On the stunning Monday afternoon of the 2nd December 2024, the Summit welcomed the leadership team year 9-11 students and teachers of Rosebud Secondary College
Students were promptly shown their accommodations, where they would stay for the next couple of days! After they got settled, they were welcomed into the Lodge where coach Spinks introduced camp and the coaches! They discussed The Summit’s very own recipe to the best camp ever, and the ingredients to that were the Five Keys of camp. These keys are:
- Have Fun
- Play All In
- Make Lots of Mistakes
- Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
- Don’t Go Home Wondering “What If”
Without further ado we played a game called Look Up, Look Down where Charlotte was our winner. Then Taylor taught everyone how to put on a helmet and harness, followed by Spinks telling everyone an epic goal-setting strategy called Target, Stretch, and Super Stretch that would help us to grow our comfort zones and conquer challenging activities.
Campers had one minute to produce a team name for the three days where they became: Naughty Narwals and The Sharks. Their first activity is the Initiative Challenge that involved working together to solve a puzzle called Tiles. Getting their whole team from one side of the volleyball court to the other using the tiles provided. This tested teamwork and leadership, but teams rose to the challenge and the Naughty Narwals finished first! Then we moved on to our first activity rotation: Bag Blitz and Snowy River Challenge. This range of activities challenged people’s bravery, team spirit, support, trust creativity and problem solving (to name a few!)
Day one ended with introducing the students to a camp tradition called GMICs, which stands for “Great Moments in Camp” – this is all about writing down and acknowledging some of the awesome moments we’ve seen.
Day two started with an epic talk about intentions and influences and how they can help us create the day we want rather than the day running us, after watching the video ‘I was here.’ by Beyoncé we asked the students to think about who they wanted to be and how the wanted to show up for; themselves, others and of course the activities. They played two games of Jockeys, before getting into the park and beginning the three activity rotations. The back to back winners were Molly and Lennix.
With three rotations to complete before lunch we started off with High Wire and Sky Bridge, then moved into Giant Swing and Laser Skirmish, after lunch students had one more activity to complete, afternoon teatime, then it was time to do the famous Monster Course. This was a feat of teamwork, strength, and resilience. As students completed the course, the groups were unaware of the fact that they were running two laps of the course, so they got themselves together and then got the second lap done! Both teams created their target, stretches and super stretches based on their first time and both teams reached they agreed upon super stretches! (Scored in table below)
The evening activity was a belief and mindset session run by Spinks which lead up to students naming one of their own limiting and empowering beliefs about themselves and then writing on a wooden board they were then able to physically break through to provide them with their first piece of evidence to support their new empowering belief.
As the last day rolled around, heaps of GMICs were read out, and then Spinks took the students through a gratitude session, they were asked to think about who they are grateful for and then asked the students to write a GMIC to a person in their life they are grateful for, looking at the checked out faces in the room, we challenged them to not go home wondering ‘what if’ and to ‘check back in’ for the last two rotations of activities to go. We then played a game called ‘Do as I say and say what I say’ to warm the students up and as the two final rotations of Abseil and Cave, as camp came to a close the students were taught about a debriefing tool called; Rock (what rocked your world about camp), Stick (what will stick with you), and Leaf (what will you leave with having learnt or what will you leave behind). then were asked to vote for a hero and a heart of the group. (listed below along with the results).
On behalf of The Summit and coaches we would once again say, thank you for coming to camp and joining us in having all the fun, all the best for next year!
