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Summer Learning Camps 2009 (Dates and Times)
Dedicated, caring, and qualified teachers and instructors will conduct a wide variety of camps that will complement and enhance your child's academic needs and expand their extra-curricular abilities. Camps are offered in safe environments as a morning only or full day program. We offer a variety of academic and non-academic activities focusing on Sports (Soccer, Basketball, Team Sports), Water Play, Arts & Crafts, Drama/Dance, Music, Science Discovery, Computers, and Field Trips.
The Summer Programmes are specially designed to allow students to continue school throughout the summer months and to get a head start for the upcoming year, while enjoying at the same time some fun and exciting summer time activities and outings. The students have the opportunity to have the best of both worlds through a learning programme for the morning session and then participation in planned activities in the afternoon, with a scheduled field trip every week. All activities will coincide with a planned weekly theme. Parents will be given a calendar outlining the weekly events happening throughout the summer.
Summer Learning Camps are available in July and August offering the following programmes
Pre-Primary and Readiness Programmes
All students will participate in a variety of age appropriate themed activities. Some examples of activities include cutting, pasting, water days, outdoor games, music, sports, science, experiments, cooking activities, physical activities, discovery and drama.
Toddler and Junior Pre-School Camp
(Pre-Primary campuses only)
This programme is designed for children, ages 12 months to 2 ½ years. It provides a safe, loving and homey environment focusing on MOTOR, SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL and LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT. Children have special outings, and more, including practical life exercises, sensorial activities, speech development, physical education, arts and crafts, music and toilet training.
Senior Pre-School Camp
(Pre-Primary campuses only)
This programme is designed for children from 2 ½ to 3 ½ years of age. It provides a safe, loving, attractive and structured environment, building a bridge from the toddler stage to the Kindergarten years. Although it still contains a significant component of MOTOR, SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL and LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, it focuses on COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT, with the introduction to the first steps to READING and WRITING, using PHONICS and MATH READINESS. Montessori materials are also introduced and children start to use the various apparatuses that promote many developmental areas primarily in the areas of fine motor, self-help, and cognitive development.
The senior pre-school camp prepares the children for becoming more independent and ready for a structured learning program. Becoming more independent is a process that starts with concentration and being able to follow instructions and directions. In senior pre-school the children develop the first steps of becoming self-sufficient.
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Junior Kindergarten Readiness
(All campuses)
This programme prepares students for Kindergarten by introducing them to a structured school environment. The JK programme provides opportunities for growth and development in the motor and social/emotional areas while focusing on the cognitive area. More specific, the program covers:
- Practical Life Skills (including care of self, care of the environment, gross and fine motor development, grace and courtesy)
- Social/emotional development (including increasing self-esteem and independence, interacting with others, following directions and structured classroom routine, co-operating and sharing, expressing oneself)
- Cognitive development (including increasing attention span, concentration, and learning different concepts such as numbers, colours, shapes, the alphabet, first phonics, sounds, etc.)
Children will develop an overall comfort with being in a school environment and will be able to start Kindergarten with ease.
Senior Kindergarten Readiness
(All campuses)
Students starting SK who did not attend JK the previous year will benefit from this programme as they are introduced to some of the key requirements and expectations set by the Ontario Curriculum in a safe and structured classroom environment. For students who attended JK the previous year, this programme will reinforce the concepts already introduced and enhance their readiness, while becoming more focused and independent learners. Throughout the programme the students will:
- Develop self-confidence and a feeling of belonging
- Interact and participate in group activities
- Learn to concentrate on a task and increase attention span,/li>
- Follow structured schedules and routines
- Co-operate and develop social skills
- Be introduced to language and mathematics, focusing on recognizing the letters of the alphabet and their phonetic sounds, printing their names, recognizing numbers, counting, and other basic language and mathematics exercises leading to reading, writing, and basic arithmetic
- Develop fine and gross motor skills through physical education, arts, crafts and music.
By Senior Kindergarten, students have developed lasting friendships and memories. Some children return each summer to the fun and unique experience they have had at a Rowntree summer camp. The students are stimulated in the morning program through structured work tutorials and enjoy the 'summer camp' atmosphere in the afternoon that allows the children to discover all that the program has to offer ranging from creative arts to science experiments and sports and water fun in-between while at the same time developing new social relationships and rekindling friendships from years past.
Grade One Readiness
(Academy campus only)
This programme will provide the student with the needed skills and a head start for a trouble free beginning and a successful completion of Grade One. This programme includes:
- Improvement of social skills, cooperation through group work, increase of self-esteem, and development of responsibility and independence
- Introduction to reading and writing through phonics
- Introduction of basic mathematics concepts including, addition and subtraction, time telling, understanding of money and measurement
- Development of sportsmanship, team work, physical fitness, as well as creativity through arts, crafts and music
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Enrichment/Tutorial Camp offering Academics, Sports, and Cultural Activities
Remedial Reading/Writing and Mathematics Tutorials
(Academy campus only)
Students who are experiencing language and/or mathematics difficulties will be able to enter an intensive reading, writing, and/or mathematics programme that focuses on their individual areas of weakness and assists them in dramatically increasing their skill level over a four week intensive period. Upon entry to these programmes, each student will be assessed and then placed in the appropriate remedial class. Weekly testing will be used to determine the student's progress and to establish priorities for the next week.
Academic Enrichment Programme
(Academy campus only)
The Academic Enrichment Programme is for students who have been achieving excellent academic success and who would like to take part in a programme that will enable them to develop enhanced language and scientific skills through a focus on higher level thinking processes, research, problem solving, and effective communication. Specially trained teachers will work with the students as they and the students co-plan their activities in order to reflect the interests and needs of the individual students.
Fun Afternoon Activities
Rowntree will be offering a host of fun activities for the campers to participate in. These activities will help them to develop many skills and teach them to become part of a team and have fun at the same time. The following week themes (in random order) will be offered in the Summer of 2009:
- Movie Magic
- Exploring Nature
- Carnival Craze
- Environ Challenge: Our Planet needs us!
- Embracing Diversity
- Fun "n" Sun
- Magical Music
- Fitness Frenzy
Fun Activities and field trips will be based in a theme and compliment each week. Campers will be able to go on a treasure hunt, go bowling, visit the Arboretum and the Peel Heritage complex, and be part of a Music workshop among others, depending on the week(s) that they come to the camp.
Please take notice that all information on the themes or activities is subject to change pending on the availability of the venues.
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