Camps
Playground skills campGetting Ready for Kindergarten camp
Getting Ready for High School camp
Skills camps are provided for children in order to provide an intensity of intervention in a shared learning or group context during the school holidays. FUN is central to all learning activities.
Camps include:
All the camps are offered for 3 hours a day over a whole week.
Friendship club is provided for children to learn cognitive strategies which establish and maintain friendships. Each club contains 3 / 4 children and meets after school once a week or once a fortnight.
This camp is for children who lack skills and confidence for participation in group activities with friends in the playground at recess and lunch. These activities can be challenging for children because they are unstructured and not teacher directed. Activities at camp can include chasings / tip, soccer, handball, stuck in the mud, basketball, cricket and long skipping rope.
Playground skills camp also assists children to cope with situations which involve social responses such as following the rules, winning and losing, sharing, taking turns, managing feelings and cooperating.
Download a Playground skills camp brochure (Word)
This camp is for children who are about to start Kindergarten and who need to develop their skills in areas including the following: listening, following instructions, pre - handwriting, copying, cutting and pasting, sharing and taking turns, joining in and tying shoelaces.
Download a Kindergarten camp brochure (Word)
This camp is for children who have organisation difficulties and are getting ready for Yr 7, or who are struggling with organisation and are in junior high school. Children are given strategies to develop their skills in activities including the following: finding your way around a high school map, timetables, diaries, homework, assignments and projects, stress, studying, exams. making new friends, note taking and summarising.
Download a High School camp brochure (Word)
