Year-Level Program
What makes Red Earth a great partner for schools?
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.
When and Where
Immersion Overview
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, 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.
Red Centre:
Desert & Stars
Rate: $1,790 + GST per student
Duration: 5 or 6 Days
Travel Months: April to October
Numbers: 50 - 175 students
- Uluru Creation Walk with Traditional Custodians
- Explore the epic landscape of Kings Canyon
- Explore Country with Traditional Owners, dig for grubs, learn language, cook bush foods, make clapsticks and jewellery, and share fireside stories with Traditional Owners.
- Accommodation: swags
- Flushing toilets and Hot Showers
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Cape York:
Reef & Rainforest
Rate: $1,790 + GST per student
Duration: 5 or 6 Days
Travel Months: March to Dec.
Numbers: 50 - 210 students
- Authentic cultural workshops with Traditional Owners
- Trek through the world’s oldest living rainforest
- Snorkel the breathtaking Great Barrier Reef
- Accommodation: Mix of Dorms and Tents
- Flushing toilets and Hot Showers
Hawkesbury:
Sky & Story
Rate: $720 + GST per student
Duration: 2 or 4 Days
Travel Months: January to Dec.
Numbers: 50 - 210 students
- Weaving, clapstick making, bush medicine walks & traditional fishing—plus a rich array of cultural activities led by Traditional Owners
- Accommodation: Cabins nestled on the river
- Flushing toilets and Hot Showers
- Ages - Ideal replacement for camps in the Junior School or Middle School
- Tailored - The program can be tailored with expedition-type activities or additional time on a First Nations homeland
- Connection - Traditional Owners will join us throughout, guiding cultural activities by day and gathering with us by the fire at night.
- Duke of Edinburgh - The Immersion can be set up to tick off the requirements for the Adventurous Journey of a Silver or Bronze Award
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.
Learn More – Download the Year-Level Program Brochure
