Avoca DGR schoolships can redirect difficult teens.

"School Camp" is an approved form of "Time Out" known to help kids at risk. Most kids see the school camp as the best part of school. They just hang in there to go to camp.

MOST SCHOOL CAMPS STOP AT YEAR 10. This is a fault of the school system. With nothing to look forward to, teen school miseries compound with no relief. The bad habbit of constant use of mobile phones makes the isolation worse.  Group rejection. Depression grows. Grumpy at home, then home problems make it all worse. Suicide?

We "Cocoon" them for ten weeks in "Time Out" adventure cruise, remote from their normal life helps them reset for a happier future.  

• Our river school camp ship has 16 teen berths with two teachers, full time Murray cruising, with a planned program to reset their thinking and help them change towards a positive path forward.  (Think computer reboot to clear problems)
• Your child will remain enrolled with their current school and subjects.
• Our skilled "school cruise camp" teachers will cooperate with the student's home school to maintain their existing basic SACE subjects. 
• AND include our river Environmental adventure challenge studies from within the SACE together with maintenance of a personal journal during the strictly scheduled cruise term. Relevant events are reported back to the students home school and parents. 
• Our teacher/student confidentiality is critical and will be maintained on student request. Sometimes teens chat with teachers about private stuff. We respect confidentiality.
• Students will do supervised kayaking with partners for exercise, reflection and chat time.
• Their mobile phone can cruise, BUT IN THE CARE OF TEACHERS. With teacher permission, students can use their phone for essential communication.

Your child will remain on their home school roll because attending school is required by law until their 17th birthday. 

"Attending School Camp" is a permitted absence from normal school. 

Under our teacher supervision, they will meet, and make new friends who have similar school or home reasons to attend Avoca But when did you get the those extra photos of the licence boys on Sunday? I'll come back another school Now you got them now. It looks like the text came not from you, but from one of them. I just forwarded that. you what? I forwarded the text message to you. One in here. Three licenced photos in it. Then there's three people. Are you going to give you one or two or three? So I think it's straight doesn't matter. And as I want, I want physical. Do they both work? No, just a theory, I think. I'm not sure. Did I tend to? Did I talk about it in the message I sent to you? I don't think the message was from you. The the message from was from you. But the talk is inside the message. The text wasn't from you, I don't think. That'll be right. All I did was send everything they checked to me, which is photo, photo, photo and chat chat. All of it listened to you. That one thing. Well, that's good. We've got past that handle of having to do everything in little chunks. So you felt it. You felt good or comfortable with the way you sent it. But quite well needed. I don't know what it said when you're eating. What did you think of the sardines? Well, they were on it or not? Not as nice as anchovies, but they were all right. Can you compare them with the other ones that I purchased The one you had with us? No. Right. OK, school camp.

• The Avoca ten week "Rebuild Happy" school camp program is managed by our specialist mental health teacher, to help depressed students recover their health.
• The students on Avoca school camp cruise team, may come from several schools but they remain enrolled in their home school to comply with education law.
• Individual Teachers may advise parents of this opportunity as a solution for the student's school problems. 
• TALK WITH YOUR CHILD'S TEACHER. They may be aware of the reasons for your child's misery. Most teachers know A COMPLETE CHANGE will help most teen mental health problems.
• It is the Parents' decision to send their unhappy child to the schoolship camp program. Their school will liase with our schoolship teachers for the study program. 

We offer individual enrolment of teens from any school in our 10 week "Time Out" cruise camp. Our teachers will cooperate with that school for the student's to continue their SACE program and school reporting.  

Our specialist residential cruise camp teachers manage the programs designed to help the child recover their mental health and include the extra tasks during the  program. 

• Each student is required to maintain a personal daily Log summary of all their time on cruise camp, including their personal thoughts. 
• This log is private between the student and our schoolship teacher/mentors. 
• It is Student's decision to share their Log with their home school and/or their parents.