How does your camp separate age groups?

[camper]

i know every camp has their age groups set up differently so how does it work at your camp? here's what it's like at mine:

-lower sophmores- kids going into 3rd grade.
-upper sophmores- going into 4th
-juniors- going into 5th
-kadettes- going into 6th
-inters- going into 7th
-mediates- going into 8th
-lower seniors- going into 9th
-PC's (or upper seniors)- going into 10th

the separation between the lower and upper camp is between the kadettes and inters. the whole soph group, lowers and uppers, has one grouphead and they do mostly everything together. it's similar w/the lower seniors and PC's except that the PC's basically run the camp at all camp activities (obviously w/counselors in charge too) and are in charge of keeping the spirit up in camp all the time. they wait FOREVER to be PC's and it's a really big deal to them, a lot of great things come along w/it. it's the lower seniors' job to help them w/that, but there are also a lot of privileges that the whole senior group gets.

each age group has a grouphead, and assistant grouphead, and about 8-14 counselors, depending on the size and age of the group. during the day, each age group does activities within themselves, but sometimes the juniors and kadettes will have a group evening activity together, as will the inters and mediates. sometimes also, the whole lower camp will have an activity together and then the whole upper camp will have the activity.

after PC summer, the next summer is CA summer which is basically the same as a CIT, they pay a reduced price and are kind of half campers half counselors. then after that you can be a JC which means you're a full member of the staff. the only difference between a JC and an older counselor is that a JC can't keep a car at camp or drive.

[countrygal]

my camp separates the kids like this:

Jr.Boys Tribe 4-10
Jr.Girl Tribe 4-10
Sr.Boy tribe 10-13
Sr.Girl Tribe 10-13

but it has happened that there r 11 yr old in the jrs when there r too many seniors in the upper age levels or vise versa such as 9 going on 10 in the senior tirbe when there r too many jnuniors. we r a very flexible camp.

[camper]

countrygal- you don't put 4 year olds living in the bunks w/10 year olds do you? how does that part work?

[Dave]

Each age group is separated into two divisions. Each division is separated into eight bunks. Also, the entire camp is separated into three camps.

Since this is a Jewish camp, the divisions have Jewish names:

Camp Hilltop (3-6 year olds)
Preschoolers: Shoresh (one division for this age)
Kindergarteners: Geza/Elon
1st Graders: Anaf/Bayit

Camp Shalom (7-9 year olds)
2nd Graders: Masada/Dimona (I'm in this age group)
3rd Graders: Haifa/Eilat
4th Graders: Jerusalem/Tel Aviv

Camp Aaron (10-12 year olds)
5th Graders: Gilad
6th Graders: Sinai
7th/8th Graders: Tavor

13 year olds - Travel Camp

14 year olds - CIT

[speedx5xracer]

Name Entering
NahJeeWah (youngest kids)
Abi/Asher grades 1-4
Naomi/Dan grade 5
Hannah/Levi grade 6

Ceder Lake (middle)
Miriam/Joseph grade7
Esther/Reuban grade8
Golan/Masada grade 9

TAC(oldest camp)
TAC1 grade 10
TAC2 grade 11

[CAMPFRIEND]

5 & 6 Year olds- Explores
7-10 Year Olds-Pioneers
10-14 year olds ? Adventure camp
15 & 16 year olds CITs

We also have different camps for all ages:
Soccer Camp
All sports Camp
High Adventure Camp
Field Trip Camp
Swimming Camp
A & C Camp
Nature Camp
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[Skater Bubbles]

Here's how our camp works:
Discovery: 7-8 Year old Boys and Girls
Pioneer Village: 9-12 Year old Girls
Skunk Village: 12-15 Year old Girls
Indian Village: 9-12 Year old Boys
Rotary Village: 12-15 Year old Boys
LIT'S 15 Year old Boys and Girls
CIT'S 16-17 Year old Boys and Girls

[Flukie]

Mmm... We're a funny GS camp. We like to play with the age ranges more than my home camp did.

(All are based on the grades girls are entering)

3rd or 4th - Mini-Camp (4 day session)
4-6th, 7-9th - General Camping

5-7th, 8-12th - Sailing
8-12th - Advanced Sailing
8-12th - Windsurfing

5-6th, 7th-9th - Bike Units
8-12th - Overnight Biking

7-9th - Theater, Canoeing, and Outdoor Skills Units

11-12th - CIT
12th - Intern

We tend to blur the ages groups rather than follow the "standard" GS breakdown. Only gets funky with badgework and an 5-7 breakdown! :)

[CAMPFRIEND]

Sometimes you need to be careful of spliting campers up by grade. We have kids who fail in school and the are older than most kids in their grade. It also works the other way with kids who skip grades. We don't want younger kids with our older groups!
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[rockinsmiles]

