Large Group Immersions
More than just a camp replacement, this immersive program offers a transformative experience for 50 to 210 students, combining expedition-style adventures with deeper engagement on First Nations homelands in striking locations like the Hawkesbury, Cape York, Canberra, and the Red Centre. Each journey is thoughtfully designed to foster cultural learning, meaningful connections, and personal growth, giving students the chance to explore both the land and themselves while contributing through service.
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Why a Year Level Program is right for your school?
- Embedding Reconciliation into School Culture - Because systemic change starts with shared experience. A Red Earth immersion for a full cohort creates a cultural shift that lasts well beyond the trip, moving reconciliation from intention to action.
- Deep Learning and Critical Thinking - No opt-ins. No exclusivity. Every student gets access to a transformative experience that builds cultural understanding, emotional intelligence, humility, and empathy. Time on Country challenges them to listen deeply and reflect meaningfully.
- Community Partnership and Real-World Learning - Red Earth immersions connect schools with remote First Nations communities in respectful, lasting, and reciprocal ways. The experience becomes a catalyst for richer learning across English, History, Geography, Civics, and more.
- Future-Ready Global Citizenship - Students gain the intercultural understanding, adaptability, and ethical awareness needed to thrive in a diverse and changing world, skills essential for global citizenship and future leadership.
- Catalysing Whole-School Professional Growth - Teachers grow too. Staff involved in the immersion journey develop their own cultural competence, leadership, and confidence to embed Indigenous perspectives meaningfully across the curriculum.
- A Transformative Alternative to Traditional Outdoor Ed – Red Earth immersions replace traditional camps with a deeper experience that still builds independence and resilience, while adding cultural connection, reconciliation, and real-world learning.
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What makes Red Earth a great partner for schools?
Year Level Cohorts
Our year-level program allows every student in a year level to make a safe and meaningful connection with First Nations on traditional lands.
Whether there are 50 or 300 students in a year, they are split into small, classroom-sized groups for the majority of the program to ensure they are able to get the most out of the experience, all at the same time.
We have been specialists in large, multi-group programs for over a decade:
- Students are led in cultural activities by First Nations cultural educators drawing on over 60,000 years of knowledge
- The cohort is split into subgroups to enable more personal experiences and opportunities to reflect on shared learning
- We manage the complex logistics of bridging worlds with our highly-trained staff and round the clock regional operations bases
How it works
Small Groups
The cohort is divided into small groups of about 25 students to allow for more personal interaction, better safety, and deeper engagement with the facilitators, Traditional Owners (TOs), and peers. Small groups also allow for tailored learning and foster stronger bonds among participants.
Subgroups rotate through Daily Activities
Each subgroup rotates through a variety of hands-on, place-based cultural activities. These could include bushwalks, cultural workshops, environmental service projects, and storytelling sessions to ensure that every student experiences learning opportunities and contributes to community-led initiatives.
Hot Showers and Flushing Toilets
Everywhere we stay, students will have access to flushing toilets and hot showers. Teachers have the option of staying in cabin accommodation for parts of or the whole of the program.
Traditional Owners Sharing Stories Around the Fire at Night
Traditional Owners gather with students around the fire to share cultural knowledge, history, and personal stories. These intimate storytelling sessions are a cornerstone of the experience, creating powerful moments of learning and reflection on Country.
