Year 7-9 Camp Mungalli Falls 2024
Year 7-9 Camp 9 - 13 September 2024
What an adventure awaits our Year 7-9 students in 2024, as they visit Mungalli Falls Outdoor Education Centre in far north Queensland, an absolutely stunning part of our state! This will be an amazing opportunity for our students.
About Mungalli Falls
Student will enjoy nature based interactive learning, outdoor recreation, team building and just lots of fun!
Mungalli Falls Outdoor Education Centre is a fully integrated outdoor activity-based education facility on the Southern Highlands of the Tableland region, 1.5 hours from Cairns by coach.
The MUNGALLI MISSION is to have you leave Mungalli Falls rejuvenated and ready again for the challenges of what lies ahead for you in life. To achieve this, we intend for students to leave with a smile on their face and a week of amazing memories with their friends to carry with them when they return.
Mungalli Falls is located at 280 Junction Road, Millaa Millaa.
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Accommodation
Students will be staying in Lodges/Cabins which have sets of bunks each of these cabins also have bathrooms. Details as to which students are in which room will be decided closer to the camp, as Mungalli does not finalise the cabin arrangements until closer to camp.
Key Due Dates
25 March
RSVP and Deposit due
May 10
Shirt Orders Due via the Qkr! app. Sizing detail required in notes
Camp consent, dietary and medical forms to be returned
June 17 Final payment due for the invoice that was emailed to families.
Student legal names confirmed with the school for flight details
No late registrations for camp accepted
2 Sept
Medical Forms updated and returned if required
Asthma plans supplied
Have your medication organised (labelled correctly with pharmacy label, & placed in named zip lock bag)
Links, Forms and Checklist
Please see below the forms that are required for your student to attend camp.
Compulsory
Permission Form
RSVP and Transport Form
If Required Forms
- Alternate Guardian Form
- Alternate Pickup Form
- Consent to administer medication form
By now you should have:
Completed the RSVP, transport and dietary requirements webform
Paid your RSVP deposit
Ordered your Camp Shirt if you would like one? (due 10 May)
Checked emails for balance of fees invoice
Paid your final invoice
If you have not finalised any of these items listed above, please contact Anita Grice urgently on agric19@eq.edu.au
Medical Forms and Documentation:
- Medical Forms: Please complete all required medical forms for your child and ensure they are submitted to the school by Week 9. These forms are crucial for us to have accurate and up-to-date medical information for each student.
- Asthma Plans: If your child has an asthma plan, it needs to be reviewed annually. If your child’s asthma plan is due for review, please arrange a doctor’s appointment to ensure the correct documentation is submitted before our departure on the 9th of September.
- Permission to Administer Self-Medication: Students who use inhalers for asthma will need a permission form to self-administer their medication. Part B of the attached document. While students will have access to their inhalers via a teacher’s backpack at all times, teachers are required to note when any medication, including inhalers, is administered in their folders.
Medication Requirements:
Labelled Medication: All medications, including inhalers, must be clearly labelled with your child’s name and dosage instructions.
Additional Medications: If your child requires Panadol, Nurofen, travel sickness medication or antihistamines for allergies to insect bites, these will also require a permission to administer medication form and a written authorisation from a medical practitioner along with medication supplied in original packaging with pharmacy label.
Written medication authorisation
Medical authorisation can also be:
- a signed letter from the prescribing health practitioner, or
- a Medication order to administer ‘as-needed’ medication at school, or
- a completed and signed health plan from the treating health practitioner.
These documents need to outline the same type of information that would be found on a pharmacy label i.e. student’s full name, clear and detailed directions for taking the medication and contact details for the health practitioner.
This written authorisation must include and must be provided in a labelled packet with the medication.
We aim to have all plans, medication forms, and required documentation completed and printed out for inclusion in the school folders by Week 9. This will help us ensure we are well-prepared and can provide the best care for your child during camp.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding medication, please contact the Inclusion Teacher, Heidi Phillips. E: hphil55@eq.edu.au
Camp Costs
Cost per student
$542.00 (including deposit $150 via Qkr!)
