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Come explore the Beautiful Historic Town of Beechworth, Victoria with home educating families.

Are you looking to connect with like minded families, those on the journey of Home education?
Seeking connections for the kids, especially the teens?
Then join us for a week filled with Connection, Discovery, Creativity and Support.
We will have morning conversation hub, a meet and greet, learning opportunities and activities (extra costs) for ALL ages.

Beechworth has so much to offer for free, low cost or the higher end.

The Park is located on the shores of Lake Sambell, ideal for swimming, fishing, SUP, kayaking, watching birds, discovering the tadpoles and more.
It is a short walk into town and on the rail Trail for cycling enthusiasts.

Beechworth has a mountain Bike Park, Historic Precinct (sessions to come), Museums, World Famous bakery, amazing shopping, old Jail, Mayday Hills (think ghosts tours!)

An itinerary of activities and opportunities will be released after Easter - watch this space!!

Most activities booked for the Home School group will prioritise families booked in to Lake Sambell Caravan Park.

LOCATION / ACCOMMODATION:
Beechworth Lake Sambell Caravan Park

To Book please call or email and request a site or cabin with your family details:
Number of Adults and Kids (15yo and younger).
Pets: yes /No.
That you are booking with the Home School group (you will receive a 10% discount).
A deposit is required, which they can email an invoice or you may pay over the phone via CC (usually 1 night, which is refundable/transferable) - check with Park.

ACTIVITIES OFFERED

Map for Activities.

Beechworth Annual Homeschool Families Camp: Makers Space Extravaganza!

Step into an inspiring Makers Space, brain child of Kurt, from the Cats Pyjamas Creative Collective, where creativity knows no bounds!
Immerse yourself in hands-on workshops like Reclaimed Jewellery Making, Cardboard Construction, and "Tiny Worlds" LEGO Building & Get playful in the Mr. Potato Head Play Space.

This is more than just crafting – it’s an opportunity to meet and be mentored by passionate creators and entrepreneurs.

Let your imagination soar as you dream, design, and bring your ideas to life, all in a space that celebrates innovation and sustainability.

2 sessions Available on Tuesday.
Minimum Participants 6 - Maximum number per session is 15 people.

Tickets: $33 per child approximately (Parents attend for free). Join us for a one-of-a-kind experience that will leave your kids inspired, energized, and eager to create!

NEW ACTIVITY!!
Sustainable Makers Space Workshop Sessions - Bookings Open!.
Tuesday 15th
9.30 - 12.30pm 1.30 - 4.30pm

Teens will become Forensic Archaeologists as they work in groups and consider the evidence before solving the identity of a mystery skeleton recently uncovered.
During this program, teens learn about conditions on the goldfields, quality of life, and health issues.

They discover diseases prevalent during this time and learn about some common treatments. Students are also introduced to the many dangers of gold mining in 1800s Beechworth.

Students engage their critical thinking skills and learn new methods to solve this historical mystery!

Bookings essential. Only $6.00 per person (plus booking fee)

History Mystery Session - This 1 is for our Teens!
Wednesday 2pm - 3pm $6 a ticket.

Historic Courthouse Kelly Trials Experience:

Remember the saying 'if walls could talk'? Well, the walls of the Beechworth Courthouse actually do! Be immersed in a 270-degree, wrap-around audio visual experience telling the stories of crime and punishment, governance, law, and the bushranger Ned Kelly.
We are then encouraged to explore the rest of the courthouse and delve into more stories of the people who walked these halls judges, barristers, defendants, and loyal supporters.

Group1 : Tuesday 15/10 @ 12 noon SHARP 45minutes
Group 2: Wednesday 16/10 @ 9am SHARP 45minutes

Gold Panning

Group 1: Tuesday 15/10 @ 1pm Gold Panning
Group 2: Tuesday 15/10 @ 2pm 45minutes

An interactive skills-based program that engages students in the skill of gold panning and develops a deeper understanding of the causes and reasons why people migrated to Australia Students step into the shoes of a historical figure from Beechworth and try their luck panning for gold in our artificial creek. The program assists students in discovering the diversity of backgrounds and reasons why people migrated to Victoria during the 1850s. Students will compare the average yearly wages of several different occupations with what they have collected from their gold pans to decide whether to stay in Beechworth or follow fortune elsewhere.

Ned Kelly Walking Tour

Group 1: Wednesday 15/10 @ 9am Ned Kelly Walking Tour.
Group 2: Wednesday 15/10 @ 1pm Ned Kelly Walking Tour.

