Daily Life
What does COD mean?
Counselor of the Day!
You notice a camper doesn't have a lot of clothes.
Alert your leadership team
We can wash their clothes or get them more!
You hear 2 bells pause, 2 bells pause. You are with your cabin but have a fire duty.
Bring your cabin to the soccer field first and check out with the head counter.
Who is the bridge named after?
Stephen Diccico
You find a JC alone with a camper in a cabin.
Call the camper outside and bring them to other staff. Alert leadership team.
What does the COD need to do first in the morning?
Ring over 100 rising bells and shut off the lights
A camper is refusing to get up in the morning
Knock on the bunks
Sing (if they might like it, know your camper)
Switch out with another staff member in your division
Radio for leadership staff
A camper is breathing heavy at the basketball game. You know the camper has asthma.
Radio for help from the nurse and leadership team
Where was BFG in 1984?
Camp Holiday
You find a JC sleeping next to a camper on movie night.
Remove the JC and bring them to another PC. Contact leadership team.
How do campers come in to meals?
Quietly, hand checked, stand behind tables, wait for grace before seating
A camper is homesick and crying at rest hour
Take them out to porch
Remind them of fun things at camp
Validate their feelings
Help them write a letter
Let leadership staff know
A camper passes out and stops breathing at a soccer game.
1. Send someone to call 911
2. Send someone to get the nurse/leadership staff
3. The person with most first aide training goes with the camper
4. Everyone else gets the kids out
What is a stayover? Which leadership staff have won one?
Mr. Welcome
You overhear campers saying they have a cell phone.
Look through their things when they are not around. Alert leadership team.
Who and how do you serve food to your campers?
You notice a camper is not changing for swim.
The camper may have their period or may not have a bathing suit.
They may not want to be in a bathing suit.
Ask them why? Ask them how you can help?
Mrs. K sends you down to end of the road to flag in emergency services.
Stay there until someone gets you or tells you to come back. Many EMS come from both Greenfield and Peterborough.
Who funded most of Brantwood's Endowment?
Warren Winslow, he died after world war II and left his money to camp.
Explain that you need to keep them safe, and to do that you might need to tell someone and can't keep secrets.
You are in a cabin and have a period off, what do you do?
Bring your kids to the activity period and pass them off to a PC
A camper reports that another camper keeps touching them without permission
Bring the camper who has been touched to leader ship staff
Fill out an incident report
Follow directions from leadership staff
Campers are outside and a thunderstorm hits.
WALK quickly into the nearest building. No building is off limits in an emergency. AVOID the PG BALL field.
Who delivered milk and eggs to camp in the early days?
Mr and Mrs. Murphy (they lived down the hill).
You overhear campers saying another camper is hurting themselves.
Make sure that camper is supervised. Find leadership staff immediately. Write an incident report.