hat happens when fifty spirited and involved students from Glebe Collegiate spend three days at a camp alongside the Rideau River? Leadership Camp 2000 (LC2K)...and it was a huge success.
For the past eight years, students from Glebe have been given the opportunity to improve their leadership skills at a camp run by senior students. This year Rebecca Albert, Adam Cygler, Chris Wilson and I organised the camp, putting in many hours of planning from June until September.
Students from grades nine to twelve attended LC2K in mid-September at Rideau Hill Camp, a beautiful camp made up of open fields, dining and rec halls and a circle of cozy cabins.
The days were full of activities, learning sessions and games, as well as planning and brainstorming for the school year. Delegates were divided into smaller groups for seven important sessions such as "Communication" and "Group Dynamics", allowing each of them to contribute to group discussions. These groups also took turns cooking and cleaning for the entire group of fifty hungry and hyper teenagers.
Larger group activities concentrated on important skills such as trust to help build a close networkof students. Nights were filled with entertaining activities such as Commandoes through the woods, Mud Sliding, Puddle Jumping and British Bulldog in the rain.
LC2K creates a group of dedicated students known as SOSAS (Students of Service and Spirit). This core of people will have a positive influence on school spirit and be another resource for student leaders needed at dances and Student Council events. It is very likely that these students will be able to give a hand to the community and parent volunteers who have stepped forward to help our school this fall.
Our camp was able to take place thanks to the wonderful volunteers who accompanied us for a "three-day, all inclusive, rustic holiday", complete with out-houses, lack of showers and camp food.
Thanks to all those who attended for their enthusiasm, hard work and play. "LCXers" managed to consume twenty-five desserts for twenty-five people, survive the rain and cold, and still come out with an incredible three day experience that none of us will ever forget. Some students went home afterwards saying they had never had so much fun in their life and that it was the best thing they had ever done for themselves and for good old Glebe.