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Camp Information Guide Sparrow Lake United Church Camp, est. 1912 www.sparrowlakecamp.com Camp Information Guide All that you need to know as you prepare for the summer of 2017 In this guide: Page 2. The Sparrow Experience Page 3. Notes from the Health Team Welcome to S.L.C! Page 5. Packing for camp. We are thrilled that you have registered to join us for the summer of 2017 as Page 8. Getting to and from camp. we know that Sparrow Lake Camp is a truly enjoyable and enriching camp experience. Page 9. Contacting your child at camp. We hope that this information guide will be a useful tool to you and your Page 11. Notes from the Registrar family as you prepare for camp. We update the information in this guide every year to make it as current and relevant as possible to the summer’s camp experience. We know that there are a lot of questions to be answered, especially if this is your family’s first camp (or Sparrow Lake Camp) experience. We answer a lot of questions here, and also on the frequently asked questions section of our website. If you are still unsure about something, please do not hesitate to contact our registrar. We cannot wait to meet you and to share the spirit of camping with your family! pg. 3 The Sparrow Experience For more than 100 years we have been offering a safe, fun and thoroughly enriching camping experience. And we’re only just getting started. Welcome to Sparrow Lake Camp! Celebrating a 104 years of camping excellence, Sparrow is a traditional overnight camp focused on providing the best possible camping experience for every single camper. At the core of the Sparrow camping philosophy is the value we place on building community. Every summer we bring together a unique group of campers and staff to form a community where everyone is welcome. We are committed to creating an environment where it is safe to explore new boundaries and grow as an individual. The strength of our caring community allows us to protect the emotional and physical well being of all campers as they try new things, take risks and challenge themselves. The commitment to our cause of helping children grow in self-reliance and self-confidence on behalf of all staff, campers and board of directors is one of the reasons for our success. (continued on next page) A safe place to learn and grow Sparrow Lake Camp is greatest strength is its staff. committed to providing a Although we take great pride safe camping experience. in our facilities; it is the staff We meet and often exceed that make a child's summer. staff member is also all standards of the Ontario Staff are screened, references required to provide a Police Camping Association and are taken and personal Reference Check. All our the United Church of interviews are conducted to staff must participate in an Canada. ensure we hire staff who are intensive pre-camp training dedicated, caring and program of approximately Sparrow Lake Camp’s nurturing individuals. Each 100 hours. 2 The Sparrow Experience (cont…) Sparrow Lake is also a camp committed to providing all children and youth the opportunity to learn and grow in an outdoor environment. As a traditional camping program, ninety percent of Sparrow’s camp program takes place in the outdoors. We encourage all campers to take their time at camp as an opportunity to disconnect from their highly tuned in lives at home, and focus on the friendships and relationships here at camp. We also commit ourselves to educating campers on the importance and beauty of a natural outdoor environment. Through camping, Sparrow works to foster lifelong connections with and appreciation for the outdoors. At the foundation of this philosophy is undoubtedly the staff team. Our staff team, consisting of sixty exceptional individuals, who have for the most part, have been long time Sparrow Lake campers themselves. Our staff return to camp summer after summer because they truly believe in the power that camping can have on the life of every camper. They are young adults passionate about working with children and youth, passionate about providing quality care, and passionate about being a key component of every campers experience. These are individuals who believe their jobs are amongst the most important out there. Coming and sharing a session at Sparrow is the start of a wonderful experience and a new chapter in every camper’s life. The friendships, challenges and discoveries made at camp are life changing and serve to truly help individual campers discover in themselves the person that they have always wanted to be. Join us for our camp open house. Come visit us on July 1st from 1 to 4 pm at camp for our camp open house. Meet the staff, tour the property and take part in some traditional camp activities. 3 Notes from the Health Team At Sparrow Lake we pride ourselves on the quality of health care support that we are able to provide to our campers and staff. No one likes feeling under the weather at camp, so our Health team’s focus is on health promotion. They are out encouraging campers to stay hydrated, wear sunscreen, and get lots of sleep and to stay safe. Every session we have a your child so that you can care providers from trained health care provider reimburse the camp. administering allergy shots, on site who is available to Lice so please plan your child’s treat minor injuries, shots accordingly. dispense all prescription Caregivers should Alternate Dietary Needs medications, and have a thoroughly check their child’s hire for lice at least quiet and supportive chat if Please indicate any one week prior to and then need be. We also have a alternate dietary two days before camp. On nurse practitioner on call in information on the the first day of camp all Midland who visits the information and health campers are checked for camp occasionally during forms. Our Alternate Diets head lice. If lice or nits the camp session to do Cook will accommodate (eggs) are found the camper check ups and prescribe needs as indicated on the basic medications. If our will be sent home to be form. As we order food team feels that a child treated by the ahead of time we cannot needs further medical parent/caregiver. Before accommodate any alternate examination, we will make returning to camp, the dietary needs that are not arrangements for your camper must be free of on the forms or that are not child to be driven to Orillia both the live lice and nits. brought to our attention with a fully licensed staff There will not be a refund prior to the camp session. member. If a doctor or of camp fees for days of With some extreme diet nurse practitioner issues a camp missed. restrictions campers may be prescription we will pay for Allergy Shots asked to provide some of it, pick it up and send the Law prohibits our health their own foods to information home with supplement our menu. 4 Some important notes about medication Our health clinic directions for supplements – unless provides a limited range administration, the date prescribed by a doctor) of non-prescription the medication was will not be dispensed at medications to treat dispensed and the name camp. They will be minor conditions of the pharmacy. placed in locked storage Only medications Medications required and returned to your prescribed by a doctor for seasonal allergies child on the last day of are to be permitted at may be brought to camp camp. camp. Medication is to in the original seal All medication will be be in its original container with written stored in the camp clinic container as dispensed consent of in a locked container by the Pharmacist parent/guardian for the with the exception of clearly labeled with the camp to administer. medications for asthma child’s name, the name All other medication or severe allergies. of the medication, (including vitamin Our Nut and Alternate Diet Policies While we love to be able to (http://www.safe4kids.ca/c provide a completely nut free ontent/schools/safeschools. environment, it is impossible pdf) All our staff are for us to guarantee that the trained in responding to site is completely nut free. anaphylaxis and we have We make conscious decisions many epi-pens located all to not bring nuts onsite and over camp. Campers with to not buy products life threatening allergies are containing nuts; however it is also encouraged to carry becoming more and more their epi-pens with them at difficult to not have products all times. We have a that "may contain traces of designated alternate diets nuts". With so many campers cook who prepares all coming and going and not alternate diet meals always following our food (vegetarian, gluten free, food guidelines there are just too allergy) in a separate section many variables for us to of the kitchen using make a guarantee. Our completely different cooking decision about not having a pans and implements than "nut-free" designation was the rest of camp to avoid made in consultation with food contamination. Please the Anaphylaxis Canada, visit our website for more which also acknowledges the details on our Alternate unfortunate impossibility of Diets Policy true "nut-free" designations. 5 Packing for your time at camp Sparrow Lake Camp is all about getting outdoors and enjoying the wonders of nature! As such, your child will need all types of clothing to be sure that they are prepared for the weather at camp.
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