At Emmaus Christian College, camps are integrated into the College Calendar from Year 2 to 12. Class camps provide important experiential learning opportunities as well as strengthening inter-class friendships.

Each year, beginning in Year 2, our students have opportunities to enjoy overnight stays away from home. The students have a chance to experience a variety of trips and experiences that are dependent on the Year level and the educational objective. School Camps are an exciting way for students to learn outside the classroom and develop deeper friendships with their peers and teachers.

Camps provide a myriad of benefits and opportunities including:

  • Experiential learning
  • Application of knowledge that develops a deeper understanding of classroom assignments
  • Opportunities to serve and support underprivileged communities
  • Development of team work and communication skills
  • Increase self-confidence through personal challenges
  • Participate in new and interesting physical activities and sports
  • Development of social skills
  • Deepen understanding of history, geography and our national heritage

Emmaus Camps

Our camp calendar is reviewed each year. Below are the camps held in recent years.

Junior School Camps

Year 2

Sleep over at Emmaus Christian College

1 night

Year 3/4

Mylor Baptist Youth Camp at Mylor

1 nights

Year 5

CU@Wallaroo at Wallaroo

2 nights

Year 6

Kingscote, Kangaroo Island

3 nights

Middle School Camps

Year 7

Wirraway Camp at Strathalbyn

2 nights

Year 8

El Shaddai Camp at Wellington

2 nights

Year 9

The Rite Journey Camp Adelaide Hills / Mylor

4 nights

Senior School Camps

Year 10

Social Justice Camp at Nunyara, Belair

3 nights

Year 11

Port Hughes Camp

2 nights
Year 12

Year 12 Retreat @ Adare

2 nights

Non Compulsory Camps

Year 7 - 12

Generations in Jazz at Mt Gambier

2 nights

Year 11Lands Trip, Ernabella (optional, by application)8 nights

Year 10 - 12

Vietnam Cambodia Trip

15 nights

Year 10 - 12

Snow Trip, Mt Buller

7 nights

Find out more

If you would like more information about a specific camp or program, please contact us on 8292 3888 or email enquiries@emmauscc.sa.edu.au

Celebrating our relationship with Ernabella Anangu School on the APY Lands

Emmaus Christian College has had a 30-year relationship with Ernabella Anangu School on the APY Lands. This is a result of one of our teachers, Neil Blenkinsop, having taught in Ernabella in the 1980's. This included annual exchange trips between the two schools (Year 11 Lands Trip).

Nami Kulyuru was one of the Pitjantjatjara teachers who worked each year with our students in Ernabella. In recent years, Nami lived in Adelaide and worked with Emmaus students in workshops and on the commemorative mosaic between the South Plympton campus flags.

In 2022, Emmaus commissioned Nami to create a painting celebrating the long relationship of our two communities, which is now displayed at our Brooklyn Park campus. This video is a celebration of Nami, her painting, and the long relationship between our two communities.