It has been an absolute pleasure to work with the students and teachers from Mt Lilydale for their camps this week. After the changeover of students and some teachers, it was straight back into the fun and excitement for camp two. After a great feed and settling into camp, everyone got into their tribe groups and began their initiatives and rotations. The tribes' names were great, now known as: Cool Kids Club T-REX Zingers, The Winners, Maryis Legless Fish Dunny Rolls Swans R

On the crisp and sunny late morning of Monday the 20th of March, The Summit camp welcomed the wonderful first half of the year 9 cohort for Mt Lilydale Mercy College. We had the pleasure of seeing some familiar faces as we saw some Summit veterans in the team of teachers, honor to have you back on deck! After introductions were made and lunch was eaten, the year 9 students started off their action-packed camp with learning about the5 Key values and how if we use them, over th

On a warm Monday afternoon, the school of Northside Christian Collage came through The Summit gates. Eager to get going they were shown to their tent accommodation and told to meet their Summit Leader Steph in the Blue Room. There they were introduced to the ‘Five Keys’ and the rest of The Summit crew. The first thing the groups did was play a game called Egg, Tiger, Crane” and then they smashed two initiative rotations. To finish the first day up, the groups completed one a

On Tuesday afternoon, the buses full of Deepdene students and staff rolled through to the gates of The Summit. Eager to get started, they all made their way up to their accommodation in the Tent Village. They were welcomed by The Summit coaches led by their team leader Steph (SPAG), the Five Keys were shared with the students, as they are the ingredients for a great camp. As the students were shown to the stage, where we went straight into initiatives after being shown how to

It has been the pleasure of both Mason and Timmay to have the year 7’s from St Arnaud Secondary College along with their teachers at The Summit for the past four days. After the long drive, there was so much energy that needed to be used, so without any time wasted it was into the initiatives and rotations of activities. Tribe names of the students: Spider Pigs Peanut Butter Meatballs The results from the tribes' challenges were as follows: Snowy River: Spider Pigs - 24.45 Pe

The Summit team welcome Richmond High School on Monday the 7th of March. Thank you for making the trip down. On the first day, the students found themselves pushing themselves outside their comfort zones and achieving incredible goals they had set. The students did this with the help of our 5 keys. They 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 A huge congratulati

What an incredible experience it was to welcome Grovedale College, thank you for tracking all the way down to Traff East. On the first day, the students found themselves pushing themselves outside their comfort zones and achieving incredible goals they had set. The students did this with the help of our 5 Keys. They 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 A huge

It was an absolutely wonderful 3 days of laughter, excitement, and achievements for this incredible group from Dromana primary school. On Wednesday afternoon The Summit staff welcomed some very excited year 6 students and showed them up to their new home for the next two nights: Tent Village! After we had all settled ourselves in, we learnt about the Five Keys of camp. These are some special ingredients and things to live by that would help us have the best time we could at c

What a fun-filled first day we shared with the year 7’s from Peninsula Grammar. To start camp off, we shared The Summit's 5 Keys with the students: 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 After that we got our bodies moving- playing a game called Jumping Jilly, the aim is to keep an exercise ball up in the air for 50 touches or more as one large group. We had a few attempts finishing on a solid