When:
Monday, June 3, 2024 – Friday, August 2, 2024 (9 weeks)
Camp Day: 8:30am – 4pm
Before Care: 7:00am – 8:30am
After Care: 4:00pm – 6:00pm
The Fun Starts Here !
Welcome to Brighthouse Day Camp — THE ELITE Day Camp program in Palm Beach County specifically designed for campers from Kindergarten through 8th grade! Our PHENOMENAL staff, carefully chosen for these age groups, and the age-appropriate, superior campus facilities, set the stage for success.
We group the children into bunks based on age, grade, and parent requests. Each bunk has 15 to 25 campers led by a Senior Counselor who is college-age or older, assisted by 1 or 2 Junior Counselors who are high school age, as well as LITs & Interns.
Everyone Loves Brighthouse Day Camp !
Brighthouse Day Camp campers feel great about camp because they feel good about their counselors and the specialist staff who guide them. Additionally, our outstanding and dedicated members of the Leadership Team of Directors ensure that the Brighthouse Day Camp programs are conducted and instructed professionally, using age-appropriate equipment on an unmatched campus.
The Brighthouse Day Camp program places a significant emphasis on the instruction and participation in all activities to enhance skills development, appreciation of the creative and performing arts, love for the environment, and a positive sense of respect for fellow campers and staff.
Our Brighthouse Day Camp campers join either General Camp or Sports Camp, but we are one camp.
Our Facility
Somerset Academy Canyons is our summer home and offers a brand new state-of-the-art gymnasium, NEW Full-Size Turf Football & Soccer Field, baseball field, classrooms, outdoor basketball courts, cafeteria with FREE LUNCH, and a great location to all the communities in the Boynton Beach area.
Somerset Academy Canyons houses over 1500 students and provides a REAL camp environment, allowing for additional space for each age group to have their own BUNKS for those super-hot and rainy days. There are plenty of indoor and covered surfaces that help to protect the staff and campers from weather elements.
GENERAL CAMP
Entering Kindergarten – 8th grade
Brighthouse Day Camp has carefully designed a camp experience that includes the activities that kids enjoy most and uses them to encourage personal
accomplishment and group cooperation. Campers build self-confidence and develop positive attitudes by trying and succeeding at diverse new activities. By interacting with their peers, campers also learn the importance of participating with others and building successful relationships. We support and celebrate each camper’s abilities and encourage our campers to be active, proud, courageous, responsible and cooperative.
Our General Camp maintains an encouraging, positive and professional
environment where your child will always have FUN!
We also understand that these goals are best accomplished in a friendly, safe,
comfortable and clean environment. At Brighthouse Day Camp there is more to do, more to be…
- Project Space
- Fencing
- Tennis
- Fitness
- Cooking
- Karate
- Cheer
- Arts & Crafts
- Science
- Little Medical School
- Cartoon Art
- Yoga
- Axes
- Engineering for Kids
- Canvas Painting
- Magic
- Sports
- Plaster Time
- Archery
- Water Play
- Special Events
- Dress Up Days
SPORTS CAMP
Entering 1st Grade - 8th Grade
At Brighthouse Day Camp our Co-ed sports camp program is designed so campers can focus on their athletic skill development while enjoying indoor and outdoor recreational time playing ALL sports.
The scheduling philosophy provides sports activities each day (i.e. basketball, football, hockey, baseball, soccer, gaga, volleyball etc.) with a specialty activity (arts & crafts, science, computers) for a well-rounded day. (Kindergarten and 1st Grade campers will take part in more specialty activities than the older campers). Each week campers will take part in a different sports clinic led by local high school and/or professional coaches. These clinics teach campers the basic fundamentals and rules while encouraging them take part to in a variety of sports.
Our Sports Camp maintains an encouraging, positive and professional environment where your child will always have FUN!
Weekly Activities Include:
- Indoor Sports
- Outdoor Sports
- Sports Clinics
- Specialty Activities (Arts & Crafts, Science)
- Superstar Competitions
- Water Play
- Dress Up Days
- Special Events
Both General and Sports Camps will participate in weekly special events, camp shows and theme days. Brighthouse Day Camp also provides lunch and snack daily for all campers.
LIT (LEADER IN TRAINING)
Entering 9th grade
Graduating campers are welcomed and encouraged to participate in our LIT program, where they enjoy the “best of both worlds” in that they are campers transitioning into roles of more responsibility. With the support and guidance of the LIT director and other Brighthouse Day Camp staff, our aim is to prepare our LITs to be employed by Brighthouse Day Camp in the following two summer while still providing fun and recreational camper activities.
