What about Parent Helpers?

School camps and any camp for that matter are great times where teachers see the best come out in their students and where the class room becomes the world around us. The parents of your students can be a great part of this and in our experience it is those parent helpers that can make, or sometimes break a camp.

We advise schools to select their parent helpers for school camp carefully, in order to get the most out of camp, for the students as well as for the adults.

Below are two links; The first one will take you to our Activity Action Plan page. This page contains each activity in an easy downloadable format, ideal for camp parent booklets. You can also find it by going to the “Camps” tab and clicking on booking info and then Health and Safety downloads.

The other form can help you select the parent helpers you need for camp. We encourage schools to “hand pick “parents instead of a “first in first serve” attitude. Not all parents are created equally.

Google forms and Excel survey in Office 365 are very useful tools in building a form that parents can fill out on line and submit. It will also allow you to collect the submitted data automatically in an excel sheet and compare the statistics. Those days where you had to rely on a student to get the parent sign up form to his/her mum or dad or well with this technology. If you are not sure how to create a form simply go to U tube and use one of the bold headings above.

• Parent sign up template
• Safe Action Plan page