Year Six Canberra Camp

As previous Canberra trippers will attest, the week Year Six recently spent in Canberra was exciting, educational, inspirational and exhausting! Our days were busy and long as we tried to see and do as much as possible in our five days in the nation’s capital.

Our first stop on the trip was Dubbo, where we visited the zoo for a ‘behind the scenes’ early morning walk.  It was then on to Parkes for lunch. After lunch, we continued our way to Canberra, arriving on Sunday evening. The next five days saw us visit Parliament House, Questacon, the Royal Australian Mint, Australian War Memorial, National Museum, National Gallery of Australia, Australian Institute of Sport, Museum of Australian Democracy, the Botanical Gardens, Electoral Education Centre, National Dinosaur Museum, National Library, National Archives, National Film and Sound Archives, Mt Ainslie and Cockington Green. We also popped down to Perisher for a day of fun in the snow! However, the highlight of our trip was visiting Government House, where we were fortunate enough to see the King and Queen of Tonga and have Her Excellency the Honourable Ms Sam Mostyn come and speak with us.

A big thank you to Mrs Irwin, Mrs Densley, Mrs Hartfiel, Miss Morey, Mrs Sayer, Mr Brennan and Miss Chinnery for accompanying us on the trip. We hope they have as many wonderful memories of the week as we do!