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WestQuest Year 10, 2027

A ladder to a fulfilling and successful life is climbed only by using the rungs of opportunity. Your hands don’t pull you up a ladder, it’s your legs that do the driving, which only happens when you take the risk of stepping up. 

Building on Westventure, Westminster School’s WestQuest program provides a range of fulfilling experiences for students to embrace stepping up and achieving more than they thought possible. WestQuest embodies experiential learning with programs designed to help students build resilience, independence, self-belief, awareness, courage and adopt a growth mindset, alongside building skillsets they can use for life. 

WestQuest furthers student’s abilities, utilising and building on the skills they have developed throughout the Outdoor Education Program in previous years. Offering a range of signature expeditions including Sea Kayaking in the Whitsundays, Hiking and Rafting in Tasmania, Sailing and living at sea on the One and All Tall Ship and Scuba Diving on the Great Barrier Reef, students are afforded the opportunity to select an expedition to suitably challenge them, providing not only a chance to grow but another experience of a lifetime.

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WestQuest 2027 Program

Date WestQuest Experiential Learning Opportunity Additional Cost Charged Suggested Preparation/Notes/Calendar Clashes
Term 1, 14 - 20 March
Trip #1: Tasmania Adventure (Walls of Jerusalem Hike/Raft)
No additional cost
Duke of Ed Bushwalking experience recommended.
Term 1, 15 – 16 March
One and All Tall Ship Sail
No additional cost
Term 1, 3 - 9 April
Trip #2: Tasmania Adventure (Walls of Jerusalem Hike/Raft)
No additional cost
Duke of Ed Bushwalking experience recommended.
Holidays, 12 - 16 April
Kangaroo Island Wilderness Trail – Hike and sights
No additional cost
This is a combined WQ / Duke of Ed trip. Suitable for student who may wish to undertake their WQ experience in the school holidays.
Term 2, 24 - 30 May
Trip #1: WestQuest Whitsunday Kayak
Approx. $850
Proficiency at Westventure and or Duke of Ed Kayaking experience recommended.
Term 2, 31 May - 6 June
Trip #2: WestQuest Whitsunday Kayak
Approx. $850
Proficiency at Westventure and or Duke of Ed Kayaking experience recommended.
Term 2, 8 - 14 June
Trip #3: WestQuest Whitsunday Kayak
Approx. $850
Proficiency at Westventure and or Duke of Ed Kayaking experience recommended.
Term 2, 16 - 22 June
Trip #4: WestQuest Whitsunday Kayak
Approx. $850
Proficiency at Westventure and or Duke of Ed Kayaking experience recommended.
Holidays and Term 3, July 17 - 23
Scuba Dive Great Barrier Reef, Pool training in Cairns + Liveaboard Boat Dive experience including up to 11 reef dives.
Approx. $2,500
Trip requires 28 students to run.
Holidays and Term 3, 19 - 25 July
Trip #5: WestQuest Whitsunday Kayak
Approx. $850
Proficiency at Westventure and or Duke of Ed Kayaking experience recommended.
Term 3, 26 July - 1 August
Trip #6: WestQuest Whitsunday Kayak
Approx. $850
Proficiency at Westventure and or Duke of Ed Kayaking experience recommended.

Please direct further enquiries regarding WestQuest, or the nature of these activities, to Head of Outdoor Education, Julie Engelhardt via email.