VSF Camp 7 – Age 8/13
« Séjour Nature et Découverte »
Immersion Ratio (per group): 20 French campers / 3 Foreign campers
DDates
JULY 8 – 17, 2024
JULY 8 – 27, 2024
T Camp Tuition
10 DAYS: 2760 €
20 DAYS: 3720 €
Camp Theme
Arriving at the ideally chosen site (big trees, rocks), the children are going to receive special instructions for their mission:
From an existing structure of platforms settled in the trees (2 meters from the ground maximum), campers will be able to freely and safely build their huts!
The children will be divided into teams and each team will have 2 or 3 days to build a hut using the same materials and equipment (nets, ropes etc…). A specific name will be dedicated to each team and to every house. The teams will build their shelters separately but in the end they will group together to form a small community of huts …
Together they build « LA CITE DES CABANES «
Activities
Construction :
The first few days will be dedicated to the construction of different kinds of huts using the natural materials and elements at their disposal on the site (trees, rocks, natural inclination of the ground). The children can also build small bridges, decks, roads or nets to connect the huts together to form a small village.
A specific theme will be dedicated to each hut: « The Living-Room », » The Sleeping Hut », “The Kitchen”, « The Library », « The Secret Hide Out » etc…
The camp counselors will assist our campers and help them integrate smoothly into her natural living environment.
Interior Design :
Campers will be able to design and build tables, benches and other pieces of furniture for their ‘village’.
The interior components of each dwelling will be specifically designed to provide the necessities that will allow the group to eventually stay overnight if they choose, in their « village ».
Renewable Energies Workshop :
This workshop will be organized in partnership with a professional instructor from the Association » Découverte Causse Nature « who will teach the children how to create different installations using solar or wind energy to provide electricity for the village.
As a kitchen/restaurant, one of the projects will be to build a natural oven in the ground using rocks and clay, a great way to bake bread and potatoes!
To be self sufficient they will also build reservoirs to recover rain water.
Discovery of the Fauna and Flora :
Nature by itself is a tremendous encyclopedia. An open book in which the children will learn to read the local flora and fauna under the supervision of specialized counselors.
They will learn how to recognize footprints from different animals, discover their feeding places and hide-outs… They will observe nature, get to know the forest with all it’s plants, trees, and many flowers (such as wild orchids, very famous in the region).
Eco-Participation:
Maintenance of a hiking trail, Creation of an organic garden, Creation of a pond (digging, routing of the water, planting plants…)
Land Art Workshop and Artistic Installations :
With the help of their camp counselors, the children will create Natural Art, they will be free to express themselves in their own work of art using natural materials from their surroundings (pebbles, wood, rocks, flowers…).
Other activities
– Canoe on the Tarn river:
A descent of the Tarn river in a canoe will familiarize you with the current: small rapids, green landscapes, discovery of the local fauna and flora and of course swimming in the river!
– Initiation in Rock climbing
– « Adventure Course » in Aguessac
– Camping overnight in la Cite des Cabanes of course!
– Swimming pool on site at the center.
Choice of Field Trips
– Visits to the Pastoralia center
– Visit to the Botanical garden
– Tales and legends of the Aveyron
– Storytelling, star gazing …
I had a great time in France this summer, I will definitely come back and recommend this to my all friends in California. The camp counselors were great and I made many friends, I will always remember them. Most of all I mproved my French a lot. My best memories will be : the great field trips, the dance parties, the French people and all the great villages I visited but most of all the friends, counselors and people who were there with me. I wish I never had to leave the camp what else can I say? »Camp is great and I definitely want to come back!! »
Camp Location: « LE HAMEAU DE MOULÈS »
FONDAMENTE is a small village in the Aveyron department in southern France.
Lodging: Children and Counselors sleep in bungalow tents (5 to 6 beds) on cement floors, with lights, beds and closets. Tents and shower facilities are located in the woods at the border of the village, in the shade!
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TRANPORTATION: With the VSF group (and the French children) by TGV train from Paris to Montpellier (escorted by the camp staff) – transfer by shuttle bus to the camp site.
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