News From The Point

What a show! Last night the Seniors entertained us at Senior Night. Thanks for a great evening!

Senior Night is an evening that combines wonderful entertainment with organization and preparation of leadership skills for Peak year.  The Seniors must decide upon a show to perform as theater in the round.  The performance takes place in the Rec Hall.  A script for the evening is prepared and campers begin work on the play and the scenery.  The scenery is elaborate and challenging and tests the teamwork and time management of the seniors.  On the evening of the show, the camp enters through a grand entrance and is seated on blankets in the center of the Rec Hall. When it begins, the show unfolds all around the audience of campers staff.  At intermission refreshments are served to the campers and the show re-commences.  At the grand conclusion the campers depart and are each is presented with a memento of the evening.

Last night we experienced a walk down the red carpet for a movie premiere. It was film festival night and the movie was made here at Point O’Pines.

All of the girls worked so hard together to create a short series, “The Treasure Island Inside Me.” Just seven short weeks ago Group One kicked off the first episode with a girl receiving a letter, and since then another eleven groups have followed the story to create this twelve episode series. At the end, we applauded a great show, and we were so excited as awards were presented to the filmmakers.

Through the course of the summer, each camper has played a part in writing, casting, directing and editing their episodes, as well as creating props and sound tracks.

We are very proud of all the girls in video this year and look forward to seeing what the next Steven Spielbergs create in the future!

Yesterday campers were challenged by orienteering, a sport of cross-country navigation with map and compass.

As part of the advanced Wilderness, Adventure and Discovery (WAD) Hunger Games competition, the campers learned how to orient a map and use a compass to take bearings (compass directions). They then successfully completed an orienteering course that utilized their skills to navigate to locations around camp.

This week several happy campers finished building a “Huck Finn” style wooden raft that they had gleefully worked on for the past three weeks.

A team of campers, led by co-captains Peaker Jennie and Peaker Cori, worked together with a crew of Sailor Arielle, Sailor Lily and Sailor Gillian to develop the first POP log raft (that we have seen). The craft was made from logs reused from the farm and planks that had been the deck of the dining room.

The unique eight foot square raft, an advanced Wilderness Adventure and Discovery (WAD) project was launched and paddled with lots of joy and zest by the campers who were each given a sailor cap and a blue and white scarf for their enthusiastic efforts.  They even gave two small passengers a ride.