Stage 2 excursions | Years 3–4 | Field of Mars EEC

Stage 2 (S2) excursions provide hands-on environmental learning for Year 3 and Year 4 students.

Led by qualified NSW Department of Education teachers, students investigate bushland environments through creative arts, English, HSIE, PDHPE, HPGE and Science and Technology programs.

Excursions build fieldwork skills, curiosity, teamwork, environmental understanding and confidence in learning outdoors.

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Explore fact sheets about ecosystems, plants, animals, habitats and environments linked to Stage 2 fieldwork and investigations.

Creative Arts excursions

Pastel sticks, paintbrush and pencil on a lichen-covered rock, representing nature-based artmaking.

The art of wellbeing excursion

Stage 2 | Creative Arts, PDHPE

A Creative Arts and PDHPE excursion where Stage 2 students use drawing, painting and nature-based materials to explore wellbeing, emotions and connection to place.

Hands holding an iPad showing a close-up lizard on moss, representing digital nature photography.

Digital woodlands excursion

Stage 2 | Creative Arts

A Creative Arts excursion where Stage 2 students use iPads outdoors to photograph natural features, create digital artworks and tell visual stories inspired by bushland.

English excursions

iPad video-editing screen with wildlife footage, representing student-made nature documentaries.

Documentary in a day excursion

Stage 2 | English

An English excursion where Stage 2 students plan, script, film and review a short nature documentary while developing speaking, listening and digital storytelling skills.

LEGO figure on an iPad in a creek setting, representing creative storytelling inspired by nature.

Poetic adventures excursion

Stage 2 | English

An English excursion where Stage 2 students collect words, images and sensory details on a bushwalk, then create poetry and short multimodal texts.

HSIE Geography excursions

Sketchbook with a leaf drawing, coloured pencils and magnifying lens, representing field journalling in bushland.

Earth’s Environment: Eucalypt forest excursion

Stage 2 | HSIE Geography

An HSIE excursion where Stage 2 students investigate a eucalypt forest, including natural features, plants, animals, weather, human impacts and sustainable care for environments.

This program will retire at the end of 2026.

Wooden coolamon and traditional-style tools on the ground, representing learning about Aboriginal culture and Country.

Local Aboriginal studies excursion

Stage 2 | HSIE Geography

An HSIE excursion where Stage 2 students learn about Aboriginal Peoples’ continuing connections to Country, significant places, natural materials and caring for land and waterways.

Owl figurine and magnifying glass representing investigation in a national park during an excursion.

National parks excursion

Stage 2 | HSIE Geography

An HSIE excursion where Stage 2 students investigate national parks, including natural features, plants, animals, weather, conservation strategies and ways people care for protected places.

PDHPE excursions

Logs and natural materials tied with rope, representing outdoor team challenge activities.

Challenge + excursion

Stage 2 | PDHPE

A PDHPE excursion where Stage 2 students complete outdoor problem-solving challenges, cooperative games and team tasks that build resilience, communication and teamwork.

Coiled climbing rope beside hiking boots in bushland, representing leadership and outdoor problem-solving.

Natural leader excursion

Stage 2 | PDHPE

A special PDHPE excursion for Years 3 and 4 where students take on leadership roles during outdoor activities, practising decision-making, responsibility and positive risk-taking in a supportive bushland setting at Field of Mars Reserve.

Science and Technology excursions

Lizard on moss beside a weather meter and field sketch, representing ecosystem fieldwork and observation.

Ecosystem explorers excursion

Stage 2 | Science and Technology

A Science and Technology excursion where Stage 2 students act as field scientists, investigate living and non-living features, observe food chains and record ecosystem evidence.

HPGE enrichment programs

Art materials, magnifying glass and butterfly specimen on grass, representing creative and scientific extension activities.

HPGE enrichment programs

Stage 2 | HPGE

Stage 2 HPGE enrichment days that extend high potential learners through science, creative arts, digital technologies, critical thinking and environmental investigations.

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iPad displaying a Field of Mars digital learning resource that supports excursions, incursions and fieldwork skills.

Learning resources

Access digital learning resources, social stories and preparation materials that support Stage 2 excursions.

Illustration representing native plants, animals, habitats, ecosystems and environments used in Field of Mars EEC fact sheets.

Fact sheets

Explore animal, plant, habitat, ecosystem and environment fact sheets for classroom learning, research and fieldwork preparation.