Cost

Year	Cost
2025/26	Department of Education Schools $22 per student Non-government Schools $28 per student

Cancellation policy

Cancellation or major changes to bookings will incur the following cancellation fees:

• within 30 days of excursion or incursion date - $600 administration fee charged

• within 7 days of excursion/incursion date - total fee charged based on confirmed student numbers

Suggested timetable

Time	Classes 1, 2, 3 and 4
9.30am	Arrival - introduction, recess and toilets
10.00am - 11.30am	River and bushland activities
11.30am - 12.00pm	Picnic lunch and toilets
12.00pm - 1.30pm	River and bushland activities
1.30pm - 2.00pm	Snack, conclude and depart

Syllabus outcomes and content

Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus (2024)

Focus area outcomes

Knowledge of our world and beyond inspires sustainable solutions

• ST3-SCI-01 uses evidence to explain how scientific knowledge can be used to develop sustainable practices

• ST3-PQU-01 poses questions to identify variables and conducts fair tests to gather data

Content

Living things may change over millions of years, in response to their environments

• Observe behavioural and structural adaptations of plants and animals, and suggest how these may help them survive in their environments
• Examine and explain how the characteristics of flowers, fruit and seeds are adaptations for reproduction in plants
• Interpret a food web that describes the flow of matter and energy between plants and animals in an ecosystem
• Identify and describe how the loss or introduction of plants or animals affects an Australian ecosystem
• Examine evidence that environments have changed over time and continue to change
• Describe how Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ sustainable practices continue to protect the environment.

Science and Technology K-6 Syllabus © NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2024