All walking tours will commence from the Town Hall Gardens rotunda. Beside Burke Museum/Near Info Centre.
Visit the location of significant events and walk in the footsteps of historical figures in Beechworth's history. This outdoors guided walking tour allows us to visit some historic locations in Beechworth while listening to stories from our local tour guides. We will hear about famous individuals, including Elizabeth Scott, Ned Kelly, Ellen Kelly, Harry Power and Robert O'Hara Burke. With a focus on Ned Kelly history. 45minutes.

ALL FOR $15pp + booking fee.

Historic Beechworth Exploratory Tour: All Ages over 2 Days!

Bee School!
At Beechworth Honey: ALL AGES

A visit to Beechworth isn't complete unless you have experienced Beechworth Honeys' Bee School!

Join the Home Schoolers for an informative and education session to learn about honey, pollination, food security plus more.
This session will engage all ages and you get to do a tasting at the end!

Cost is $10.00 per person plus booking fee and runs for approximately 60 minutes.

"For over 140 years, our family have been keeping bees around Beechworth producing pure and natural Australian honey. Traditions, techniques and tales are now being passed from the 4th to the 5th generation. Stories of success and failure, hard work and determination and an enduring love for nature and the environment that sustains us."

Event Date: 10:30am Thursday 17 October.

10.30am session is SOLD Out.

NEW SESSION at 1pm

How to Book:
Email: mitic.group@gmail.com the following details First & Last name with number of Adults and Children ( 1 A, 4 C)
Or call Text for more info Phone: 0401 663 423

Tickets include entry to animated theatre and museum so I recommended planning for additional time either side of the show run time.

COST: $15.00 per person (usually $30.00 pp) - some adults free, check with Spice the organiser on Email: mitic.group@gmail.com

Details from Website: In the small township of Glenrowan in North East Victoria, lives a very unique tourist attraction Kellyland Glenrowan. Housed inside is a range of displays depicting the story of Ned Kelly and his gang, books, souvenirs and gifts.

Many pieces relating to the Kelly story have been displayed together. These include many Victorian police artefacts from 1853-1880s, Sargent Kennedys hitching post, Ned Kelly’s death mask, original wanted posters and many other rare photographs, original artworks ect.

The show consists of five elaborate sets dressed in the style of the 1880s....

Spectators begin in the abandoned waiting rooms of the Old Melbourne Railway Station where the hooded narrator invites you to take a journey in time back to 1880. As he speaks, rain drizzles down the window pane, lightning strikes and thunder roars. His face becomes younger as we are transported back to Melbourne, 1880. A fire springs from the grate and our attention is now focused on local police. We are on a simulated train being sent from Melbourne to apprehend the elusive Kelly gang, wanted for robbery and murder.

As the train whistles north towards Benalla, the hooded narrator reappears and sends you through swinging doors into an imaginative re creation of the Glenrowan Inn, where the Kelly Gang detained sixty two frightened people, after removing a section of track to derail the police train. Here the animatronics steal the show. A laughing lad perched in the rafters, a bush band playing the Wild Colonial Boy that have audiences humming along, a rat darts across the bar, publican Ann Jones pours a beer, a pistol fired and much more excitement. Ned addresses the audience about the injustices, including the jailing of his mother and young brother that forced him into lawlessness. “What man with any guts could stand aside...” Ned warns of the terror that is near.

Into the daylight to stand on the platform of the Glenrowan Station where the police train has arrived after being flagged down before the broken track. Heavily armed police squads had taken up positions surrounding a model of the Hotel exterior meters away, with the Kelly gang dressed in their crudely, homemade, bullet proof armour. A spectacular scene, with no expense spared to detail. Police then set fire to the hotel, the Kelly Gang is no more. The audience then finds themselves within the burnt remains of the Inn.

After a few frights and surprises the final scene is witnessing Ned’s final moments in the Old Melbourne Gaol “Ah well, such is life”.

Finish off in our fabulous new museum section of the centre. A wonderfully entertaining, unique tourist attraction.

All Ages Event to Kellyland Glenrowan

Thursday 17th
10am - 2pm = 4 hour workshop - Make and Craft a 3 Legged Stool

$120.00pp, min 6 participants - max 10. BOOKINGS OPEN SOON.

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3.30pm - 5pm Wooden spoon carving

Location:
4 Old Wooragee Rd, Beechworth

To Book:
Contact Tim on 0432 599 243

or email info@schloss.com.au

$40 2hrs min 6 participants - max 10. BOOKINGS OPEN SOON.
Participants to bring their own carving knife, a pocketknife will do and Tim will provide the other tools.

Introducing Tim Schloss, craftsman, home school dad & owner of Schloss.

