Australia's longest serving and leading Outdoor Education provider
Outward Bound programs support curriculum across key learning areas. Moreover, it is the "plus-factor" that sets Outward Bound apart from the rest. Outward Bound provides students with the attitudes life skills and inner strength that lead them to greater achievement and well-being back at school.
Outward Bound is recognised as Australia's leading provider of Outdoor Education Programs for Schools. Working with Public, Catholic and Independent schools, Outward Bound seeks to meet the unique needs of each school. This page aims to provide information for schools to help them construct an effective Outdoor Education program. If your school requires any further information or consultation, please contact us.
School Outdoor Education courses are specially designed in consultation with the school to complement and reinforce the school's curriculum and philosophy. Programs are based on guided discovery learning and are aimed at the personal development of each student while meeting the specific goals set by the school. For some schools the Outward Bound experience has formed an integral part of the school's personal development and outdoor education program for over 20 years.
Through close consultation with your school, Outward Bound will design and develop a creative and high impact outdoor education, personal development program that is integrated with the school’s curriculum and student development program for the selected year group(s). Utilising wilderness based activities and a careful use of facilitation techniques to aid learning, Outward Bound programs provide a wealth of opportunities for students to discover, develop and achieve their potential.
Schools have many choices in designing and delivering outdoor education experiences for their students. These can include providing in-house camps and contracting external providers. Outward Bound has proudly served individual schools for over twenty years.
Outward Bound is more than an outdoor education experience. We are not a camp, a retreat or even strictly an adventure experience. Outward Bound is a journey of self-discovery.
Outward Bound partner schools report many benefits not only for their students, but also their school community. These benefits include:
Benefit to the School Community:
A unique and powerful professional development experience for teaching staff
Strengthened relationships between students and between students and teachers, that have a lasting impact beyond the end of the Outward Bound experience
A powerful rite of passage experience that can become a strong part of the school's culture
More positive approach to taking on service and leadership roles...
Outward Bound uses a unique combination of challenging activities and the wilderness setting to achieve the high personal impact of our courses. Outward Bound is much more than a collection of activities. It is a carefully planned sequence of learning environments that draw out different strengths and resources - each time helping participants to step higher and further, to discover and extend personal limitations.
Outward Bound Australia will develop an effective program designed around your school's educational vision, values and personal development themes. For each course, we provide fully qualified staff, course related equipment and food. We provide an extensive safety network to ensure the safest possible programs are delivered. Each school has a designated Outward Bound Client Manager, who is the single point of contact for your school.
...does it make a difference to the students - absolutely. The Outward Bound data shows that, the parents tell me that and my teachers know that these students are different and better for it - in leadership, in focus and in general demeanour.
Schools have many choices in designing and delivering outdoor education experiences for their students. These can include providing in-house camps and contracting external providers. Outward Bound has proudly served individual schools for over twenty years. 
Outward Bound uses a unique combination of challenging activities and the wilderness setting to achieve the high personal impact of our courses. Outward Bound is much more than a collection of activities. It is a carefully planned sequence of learning environments that draw out different strengths and resources - each time helping participants to step higher and further, to discover and extend personal limitations.