At HBLC our programming is all based around leadership, and our daily schedule offers different opportunities to learn leadership.

Every day your camper will participate in a number of activities, based around our 5 primary program areas, Eco, Movement, Creativity, Waterfront & Leadership.  In each of these program areas there are a variety of activities that are adapted to the group’s interests and developmental stage.  These areas include activities like swimming, canoeing, kayaking, archery, arts & crafts, yoga, dance, sports, firebuilding, woodworking and low ropes.

Each morning your camper will get up, enjoy a quick warmup game, and Freshie, an optional but encouraged morning dip in the lake. After that they will have a nutritious breakfast and head back to their cabins to tidy up and get ready for the day’s activities.

Once our day campers have arrived, everyone will meet at the flag pole where we will raise the flag, share our territorial acknowledgement, take a moment to do a personal land acknowledgement and  introduce our theme of the day, a leadership concept that all the day’s activities will be based around.

Campers will then to Pond Time where a counsellor will lead the group in a discussion of the theme of the day and encourage all of our campers to embody that theme through their activities that day. Our themes of the day can range widely, but include CRRC3, integrity, enthusiasm, teamwork, optimism, trust, perseverance and others.

After Pond Time campers will divide into their activity groups for the day.  The campers are divided into groups by age and will stay with that group for the majority of their day. They will follow the same sequence of activities each day, but they will be adapted and specialized based on the group.

Lunch is held at 12:30 and from when lunch ends until 1:30 your camper will have Quiet Time. During this time your camper may read, write letters, journal, nap or work on crafts. The one request is that campers keep a general quiet through the camp which will allow those who require it, a chance to get a mid-day recharge.

For the rest of the day your camper will rejoin their group to finish off their activities and having a chance to participate in the remaining program areas they did not get to in the morning.

At 4pm everyone gathers for afternoon snack, and when that is done our day campers head out for the day, while everyone else has a chance for Free Time.  This means campers can choose where they go, like back to arts & crafts, off to the basketball court or to play board and card games. This time is meant to allow campers to make choices about their own experience at camp and explore what is out there at camp.

Dinner is at 6 pm and is followed by an evening Pond Time to have a deeper discussion of the day’s theme and reflect on how our activities during the day may have helped in understanding the theme better. After this, we switch to our evening fun program, which includes a campwide game and campfire. As the sun starts setting we have our evening flagpole and then off to bed for Vespers, our evening cabin programming. Lights out starting at 9:30 gives everyone a chance to get a good night’s sleep.