Tim’s journey with timber began at an early age. He discovered the delight of bringing the life back into wood when sanding up an old rough piece found lying around the farm. Years later, the delight turned into an apprenticeship, in Cabinet Making (Fine Furniture).
Back in 2006, some neighbourhood boys asked Tim to make some wooden Lord of the Rings swords, and hence, the toy craftsman was born!

WOODWORKING WORKSHOPS - Booking open!

Marvellous Mud Kids Workshop

Tuesday Afternoon at the Caravan Park!

Introducing Natasha Stafford, Natasha has been mesmerised by the natural world from a young age leading her to follow the path of wholistic teaching and design. She has gained many skills over the course of twenty years, including creating numerous edible gardens in successive properties and homeschooling her six children.

This workshop is ideal for kids aged 4/5 to 10 yo.
It will go for approximately 30-45 minutes and cost $10.00 and you get to take home a seed bomb!

Email or Text to book your spot via the BOOK HERE Button.
Mention HS CAMP Beechworth

Curriculum Covered:
*Science & Technology - Intro to Soil and components / Layers / Characteristics.
Microorganisms / fungi / bacteria and their role in soil health.

*Geography - How local soil is ideal for different plants to other locations.

*PDHPE - Motor Skills, digging, playing and mental well-being. Outdoor activities and exploration of environment.

Work Shops and Session run by Home schooled Tweens/Teens!

Think Book Talks, Card Games as a Meet n Greet, Craft sessions, mindfulness art plus more.

If you are booked in and feel your teen has a skill to share, please contact Annmarie on annmariebeatty@gmail.com to discuss options.

We will have a Coffee Van on site at the caravan park on Tuesday and Wednesday morning

7.30am - 10am

Frequently asked questions

WHO IS THIS CAMP FOR?

Any Home Educating, Road schooling, Travelling & Distance Educating family who are visiting our wonderful region.
Also Families who are super interested in Home Schooling and would like to meet those living the experience.

Kids have more fun when allowed time together to participate in shared experiences especially in an immersive environment.
It also allows time for parents and guardians to relax and not feel the need to entertain their child/ren all day.

You will meet amazing families and the kids gain confidence by connecting with other children with similar interests in a neutral territory.

What if my child or myself is socially anxious?

The joy of staying at a caravan park with all of your own equipment, or in a cabin means you can interact with others on your own terms. It means you have your own space when needed.

The kids or yourself can participate in as much as you want or not. Sometimes it is just enough to hangout over a quick cup of tea at the camp kitchen, or join a walking group into town, or host a workshop if that's your jam!

We will be hosting meet and greet sessions that kids will have an opportunity to join in.
From a rowdy game of cards, to a more quiet session of mindfulness art or a mountain biking trip.
You will get out of this trip what you can put in and there will be no judgement.

How much does it cost?

Depends on the accommodation you book. The caravan park will take your booking directly from you, there are cabins, Van sites, powered tent sites and un-powered tent sites.
You will receive a 10% discount on booking when you state you are part of the Home School Camp.
A deposit is required, and the park is happy to invoice you.

Other activities with either be free or have a cost involved and once confirmed, booking and payment options will be posted on this page.
There is no obligation to attend any work shops or excursions. You will be permitted to pop up a notice to invite others to do an activity with you such as a walk, or shopping trip etc.

when can i book Extra Activities, excursions or workshops?

Once we have confirmation on what activities are offered, a link with be posted on this web-page.
Some activities will be offered during the week of the camp and we will have a whiteboard up in the communal area to share these.

can I use ndis funding?

Our camp is built around creating social opportunities for kids, so NDIS recipients may be able to claim some of the cost. See your individual plans and seek advice.

More Activities available:

Beechworth has a Mountain Bike Park.

Chinese Gardens:
The 1850's gold rush saw many Chinese nationals converge on Beechworth seeking their fortune.The Beechworth Chinese Gardens were created to celebrate and honour Beechworth's rich Chinese heritage.
Chinese Burning Towers.

Visit the Museum - great for All ages.

Beechworth also has a Sweets Shop! And Bakery! and some awesome clothes shops.

Beechworth Brewery.

Book an Escape Room session!

Visit the home of Billson's!

Caravan Park Has Access to the Rail Trail for easier cycling, also hiking trails.

Visit the Magic Forest in Stanley.

Visit and explore Woolshed Falls.

Visit Mayday Hills (a decommissioned 'Lunatic Asylum')

Get your miners License/Rights (Avail and Tourist Info Beechworth) and go pan for gold (creek access from caravan park).
Or go explore Reedy Creek for gems and gold.

Visit the Old Gaol. There is a cafe and tours.

Hire a Kayak from Caravan Park and explore Lake Sambell - great fishing too.

There will be craft and activities at camp to keep yourself and kids busy if that is what you want!

Do a Labyrinth Walk.