10 Ways Students Can Enjoy Their Summer Camp

Education doesn’t have to be confined within the classroom for it to be meaningful. As an educator, you want your students to be engaged so that you aren’t just lecturing to the wind.

Keeping your students engaged can be challenging during the warmer season. This is when you should take your students out of the classroom and on a trip.

If you’re trying to figure out ways on how you can take your students to a trip outside of the classroom, then you should consider hosting or organizing a summer camp.

There are already plenty of school trips in the Philippines revolving around zoos or museums, so going on a summer camp with your students will be unique and offer a lot more different and learning experiences for your students. 

If you’re still not convinced here are ten ways on how you can make summer camp enjoyable for your students:

Choose the Right Campsite

When you take your students to go outdoor camping, you should first make sure that you take them to the right campsite. You want to make sure that the campsite is both safe and clean for your students, like those campsites available in Quest Adventure Camp.

You also want to make sure that the campsite has enough space for all of your students to fit in, as well as your staff members.

If the campsite isn’t up to par, then your students might not enjoy their summer camp. Therefore it is important that you research the right campsite for your trip.

Encourage Them to Unplug

Your students live in a world where they are constantly in front of screens and devices. No matter where they are, your students are likely going to experience or be somewhere near some form of an electronic device.

Since the rest of the world is already encouraging your students to be in front of the screen, you should encourage them to unplug sometimes by organizing this trip. 

Your students need to appreciate nature more, and you want them to learn how to entertain themselves without being in front of any gadget.

Although you should remind your students to bring their phones with them, you should encourage them to unplug during camp activities at the very least.

Allow Friends to Bond

The biggest reason why a summer camp will be enticing to your students is that it’s an opportunity to hang out with their friends outside of school.

It will help them build memories with the people that they like the most, which they can cherish for the rest of their lives. 

It enables your students to be closer to their friends without having to focus on schoolwork too much. 

Encourage New Friendships

Aside from letting your students enjoy their summer camp by bonding with their already established groups, it also opens up the opportunity for other students to mingle with fellow students who are outside of their peers.

The summer camp is a great atmosphere for your students to find new friendships.

Teach Valuable Life Skills

There are certain lessons in life that you won’t be able to learn in the classroom and don’t have a formal lesson plan. These practical life skills are underrated and are skills that they might need in other aspects of their lives when they grow up.

The best time and space to teach your students valuable life skills outside of the classroom is during a summer camp trip.

Encourage New Interests

Camping isn’t the most popular way for a lot of schools in the Philippines to hold a summer trip but it is important that your students learn to develop new interests in life.

Helping your students get out of their comfort zone while they’re in a safe space will teach them to do the same for the rest of their lives.

This can help encourage them to try out new interests without fear of failure or of the unknown.

Set Time for Breaks

Organizing a summer camp trip for your students is best held during or after a stressful month or week for your students.

Sometimes your students need a mental break from school work so that they can be their best once they come back to it. Organizing a summer camp trip is just the break that your students will need. 

Encourage Nature Appreciation

There are plenty of beautiful sites all over the Philippines that your students should know about and should learn to appreciate. If they’re stuck in front of their screens all the time, then they might not learn to appreciate the nature around them.

By organizing a summer camp, they will come face-to-face with nature and spend hours basking in the beauty of nature. 

Study the Stars

For your students to develop an interest in astronomy, you might want to set up a way for them to observe the stars. Of course, this requires you to have a little bit of knowledge about the stars as well, so you should definitely do your research before the trip. 

Let Go of Judgements

Summer camp isn’t the time for your students to be graded and to be judged by their teachers. It is a time to relax and to appreciate nature, as well as learn things at a more relaxed pace.

Therefore as a teacher or school event organizer, you should make sure that you are also relaxed and that you don’t judge your students too much. 

Conclusion

Let your students enjoy a school trip outside of the usual aquariums and zoos by holding a summer camp trip. From developing new interests to learning valuable life skills, a summer camp is something valuable that your students would appreciate.

If you’re interested in organizing a summer camp for your students, then you should contact Quest Adventure Camp for any school event inquiries that you may have. Have a safe and enjoyable trip!