Crate Climb

Activity Scope

This heights activity involves the participants climbing from the ground on milk crates. In can be facilitated outdoors or indoors where facilities exist. Participant safety is a top rope anchor system with the participants being belayed from the ground by either an Outdoor Leader and client staff.

Activity Objectives

Being aware of and dealing with fear, trusting others, benefits of stepping out of “comfort zone”, peer support, balance, strength and using muscles in different ways

Age Limitations

Grade 3+ (age 8+)

Staff Ratio

1 Outdoor Leader
1 responsible person to assist in belaying participants (under supervision of Activity Leader)
Ideally another responsible person to supervise participants who are not actively participating in the activity (i.e. waiting for their turn)

Outdoor Leader Skills

Lead Challenge Course - high elements, Lead Top Rope skill set, or similar qualification. YMCA internal training and current first aid

Risk Assessment

View Risk Assessment document (PDF)
Level of Risk After Mitigation: Low

Client Group Leader/Teacher Expectations

Watch briefing, assist when necessary, and manage behaviour
Responsible for group safety in case of an emergency
Assist participants with PPE
Ensure students are ready with helmets and harnesses on when it is their turn
Assist with belaying participants

Participant Requirements

Shirt that covers the midriff area (preferably long sleeved with collar)
Pants that are a minimum of knee length (no skirts or dresses)
Long hair secured in low ponytail
Ideally remove jewellery
Empty pockets and remove attached objects (i.e. scarves, cameras, mobile phones, etc.)

Australian Curriculum

This activity may target a number of the "Content Descriptions" across a number of different subject areas. At our site, we've determined that abseiling is best suited for students in grade 7 and above.

Year 3 & 4

Links to HPE Australian Curriculum content descriptors (v.9)

Personal, social and community health
Sub-strand: Identities and change
Investigate how success, challenge, setbacks and failure strengthen resilience and identities in a range of contexts	AC9HP4P01
Describe how choices and actions can be influenced by stereotypes	AC9HP4P03
Sub-strand: Interacting with others
Select, use and refine personal and social skills to establish, manage and strengthen relationships	AC9HP4P04
Explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions	AC9HP4P06
Rehearse and refine strategies for seeking, giving and denying permission respectfully and describe situations when permission is required	AC9HP6P07
Sub-strand: Making healthy and safe choices
Describe and apply protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies in a range of online and offline situations	AC9HP4P08
Investigate and apply behaviours that contribute to their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing	AC9HP4P10
Movement and physical activity
Sub-strand: Moving our bodies
Refine and apply fundamental movement skills in new movement situations	AC9HP4M01
Apply and adapt movement strategies to achieve movement outcomes	AC9HP4M02
Demonstrate how movement concepts related to effort, space, time, objects and people can be applied when performing movement sequences	AC9HP4M03
Sub-strand: Making active choices
Participate in physical activities to explore how their body feels and describe how regular physical activity helps the body stay healthy and well	AC9HP4M04
Participate in physical activities in natural and outdoor settings to examine factors that can influence their own and others’ participation	AC9HP4M05
Sub-strand: Learning through movement
Apply creative thinking when designing movement sequences and solving movement problems	AC9HP4M07
Apply rules and scoring systems to promote fair play when participating or designing physical activities	AC9HP4M08
Perform a range of roles in respectful ways to achieve successful outcomes in group or team movement activities	AC9HP4M09

Year 5 & 6

Year 7 & 8

Links to HPE Australian Curriculum content descriptors (v.9)

