Our Approach | Lakewood Lodge
OUR APPROACH?
To provide the highest quality educational and cultural exchange camps and events to enrich the lives of young people and adults. Lakewood Lodge is a safe homely environment where all guests can improve their self confidence, leadership skills and learn about caring for the environment and animals.
We care about children, we care about animals, we care about the environment. We encourage children to care too.
The wellbeing of all our guests is close to our heart as we welcome them into our Lakewood Lodge family. We are different because we are the largest privately owned Farm camp on the north island so we have been able to put our homely feel into everything we do. In our school, holiday, international, family camps, retreats and away days, we encourage the development of skills with all our activities from our Lakewood Lodge Skills Development Matrix as shown below:
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT MATRIX
DEXTERITY
Accuracy with fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and development of physical skills
CONFIDENCE
Building up a feeling of achievement of difficult tasks or performing in front of others, breeds confidence. We also throw people into positions where they learn leadership skills
PROBLEM SOLVING
The ability to solve complex problems and persevere until a problem is solved. This fosters a feeling of achievement and independence
COMMUNICATION
Some activities require communication skills to be developed, including the ability to negotiate and solve issues with other people
COURAGE
Some activities stretch people beyond their comfort zone and through the achievement of that activity, a feeling of courage is instilled
TEAMWORK
Working together with others is a great way to further develop communication skills and confidence
CAMPS AND EVENTS?
Most camps in New Zealand are incredibly structured and formulaic, whereas we cater for our guests’ unique requirements.
SUSTAINABILITY?
We also believe in educating all campers who visit, the basic concepts of sustainability and resource conservation as well as actions they can take in their everyday lives to live sustainably. We help all our campers develop an understanding of sustainability concepts and respect for our natural environment. We teach about actions they can implement each and every day to lessen their impact on our environment and conserve resources and encourage attitude and behavioural changes that leads to their lessened impact on the environment.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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