School Group Accommodation in Melbourne

Get The Best Melbourne School Group Accommodation

When people travel, looking at historical attractions and discovering the city’s past is an exciting way to spend their time. Melbourne is a city that has a lot of history and is indeed one of the most interesting places to visit in Australia. It can be a lot of fun to plan and organise school trips, but you also have to go through a lot of hard work. Choosing the right school group accommodation in Melbourne does not have to be stressful or difficult. You just know where to look. For the best program that provides excellent school group accommodation, there is always one name that you can rely on – City CYC.

At City CYC, you get world-class accommodation for your school group in a heritage-listed building that is located in the CBD in Melbourne where all the action and excitement is. We will make sure that you provide your group with an incredible educational experience in Melbourne.

Affordable And Luxurious Accommodation
We understand the needs of an educational group are unique to those of others. This is why we provide facilities and services to ensure that your camp is always safe and stress-free. As part of our school group accommodation, we provide free wifi access, high-quality AV equipment, secure accommodation and function room for each group with key tag access and strict house rules.

Our rooms are secure and luxurious. We provide many amenities to ensure that your school group is always comfortable during your stay. Apart from stylish rooms, we provide full catering service in our dining room. The room is designed to allow several groups to dine together. We serve sumptuous and healthy meals, from breakfast to dinner. At CYC City, we are dedicated to ensuring that we always cater to the dietary needs of all our guests.

It is not surprising that Melbourne is the top school camp choice for so many educational groups. The city has many wonderful attractions including the Melbourne Zoo, Old Melbourne Goal and the Immigration Museum and Science works. With so much on offer, your school group’s stay here is bound to be a fun and educational one. We provide a list of links to activity venues that we are sure your group will enjoy and benefit from. With so much to see and do in Melbourne, we will help in planning your city program so that you and your group get the best.

The School Group Accommodation In Melbourne
If you are looking for the best school group accommodation in Melbourne, CYC City is it. Our venue is designed to meet the needs of all school groups, no matter what age group. We have excellent facilities and amenities to ensure that our guests’ stay is always comfortable. Our aim is to make things easier for you, which is why we provide special services such as help in planning programs. We offer world-class facilities at an affordable price, making us the ideal choice when you and your school group are in Melbourne.

Summer Camps Help Children Learn Skills to Succeed in Life

From Play To Purpose: Why Camps Matter

A lot of parents hesitate to send their children to summer camps without realising they are depriving their children from benefitting from these camps. Besides having fun activities, summer camps also are conduits of learning. Kids are kept busy with numerous activities of varying difficulty levels and share accommodation with other kids their age.

The environment in a summer camp provides children an opportunity to practice their social skills and enjoy independence, without being attached to their mothers’ apron strings.

Benefits of Summer Camps
As a parent, if you are skeptical about sending your kids to summer camps, here are the benefits your child will get from the camps.

• Ability to enjoy and accept new experiences: Many times, children are stifled by their parents because they are worried kids will get hurt or may not like the new experience. In a summer camp, children often end up doing certain things for the very first time. Usually, these experiences are fun and memorable.
• Participating in activities: Summer camps instill the importance of participation rather than winning or losing. Taking part in activities matters and it is only then a child will realise his potential.
• Facing personal challenges: More often than not, the child may face personal challenges. However, with their new found independence in the camp and their ability to reason out, children can find amicable solutions to these challenges. This makes them feel good and boosts their self-confidence.
• Learning active lifestyle is fun: Today, children are glued to smartphones, handheld devices, computers and TV. They hardly venture out and have forgotten the joys of running and playing. This lifestyle is unhealthy and can result in child obesity. Summer camps make physical fitness a priority, but in a fun way. So, kids learn to be active without feeling the pressure and in the bargain enjoy their new active lifestyle.
• Learning new skills: Summer camps help children learn the importance of team-building without them being aware. They also learn leadership skills as each child is made to lead teams and work with team members. These valuable skills will help your child succeed, not just in school, but also in adult life.
• Doing chores: This benefit would make a lot of mothers happy. In a summer camp, children have to help with duties as a part of community living. So, it is normal to see them sweeping, tidying cabins, helping during mealtimes and washing up after each meal.

Finding the Best Summer Camp
You never have to look far to find a good summer camp for your little one. Christian Youth Camps have Summer camps in Melbourne city, Yarra Valley, Gippsland and Phillip Island. With varied accommodation options, right from suites to lakeside cabins, these camps offer all the benefits and some more.

5 Reasons Parents Should Send Their Kids to Our School Camps

Top Reasons To Choose Our School Camps

If you have been to school camps as a kid, you know it is the way to go. It is a great part of growing up and what you learn at these camps sticks with you as an adult. However, if you have never been to a school camp, you will be unaware of how they can benefit your kids. The Christian Youth Camps hosts school camps at Melbourne city, Yarra Valley, Gippsland, and three different locations on Phillip Island. Sending children to our camps are not just fun, but also educative.