Personal, social and community health
Sub-strand: Identities and change
Examine how roles, decision-making, and levels of power, coercion and control within relationships can be influenced by gender stereotypes	AC9HP8P03
Sub-strand: Interacting with others
Examine the roles of respect, empathy, power and coercion in developing respectful relationships	AC9HP8P04
Analyse factors that influence emotional responses and devise strategies to selfmanage emotions	AC9HP8P06
Sub-strand: Making healthy and safe choices
Explain and apply skills and strategies to communicate assertively and respectfully when seeking, giving or denying consent	AC9HP8P07
Movement and physical activity
Sub-strand: Moving our bodies
Analyse, refine and transfer movement skills in a variety of movement situations	AC9HP8M01
Design and demonstrate how movement strategies can be manipulated to improve movement outcomes	AC9HP8M02
Demonstrate and explain how movement concepts related to effort, space, time, objects and people can be manipulated to improve movement outcomes	AC9HP8M03
Sub-strand: Making active choices
Participate in physical activities designed to improve fitness and wellbeing to investigate the impact of regular participation on health, fitness and wellbeing	AC9HP8M04
Participate in physical activities that utilise community spaces and outdoor settings, and evaluate strategies to support increased use of these spaces	AC9HP8M05
Design and justify strategies to increase physical activity levels to achieve health and wellbeing outcomes	AC9HP8M06
Sub-strand: Learning through movement
Propose and evaluate movement strategies and skills that would be most effective in different movement situations	AC9HP8M07
Investigate modifications to equipment, rules and scoring systems that support fair play and inclusive participation	AC9HP8M08
Practise and apply leadership, collaboration and group decision-making processes when participating in a range of physical activities	AC9HP8M09

Year 9 & 10

Links to HPE Australian Curriculum content descriptors (v.9)

Personal, social and community health
Sub-strand: Identities and change
Refine, evaluate and adapt strategies for managing changes and transitions	AC9HP10P02
Sub-strand: Interacting with others
Evaluate the influence of respect, empathy, power and coercion on establishing and maintaining respectful relationships	AC9HP10P04
Evaluate emotional responses in different situations to refine strategies for managing emotions	AC9HP10P06
Examine how strategies, such as communicating choices, seeking, giving and denying consent, and expressing opinions and needs can support the development of respectful relationships, including sexual relationships	AC9HP10P07
Sub-strand: Making healthy and safe choices
Plan, rehearse and evaluate strategies for managing situations where their own or others’ health, safety or wellbeing may be at risk	AC9HP10P08
Plan, justify and critique strategies to enhance their own and others’ health, safety, relationships and wellbeing	AC9HP10P10
Movement and physical activity
Sub-strand: Moving our bodies
Analyse, adapt and refine their own and others’ movement skills in a range of challenging movement situations to enhance performance	AC9HP10M01
Create and refine movement strategies to achieve successful outcomes across a range of challenging movement situations	AC9HP10M02
Participate in physical activities to investigate the body’s reaction to different levels of intensity	AC9HP10M03
Sub-strand: Making active choices
Participate in physical activities designed to enhance health, wellbeing and fitness, and design, apply and evaluate strategies for incorporating these activities into their lives	AC9HP10M04
Participate in physical activities that promote health and social outcomes to design and evaluate participation strategies for themselves and others	AC9HP10M05
Sub-strand: Learning through movement
Transfer and adapt skills and strategies from previous experiences to create successful outcomes in unfamiliar movement situations	AC9HP10M07
Demonstrate fair play and reflect on how ethical behaviour can influence physical activity outcomes for individuals and groups	AC9HP10M08
Devise, implement and refine strategies for decision-making when working in groups or teams that demonstrate leadership and collaboration skills	AC9HP10M09

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Personal, social and community health
Sub-strand: Interacting with others
Describe and demonstrate how respect and empathy can be expressed to positively influence relationships	AC9HP6P04
Apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions	AC9HP6P06
Describe strategies for seeking, giving or denying consent and rehearse how to communicate their intentions effectively and respectfully	AC9HP6P07
Sub-strand: Making healthy and safe choices
Analyse and rehearse protective behaviours and help-seeking strategies that can be used in a range of online and offline situations	AC9HP6P08
Movement and physical activity
Sub-strand: Moving our bodies
Adapt and modify movement skills across a variety of situations	AC9HP6M01
Transfer familiar movement strategies to different movement situations	AC9HP6M02
Investigate how different movement concepts related to effort, space, time, objects and people can be applied to improve movement outcomes	AC9HP6M03
Sub-strand: Making active choices
Participate in physical activities to investigate the body’s reaction to different levels of intensity	AC9HP6M04
Participate in physical activities that enhance health and wellbeing in natural and outdoor settings, and analyse the steps and resources needed to promote participation	AC9HP6M05
Sub-strand: Learning through movement
Predict and test the effectiveness of applying different skills and strategies in a range of movement situations	AC9HP6M07
Devise and test alternative rules and game modifications to support fair play and inclusive participation	AC9HP6M08
Participate positively in groups and teams by contributing to group activities, encouraging others and negotiating roles and responsibilities	AC9HP6M09