School Excursions & Incursions
Create Engaging Learning Experiences Beyond the Classroom
We understand that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to engage students in our modern world of distractions. Our school event activities require participants to be in the present moment, work together as a team and recognise that everybody has something different to offer and contribute. All while having a mountain of FUN along the way!
Attention: School Event Planners! If you have set learning objectives such as teamwork, goal setting, time management, leadership and communication, or learnings related to the curriculum, we can gamify these objectives as a fun school excursion or school incursion so students experience them in real time. These school events offer students a unique opportunity to learn about themselves, work together in a team and form a connection with their peers.
Our school events are inclusive, supportive, encouraging, value-driven and goal-oriented. This ensures everyone has a great time by enabling them to excel in areas of interest and skill sets. They can take the form of a school excursion, a school incursion or even as part of a school carnival or other celebration!
So, if you are a school activity planner looking for a great school event – what are you waiting for? Explore our range of events and let’s FUN!
Learning + Fun = Us
Someone once said ‘learning stuff is easier when it’s fun’. We’re not sure who that was but we’re 100% sure they’re right!
Education specialists have been looking into the benefits of having fun and its impact on learning, and the truth is that when you’re engaged in an activity that you find fun, you increase the chance of remembering what you’ve learnt due to a rise in dopamine, the brain’s ‘memory chemical’. That’s great news because having fun and growing your knowledge shouldn’t be mutually exclusive.
School event planners have been coming to us for their school events for years, and often the same schools will come and do similar events with us, with different age-groups, year after year! Our school excursions and school incursions can be a great way to kick off a new year, or a new term. They can also be a fun way to introduce new leadership groups and get students working together in a unique way. Our school events can also make up part of a longer school carnival, or more simply be a fun way to finish off a school year, celebrate impending graduation and have some proper fun!
The Teamwork Side to the Games
Our awesome school events offer teachers and students the ability to jump out of the classroom and into a range of challenges and puzzles designed to emphasise teamwork and problem solving through physical and mental games.
Teamwork
It’s important to note that no one fails in a school event, but teams do learn first-hand that we’re stronger together than we are alone.
Time Management
Students learn how to get through challenges within time limits together as a team.
Leadership
Learning to negotiate with people in a semi-stressful challenge (that is still a game) is an important lesson to learn.
Why brands, teams, friends, and family can’t get enough of Great Race!
We used the Great Race once for a team building day and then just a few weeks later for a student engagement event because our crew had such a good time during our first booking! Brett was a legend at booking us in at pretty short notice both times and looked after all the details we requested! Zac was an excellent host on both occasions and all our participants both times had a blast, connected with each other and all around loved it! Highly recommend this company whose staff obviously love what they do and deliver a great experience!
Swinburne Student Services
We had Great Race run an event for students and it was a huge success! We loved the challenges, the bonuses and the way everything was set up. Everyone had an incredible time, and it was just so much fun. Brett in particular helped us immensely with organizing the event. He was great at identifying exactly what we needed and was very friendly and approachable. Samm was the one who ran the event and she did so well! She was sweet and full of energy. Overall it was organized and executed incredibly well.
Cherry E. R. | Morling College
We used Great Race for an International Student event for our university, a fun way to explore their new home. The students who attended had an absolute ball, and many said it exceeded their expectations. Most students didn't know each other, but the interactive nature of the activity allowed them to engage easily. Brett and the team made it easy for us and organised everything for the day. Highly recommend to anyone wanting to organise a fun event that is a little bit different.
Hailey R. | Monsu Peninsula
Just wanted to personally thank you for the session you and your team provided at the U@UNSW conference. It really met all our boxes and aligned with my debrief. Its especially refreshing to partner with an organisation who just get it without the need for micro-management. So… THANK YOU. I look forward to working with you guys again in the future.
Patricia G. | UNSW
Please extend my thanks to Josh and Brett and the crew that ran our excursion last week. It was a great day and everyone who participated, students and teachers continue to rave it was great fun! Accessible, comprehensive, well times and professionally ran. Words can not really do justice to how great it was. Given our rapture with the program we will be making this an annual event.
Kathryn R. | Albert Park College Melbourne
I would love to convey how fantastic the day was, Brett and staff provided perfect activities/challenges and a level of energy which started the day with a bang. We took with us to Southbank 150 students with very cynical attitudes and what the experience helped generate is a mountain of new friendships, faith and trust in each other and a spirit of confidence and social cohesion I have been trying to achieve all year.
Wayne F. | St Peter Claver College
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