Final Payment - Due 17 June 2024
Inclusions:
Flights
Bus Charter to and from Cairns Airport
Day trip Tablelands Tour
4 nights' accommodation
Meals (except lunch on travelling days)
All activities for the week.
Please ensure you send money for your student to purchase lunch for the return trip to Rockhampton. Students are to bring no more than $50. Please ensure that your student is aware that they are responsible for the safe keeping of this money during camp.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer part-camp attendance fees. each family will be invoiced for the entire week. If you are experiencing financial difficulty, please contact the school to discuss how we may be able to assist.
Dietary - Mungalli Falls Outdoor Education Centre aims to inspire children to a healthier lifestyle that includes a tasty, balanced diet. They provide three healthy, high-energy meals per day, with plenty of variety, and they always serve generous portions of fruit and vegetables for a balanced meal. A vegetarian alternative can always be provided, and they can accommodate most special diets required on medical or religious grounds but in all cases, they will require full details at time of booking – you will have completed the dietary details in the RSVP webform.
Camp Shirts - Optional
Note: The date to grab your 2024 camp shirt has now passed
CSDE offer families the opportunity to purchase a CapSDE Camp shirt for their student.
There is the option of short sleeve or long sleeve.
Please note this is an optional extra and there is no obligation to purchase.
Shirts are purchased through Qkr! Cost: $28.95 Short Sleeve and $29.95 Long Sleeve
Important - Please don’t forget to indicate your child’s size when purchasing. Size chart and shirt design below.
Transport Options
There are two transport options offered to families
Air transport return from Rockhampton
Families can arrange their own private transport to drop their student off at camp. Please note that there will not be provision for any parents or siblings to stay at camp.
Flight transport - Departure
As there are no direct flights from Rockhampton to Cairns, on both legs of the journey students will be catching joining flights in Brisbane.
Rockhampton
Monday 9 September: Students travelling from Rockhampton are required to arrive at Rockhampton airport
no later than 90 minutes before the flight departs.
Rockhampton Time: Students will be required to be at the airport at 7:00am
Flight Details: VIRGIN AUSTRALIA - VA 1234 - 8:30am - 9:40am - 1hr 10min - 1 piece of checked in baggage
VIRGIN AUSTRALIA - VA 0781 - 10:40am - 1:10pm - 2hr 30min
Students will be travelling via bus to and from Cairns Airport to Mungalli Falls.
Flight transport - Return Trip
Friday 13 September: Returning to Rockhampton Airport
Parents will be expected to arrive at the designated airport 30 minutes prior to flight arrival time.
Rockhampton estimated time of arrival: 7:05pm
Flight Details: VIRGIN AUSTRALIA - VA 0780 - 11:50am - 2:05pm - 2hr 15min - 1 piece of checked in baggage
VIRGIN AUSTRALIA - VA 1251 - 5:45pm - 7:05pm - 1hr 20min
Private Transport -
Time of arrival to Mungalli - Monday 3.30pm
Time of departure from Mungalli - Friday 7:45am
If you are dropping your student to camp, please do not leave your student unsupervised. You will be responsible for your student until CapSDE staff arrive.
If there are any arrangements for pick up by an adult other than the parents, you must supply the school with a completed and signed Alternative Pickup form.
If another adult is to be contacted in an emergency during camp, please complete the Alternative Guardian Form.
Activity Overview
Students will be involved in an action-packed programme of age-appropriate adventure activities and fun challenges. Whilst the exact activities are not set in stone, below are examples of what the students can expect.
Walk to the bottom of the falls, Scrap Heap challenge, Tablelands Tour, campfire, tubing, obstacle course, glow worms' night walk, Nandroya, Mamu, movie night.
TABLELANDS TOUR
A full day tour of the Tablelands. Go on a boat cruise at Lake Barrine, an extinct volcanic crater lake, swim at Lake Eacham, visit the Atherton Crystal Caves and go shopping in Yungaburra.