We have different 8 different groups. The groups are co-ed. however when we split up into cabins there are 2 groups per cabin (so 4 guy cabins and 4 girl cabins). the groups in the cabins are normally the same age though there is an "older" group and a younger group. the groups work like this:
Head group: 8-9 (mostly 8 year olds)
Heart group: 8-9 as well (these are more 9 year olds too...i dont think there has been any 10 year olds)

Hands group: 10-11
Health group: 10-12 (very few 12 year olds)

Earth group: 10-12 (few 10 year olds though)
Sun group: 11-13

Adventurers: 12-14 (though im not sure how many 12 year olds they now have)
Trekkers: 12-14

thats the way it normally works. of course there are expections...like one time the ages were a lot older and we had older campers with younger campers. it was quite strange. at 15 you can be a CIT and then if you have been a CIT there before at 17 you can be a counselor. however we only expect 3 17 year old counselors maxime. if you havent been a CIT you have to be 18.

[camper]

campfriend...we ask parents in a situation like that before the camper's first summer at camp if they want their child to be age-appropriate or grade-appropriate. the vast majority of the parents want their kids to be grade appropriate b/c it's better socially, b/c the kids are in the same places in school and it gives them more of a common ground, or their friends from home also at camp will be in that group. if a change needs to be made after that first summer if we feel a kid is too immature/mature for their grade-appropriate group in a situation of grade skipping, failing (which i don't think we've ever actually had) or even missing the cutoff, we talk to the parents about it. most of the time the grade-appropriate spot is the right one though, b/c if they're in that grade, chances are there's a reason. every once in awhile we get a kid that starts camp a year younger than everyone else (going into 2nd grade instead of 3rd) and chooses to stay w/the group a year older, but a lot of the times the parents want to keep them back for the next summer. unless we really feel it's wrong, we put the kid where the parents want her.

[CPCourtney]

My camp has the following groups:

Freshmen are going into 3rd
Sophmores are going into 4th & 5th
Juniors are going into 6th & 7th
Subbies are going into 8th
Seniors are going into 9th
Supers are going into 10th
CIT's are going into 11th

Subbies - CIT's are considered upper camp while Freshmen - Juniors are lower camp

[Indigo]

My camp is separated into different programs, so the campers can sign up for horseback riding programs, or art, theater, water, biking, etc. But it's also separated by age (in different ways for each program) to avoid having a unit with 7 and 17 year olds.

[martha27]

8yrs: juniors
9yrs: inters
10yrs: debs
11yrs: sub seniors
12yrs: senior A's
13yrs: Clubhouse 7
14yrs: Annex
15yrs: Romrec

camper, it seems a similar set up to you. the girls wait a long time to have their Romrec summer, it's a big deal and a huge honour to lead the camp. very special

[Dave]

Sometimes you need to be careful of spliting campers up by grade. We have kids who fail in school and the are older than most kids in their grade. It also works the other way with kids who skip grades. We don't want younger kids with our older groups!
Our camp is separated by grade by default, but parents can request their kid be placed in another age group. We had a kid who moved from Israel to the US this past summer, so his grade and age didn't correspond correctly so his parents wanted him put with age group instead of grade.

[camper]

yeah, martha27, a lot of my camp friends and campers have friends that go or went to romaca, so i know a little bit about romrec at your camp. most camps like ours have a "big" last summer as a camper. it is a HUGE deal to be a PC at our camp. it was one of my most special summers and i can't wait until my campers are PC's.

[CPCourtney]

My camp has the following groups:

Freshmen are going into 3rd
Sophmores are going into 4th & 5th
Juniors are going into 6th & 7th
Subbies are going into 8th
Seniors are going into 9th
Supers are going into 10th
CIT's are going into 11th

Subbies - CIT's are considered upper camp while Freshmen - Juniors are lower camp


I totally wasn't thinking...
Juniors are going into 7th
Inters are going into 6th
Sophs are going into 5th
Freshman are going in 4th
Debs are going into 3rd

[Flower]

We have:

Junior B's - 8 and 9 years old
Junior A's - 10 years old
Inter B's - 11 years old
Inter A's - 12 years old
Sub Seniors - 13 years old
Senior B's - 14 years old
Senior A's - 15 years old

Senior A's are usually called the 12ers because they live together in cabin 12. Like a couple of other people have said, 12er summer is a huge deal, and they are the leaders in camp. They put on a play for the camp, have a fake breakout, lead songs in the dining hall, are team leaders for all camp games, serve as big sister role models to kids having trouble, and just generally are leaders around camp.

