Camp Nuhop hosted new campers and their families Saturday for an orientation day designed to familiarize newcomers to our summer camp.
Family members listened to a short presentation from summer camp director Jason Picking, before breaking into smaller group discussions with counselors. Meanwhile campers enjoyed the outdoors by playing volleyball, creating arts and crafts, and walking to the beach with counselors.
Jason Picking, summer camp director, answers questions about summer camp
About 93 new campers and 123 of their family members joined us for the first, of what we hope will be many, wonderful experiences together. Thank you to those who joined us for orientation day! Your thoughtful questions encouraged us to create a frequently asked questions page to serve as a reference to some of your questions. We will add the FAQ page to the blog soon, so make sure to keep visiting!
If you participated Saturday, we’d love for you to share your thoughts by commenting on this post. Tell us what you thought about orientation day, what we did well, and what we could improve upon in the future.
Make sure to check out our Flickr site for a few photos from orientation day.
First, I think this blog is a great idea. As for orientation day, I can’t tell you how glad I was that I went. Because I am from pretty far away from camp, I was told I didn’t have to attend. Since this was the first year my son would be attending camp, I wanted to see what it was like.
The counselors were wonderful. They patiently answered everyone’s questions and did a lot to relieve some of my nervousness about sending my son to camp. I still cried when I dropped him off, but I felt comfortable and was impressed with the counselors and the Camp Nuhop program.
One future suggestion for orientation is to maybe go over what will happen on the first day when kids are brought to camp. As a first year parent, I wasn’t sure what to expect and the time to say good bye really snuck up on me. I didn’t think to ask that question on orientation day, and I wish I would have.
Thanks so much for your kind words and suggestion!
I have to second that the orientation day was wonderful! I was so confident about our decision to send our son to Camp Nuhop for the first time after that day. The questions were answered so patiently and were spot on what I had hoped to hear. It was interesting to me how many of us parents had the same concerns and insecurities about our children attending camp with their unique needs. I too would love to have known a little more about how the “drop-off” time would go. I think that I could have done a better job preparing my son and myself if I had known more.
I am enjoying the blog!