Here are 5 reasons why you should send your kids to our school camps.

1. Living in Diversity and Socialising
When children go to our camps, they meet people they might not meet in day-to-day life. They learn how to make friends and moreover, learn about teamwork. With everyday activities at the camps, they come to befriend and team up with unlikely companions, thereby going out of their comfort zones to interact. Living in our camps means living a close community. When kids share chores, they learn to settle differences, team up and work for a cause.

2. Learning Resilience
The healthy and nurturing environment provided at our camps helps in developing a certain level of resilience. Children learn to try new things without grumbling, to get back up when they fail and to treat every failed attempt as a stepping stone to improvement. In the course of the camp, they come to accomplish feats they did not think they were capable of achieving.

3. Becoming Independent and Making Decisions
With parents and teachers helping kids at every move in life, children never really learn how to make a decision. At our school camps, children figure out how to make important decisions, caring for others and thinking like a leader. Our camps give them the freedom to make decisions in a controlled environment. This minimises risks, but also allows them to see a whole new side of themselves that they didn’t know existed.

4. Unplug Technology and Develop Useful Skills
In a world filled with digital media, it is really difficult to put down your phone and do something useful. At Christian Youth Camps, we make an effort to separate children from technology and offer them opportunities to connect with themselves and nature. At our school camps, children learn skills that come handy even as adults and many end up with hobbies, like painting and athletics, that stay with the kids for the rest of their lives. Basically, our school camps open up a world beyond technology and Internet.

5. Make Life Long Friends
School camps are a place where kids make friends with other kids who have the same interests. Living in close proximity allows children to get to know each other very well. Free from social and academic pressure, kids let down their hair in our school camps to socialise and learn true meaning of friendship.

Christian Youth Camps’ school camps allow your kids to learn useful skills and hone their existing talents. Our camps teach children the need to step out of their comfort zone to master a skill or try something new and different. Our camps have trained and qualified instructors that oversee the welfare and wellbeing of each and every child, making them safe and secure of little ones to come into their own without external pressure.

Where does ministry start and finish?

Caravan Ministry

Being one of just a few Christian accommodation venues that also allow families to camp on powered sites whether in tents or caravans, is a ministry in itself! This was never more evident than at the recent funeral of Julie Leitch.

Julie and her family have camped on site 17 for some years now, and insisted on visiting again this year. Julie could be seen camp sitting around chatting with fellow campers (such was the rapport and fellowship that had developed), just days before she sadly she passed away on the 6th of January after a 9 year battle with cancer. In her eulogy it was noted how she loved coming down to CYC to camp with other Christian families.

She exuded the Lord wherever she went encouraging people in their faith and never asked the question why me but instead prayed ‘use me’.

Till Next Time

Glyn

CFA – Neerim East Fire Updated

Please be advised that

• The latest information re this fire can be found at  http://emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/#!/incident/1556774
• Forest Edge  has initiated its emergency management plan as a precaution,
• CFA and DSE are in attendance and as of 1.30pm the CFA have advised that the situation is now ‘controlled’ and helicopter support now ceased..
• All Forest Edge guests and staff are safe
• All roads to the facility are open.
• An update email  has been sent to all CYC Teen Camp
• parents and a normal camper pickup after 2pm today is expected to occur
• On arrival parents are requested to closely follow staff instructions, as procedures have changed due to the emergency .

Guest and leaders due  arrive for the primary camp tomorrow will be notified (emailed) early tomorrow morning (Monday) as to any changes to the venue or booking in procedures.

A Focus on the Family

I have just returned from hearing Bret & Kate Ryan the CEO of Focus in The Family, (our speakers for the week) share their experiences, insight and wisdom for raising a family and being true to your spouse. They left us with 4 points of difference, which they guarantee if implemented will enhance and grow relationships within the family unit.

• ‘Everyone leaves the house at some point of the day, make sure the person does not leave without a kiss goodbye, a high-five or a hug, and the words I love you.’

• ‘During the day, make sure you call your spouse, it can be a minute or ten-minute conversation, but what it relates to your spouse sub consciously, is that you were thinking of them.’

• ‘When a person returns to the Home (make it a haven) by switching off the TV, stop what you are doing, give them a hug/kiss just to show that you are glad that they are home. If the opportunity arises talk about the day, if not, by stopping and giving them the moment shows that you value them.’

• ‘Make sure that when it is time to sleep that you have settled any arguments or have taken the sting out of quarrels.

Another concept that they mentioned was that a piece of string is fine on its own but when it is entwined with two others, it is the maximum strength of the string as all edges are touching. They encouraged parents to realize that they are one piece of the string, their spouse is the other and that God is the third. The three entwined will strengthen anybody’s marriage.

It was great to watch our mum and dad campers actively participate in this quality and quantitative Christian teaching. Oh and the kids are having a great time also!!

Till next time.

Glyn