This year the organisation was different from previous 4 years. And I think it is a model that worked better - except coming home of the Thursday and having Friday at school!
Programme:
3 days and 2 night.
8 rotations with 2 on the first day, 4 on the second day and 2 on the final day. This meant that there was very little down time and the students were fully engaged with rotations rather than teacher fill in activities. The camp concert still went ahead, spread over 2 nights, glow worms and burma trail was the same. We did not do the movie night - this was no loss though as it did require a lot of setting up and taking extra equipment with us.
Cost was approx the same as we had one less night and therefore less meals. Cleaning was done by contract cleaners and this was also a far better arrangement than having parents do the clean on the last day. It was $300.00 for the camp clean - money well spent.
We have booked the same time for the camp next year - 17th to 19th October - this will be Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Week One of Term 4, leading again into Labour Weekend.
Rotations
The water based activites were unfortunately cancelled and team building activities put in instead. This was due to the flooding that occured earlier in the year and the waterfall and river area were not safe enough for the 2 water based activities. This did mean that there was a diminance of climbing tyoe activites which was okay for those students who could challenge themselves with height and climbing, however some students who were less confident were restricted in full participation.
As a team we reflected on the camp and thought the organisation that we had in place worked welland will be a good model to take into next year.
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