Beaumaris North PS Year 5 Camp Blog

When the buses, packed full of 77 very excited Beaumaris kids rolled through the gates of The Summit on a very warm Wednesday morning, we were preparing for what was going to be an amazing week. The energy and enthusiasm from all the students were off the charts. The other coaches and I gathered in the Stadium with them to introduce ourselves and our Five Keys of Have Fun, Play All In, Make Mistakes, Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable and Don’t Go Home Wondering What If, before playing a couple of games, showing everyone our harnesses and how to set themselves Targets, Stretches and Super Stretches, and getting into our first couple of rounds of activities.

The Flying Fox and Tash’s Ladder were the instant highlights, the Rock Wall was challenging, the Bush Challenge and the Laser Skirmish were epic and Orienteering was just fun. There were definitely many personal boundaries pushed and fears overcome, with too many kids to mention who pushed beyond what they first thought they were capable of.

After the first rotation, everyone gathered in the Stadium to further cement each of the group names they came up with using a flag and creating a chant they could create on their own. Each group was asked to come up with a name for themselves that was agreed upon by all, and these are the names they came up with;

Grp 1 - The Better Better All Stars

Grp 2 - The Sushi Snakes

Grp 3 - Coconut Warriors

Grp 4 - Squid Apples

Grp 5 - The Happy Hairy Fairies

Grp 6 - The OG All Stars

After the trivia night on Wednesday, Thursday was kicked off with a morning Intentions chat from Kid President before getting straight into the next round of activities. The day turned out to be very cold, but everyone was so into the activities that after a while we couldn’t tell.

Just after lunch on Thursday we played a game called Magical Creatures, where each of the tribes had to venture out into the park and find an adult dressed up and escort them back to the stage for points. The students had almost as much fun as the teachers and the whole experience was dominated by the Sushi Snakes!

Thursday afternoon we also embarked on our epic Monster Course, a mud run around the grounds of The Summit involving tyres, charades, mud, cargo nets, holey buckets, mud, a ball pit and more mud! The course was scored using each team's improvement time from the first lap to the surprise second lap, with everyone doing amazingly, but being dominated by The Squid Apples!

Friday started with another chat from Kid President about gratitude before bracing the humidity and the rain for the last two rotations of activities.

After we wound up the last of our group challenges, we then asked each of the kids to vote on a Values winner, or the person in their group they felt used our Five Keys the best to make camp a rewarding experience for not only themselves but their whole team. The winners are listed below with all the times for each of the recordable activities.  We gathered out of the rain in the Blue Tent to say our thank yous to all the people involved in making this camp epic and reading out the winners of the various activities, before presenting our Values winners with Summit Survivor Medallions and saying our farewells.

Thank you so much to Janelle, the parents, teachers and students of Beaumaris North Primary School for an awesome week. You were all so incredibly dedicated to ensuring your camp was an amazing experience. We at The Summit can’t wait to have you back again soon.

Adam, Zoe, Fran, Matt, Timmay, and Ant