In this program, Our LIT’s begin the process of learning about camp counseling and education, assisting in various roles around camp as a helper to the counselors, upper staff, specialty classes, helping campers and much more! This rewarding and fun experience provides the opportunity for personal growth and extra freedoms within our camp structure. The LIT program is certainly not “all work and no play”. To balance out the day, the LIT’s interact within their own group, participating in recreational activities for a portion of the day and special field trips only for their age group. LIT’s also partake in leadership training with our LIT program coordinator.
LIT Schedule
LITs will shadow Senior and Junior Counselors in a bunk during the daily activities of the day. Every Monday, the CITs will have a morning meeting (8:00) with the LIT director. The purpose of these meetings may vary but are essential to the structure of the LIT program in promoting the exchange of ideas and learning amongst the LITs. Guest counselors and directors will attend certain meetings to share their ideas and expectations and/or offer specific guidance on topics or situations as they may arise.
Trips
Select Tuesdays, the LITs, the LIT director, and any additional support staff that may be necessary will take a yellow bus on a trip. Some of these trips are recreational, i.e. Escape Room, bowling, and water parks; and some are community service oriented; i.e. visiting a local nursing home, or helping out at the Soup Kitchen. The aim of these trips is to provide the LITs with something special that regular campers don’t receive, as well as providing a well-rounded and enriched LIT experience. On trip days, campers will be required to wear their LIT t-shirts and abide by the Brighthouse Day Camp LIT code of conduct. All trips are at no additional cost to the parent. A LIT trip schedule will be sent to parents at the beginning of the camp season.
In addition to all of the activities we offer, LIT’s will participate in a special co-ed program geared for teens and project hours which the group comes up with and executes the building of a “camp project” which will enhance camp in some
type of way.
LIT’s will be given the opportunity to earn community service hours by
participating in this program.
Brighthouse Day Camp LIT program will be a one-of-a-kind, transitional experience that cannot be found at any other day camp. The unique blend of on-campus training in addition to daily LIT activities, off-campus trips and activities will be an unforgettable experience.
INTERN PROGRAM
Entering 10th grade
At Brighthouse Day Camp, we believe that when a camper is entering 10th grade, they are ready and willing to learn about taking care of others…our most prized possession, YOUR CHILD. This program provides an opportunity for these young teens to develop leadership potential by working with younger campers while under the close supervision of their Senior & Junior Counselors, Unit Head and the camp director. Because they are active with their groups, they are assigned to camper divisions based on age, ability, and experience level.
Every Intern participates in as many activities as possible, though they may be assigned according to that Interns skills and likes. During activities, In essence, they are apprentices, training to become masters (counselors) in the future.
Each day the INTERNS report to their Unit Head for a weekly workshop training session. These workshops highlight what is required to be a good role model and counselor for younger campers.
Interns will be asked to express TWO preferences (camp ages and either sports or general camp) they would prefer to work with at orientation. They then report to their assigned bunk (Interns registered for 6 weeks or more will remain with the same group throughout the summer) to engage in scheduled activities with the younger campers, as well as lunch with the bunk. At any time an Intern feels they are not comfortable with the placement, or the Intern Unit Head feels the LIT would benefit in an alternative placement, changes will then be made. Friends will not be placed together!
Interns are responsible for helping organize materials and supplies for activities. They become positive role models for campers who want to become leaders because they have the opportunity to think creatively and share ideas! Interns build leadership skills assisting with: creating an art project, technique for passing and receiving a ball, and so much more!
The primary goals of the program are to help participants recognize themselves as leaders, teachers, and positive role models, and to understand what goes into making camp an unforgettable experience for the young people in our care.
Interns must enjoy working with children, embrace and work with the fun and challenges of intense community living, be willing to take initiative and work hard, be willing to give up many personal freedoms and comforts, display outstanding character, and be enthusiastic, creative, self-directed leaders. Interns will also be given the opportunity to earn community service hours by assisting with activities, helping around camp and volunteering at camp.
The INTERN program offers teens the opportunity to develop leadership and program skills that will hopefully lead to a counselor position in the future.
Brighthouse Day Camp does not guarantee a "junior counselor" position will be available next year for all Interns. Because we employ the finest staff, our most PHENONMENAL Interns may be considered to interview.