![]() ![]() Reflecting on their experience of Sony Camp, volunteers invariably say the camp put some of their own, and the world’s, worries and stresses into perspective. This year’s camp proved to be another great privilege to care for 19 beautiful, amazing kids, and see a team of enthusiastic and mindful year 11s care for their campers. The campers participate in activities ranging from feeding, dancing, and reading, to cooking, swimming, African drumming, and dragon boat racing. The camp is also a way for the student companions to learn what caring for children with additional needs involves. ![]() By hosting Sony Camps, CGS aims to give children with additional needs a memorable experience while giving their regular carers a break. Sony’s philosophy strongly aligns with CGS’s values and principles, which are committed to developing students’ awareness of the needs of others, and encouraging a greater sense of responsibility leading to much more effective action in caring for others. The school’s Northside infants’ campus in Campbell, near the Australian War Memorial, serves a further 100 students from pre-kindergarten to year two. The senior school caters for 950 students from years seven to 12, while the primary school hosts 650 students from pre-school to year six. The school’s main campus is set on 20 hectares at the foot of Red Hill, just south of Lake Burley Griffin, close to Parliament House and the lively social precincts of Manuka and Kingston. It is also the only school in the ACT to offer the NSW Higher School Certificate. CGS is the only boarding school for boys in the ACT (with the plan to also extend this to girls in the future), and it is an International Baccalaureate World School. ![]() A focus on youth and creatively assisting young people achieve their dreams strongly aligned with the Sony corporate vision, so the Foundation formed partnerships with charitable organisations to offer innovative solutions to social problems facing today’s youth.Įstablished in 1929, Canberra Grammar School is a co-educational independent Anglican school offering outstanding academic education, co-curricular opportunities and pastoral care to day and boarding students of all backgrounds and faiths within a community guided by Christian values. In 1999 the Sony group of companies established Sony Foundation Australia, responding to a management belief that successful companies must play an active role in the communities in which they do business. Primarily funded by the Sony Foundation, the camp is one of more than 20 hosted by boarding schools and universities across Australia, and the only one held in Canberra. For some, this will be their only break this year.” “At the same time their parents and carers get some respite at a time of year when they need it most. “The children who attend the camps are treated to three days of activities and interactions they may have never had the chance to experience,” he explains. The Chair of the CGS Sony Foundation Camp Committee, Graeme Lendrum, says the camp benefits all participants. For the past seven years students from Canberra Grammar School (CGS) have had the opportunity to put that notion to the test when they give up the first week of their summer holidays to help children with additional needs, as hosts at Sony Foundation Children’s Holiday Camp, or Sony Camp.Īpproximately 20 students from CGS and Canberra Girls’ Grammar School move into the CGS boarding house, and act as full-time carers for primary-school-aged children during the annual Sony Camp. It’s received wisdom that benefactors receive as much as they give. ![]()
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