Posts Categorised by 'Green Group'
Green & Yellow Groups: Language Learning & Sports Tournament!
19th July 2021
With the morning sun shining bright over the Camp Suisse centre in Torgon, the senior campers began their day with the first class of language lessons of the session. Unlike the typical school setup, the spectacular views of the soaring Swiss mountains provided the backdrop for their outdoor classroom as the students learned about all things related to the international cultures of their classmates through the target language. In the advanced English class, each student shared facts regarding their families, interests and future plans and found out that they had more in common with each other than had initially anticipated. The campers made their way back from the outdoor classroom to the centre in time to enjoy a delicious warm lunch of hot dogs and salad cooked fresh from the kitchen.
After lunch the greens and yellows trekked to the football pitch for a sports tournament with a twist! Eight teams led by the group leaders battled it out with three-legged football, tennis-baseball, ultimate frisbee, and hockey. Greta gave her all on the footy pitch, while Hannah P excelled in in the ultimate frisbee. We witnessed thunderous smacks of the ball on the rounders bat, particularly when Mohammed stepped up to the mark. Nico was a real team player, keeping his team spirits up during hockey. Pablo and Vasily kept good rhythm during three-legged football and hobbled to victory for Suus’ team. It was Joan’s team who ultimately clinched victory in an epic moo-off.
The campers await an evening of rhythm and rhyme in one of the most popular evening activities- Junkyard Band! And an early wake-up tomorrow for the Glacier…
Hugh Duffy & Aisling Vaughan-Witts, Group Leaders
Green & Yellow Groups: Parc Aventure
18th July 2021
Today the greens and yellows all spent the day at Parc Aventure. The campers enjoyed swinging through the forrest’s skyline and pushing themselves to the limit with their agility and balance. Matthew whizzed around the high ropes whilst Sasha and Jasmine developed a newfound love for climbing. Louise and Jojo pushes themselves and did the climbing wall and tried the drop. The campers also completed a language test and will start their lessons tomorrow.
– Floriane Day
“And I will walk 500 miles!”
17th July 2021
Today our campers had the most tremendous day hiking to FRANCE ! What a day they had going up chair lifts and hiking to their hearts content.
Today was also the new arrival day, which stirred up some excitement between campers that are staying and staff. Campers have had the opportunity to mingle and get to know the new arrivals, which is all extremely exciting! Tonight the campers will be introduced to a number of team building activities and ice breakers to get everybody chatting and introduced to new cultures and ways of life.
– Lauren, Group Leader
Green & Yellow Groups: Prepping for Prom!
15th July 2021
The greens and yellows spent another great day at camp. With the rainy weather persisting, they spent the morning either on the climbing wall with Shane, making friendship bracelets and prom decorations with Hannah, or inventing ping pong trick shots (Rube Goldberg style) with Cian.
Simona and Rea were particularly inventive with the trick shots, and we managed to get many successful shots filmed!
After some lunch, the green group set off from the centre to Torgon suspension bridge! Though the weather was not perfect, spirits remained high as Jasmine conquered her fear of heights- cheered on by the rest of the green campers.
Back at camp, the yellows enjoyed a competitive game of 5-a-side football.
The greens and yellows reunited for a lively game of bench hockey, where sticks were clashing and balls were flying! The clear stars of the game were Ombeline and Dannika- defending their benches dutifully, and scoring with skill and precision!
The campers then packed their bags and put on their best clothes ready for prom night- we are looking forward to a brilliant final night ahead, Hawaiian style!
– Mary Brown, Group Leader
Green & Yellow Groups: Olympic Museum
14th July 2021
Today the Greens and Yellows made the journey to Lausanne, ‘The Capital of the Olympics’. The campers got to visit the International Olympic Museum which was very exciting! There was so much interesting exhibits from the origins of the ancient Greek Olympics to the importance of Sports Manga (Japanese comics). There was also plenty of interactive games to test our sports skills and many ways to see how Olympic athletes push themselves to the maximum of human ability. Of course it was Ana’s birthday yesterday and celebrations were had all together in the local restaurant, Caprins. All in all, a fun and educational day was had by all the campers!
