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22/09/2026

It’s always lovely to hear feedback from teachers about our excursions, but it is pretty rare to receive a handwritten letter from a student. Last Friday night I received an email from a teacher with a scanned hand written letter attached from a student. She had attended a fairly new excursion earlier in the term, which explores habitat restoration at Chowder Bay and Balmoral - looking at Operation Posidonia, Sydney Seahorse Project and Project Restore.

A percentage of profits from this excursion was donated to habitat restoration projects.

22/09/2026

Excited to announce a new Sydney location for the Kelp Forest - Great Southern Reef excursion. Same great excursion, new location. Both Malabar and Cabbage Tree Bay are locations of the kelp restoration project Operation Crayweed. These sites provide an opportunity for students to see kelp forest restoration first hand.

20/09/2026

Last week, alongside Living Seawalls and Stone Living Lab,
we began working with teachers from Sydney and Boston to facilitate delivery of lessons about urban ecology and the role of Living Seawalls in improving biodiversity. This will involve students visiting local Living Seawalls installations, carrying out monitoring and sharing their findings with students on the other side of the world. Throughout the year we have been creating videos with a school in Sydney about the surveying techniques to share, while in Boston they have been providing professional learning to teachers including how to undertake surveys of the Living Seawalls. We are excited to see how the project evolves.

17/09/2026

Working at Kurnell today and came across a heap of Posidonia australis flowers. Makes sense as there are big seagrass beds here, but this is the first time I have seen them washed up on the beach. I’ll be sure to upload these to .of.the.sea

It’s pretty exciting to see so many, as students will be able engage in citizen science as part of the habitat restoration excursion at Kurnell.

16/09/2026

The Habitat Restoration Excursion supports students undertaking an independent investigation or project. It explicitly teaches students how to undertake fieldwork, and provides them with the skills and confidence to undertake their own fieldwork and research in carrying out their project.

This excursion is now available in 3 locations:
- Chowder Bay & Balmoral
- Watson’s Bay, and
- Kurnell

https://www.theharbourschoolsydney.com/blog/habitat-restoration-investigation

14/09/2026

Book a Darling Harbour Precinct excursion for your HSC Geography class.

Students explore Barangaroo Reserve, South Barangaroo and Darling Harbour to address mandatory fieldwork requirements, as well as a variety of skills and tools.

13/09/2026

2027 HSC classes kick off in 3 weeks.
Have you booked mandatory HSC fieldwork yet?
The Kelp Forest – Great Southern Reef field trip, located at Clifton Gardens or Cabbage Tree Bay is a great way to immerse your students in hands on learning, address HSC outcomes and prepare your students for the HSC.

Visit the Harbour Schools Sydney website for more details

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12/09/2026

Did you attend a Kelp Forest - Great Southern Reef excursion with your 2026 HSC class?

Check your email for an 8 page Fieldwork Revision Guide to support your students in the lead up to the HSC.

The Fieldwork Revision Guide includes:
- student activities to help students summarise fieldwork findings into succinct responses suitable for HSC questions.
- site study details
- explanations of fieldwork techniques and findings
- answer pages

12/09/2026

🎉Celebrating 2026!

💦Homebush Bay was once surrounded by extensive mangroves, saltmarsh, and wetlands, before decades of industry and dumping severely damaged the landscape.

🥇Preparations for the Sydney 2000 Olympics helped drive one of Australia’s largest remediation projects, cleaning up contaminated land, restoring tidal flows, and protecting important wetland habitats.

🌿Today, Sydney Olympic Park is home to the largest remaining mangrove forest on the Parramatta River ‒ an important habitat for fish, birds, and other wildlife.

Blacktown City Council Burwood Council City of Canada Bay City of Canterbury Bankstown Cumberland City Council Hunter's Hill Council Inner West Council Strathfield Council Sydney Water NSW Environment Protection Authority Landcare NSW Greater Sydney Landcare Harbour Trust Addventageous ParraParents - Parramatta District Parents Friends of Toongabbie Creek Birdlife Southern NSW The Harbour School Sydney Sydney Olympic Park

Photo: Badu Mangroves, Sydney Olympic Park.

04/09/2026

This (5–13 September), we’re embracing this year’s theme, Keeping Stories, by sharing some of the many stories that have shaped the Parramatta River.

For thousands of generations, Dharug people have lived with, cared for, and maintained deep cultural connections to the river and its surrounding lands and waterways. Colonisation brought profound change, with the river later becoming a place of farming, transport, industry, swimming, and recreation.

The Parramatta River Catchment Group is committed to truth telling and recognising the river’s full and layered history, including the enduring connection of First Nations people to Country and the impacts of colonisation.

Follow along during History Week as we share stories from the river’s past and reflect on how they continue to shape the river today. Photo: Putney Beach (c. 1895-1905).

Blacktown City Council Burwood Council City of Canada Bay City of Canterbury Bankstown City of Parramatta City of Ryde Cumberland City Council Hunter's Hill Council Inner West Council Strathfield Council Sydney Water NSW Environment Protection Authority Landcare NSW Greater Sydney Landcare Parramatta River Riverkeeper Network Harbour Trust Addventageous Friends of Toongabbie Creek ParraParents - Parramatta District Parents Sydney Olympic Park Birdlife Southern NSW The Harbour School Sydney

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