33 E. 33rd Street Indianapolis, IN 46205 (317) 926 - 0425
SUMMER PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
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Early Drop-Off & Late Pick-Up Available Twice Weekly Swim Lessons & Free Swim Weekly Theme Based Field Trips Active Outdoor Summer Curriculum Academic Review and Thematic Learning Special Neighborhood Partnerships A Variety of Specialty Camps
DRAGON DAY CAMP OPTIONS 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
• Rising Grade 1 – Grade 4 • Rising Grade 5 – Grade 8 • Specialty Camps (see descriptions) CAMP EXTENSION OPTIONS • Early Care 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM • After Care 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
WHY ST. RICHARD’S SUMMER CAMP!
St. Richard’s summer camp is the place to be during the summer! The goal of SRES summer camp is to provide opportunities for children to try new activities, socialize, learn and practice skills, and have fun. Our summer camp program reflects the school’s values by designing weeklong camps rooted in learning. We also recognize that summer is a time for children to relax and explore new adventures. We value the individual interests of each child, allowing each camper the opportunity to experience success. Weekly sessions provide children with enriching activities and give you peace of mind that their summer will be spent in a nurturing and safe environment. Our trained summer administrative staff designs all activities and field trips with your camper in mind.
ENROLLMENT
Please keep in mind that many of our camps have minimum and maximum enrollment numbers. Enrollment is on a first-come first-served basis and cannot be reserved without a completed camp enrollment form and full payment. In the event that a camp reaches maximum capacity, your child will be placed on a waiting list. Enrollment for all camps closes one week prior to the start of camp. Although we will do our best to accommodate everyone, space cannot be guaranteed. Checks made out to St. Richard’s Episcopal School should be mailed to St. Richard’s Summer Camp at 33 E. 33rd Street Indianapolis, IN 46205. Enrollment forms and pricing information are available at www.sresdragons.org
A Closer Look… OUR DRAGON PROGRAM Summer 2018 is quickly approaching and we are gearing up for fun at St. Richard’s Dragon Day Camp! Campers new and old won’t want to miss out on classic favorites and some new and exciting camp offerings! Our summer curriculum is composed of weekly themes to offer children a new and exciting experience each week. Each theme features specially designed field trips, games, crafts, and academic enrichment activities designed specifically with each child’s age group in mind. Weekly themes provide many unique learning opportunities for our campers. Campers won’t even realize they are learning; they will be having so much fun! For example, our Time Travelers theme provides the opportunity to experience different decades throughout history and what it was like to be a kid during those times. We will travel to Connor Prairie and recreate games and events from years past! We round out our days with traditional day camp activities such as swimming and water games, sports, team-building activities, and outdoor adventures. It is an experience they won’t want to miss!
NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIPS
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, only three blocks south of SRES, is a convenient and popular resource for all grades. Through the museum’s School Membership program, St. Richard’s campers can visit the museum on an unlimited basis and take advantage of its worldwide educational resources.
The Riviera Club is home to SRES campers swimming lessons, Junior Kindergarten (age 4) and up. Their team of aquatic instructors will be working with our campers to help develop strong, confident swimmers. Additionally, there will be time to explore the outdoor water playground with five pools and 1.2 million gallons of water.
DRAGONS Rising Grades 1 – 4 Students Rising Grades 5 – 8 Students ** denotes weeks that contain only 4 camp days due to holidays Week 1: June 4-8 The Great Outdoors Field Trip: Camp Belzer Nature lovers will spend the week hiking, creek stomping, exploring the great outdoors and doing crafts and activities!
Week 2: June 11 - 15 Summer Safari Field Trip: Indianapolis Zoo Hold onto your binoculars as we explore all about animals! Animal themed games, small group scavenger hunts at the zoo, and a visit from Silly Safaris will top off our week!
Week 3: June 18 - 22 Sports Spectacular Field Trip: The Children’s Museum Try your hand at sports, both old and new! Learn about fitness, nutrition, and how to use sports in your everyday life!
Week 4: June 25 - 29 Color Wars Field Trip: Holliday Park Join us for five days of ridiculous fun! Red and green dragon teams race, cheer, and play their way to the title championship!