[who_stole_my_loofa]

Juniors (coed)
Going into grades 1-3 (ages 6-8)

Pioneer Girls
Going into grades 4-6 (ages 9-11)

Pioneer Boys
Going into grades 4-6 (ages 9-11)

Senior Girls
Going into grades 7-9 (ages 12-14)

Senior Boys
Going into grades 7-9 (ages 12-14)

Teen Village (coed)
Going into grades 10-12 (ages 15-17)
Grade 12 are CIT/campers

Loofa

[Fleur]

How our campers are divided:

Beaver unit:
Bunnies: 3 years old, half day campers
Chipmunks: 4 years old/entering Jr. Kindergarten
Beavers: Completed Jr. Kindergarten

Buffalo unit: Completed Sr. Kindergarten
Bear unit: Completed grade 1
Eagle unit: Completed grade 2
Senior unit: Completed grades 3 and 4

Grad unit:
Grads: Completed grades 5 and 6
Alumni: Completed grade 7

LTP (Leadership Training Program): Completing grades 8 and 9

[Fallen]

In our brochures we have activies broken into the age group they will work best for. GS already has the girls into different age levels depending on age and grade so we just use that and don't mix the older kids with the younger ones.

[campCardinal]

Lower unit is the 6-9 year olds.
Middle unit is the 10-12 year olds.
Upper Unit is the 13-14 year olds.

Lower unit has 6 cabins split up by ages... so like a 6-7 year old cabin and then 2 8-9 year old cabins for both boys and girls.

Middle Unit is huge and divided into 2 sub units... The Juniors are mostly 10 year olds with some 11 year olds. And then Seniors are mostly 12 year olds and a few 11 year olds.

Upper Unit is divided in to the Upper 1's and Upper 2's. Upper 1's are 13 and Upper 2's are 14.

For our schedule with have 3 activity areas. The Lower and Upper unit share an activity area (giving the uppers a chance to be leaders) and then Juniors and seniors have separate activities. Meals are also split... Uppers and Juniors eat at the same time (different dining halls) and then Lowers and Seniors eat at the same time. It's pretty awesome.

[melon4382]

My camp is seperated like this:
Juniors= 6-10 yr. olds
Intermedietes=11-12 yr. olds
Seniors=13-15 yr. olds
The 15 yr. olds live in a special cabin we call Suite 15 and go on out-of-camp trips, etc.

[CAMPFRIEND]

I love to see all of the different names for the age groups.
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[EchoLaker]

Lets see:

Frosh - Going into 3rd Grade
Lower Juniors - 4th
Upper Juniors - 5th
Lower Inters - 6th
Upper Inters - 7th
Lower Village - 8th
Upper Village - 9th
4n4 - 10th
LIT - 11th


Our LIT's then take a year away from camp before being allowed to return as staff.

We offer a one-night "Fantasy Camp" in the middle of the season after visiting day for kids entering 2nd, 3rd and 4th grades to get a taste of camp - before committing to an entire season.

[audur]

Well, we're a Girl Scout camp, and most of our programs are divided into the age/grade groups GS already has defined. I haven't seen anyone post them, so in case someone doesn't know, they're the following:

Brownies - 1st to 3rd grade/6-9 years old
Juniors - 4th to 6th grade/9-11 years old
Cadettes - 7th to 9th grade/11-13 years old
Seniors - 9th to 12th grade/13-17 years old
CIT I - 11th to 12th grade
CIT II - 12th grade (has to have finished CIT I)
(I think the new GS system combines Cadettes and Seniors into "girls 11 to 17", but my camp still seperates them)

For the younger groups, we don't seperate them more than that - for Seniors, we offer programs for 13-15 year olds and 15-17 year olds (that way they can still go to camp, even though they don't want to be CITs). Also, parents/girls can request to be in a program for younger or older girls. Lots of Juniors who've been coming to camp for years, many sessions a summer, are allowed to do a Cadette program. I've also had younger Juniors in Brownie units - some of them had social issues, some were there with a friend, some very developmentally behind and so fit better in a Brownie group. It's not a big deal if parents want their girls in a different age group, if they're sure she'll do better in that group. It just sucks for them if they're in GS, and go home with a sheet of Brownie try-its they completed, instead of Junior badges, since we only do badge work for the age group the program is aimed at - it'd be too much work to check everyones age and if they're a brownie/junior/cadette/senior.

[campCardinal]

Lower Camp (grades 1-4)
-four cabins of boys, four cabins of girls
-we put all 1st and second graders in one or two cabins and 3rd anf 4th graders in the other two

Middle Camp (grades 5-7)
-Split into two units- Blue and Orange
-Middle Blue is mostly grades 5 and 6 (4 girls cabins and 3-5 Boys cabins)
-Middle Orange is mostly grade 7 with a few 6th graders (4 girls cabins and 3-5 boys)

Upper Unit (Grades 8 and 9)
-Split into two units -- Uppers Ones and Uppers Twos
-Ones are 8th graders and there are 2 boys cabins and 3 girls cabins
-Twos are 9th graders and there is one girls cabin and one boys cabin (with 10-30 kids in the cabins)

[campnerd99]

Beginners 6-8
Juniors 9-11
Intermediate 11-13
Seniors 14-16

There are some exceptions for September birthdays, the odd 13 year old who gets into senior and the even rarer first year senior (14) who decides to stay another year in intermediate.

[code3cadet]

We have 7-9 year olds JR camp
9-13 year olds low camp
13-16 years olds Upper camp