Southern Cross Grammar Year 5 Camp Blog
On the stunning Monday afternoon on the 9th of September 2024, The Summit welcomed the year five students and teachers of Southern Cross Grammar.
Students moved into their accommodation, where they would stay for the next few days! After settling in, we welcomed them into the Stadium where coach SPINKs introduced camp spaces and the coaches! The students learned about Teh Summit’s recipe for the best camp ever, and the ingredients were the Five Keys of camp. These keys are up:
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 headed down to the BBQ Shelter and started with a game of 50 Up. Then Taylor and Logan taught everyone how to put on a helmet and harness, followed by Sam (Big Fish) informing everyone about 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 two activity rotations. The activities that campers got to do at the camp were Laser; High Wire, Rock Wall, Laser Skirmish and Snake and Nails. 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 have seen.
Day two started with an epic talk about setting morning intentions with Logan, 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 activity rotations that we ran were Flying Fox, Tash’s Ladder, Bush Challenge and Scavenger Hunt.
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 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, and then 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 quick repeat after-me exercise called; Get Loose with Logan, to warm the students up and 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. (These are listed below along with the results)
On behalf of all of us coaches The Summit staff we would once again like to say a massive thank you for coming to camp and having all the fun with us.
Spinks/Sonic, Logan, Taylor, Sam (Big Fish), Liam, and Sunny
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