Week 5: July 2 – 6** Party in the USA Field Trip: Morse Beach Start your 4th of July celebrations early! Enjoy red, white and blue games, all American cookout and parade, and more patriotic fun!
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Fee: $200 Early and After Care Options Available
Week 6: July 9 - 13 Game Show Mania Field Trip: Sky Zone Come on down! Your child could be the next contestant on Game Show Mania! During this fun and exciting week, campers will participate in playing child-versions of the most popular TV game shows from past and present.
Week 7: July 16 - 20 Survivor Camp Field Trip: Broad Ripple Park Outwit. Outplay. Outlast. Compete in daily challenges testing your mental and physical strength in this week long tribal adventure to be the ultimate SRES Survivor Tribe.
Week 8: July 23 - 27 Time Travelers Field Trip: Conner Prairie Has your child ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time? Come experience activities that traverse the ages! Dino digs, gold rush, sock hops, and so much more…
Week 9: July 30 – August 3 Crazy Kids Carnival Field Trip: Hoosier Heights Come one come all to the SRES Crazy Kids Carnival! Put your campers’ talents to the test as they explore juggling, magic tricks, balloon animals and more! They won’t want to miss dunking their counselors at the carnival!
Week 10: August 6 - 10 Field Trip Frenzy! Field Trip: Eagle Creek Marina It’s the last week of summer so the campers are going out with a bang! We will take field trips every day and enjoy the amazing things the city has to offer!
WEEK 2: JUNE 11th – 15th
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French Cooking by Ms. Megan Burger Grades 1 - 4 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$250
Campers will have fun while learning how to make a variety of classic French foods. Each day campers will learn about the history and origins of traditional French food. Then they will have the opportunity to prepare and sample their creations. Campers will learn the French vocabulary for the various ingredients, as well as cooking vocabulary. In addition, they will learn basic cooking skills, kitchen safety, and more. Some of the traditional French foods we will prepare include crêpes, baguettes (with cheese), madelines, croque monsieurs, ratatouille and croissants. Students will also learn to prepare galettes des rois, tarte aux pommes, mousse au chocolat, and more! _______________________________________________________________________________________
Minecraft: Traveling into the Future by Engineering for Kids
Grades 2 - 5
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$250
This camp will immerse campers in the expansive world of Minecraft EDU and will challenge campers’ ingenuity and problem solving skills as they navigate through several engineering challenges. Campers will learn how to problem solve, use teamwork, and manage resources like an engineer, all in this great digital interface! Campers will be using 3D Doodle Pens to design and create some of their favorite Minecraft characters, items, and even a bobble head! Campers will explore taking their designs from 2D to 3D!!
WEEK 3: JUNE 18th – 22nd S.T.E.M. & Art Incredible Adventures by The Art Lab Grades K - 8 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM $250
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Robotics in the Real World & Out of this World! by Engineering for Kids
Grades 2 - 5
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$250
Robotics in the Real World curriculum is designed to introduce students to how robots can be used in the real world! Engineers will adapt and program their robots to contain an oil spill, perform surgery, explore dangerous worlds, and of course play games!! During Out of this World, students will explore three fields of engineering: aerospace, civil, and chemical. Collaborating with their teams, engineers will design and construct a variety of projects that will enable all humans to safely inhabit the moon. _______________________________________________________________________________________
Games, Games, Games by Mr. Jeff Gramman Grades 4 – 9 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$225
What’s your favorite game? Risk? Monopoly? Chess? Clue? Whatever it is, we’ll play it. Campers are encouraged to bring their favorite board game to camp, and we will explore new games and learn strategies to play our favorite games better. Don’t worry, campers will still go outside to play games we love and learn new games that require teamwork and cooperation. Finally, campers will have a tournament to find out who is the ultimate Game Master!
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Discover the world of art in all its forms and how it connects to the world around us: geology and clay, wind power and kites, artistic robots and circuitry, catapults, recycled records and care for our environment. Learn something new everyday with multiple projects. Clay, records, paints, fabric and so much more will be used to create art and thought. Campers will have 2 morning swim times and a field trip to explore found objects with clay. Some items will be make-and-take and some will be fired and delivered about 3-4 weeks after camp to the school for pickup.