– Sam Kelly, Group Leader
Green & Yellow Groups: Art Jamming, Climbing, and Chocolate! 🧗♂️🍫🎨
13th July 2021
On a misty and cold morning in Torgon, the Yellow Group awoke to a morning full of colour and creativity whilst art jamming. After lunch, with three elective activities to chose from, the Yellow group campers were racing up the climbing wall, breaking a sweat playing football and tuning into their inner Picasso making decorations for the highly anticipated prom night.
Meanwhile, the Greens group set off on an epicurean adventure to the Cailler Chocolate Factory and later to the town of Gruyères for some cheese. Aurel, Alex and particularly enjoyed the chocolate factory whilst Pietro, Yiannos and Themistocles indulged in fondue.
The campers really made the most of the winter temperatures today!
– Floriane Day, Group Leader
Green & Yellow Groups: Languages and Ultimate Survivor!
12th July 2021
The day started off a little calm after the excitement of last night’s big match! Despite the few tired eyes this morning, it was another fantastic day at Camp Suisse! The Greens and Yellows started off with language lessons; it was the final rehearsal before the big karaoke tomorrow night! The French class is ready to sing ‘Ramnez la coupe à la maison’ and ‘Dans le jungle’ of Lion King. The English classes are prepared with Shakira and Shawn Mendez.
After a hotdog and salad lunch, the Greens and Yellows headed off to the woods for Ultimate Survivor; one of our newly developed activity sessions that teaches the campers to overcome physical, mental and team challenges, all wrapped up in our realistic immersive scenarios.
The campers discovered their survival scenario, planned their survival strategy, and learnt survival essentials: they lit a fire from the sticks they found in the forest, then built fantastic shelters to protect themselves from the elements, and finally they filtered and purified water and took part in a first aid activity.
All in all a great day!
– Hannah Parry, Group Leader
Green Group Move Mountains while the Yellow Group visit the Chocolate Factory and Gruyères
11th July 2021
This morning the Green group worked on their team building skills, as they headed into the Torgon forest for ‘Moving Mountains’. A brand new activity for this year, campers have to work together to overcome games and challenges, all whilst using their orienteering skills to find their way across the forest. All teams worked hard to avoid the penalty for not completing a task – a blindfold! At the end of the morning, the campers met on the football pitch for a race on the Giant Skis to conclude a great morning of challenges. In the afternoon they designed some sculptures before working on their calligraphy skills in Art Jamming.
Meanwhile, the Yellow Group enjoyed one of the most popular Camp Suisse excursions – the Cailler Chocolate Factory! As part of their language tuition course, they took part in a language quiz about the history of the Cailler brand, before getting to taste the goods in the sample room. The afternoon activity took them to the ancient town of Gruyères, with its imposing stone walls and medieval castle. A great afternoon of exploring and cheese tasting was had by all.
– Louis Brown, Group Leader
Green & Yellow Groups: Camp Suisse Olympics
10th July 2021
Today the campers got to experience the epic challenges and triumphs of the Camp Suisse Olympics! Each team were assigned a country and each embraced their nationality for the games with creativity. They made chants, a painted poster and wore the flags of their respective teams.
The Games included a water obstacle course in which Claire and Marie really shined. Mexico and Greece took places on the podium. Celia, Pastora and Matteo were some of the many campers who were rewarded for their efforts with prizes.
The ceremony ended like it started with the lighting of the torch and the chanting of the songs the teams created. Ghana sung their song beautifully with Zora and Jasmine taking the lead.
– Megan Carey, Group Leader
Green & Yellow Groups: A day of Adventure, Art and Archery!
9th July 2021
The senior campers started this morning with language classes. The Spanish and English classes enjoyed an educational walk, while the French class learnt all about different forms of transport and played an awesome drawing game based on ‘Among Us’, where they had to root out the imposter artist amongst them!! They also had their final rehearsal for the great karaoke performance, taking place next week: we have Lion King, Shakira and Stromae on the agenda, which they are really looking forward to performing to their peers!
After a delicious panini lunch, we set out for the afternoon activities. The Yellow group learnt all about shelter building in the forest, which was super fun! They also took part in Camp Suisse ‘Art Jamming’ where they recreated some local artwork.
The Greens, meanwhile, enjoyed an afternoon of archery. Our archers played an awesome ‘predict the future’ game where the arrows accounted for the different destinations and types of travel. For example 3 arrows in the bulls eye meant a 5* holiday in Australia while an arrow on the outer ring meant staying in a cardboard box in Antarctica!
– Hannah Parry, Group Leader
