• Years 7 and 8 Orientation Camp: Students learn about boarding school life and what to expect.
• Year 9 Central Australia Camps: Students focus on team work, relationship building, leadership skills and cultural identity.
• Year 10 Pay-It-Forward Program: A Yalari fundraising initiative encouraging students to think creatively and work together, in order to collectively fund a scholarship for another Yalari student.
• Year 11 Camp: Students participate in vocational workshops, presentations and special projects. They also gain an insight into university life and participate in leadership, cultural and creative activities in the university lecture halls and theatres.
• Year 12 Workshops: Designed to help students identify, assess and develop their post-school plans.
• Year 12 Graduation: Celebrating the achievements of the graduates, a formal ceremony is held; followed by a trip to the snow fields.

Student Support Officers (SSO’s) play a pivotal role by ensuring open lines of communications with students, their families and schools throughout the boarding school journey. They have regular one-on-one interactions with Yalari students and are the first line of support; backed up by a student support team based in the Yalari Head Office (Gold Coast).

Annual year-level student camps provide an opportunity for students across the country to support each other, engage in specific positive wellbeing activities and receive support and encouragement from Yalari Staff and Alumni. The program is responsive to needs as they arise. The team work with partner schools, families, mental health professionals and community champions where crisis or focussed support is needed.

Biennial Commemorative Walk to Cherbourg: provides an opportunity for our students to experience the qualities of resilience, strength, courage, leadership and endurance in an event that not only takes a strong commitment from them to complete, but also provides the cultural backdrop of those who have gone before them and walked to Cherbourg in 1905.