The Camp Sloane Newsletter
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Remember what it felt like to spend all day outside with your friends, knowing you were safe, but feeling completely free and independent (and oh so grown up)?
Read the Winter Birchbark Newsletter, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently
Here's what I've been thinking about over the past couple of days:
Camp isn't just fun. It's a launchpad for future changemakers.
How do I know this? Before last summer I interviewed more than 30 former campers to join our staff team as a Counselor-in-Training (CIT).
I like my phone. Ok, I LOVE my phone.
I love being able to contact people easily, to reach my family and friends over in the UK, or simply ask a peer at another camp how they do things.
Having my phone while I’m on the go during the camp season makes life so much easier - I can answer parent questions immediately, capture a quick insta story, or do a last minute Amazon order when I realize we’re almost out of shaving cream.
Read the Fall Birchbark Newsletter, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently
A parent recently said to me that when she asked her teenage camper what the best part of camp was, he always answered, ‘the times I get to just talk and hang out with my friends, mostly when we’re walking between activities’.
Maybe that surprises you. To me though, it makes perfect sense.
Traditional camps like Sloane might be one of the last places where kids get to resist the pressure to specialize early. The camp program is intentionally designed to offer a wide range of, well, for lack of better word, stuff. at camp, kids get to do everything, try everything, in an environment that’s designed to provide a childhood that offers range.
Read the final Birchbark Newsletter before the summer, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently
Read the Spring Birchbark Newsletter, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently
Read the Winter Birchbark Newsletter, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently
Remember what it felt like to spend all day outside with your friends, knowing you were safe, but feeling completely free and independent (and oh so grown up)?
Read the Winter Birchbark Newsletter, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently
Here's what I've been thinking about over the past couple of days:
Camp isn't just fun. It's a launchpad for future changemakers.
How do I know this? Before last summer I interviewed more than 30 former campers to join our staff team as a Counselor-in-Training (CIT).
I like my phone. Ok, I LOVE my phone.
I love being able to contact people easily, to reach my family and friends over in the UK, or simply ask a peer at another camp how they do things.
Having my phone while I’m on the go during the camp season makes life so much easier - I can answer parent questions immediately, capture a quick insta story, or do a last minute Amazon order when I realize we’re almost out of shaving cream.
Read the Fall Birchbark Newsletter, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently
A parent recently said to me that when she asked her teenage camper what the best part of camp was, he always answered, ‘the times I get to just talk and hang out with my friends, mostly when we’re walking between activities’.
Maybe that surprises you. To me though, it makes perfect sense.
Traditional camps like Sloane might be one of the last places where kids get to resist the pressure to specialize early. The camp program is intentionally designed to offer a wide range of, well, for lack of better word, stuff. at camp, kids get to do everything, try everything, in an environment that’s designed to provide a childhood that offers range.
Read the final Birchbark Newsletter before the summer, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently
Read the Spring Birchbark Newsletter, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently
Read the Winter Birchbark Newsletter, with lots of info about everything that's been going on at camp recently