WEEK 4: JUNE 25th – 29th Mathematical Problem Solving, Critical Thinking & Giving by Mr. Zimbelman
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Grades 4 - 8
9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$225
Word problems and problem-solving often pose a daunting challenge to math students of all ages and leave students frustrated. In some cases, this even leads to students believing they are not good at math or not enjoying math. During this camp, students will consistently engage with fun, hands-on, activity-based math challenges. These challenges will be designed to get students to have fun with math while developing critical thinking and problem solving skills and strategies. This camp will be designed to differentiate for varying student ages (between incoming 4th and incoming 8th) and levels. In addition, students will have a few community service projects that integrate math problem solving. This promises to be a fun and educational week! ___________________________________________________________________________________
Royalty Camp by the SRES Summer Camp Staff Grades 1 - 4 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$250
Hear ye, Hear ye! Come one, come all! By royal command, all of the princes and princesses in the land are cordially invited to Sir Richard’s Castle to celebrate the always popular royalty camp! Spend the week delving into the world of royalty with fairy tales and the Disney princes and princesses. Enjoy tea parties, fun crafts, and spa treatments. Each day is filled with elegant adventures! Come join us at the St. Richard’s Castle for a week of glamour, pampering, and glitz that you will not want to miss! Campers don’t forget to wear your favorite princess dress or special attire!
WEEK 6: JULY 9th – 13th Fashion Design by The Art Lab Grades K - 4 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$250
Always popular Fashion Design Camp is new and improved for grades Kindergarten – Grade Four. Fashionistas can return for new projects and design challenges. A mix of fun and adventure, this camp will take trips to The Indianapolis Museum of Art and swim with Big Dragon’s camp. Projects will range from costumes influenced by different cultures to bedazzled purses. Campers will stencil, stamp and transform fabrics and create three complete fashion looks for an end of camp runway show. _______________________________________________________________________________________
Karate Dodgeball by Jeanie Gensheimer Martial Arts Grades K - 4 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM $250 Karate is a fun and exciting form of martial arts. Students will learn karate basics, kata and forms, self-defense, sparring and develop flexibility while gaining respect for self and others. Students will begin as a white belt (unless they have previous training) and earn stripes to progress in the belt ranks. Agility will be developed in karate dodge ball games (including 'Artic, Medic, Quidditch, Island, Free for All, Team and other fun dodge ball games). This camp will be the MOST fun your child has all summer long. _______________________________________________________________________________________
Roller Coaster Camp by Chris Yonan Grades 6 – 9 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$525
The biggest hit of the summer is back! Let Chef Chris and his complete set of chaperones lead campers to all the places parents might dread going! Kids can let loose and have a blast visiting places like Six Flags, Cedar Point, and other area adventures. The best part is that parents stay home and relax for the entire trip! Campers and chaperones will spend four nights away from home exploring Ohio’s greatest theme parks. Our itinerary includes the following: Monday – Kings Island, Tuesday through Thursday – Cedar Point, Friday – Beach Trip. Certain height requirements apply. Park admission fees, transportation, and overnight accomodations are included.
WEEK 7: JULY 16th – 20th Fused Glass and Pottery Animal Explorers by The Art Lab Grades K - 8 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM $250 Create awesome works of art with clay and glass! Create turtles and habitats, owls in a tree, pigs on a farm and so much more! Explore the details of creating with the combination of clay and glass. All items are made from scratch. Every child will have a chance to use the pottery wheel. Campers will have 2 morning swim times and a field trip to explore found objects with clay. Some items will be make-and-take and some will be fired and delivered about 3-4 weeks after camp to the school for pickup. _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Harry Potter by The SRES Summer Camp Staff Grades 1 - 8 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$225
Enter into the magical world of Harry Potter. During this magical week students will be sorted into one of four noble Hogwarts houses and spend the week competing for the House Cup. Throughout the week campers will immerse themselves into the magical world through food and drink, classes, trivia, and more! Students explore Potions, Care of Magical Creatures, Herbology, and many more subjects. Daily games of Quidditch and mysteries to solve will make this an unforgettable magical experience they won’t want to miss!
