Magdalen Court School
Summer Camp

Letters & Info @ bottom of page

Summer Camp

We run a camping trip each year for our junior pupils, usually this is to to a local campsite at Dawlish Warren, but we also go to Escot Education Centre, just outside Ottery St Mary. It's so successful we split the stay & run a camp for the older pupils to.

Purpose

It is aimed at those pupils who have not undertaken a school residential trip, & as such is intended to help them make the first steps in developing their self reliance & independence.

Residential trips & courses give the pupil an opportunity to discover elements about themselves which in a normal day environment they don’t have the same opportunity to experience. Such skills as interpersonal skills with their peers & adults, how their behaviour & attitudes affect other people & working as part of a team.

It must be realised that many of these skills are life long skills, things we hone & improve right the way through our life. Education is a life long process & this camp is a FUN time for these pupils to explore & learn.

Some pupils will have been before with us, & that is fine, each camp brings its own little challenges & opportunities & each pupil is treading along their own individual learning path.

Letters & Info

Summer Camp

• First Letter
• Summer Camp Group e-mail communications
• Code of Conduct
• What to take

  • Junior Group; what to take, updated June 2015
  • Senior Group; what to take updated June 2015
• Sun Smart letter
• Guide Lines for Supporting Adults on School Trips
• Web sites:

  • Lady's Mile Campsite
  • Dawlish Warren
  • Haldon Forest
  • Sea Sport Southwest (sailing school)
  • The Rock Centre (Rock climbing & High Ropes Course)
  • Saddles & Paddles (cycle Hire, Exeter Quay)
  • Devon Cycle Hire (cycle Hire, Haldon Woods)
  • Go Ape (High ropes course at Haldon Woods)