Stage 3 excursions | Years 5–6 | Field of Mars EEC

Stage 3 (S3) excursions provide hands-on environmental learning for Year 5 and Year 6 students.

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

Excursions build fieldwork skills, critical thinking, teamwork, sustainability understanding and confidence in learning outdoors.

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Learn about adaptations, ecosystems, food webs, environments and species students may investigate during Stage 3 programs.

Creative Arts excursions

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

The art of wellbeing excursion

Stage 3 | Creative Arts, PDHPE

A Creative Arts and PDHPE excursion where Stage 3 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, suggesting digital nature photography.

Digital woodlands excursion

Stage 3 | Creative Arts

A Creative Arts excursion where Stage 3 students use iPads outdoors to photograph natural features, create digital artworks and tell visual stories inspired by bushland.

English excursions

iPad video-editing timeline with wildlife footage, suggesting filming and editing a nature documentary.

Documentary in a day excursion

Stage 3 | English

An English excursion where Stage 3 students plan, script, film and review a short nature documentary while developing speaking, listening and multimodal text skills.

LEGO minifigure on an iPad in a shallow creek, suggesting creative storytelling inspired by nature.

Poetic adventures excursion

Stage 3 | English

An English excursion where Stage 3 students collect words, images and sensory details on a bushwalk, then create poetry and short multimodal texts.

HSIE Geography excursions

Water-quality results sheet and colour chart kit on muddy ground, suggesting geography fieldwork testing.

Factors that shape places excursion

Stage 3 | HSIE Geography

An HSIE excursion where Stage 3 students investigate natural and human processes that shape places, including weathering, erosion, land use and environmental change.

This program will retire at the end of 2026.

PDHPE excursions

Logs and natural materials tied with rope, suggesting outdoor team challenge and problem-solving activities.

Challenge + excursion

Stage 3 | PDHPE

A PDHPE excursion where Stage 3 students complete outdoor problem-solving challenges, cooperative games and team tasks that build resilience, communication and leadership.

Coiled climbing rope beside hiking boots in bushland, suggesting leadership and outdoor resilience skills.

Natural leader excursion

Stage 3 | PDHPE

A PDHPE excursion where Stage 3 students practise leadership, decision-making, responsibility and positive risk-taking through supportive outdoor activities.

Science and Technology excursions

Lizard tail and animal skull on mossy rock, suggesting investigation of animal features and adaptations.

Adaptations excursion

Stage 3 | Science and Technology

A Science and Technology excursion where Stage 3 students investigate structural and behavioural adaptations of plants and animals and explain how features support survival.

HPGE enrichment programs

Watercolour paints, magnifying glass and butterfly specimen on grass, suggesting creative and scientific extension.

HPGE enrichment programs

Stage 3 | HPGE

Stage 3 HPGE enrichment days that extend high potential learners through science, creative arts, digital technologies, critical thinking and environmental investigations.

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iPad showing the Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre online booking form for primary and secondary excursions and incursions.

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Check available dates and book a Stage 3 excursion with Field of Mars Environmental Education Centre.

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 3 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.