusive practices can contribute to safety, health and wellbeing for the individual and the community
• Analyse the interrelationship between positive mental health, connection and belonging
• Investigate how inclusion can influence individual and community health and wellbeing, with a focus on culture, disability, age, religion, sexuality and gender

Managing growth and change

• Propose and evaluate strategies to manage existing and future challenges and changes
• Explain how overcoming adversity, stress, loss and grief can enhance personal growth

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.