Coldstream PS Year 3 to 6 Camp Blog

On the stunning Monday afternoon of October 14th, 2024, The Summit welcomed the year three to six students and teachers of Cold Stream Primary School.

Students moved into their accommodations, where they would stay for the next few days! After settling in, we welcomed them into the Blue Room where coach SPINKs introduced camp spaces and the coaches! The students learned about The Summit’s very own recipe for the best camp ever, and the ingredients to that were the Five Keys of camp.

These keys are:

1. Have Fun

2. Play All In

3. Make Lots of Mistakes

4. Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

5. Don't Go Home Wondering, ‘What if'

Without further ado, we all headed down to the BBQ Shelter and started with a game of 50 Up. Then Fran and Haley taught everyone how to put on a helmet and harness, followed by Haley 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 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 activity rotations. The activities that campers got to do at camp were Flying Fox, Snowy River Challenge and Scavenger Hunt. This range of activities challenged people’s bravery, team spirit, support, trust creativity and problem-solving (to name a few!) 

Day one ended with a tribe identity session where groups had to create a flag together and a team chant to take around with them for the rest of camp. At the end of the day wrap-up, the students 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 have seen.

Day two started with an epic talk about setting a morning intention with Spinks, we watched a video by the Kid President called ’20 things to say more often.’ talking about the things that they wanted to say more that day, Asking 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. We then played a quick game of Jockeys, before getting into the park and beginning the three activity rotations. The new rotation of activities ran were Tash's Ladder, Snake and Nails and Cave,

After lunch, students had one more activity to complete. Finally, 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! The winner of the run was the team that had the biggest improvement time from their first lap. All teams improved!

As the last day rolled around heaps of GMICs were read out, Spinks took the kids through a gratitude session, where the students were asked to think about who and what they are grateful for, to not go home wondering ‘what if’ and to ‘check back in’ for the last two rotations of activities to go. Heading down to the BBQ shelter for a game called; Pirates to warm the students up as the final rotation ended, the students were asked to vote for someone in their tribe who represented/embodied the Five Keys the most throughout camp they were given their tribe flags to keep, along with a medal from The Summit as a reward. (These are listed below along with the results)