My 5-year-old son attended this holiday camp over the summer. While I understand it’s meant to be an activity-based camp, I found the communication very poor – we never really knew what he had been doing during the day, and my son isn’t one to talk much about it either.
One day he even came home with a bruise on his face. I get that kids can be rough sometimes, but what worried me was that the staff had no idea what had happened. That doesn’t give me confidence that things are properly supervised.
From what I could see, most of the staff are university students, which is fine, but a lot of them looks like they didn’t even like kids, let alone have the patience or experience to work with them . I even overheard one staff member speaking rudely to a little boy. I don’t expect them to be like teachers, but at the very least, children deserve kindness and reassurance. To be fair, not all of the staff were like this, but it only takes one bad experience for a child to not want to go back.
Overall, I think the camp could be so much better if the staff had a more positive attitude and were genuinely engaged with the children.