Centre for Outdoor Education
'Place by the Water'
Kooringal
Located 110 kilometres south-east of Perth, the Kooringal property is the home for Christ Church’s sequential outdoor education programming. It’s a place where students step beyond the classroom, explore their capabilities, and grow in confidence and character.
Learning in Nature
The program begins in Year 4 with an introduction to skills such as bushwalking, canoeing, orienteering, and team-building activities. From Year 4 to Year 10, the program builds progressively offering new challenges that foster resilience, leadership, cooperation, and a deeper connection with the natural environment. Kooringal runs a fixed, seasonal program featuring extended outdoor education initiatives such as Year 8 Cape to Cave and Year 10 Venture.
When we venture into the unknown, we take students beyond the bounds of the classroom and into a world of challenge, discovery and the place we call Kooringal. It's through these hands-on experiences, where students paddle down wild rivers, engage in the Jarrah and Marri forests, and journey through the bush, that students find so much more than themsleves, they find out who they might be, their potential and their character.
Lachlan Short
Director, Centre for Outdoor Education
Kooringal Property & Staff
The Kooringal property was first leased in 1971 and later expanded through the purchase of the original 10-acre lease plus an adjacent 240-acre lot.
It now includes five main buildings and four sheds, with residences for the Director of Kooringal, Assistant Directors of Kooringal, Outdoor Education teachers, and other staff. Shared facilities include a kitchen, hall, five dormitories, a toilet block, and an office. The Director and Assistant Director live onsite full-time with their families, alongside other key staff.
Kooringal accommodates up to 75 students, 25 in dormitories and 50 camping outdoors.