TUBING GOLD PANNING & ROCK HOPPING
The location for tubing is the North Beatrice River which is a 10-minute drive away. Participants will float down the river on tubes. Depending on water levels there is usually rock hopping involved which means participants have to take their tubes and walk from rock to rock to cross the obstacles so they can hop back on their tubes to continue their journey down the river. Once arrived at the final destination everyone will be panning for gold. Please note that the location is subject to change and dependent on weather.
NIGHT WALK & GLOW WORM TOUR
Visit the mystical bottom of the Mungalli Falls. There you will stand on a manmade deck in the river and listen to the dramatic waterfall. In addition, you will see hundreds of glow worms as well as glow fungi.
OBSTACLE COURSE
A commando course designed on army style fun and challenges.
SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE
The aim of the challenge is to get together in teams and build a protection device that can support a water balloon from 3 tests (a throw, a drop and a smash). This is a great evening activity which tests the children’s ability to work in teams and achieve a common goal together.
MAMU CANOPY WALKWAY
Experience the latest unique attraction of the Tablelands, an elevated walkway enabling the rainforest to be viewed form a spectacular dimension.
Bush walk to Nandroya Falls
What to Bring
Families will need to provide a packed morning tea and lunch including a water bottle for the trip to Brisbane.
Please have this packed in a backpack which will be their carry-on luggage.
Please ensure that all items are clearly labelled with your student's name.
Adequate warm clothing should be provided as this camp is being held in winter.
If your student suffers from travel sickness, a consent to administer medication form along with travel sickness medication with the doctor/pharmacy label may be prudent.
Some of the camp activities require walking/hiking, and in some cases the students' clothes may become damp.
This unfortunately could lead to chaffing, so consider packing a small tube/tub of chaffing cream (example amolin or bepanthin)
As we are flying to camp, we have requested the bedding linen package for students.
Students will not need to bring bedding linen - pillow, sheets or blanket.
Please keep in mind the cool weather when packing clothes for your student.
Please ensure you send your student with all their required personal hygiene products.
The camp is not located within walking distance of any shops.
Contact during camp
Students are not permitted to bring electronic devices, especially mobile phones to camp. If your student urgently requires contact with you, staff will facilitate a phone call to the contact numbers that you have provided the school.
In the event that parents urgently need to contact staff while on camp the school will be supplying a mobile phone for emergency use. P: 0499 650 973. We ask that this number only be contacted for emergency purposes.
Mobile Phones
As per the CapSDE Student Code of Conduct, students are not permitted to bring their mobile phones or electronic devices on camp.
Any mobile phones or electronic devices will be placed into the care of teachers and handed back to parents upon arrival back from camp.
Illness Policy
Students and teachers are not permitted to attend camp until 48 hours after the last episode of vomiting, diarrhoea or fever.
Mungalli Falls staff have to be notified if any teachers or students have been ill before coming on camp.
As per Queensland Government Policy...
If your child:
- has any symptoms of acute respiratory infection, or
- test positive to COVID-19
Queensland Health strongly recommends that they stay at home until:
- they no longer have acute respiratory symptoms
- they've gone for at least 24 hours without a fever, without using fever-reducing painkillers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen, and
- at least 5 days has passed since either the onset of acute respiratory infection symptoms or the positive COVID-19 test (whichever was first).
They should:
- wear a face mask covering your mouth whenever they are in an indoor setting outside the home
- avoid contact with people who are at higher risk of severe disease
- wash their hands regularly
- practise good respiratory hygiene (such as covering their cough)
Taking precautions
Stay away from other people in your home or accommodation as much as possible to reduce their exposure to COVID-19. This may include:
- keeping 1.5 metres away from them and avoiding close contact, including touching, kissing, hugging and other intimate contact
- sleeping in a separate room where possible
- using a separate bathroom where possible
- avoiding shared areas where possible
- wearing a mask when you must use shared areas.