This year on the 01 June, our Year 5 and 6 students are once again taking on the Kokoda Challenge. We have registered 7 teams this year (consisting of 4 students and 1 teacher in each team) who have been training hard on weekends and outside school under the supervision and guidance of teachers and support staff, in preparation for the gruelling 18km in rugged terrain on the outskirts of Brisbane.
We are all humbled and inspired by the story of Kokoda and the many challenges our Australian soldiers faced as they fought on the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea in WWII. The Kokoda Challenge events are operated by the Kokoda Youth Foundation with the mission to achieve three main things; keep the spirit of Kokoda alive through educating participants about the history of the Kokoda Campaign in 1942, raise funds our local youth programs that transform the lives of kids in our community and deliver Australia's toughest team endurance event for our competitors so they too can push their own physical and mental limits while walking in the footsteps of our diggers.
The Kokoda Challenge embodies the Spirit of Kokoda through Courage, Endurance, Mateship and Sacrifice and each student who participates is shown how these core values are still very relevant today.
Each team entering the Challenge is required to fundraise $250 to go towards the Kokoda Youth Foundation, an Australian charity who run a range of life-changing programs to support local youth and our teams are well on their way to reaching their fundraising targets.
Below are the links to our 7 teams' fundraising pages where you can make a donation and support our students taking part in this year's Kokoda Challenge. Donations are tax deductable - can you or your business sponsor a team?
