Ages: Girls entering Grades 5-8*
Format: Two one-week sessions with a Thursday night campout.
Location: Laurel’s Butler Campus in Novelty**
Session 1 (one week): July 8-July 12 - $625
Session 2 (one week): July 15-July 19 - $625
Time: 9:00 am-4:00 pm, with a Thursday overnight
Laurel School knows girls best! Backed by research from Laurel’s Center for Research on Girls, this unique day camp experience (with one overnight) is designed so that pre-teen girls will reach outside their comfort zones, build resilience and outdoor survival skills, and embrace new challenges—individually and in group situations. Daily experiences will introduce new and exciting adventures on our 150-acre Butler Campus, which features biking and hiking trails and an exciting Project Adventure Ropes Course that fosters creative problem solving, encourages girls to use their voice and builds self-confidence through improved communication skills. Exciting field trips focused on specific skills, like rock climbing, bike riding on trails and kayaking will enhance the week and provide enough risk and challenge for girls to learn to handle a healthy amount of stress and discomfort in controlled situations. Campers should be ready to spend Thursday night in a group tent in the woods on Laurel’s breathtaking Butler Campus. Texts that inspired this incredible opportunity:
Untangled and
Under Pressure by Lisa Damour,
Gutsy Girl by Caroline Paul and
Wolfpack: How Young People Will Find Their Voice, Unite Their Pack, and Change the World by Abby Wambach.
*Campers must be comfortable riding a bike and swimming. New this year, bicycles will be provided to all campers, for use during camp, from our Butler Bike Fleet of 80+ Giant mountain bikes. Campers will be assigned a bike at the beginning of their session, but each camper must provide her own helmet. If a camper would like to bring their own bicycle, they must be dropped off at the Butler campus on the first day of the camp session and picked up on the last day of the camp session. Each camper will also need to bring her own sleeping bag and sleeping pad.**Shuttle service from Laurel’s Lyman Campus to the Butler Campus is available for an additional fee.