Benchmark Summer Camp
Benchmark Summer Camp offers children in grades one through six an ideal setting for developing and maintaining skills and strategies, building confidence and self-esteem, and having fun while becoming stronger learners and selfadvocates. The five-week program includes Benchmark’s internationally recognized language arts program, executive function skills instruction, design thinking activities, as well as art, science, and sports opportunities. In addition, campers will be challenged on our 35-event Confidence Course including a 40-foot high, 250-foot long Zip Wire. All of these elements make it a summer filled with learning, creating, and fun!
Strategy Instruction: Executive Function Skills & SelfKnowledge
Campers are introduced to strategies that will help them become more successful learners, by developing executive function skills such as time management, flexibility, persistence, active involvement, ref lectivity, and organization. Small classes comprised of a teacher and a teaching assistant work with six to nine students, tailoring instruction to meet each child’s needs. In addition, the teachers are guided throughout the camp session by Benchmark’s experienced supervisors who teach, observe instruction, and meet with teachers to discuss each child’s needs.
Campers are introduced to strategies that will help them become more successful readers, writers, and learners. Our trained faculty places an emphasis on helping children understand those characteristics of their learning styles that either impede or enhance their reading, writing, and learning. Explicit instruction, goal setting, goal review, and reinforcement are ways teachers begin to help children develop awareness of successful learning strategies.
New This Year – The Innovation Lab Experience!
All of our campers will have the opportunity to experience our new state-ofthe-art, $2million Innovation Lab where they will engage in projects designed to reinforce divergent thinking and create high-quality collaboration with their peers, while constructing knowledge through experience. In the Innovation Lab, campers will encounter new and traditional technologies, encouraging them to find a pathway to their own approach to learning, gravitating toward their interests and strengths.
Caring, Experienced Recreation Staff
The success of the Benchmark Camp program directly correlates to the knowledge, experience, and dedication of its staff. Our counselors are a dedicated group of college students and young professionals who provide campers with a positive, nurturing and supportive environment. As campers cycle through Arts Adventure, Science Discovery, the Confidence Ropes Course, Sports and Swimming, the counselors help them build new skills, perfect ones they already possess, and encourage team building and cooperation.
23-Acre Woodland Campus
Benchmark School’s outstanding campus provides the perfect environment for summer fun. A heated outdoor pool, gymnasium, climbing wall, green game area, playing fields, and our beautiful, wooded campus all contribute to an experience that many characterize as their “Best. Summer. Ever.”
Campers from Around the Nation and the World
Although Benchmark is a day camp, the success of the summer program has led some parents to make arrangements to send their children to Benchmark Camp arriving from New York, New England, California, and even South America, Africa, and Asia so that they may benefit from this transformational experience.
Benchmark School Summer Camp
July 1to August 2 2107N. Providence Road, Media, PA 19063 BenchmarkSchool.org 610-565-3741