Lake Mungo Immersion 2025

Damascus College is offering 20 students from the 2025 Years 8, 9 and 10, the opportunity to travel to the remote First Nations homelands of Lake Mungo in New South Wales. This will be a 5-day program where students will be immersed in remote Indigenous culture and history.

Lake Mungo is a sacred cultural land with thousands of years of ancient history. It is a significant world heritage area, and we are excited to offer this opportunity to our students.

The tour company, Red Earth will lead the immersion. They are professional cultural immersion facilitators, who will connect with the Traditional Owners of Country and ensure students gain the full benefits of this extraordinary adventure.

Online Parent Information Session

If you and your child are interested in the immersion and wish to learn more, there will be an opportunity to meet Kelly Petering from Red Earth, online.

Kelly will be presenting an online parent information session on Tuesday 29 October 2024 at 7pm.

Please register and join us online by scanning the QR code attached or by clicking the link below

Damascus College & Red Earth Immersion - Parent Information Evening (humanitix.com)

Year Levels attending: the immersion is open to students in Year 9, 10 and 11 in 2025. (Currently Year 8, 9 and 10 students.)

Date: 13 – 17 October 2025.

Contacts: If you have any enquiries, please contact the College on 5337 2222 and ask to speak to:

Sharon Lehtonen-Assistant Principal Catholic School Culture

Alexander Jameson – First Nations Student Support Officer

Year 10 Retreat: Monday 11 November - Wednesday 13 November

Year 10 students who are not participating in a Work Experience placement will have the opportunity to engage in days of activities as part of their annual Retreat days. The activities will be around the theme of Caring for All of God’s Creation.

Day 1: facilitated by the Youth Mission Team on campus at Damascus College.

Day 2: students will travel to Melbourne for a workshop with The Big Issue magazine that supports homeless and disadvantaged people. The students will then embark on a Big City Search and visit various locations around the city in groups.

Day 3: facilitated by Juliet Talarico who is connected to Young Mercy Links. Juliet will focus on environmental justice and climate change issues. This will be held on campus at Damascus College.

Thursday and Friday, students will be expected to attend school for their usual classes.

This will be a wonderful opportunity for learning , reflection and fun. Students are expected to attend all three days of the Retreat.