Whether your child prefers sports, arts and crafts, or an assortment of activities, we have listed the following camps to help you decide which suits them best. Make sure to book your child's space soon, as they will fill up fast!
Here is our comprehensive guide to 2022 October Half Term Camps offered in the Cayman Islands.
We will continue to add to this each year and and update it
throughout September and October for 2023, so be sure to check back. Christmastime is also
around the corner, so our Christmas Camps will also be updated in due course!
If you are running a 2023 October half term camp and would like to be on this list (or if you know of anyone who is), please feel free to email us all of the relevant information (i.e. camp name, dates, activities, location(s) and contact details) to emily@acorn.ky and we will be sure to add it below.
2022/23 October Half Term Camps
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Typing Club
Tel:
1 (345) 943 5437Join KidsAbility for their School Break Typing Club. The purpose of this club is to provide a kickstart to your child’s touch typing development. Their therapists will get your child started with learning touch typing by emphasising proper posture, hand position, accuracy and speed with typing.
What Is Touch Typing? In contrast with normal typing, touch typing is simply pressing the keys without looking at them. If you can keep your eyes on the screen without looking down, you can touch type. This method is more efficient, less tiring and comes with some surprising cognitive benefits, as we’ll see below.
Touch typing has a noticeable effect on the brain, psychologists say.
“The single most important thing is if you can type without looking down… If you can do that, what’s happening in your brain changes,” says Sue Westwood, a child psychologist who runs a touch typing programme called English Type. “Muscle memory is a physical skill—so once its trained, it becomes unconscious and automatic. It frees up your conscious cognitive resources to focus solely on the task in hand.”
If we can train our fingers to type without our brains having to think about it, we become more efficient at the task at hand. “We also know that by the time you get to 30 words per minute it’s a fluid process,” says Westwood. “The fingers are moving with no buffering going on. And from that point you get faster naturally.” (Saga Briggs, https://www.opencolleges.edu.au/informed/21st-century-skills/touch-typing-kids-essential-21st-century-skill/)
Each student will need to bring a laptop and KidsAbility will provide access to a typing subscription to be used throughout the school term. Parents will receive a progress report at the end of the week.
Code Galaxy Camp
Tel:
Virtual campCode Galaxy is offering a winter camp for kids this winter with exciting courses including Scratch, Roblox, python programming, and even CAD 3D modeling. Here is a link to their virtual camps page https://www.thecodegalaxy.com/camps/virtual-kids-coding-camp
Soccer Camp
Tel:
1 (345) 922 2354Total Soccer's camps offer progressive activities which help players to develop basic to advanced skills in a fun environment.
Coaches will
help children develop basic to advanced skills in a structured environment. Their team has
experienced coaches specialised in youth soccer development
with a strong pedagogical and fun approach!
Camps are open to all children whenever they are not in school and typically run for a week.
Conservation Ecology Camp
Tel:
1 (345) 948 1094Spend your October half term at CCMI’s Little Cayman Research Centre, snorkelling on Little Cayman’s world-famous reefs!
During the Conservation Ecology Camp, students focus on tropical marine ecology and conservation in the Cayman Islands. Students will learn from CCMI scientists and educators. No two days are the same as they develop group research projects, snorkel and explore a pristine reef system. The programme will also include all the fun activities of a camp with beach games, kayaking, biking, a beach bonfire and exploring Little Cayman’s environment.
The goal of this camp will be for students to start a project to present at the annual Cayman Islands Rotary Club Science Fair. Group field projects will focus on:
- Coral disease
- Caribbean-wide long-spined sea urchin die-off
- Carbon sequestration in mangroves and seagrass beds
Not seeing a camp listed? Contact us and we will add it at no charge!