Service learning

The college works in partnership with the Lutheran Church of Cambodia to offer a rare and transformational service-learning experience for interested students at the Year 11 level. 

As part of the experience, students travel to Krus Village in Cambodia (Kampong Chhnang province) to support the village in a number of practical and enduring ways. 

Activities include helping to build modest homes and preschool facilities, repair main trade roads and raise funds for upgraded transport, including shared village motorbikes that enable local church leaders to travel to remote areas and administer pastoral care.

During this trip, students gain a rich insight into Cambodia’s history, culture and rural life.

The Cambodia experience is offered as part of the compulsory subject: 'Spirituality, Religion and Meaning'.

The college collaborates with various First Nations Elders and communities in the Northern Territory to co-create service-learning experiences in remote central Australia for students in the senior years (Years 10-12).

These outback experiences typically involve living among First Nations communities and taking the opportunity to build and deepen relationships with these communities through cooking, art, sport, face-painting, music, dance and conversation.

Students are supported to use their time in the outback to prepare and eat bush food; acquire skills in language; and learn about native medicinal plants, tool-making, First Nations lore and issues facing First Nations communities. They are also given the opportunity visit some of the country’s most beautiful natural wonders.

Importantly, students work alongside First Nations communities to undertake repairs to homes, communal buildings and sites of worship. They grow in cultural understanding and forge important connections to the land and the people – particularly the children of these communities – that endure long beyond the experience itself.