What a great few days we had with Craigieburn Secondary College! Day one in a nut shell was all about forming our tribes and getting a start on our first rotation of activities. To break the ice we did a warm up initiative activity. From the get go this had the tribes having to think and work together as one to find a solution. We then moved into our first rotations of activities, these included: Giant Swing, Leap of Faith, Laser Skirmish and Snowy River Challenge. Laser Ski

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[if !supportLineBreakNewLine] [endif] Wednesday brought the year nine crew from Manor Lakes to The Summit! We started with the introduction of the five keys, and then the goal setting strategy. Day ones focus was Have Fun and Play All In. We hit the ground running, getting straight into the first three rotations of activities: Summit Window, Snakes & Nails, High Wire, Bush Challenge, Inflatables, and, Orienteering. By the end of the first day, the six tribes were known as: [i

It was a windy wet day for the return of Bayside college –Altona Campus for their year third Summit Camp. The weather did not affect the excitement of camp for the students and their teachers as they all ventured into the initiatives and naming their tribe, all before rotations of activities. Fobalious and Bok Choy Tigers were created as the tribe names and identities. Flying Fox saw everyone souring through trees and over lakes to the landing platform and cheers of each trib

One of our favourite weeks at The Summit, Peninsula week. Having some amazing camps over the years, this week was no different. There was camp outs, camp fires, night walks, loads of activities, massive Monster Course and heaps of games during the day and at night. Day One: Monday was all about arriving at camp and settling in. We got to know our new tribes while we completed two initiatives. These initiatives got us working together to achieve a common goal. We also decided

North Geelong Secondary College year 10’s and their teachers arrived for the first camp at The Summit. After a few introductions to the camp and the Five Keys, it was time to get into the spirit of camp and come up with a tribe name. Bush Rat Ganggg, TeamX4, Trafalgar Smudgies and Triple Tzah were the names the tribe would be called. Giant Swing was something out of a lot of peoples comfort zones as pairs were pulled up to the desired height before releasing the swing and soa

Bellarine Secondary College brought a small group of year eleven students to The Summit for a fun and exciting three day camp. Although the group was small, that didn’t stop us from having an awesome experience. Day one was all about finding our bearing at camp and within our tribes. Our two tribes were called The Champions and The Champion Killers (Killers for short). After working through two warm up initiatives, it was straight into Leap of Faith and Inflatables. Two very

Wednesday brought a selection of year 9’s from Victoria University Secondary College. We started with getting to know the five keys: Have Fun, Play All In, Make Lots Of Mistakes, Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable and, Don’t Go Home Wondering What If. Target, Stretch, Super Stretch was also introduced. First off was an initiative and then the next challenge was choosing team names. We ended with: VU Summit Squad Team No Tiles Faze Pepsi Max The rest of day one saw two rotati

On Monday the 5th August, the grade 5/6 students and their teachers arrived at The Summit for their three day camp. With all the excitement building there was no time to waste as the students would break off into their tribe groups and come up with their tribe names. Apollo, Tall Donkey and Risk Takers were the names of the tribes. Each tribe began their first rotations of activities, Either Flying Fox, Laser Skirmish or Bush Challenge. It was so cool flying through the air a

The year 12 boys from Ilim College arrived at The Summit on Wednesday 31st July for their three day camp. As it was to be their last school camp a lot of the focus was team building and making the most of the time they have together for the remainder of the year. The camp started with each tribe coming up with their tribe names, Blue Berry Mint and Lion Pride were the names they were to be called. Snowy River Challenge and Leap of Faith were the lead off activities, one being

We were super excited to have an epic week with Newhaven’s year eights and getting off the bus on Monday, everyone seemed super keen for the week ahead. Day One: Today our focus was Have Fun and, boy, did we live up to our first key. There were games happening everywhere you turned. Clap ball, Ga Ga ball, Kings basketball, Gumboot bowling, you name it, and we were playing it. After our afternoon break we went into our first activity. It was a crusiey first day at The Summit a