Camps and Outdoor Education

It is expected that all students in Years 7, 9 and 11 will attend camp once during the Academy year. Male and female students attend different camps. At camp, attention is paid to such things as the proper observance of prayer times and the consumption of halal food. On camps, the normal, everyday rules of the Academy are enforced.

Most camps are based in hut accommodation and students are involved in a number of different activities, such as swimming, archery and bike-riding.

Occasionally, more adventurous outdoor camps are organised for boys. In the past these have involved bushwalking and canoeing.

On these camps participants sleep in tents and cook their own meals. The Academy has some tents students may borrow but boys have to provide their own sleeping bag, waterproof jacket and so forth.

The Academy believes that there is real value in a camps programme.
• Camps allow students and staff to get to know and understand one another better. Teachers are therefore better able to assist their students.
• Camps teach students to work together and cooperate as a group.
• They often help to develop initiative and responsibility in students.
• They bring students into contact with the beauty of Allah's creation.
• They teach students to care for that creation.
• Many camps also enable students to take part in sustained, healthy exercise, outdoors, something that many students these days do not get a chance to engage in.

Parents and students are notified well in advance when a camp is being planned.