Highway camp

Main program:

Childhood is a continuous process of learning and learning. And school holidays – a great opportunity to change school for a desk to study in the game, the movement and communication! Everything in order to become better and happier!
Betting on gaming techniques and useful communication habits, we help the child to learn during the year. Our games teach you to enjoy the knowledge and skills, and the experience of open and positive communication with peers and counselors - feel more confident and emotionally protected in the school team.

What will happen?
- design work for the preparation for the quest (creation of scenery, artifacts, costumes),
- theater skills (dance, movement, singing, speech production),
- master classes (crafts, sports, narrowly thematic (eg sword ownership, tourist techniques, creative techniques and technologies) and cognitive (knightly etiquette, motorcycles, everyday life of an ancient person),
- game and musical English (division into groups according to knowledge levels),
- competitions, games and contests,
- the final theatrical performance (the director is the leading children's director of St. Petersburg)

Themes of our shifts in 2018:

2 shifts - Change Quest-la Arthur's Rules »
In the title itself you can hear the sound of swords and the sighs of beautiful ladies!
But what does this quest bring to us? &Nbsp;
It's rules, rules and rules! Questions of honor, etiquette, moral principles for which you must answer!
Game space, subject to historical logic. We study English folklore, customs and customs. A wonderful occasion to visit a leader on horseback and a loyal druzhinnik, learn to dance medieval dances and sing real ballads.
And, of course, make an artifact that will remain with you as a memory of a magical summer journey on a time machine.

3 shifts - Change Quest -Roadstory »
What is a road adventure? This is an amazing and unique story, created from random … (or non-random?) encounters.
And every such meeting is instructive, impressive and brings new friends. &Nbsp;
What are we learning on the road? Friendship, mutual help, trust, ability to support, ingenuity, tired and relax together, share joy from reaching the goal of the path!
To get to unknown and mysterious places, we will split into groups and create new worlds for the rest of the travelers, with riddles, obstacles and … impressive stories. Boring and just will not be!
Real bikers, real tourists are extreme …
They will teach us the romance of travel and … some technical techniques necessary on the road.

4 shifts - Change quest "Ancient, ancient fairytale »
Miracles are waiting at every step! Each of us has long suspected that he also has hidden magical features.
Why not try to show your amazing properties: resourcefulness, creativity, the ability to art, dexterity, diligence in achieving the goal.
What kind of person will you end up in? The Man of Metal? Man of the Earth? A man of the Stone? The Tree Man? To understand this, we must try crafts that create our everyday life from natural elements.
Learn to understand and accept the help and abilities of others, use the strengths and weaknesses of each team member, try to solve a million different tasks. &Nbsp;
And the tasks will be very different - and come up with the dance of the tribe, and learn how to weave a basket, gain strength in the dexterity of throwing pebbles, try to communicate without speech, find yourself working with clay and metal.

Our principles:

1. English
   Problem: A good language base gives huge competitive advantages to a modern person.
   Solution: Therefore, many parents pay great attention to learning the language. The basis for successful language training is "continuity, intensity and change, of the so-called" language experience ". These three components are laid down in the language program of the Highway Camp: there is no long break in learning the language, classes in the camp are much more intense and take place in different forms – in gaming and music, in communicating on interesting topics. Initially, children are divided into levels of training, but by the end of the shift already participate in common language activities.
   The most important thing that a child purchases in the camp is – this is the removal of the "language barrier", as well as a different view of the foreign language. It turns out in English you can live! These are not just lessons, tutorials and grades – it's games, adventures, communication, music, movies - it's a lifetime! "It's after the camp that the children and parents notice that the" language barrier "has gone, the fear has disappeared and the words are being said" by themselves. " This means that our task is completed – language has passed into the subconscious of the child and now the study will go much easier.

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   Friendship skill
   Issue: Most modern children have little contact with each other outside of childcare facilities. And social networks, and instant messengers never replace it – real friendship! Children's friendship is not based on the exchange of information, as in adults. Friendship of children and adolescents – this is a game interaction, plus the need for another child, in a friend for experiencing common emotions and general impressions. For a child, knowing the world and oneself requires intense and emotional communication with peers. Strong childhood friendship — This is an exciting adventure that shapes character and successful behavior.
   Solution: Through specially organized programs, we organize leisure activities that affect the emotions of the child, giving you the opportunity to experience an open communication with " same as you " ;. It is an experience of disappointments and joys, resentments and reconciliations that do not affect relations in general. The skill of friendship is vitally important for the psychological well-being and prosperity of the child in the future. Everyone needs to go through this school as a child.

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   3. How to get the result
   Problem: Skill – this is a few times passed and perfectly mastered by the brain pattern. The overall situation with the "clip-on-mind thinking" generated by the Internet and television helps to consolidate the skill of discarding (not completing) everything that causes embarrassment. &Nbsp; Children get used to the voltage – signal to switch, that it's time to quit what was started.
   Solution: Brain Principle – mastering the skill in small gives the opportunity to transfer this skill to more. Skills that the child assimilates form his behavior in adulthood. We solve the problem of inculcating the skill « set goals, solve and complete tasks » through a specially organized group leisure. This is the ideal environment for generating the skill of getting the result. &Nbsp; Incentives received by child in group work – the best motivation is to achieve results! This is - emotionally, successfully, responsibly and the joy of the result is shared by the whole group! Healthy competition, which, alas, is not enough in everyday life – the basis of the need to "finalize the case", i.e. achieve your goals despite the difficulties.

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   4. Group interaction skills
   Problem: Whatever your child does after – he will be part of the group, the collective. But how to build long-term relationships in a large group? How to properly understand and evaluate the relationship between people? How to occupy a worthy place in the team? Even for an adult this is not the easiest question.
   Solution: Our camp – This is a single environment that is open to dialogue and explains the causes and consequences of what is happening. We explain the logic of existing rules in a language understandable to children and adolescents, understand conflict situations, give everyone an opportunity to try themselves in the role of group leader.
   Stay in a children's team, a good educational occasion. Individual contact with the child supports his abilities, makes him understand how important it is to develop and use them. And these are not words. This training in real conditions, the game in the proposed circumstances.

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   5. Teachers and counselors
   Our teachers and counselors undergo a special "workshop of the leader", where the classes are led by unique teachers and they teach everything necessary – from age psychology and physiology to the fundamentals of game mechanics. In shifts, we invite the best graduates of the "Workshop".