Winter School

Week 3 of Winter School and it has finally dumped with some amazing fresh powder!

There has been “lots of fun, great food and good skiing this week.”- Rafferty Heard.

Students awoke on Wednesday and Thursday mornings to a beautiful snow blanket covering High Country Campus. The students’ morning walk up the hill to the buses whilst carrying all their gear was a bit of a slippery challenge with the amount of snow we had on site.

Taking advantage of the great snow conditions, we managed to have three exceptional days of skiing  and snowboarding across Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Despite the multiple early morning wakeups and bus departures, the announcement that Monday would be a full ski day was met with a cheer!

It’s been great to see how quickly students are progressing in their ski lessons and their enthusiasm for skiing and snowboarding and Winter School in general: “If you want to have fun, come to Winter School!” Daisy Thomas.

Aside from the snow, students are also delighting in the time spent outside, being greeted by a beautiful sunrise each morning and seeing the wide variety of native animals on Campus: “We saw lots of really cute echidnas, there were four of them, and a kangaroo with a joey in its pouch!” Victoria Butler.

On Saturday night students got their chef hats on and made their own sushi and on Sunday night, students relaxed after an active week with a Harry Potter movie.

This week we farewelled one of our Winter School Assistants, Alex, who is headed off to start his course as a Training Officer in Antarctica. We wish him all the best and will miss him being a part of the amazing Winter School community. 

We are looking forward to another great week at Winter School and here’s hoping for another fresh dump this weekend!

Emily Quinn Smyth
Winter School Assistant

Mr David Gregory
Head of Winter School
dgregory@redlands.nsw.edu.au