Goldfields

Goldfields Camp School

Accommodates: 130

Camp School Directed Activities

  • Chamber of Minerals and Energy display room
  • Kalgoorlie/Boulder urban trails
  • Low ropes course

Specially Designed Programs

  • Kalgoorlie Weather Bureau
  • Coolgardie guided tour
  • Prospecting day
  • Basic bush survival
  • Bushwalk Mount Hunt to pioneer cemetery
  • Personal development - self-esteem
  • Orientation/induction - new staff and students
  • Students at Educational Risk - self-esteem, experiential learning
  • Conference/seminar centre - DET professional development workshops
  • Special purpose camps/curricula camps
  • Overnight bush camp-outs
  • Arid area studies
  • Aboriginal studies

Local Excursions

  • Excursions: Broad Arrow
  • Ora Banda Historic Inn and Ora Banda Battery (Gold Processing)
  • Coolgardie guided tour, Coolgardie Exhibition Museum, camel farm, Railway Museum, Warden Finnerty's House, Coolgardie Goal, Coolgardie Cemetery
  • Kalgoorlie Two-Up
  • Hannans North Tourist Mine
  • Museum of the Goldfields
  • Boulder Loopline
  • Kalgoorlie Nickel Smelter - high school students only
  • KCGM Mill tour and super pit viewing platform
  • Kalgoorlie School of Mines Mineral Museum
  • Kambalda Nickel operations
  • Mundaring to Kalgoorlie pipeline, Mt Charlotte reservoir and water resources tour
  • Credo Pastoral Station tour
  • Jack Carins Humpy
  • Kurrawang Emu Farm
  • Kalgoorlie School of the Air
  • Environmental studies CALM and Landcare mine site rehabilitation (by appointment only)
  • Recreation - rollerskating, ten pin bowling, YMCA, swimming pool, Tyzone

Contact Goldfields Camp School

Short Street
PO Box 385, Kalgoorlie WA 6430
Camp School Manager: Barbara Piercey
Telephone: (08) 9021 5959
Mobile: 0417 183 028
Fax: (08) 9091 2841
Email: Barbara.Piercey1@det.wa.edu.au or Goldfields.CS@det.wa.edu.au
Website: www.goldfieldscampschool.com