Oct 13, 2021
During this time, where lockdowns and uncertainty around COVID-19 can have a negative impact on mental health, wellbeing is essential. For youth, getting outdoors, exercising, and engaging in fun, meaningful activities with their peers is more important than ever. The...
Apr 10, 2020
Our Programme Coordinator, Donald is on the blog today to fill us in on all the happenings during the first term of 2020… Term 1 is always a whirlwind of an experience. But this year the winds had some extra umph! In our first week alone, we had five schools...
Apr 4, 2020
Our new Programme Coordinator, Brian Connelly joined the POET team earlier this year and by day 20 had already attended 5 camps, phew! Brian checked in to let us know how his first month went: Its been an exciting start to the year for me as a fresh, brand-new POET...
Mar 14, 2019
Our Programme Coordinators have hit the ground running this term with 8 camps already completed. Here’s a run down of how they went – first up is Donald: It’s midterm and time for a recap on what’s happened so far. My first programme for the year was...
Jun 18, 2018
Well I survived! Four weeks of back to back camps during May meant I was a bit tired in the end. Unusual for me to need two nights in a row of in bed before 9pm to recover – getting old! Lots to do, places to be, and conversations to be had. Overall things went really...
May 23, 2018
Camps take a lot of planning and organisation to be well run and for students to gain as much as they can from their experiences. Together with schools we make sure students get transported, accommodated and fed (along with a whole heap of other things). We’re...