WEEK 8: JULY 23rd – 27th Fashion Design by The Art Lab Grades 3 - 8 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$250
Always popular Fashion Design Camp is new and improved for grades Three – Eight. Fashionistas can return for new projects and design challenges. A mix of fun and adventure this camp will take trips to Jo Ann Fabrics and The Salvation Army and swim with Big Dragon’s camp. Campers will stencil, stamp and transform fabrics and create three complete fashion looks for an end of camp runway show. During this week campers will get an introduction to the sewing machine and use it to complete shorts or shirt and crazy tops.
Super Sensory Science by Mrs. AmySue Bacon Grades JK – 2 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
$225
Calling all scientists! Calling all kids who love to get messy! Join Mrs. Bacon for a week of sensory adventures with science connections. Campers will conduct experiments that explore, stretch, and use the seven senses: sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, vestibular (balance), and proprioception (joint movement and physical space). Campers will learn how sensory input can help the world around them while playing, building, observing, and using the scientific method. _______________________________________________________________________________________
Adventure Camp by The SRES Summer Camp Staff Grades 5 - 8 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM $250 Join us for a week full of daring adventures! Campers will embrace the outdoors as they go hiking, canoeing and kayaking. They will spend a day testing their courage at the Koteewi Aerial Park on their high ropes zip line course. Climbing at Hoosier Heights, paintball and go karting will round out an amazing adventure filled week!
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WEEK 9: JULY 30th – AUGUST 3rd Strategy Games Camp by Learning Through Games Grades K – 8 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM $225 Chess? Checkers? Risk or Stratego? What about the Chinese game of GO? Or even Bughouse Chess? This is a camp that teaches decision making and math through the fun of these great games. Outdoor and gym activities will take place during breaks. Taught by the locally famous Learning through Games Group. _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Robo RIOT and Video Game Design! by Engineering for Kids Grades 2 - 5 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM $250 This LEGO® robotics class gives engineers control over the robot, in the palm of their hand! As a team, they will create a wireless controller to drive their robots against an opponent in challenge-based arenas. Engineers will build a kicker to compete in a Motorball tourney, program a color sensor to detect and capture colored bricks in the Block Buster challenge, and much more! All this leads up to the Danger Zone, a pure, face-to-face battle that will test what they have learned during camp! Each day the teams are paid, in Riot coins, for participation in the arenas. These funds are used the next day to upgrade their robots for the next arena! Welcome to Robo Riot!! Video games are everywhere and in almost every form one can imagine! In Electronic Game Design: Platform Games, engineers will create their own platform video game! Students will program characters and a 2D obstacle course in a side-scrolling, Mariotype world. Game characters will overcome enemies and reach an end goal on multiple levels. At the end of the class, everyone takes home a working Windows-compatible game (ClickTeam Fusion 2.5® does not support Mac or Android operating systems). Campers should bring a flash drive to take home their game!!
ABOUT ST. RICHARD’S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
The mission of St. Richard’s, an independent Episcopal day school, is to instill knowledge and values for a lifetime through the implementation of our Five Pillars for Success: Faith, Classic Curriculum, Leadership, Civic Responsibility, and Global Readiness. Located at 33rd and Meridian Streets, just north of downtown Indianapolis, SRES offers unique partnerships throughout the city that bring learning to life, a rigorous academic curriculum, three world languages, public speaking and leadership opportunities, a strong fine arts program and organized athletics for continued lifetime success. • 362 students, PK-Grade 8 • Average class size: 15 • Average of $1,000,000 distributed in financial assistance annually • 34 countries of origin • Faiths represented: Episcopalian (9%), Catholic(20%) non-identified/nondenominational (37%),Jewish, Hindu, Buddhism, and 13 Christian denominations • Diverse Student Population (62% Caucasian, 26% African American, 3% Multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Hispanic, 1% Filipino, 1% Indian, and 2% unidentified)
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CAMP QUESTIONS For camp related questions about our Dragon Day Camp or Specialty Camps, please contact: (317) 926-0425 ext. 103 or dragondaycamp@sresdragons.org