2025 Camper/Counsellor/Counsellor-In-Training
Application Information
Information
is available for Arts Camp 2025:
What is
YRDSB Arts Camp?
Celebrating
over 30 years on the shores of a private lake in the Haliburton Highlands, Camp
White Pine is host to a unique yearly camp for Grades 7-12 York Region District
School Board students. Arts Camp is an intensive week-long immersion in visual,
studio and performance art programs and experiences. At camp, each camper is
encouraged to discover and explore their identity through supported risk-taking
and positive collaboration with peers, staff artists and camp leaders through
intensive and extended opportunities to explore and discover new and creative
talents. Arts Camp fosters rich opportunities to gain self-awareness,
self-confidence and a distinct identity, while supporting the growth,
individuality and potential of all participants.
When is
it?
Saturday,
May 24 to Saturday, May 31, 2025
Where is
it held?
Camp White
Pine, Haliburton, ON
(Optional
transportation is offered for a fee.)
Who can
apply?
Students in
Grades 7 – 12 who are registered in a York Region District School Board school.
There is no limit to the number of student applications submitted from an
individual school provided that each student applicant has met the following
criteria:
● Student
demonstrates positive character in the school;
● Student
does not show significant behavioural and/or safety concerns in the
school;
● Student
would positively contribute to and benefit from an arts program in an inclusive
community;
● Student is prepared, mature and well
enough to spend a week away from home and school;
● Student
has parental/guardian consent; and
● Student
has their school administrator's support and the endorsement of a teacher at
the school.
If
interested in applying, students/families should first download the 2025 Camper/Counsellor Counsellor-In-Training Application
Information from the board website.
Students in
grade 9-12 are able to apply to the Counsellor or Counsellor-in-Training
program. Students can apply to these positions by completing the
Counsellor or Counsellor-in-Training section at the end of the camper
application form. You can learn more about these positions by reading the Counsellor/Counsellor-In-Training
Information Package.
Applications
are now open and close February 7, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Late
applications will not be accepted.