On the stunning afternoon of Wednesday the 12 February 2024, the Summit welcomed back the year seven students and teachers from Lauriston Girls School.
As they got of the buses they were shown to their accommodation, after they got settled, the students were welcomed into the Lodge where coach Spinks gave an introduction to camp and the coaches! Mim introduced 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 all head down to the activities hub and started with a game of 50 up. The final score was over 200-ups well done!
Campers started their first activity with an initiative challenge that involved working together to solve a puzzle. This tested teamwork and leadership, but teams rose to the challenge! Then we moved on to our first activity rotation. The activities that campers got to do at camp were: Abseil, Snowy River Challenge, Bag Blitz, Laser Skirmish, Sky Bridge, Cave, Tashs Ladder, and Scavenger Hunt.
Coaches Lainie and Spinks taught everyone how to put on a helmet and harness, followed by Calarnee sharing an epic goal-setting strategy that would help us to grow our comfort zones and conquer challenging activities. Target – what you know you can do, Stretch – what you think you can do, and Super Stretch – what you think is impossible.
At the end of the day, campers were informed about timings for dinner and brekkie, as well as free time areas, they also were introduced 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 setting a morning intention, and learning about how important it is to choose to focus on the things we can control, in order to get the most out of every day (but especially at camp)
When we got down into the park, we got all warmed up with a group game called Jockeys and then leaped into three legendary activity rotations. Even though the weather was hot, this didn’t stop students because they powered through, smashing goals and having all the fun.
After lunch we smashed out one more rotation and then it was time to do the famous Mud Run Challenge. This was a feat of teamwork, strength and resilience as students completed a huge first lap but were shocked to find out that the winning team isn’t the fastest team, but the team that improves the most on their SECOND LAP.
As the last day rolled around coach Calarnee took the kids through a gratitude session, where the students were asked to think about who and or what makes them feel. Grateful and to ‘check back in’ for the last two rotations of activities to go.
The group game played was Pirates to warm the students up and as the final two rotations.
As the day came to a close, the students were asked to vote for someone in their tribe who represented/embodied the Five Keys the most throughout camp. (These are listed below along with the results)
On behalf of the coaches and the summit we would like to say that’s for joining us and having all the fun, wish you all the best for the rest of the year!
Spinks, Mim, Cal, Fran, Taylor, Lucy, Lainie, Milena, Elena.
