Rise & Shine Summer Camp
- General Information
General Information
Rise & Shine Summer Camp is a quality, Christian summer program for infants, toddlers and preschoolers; available to Northside members and to our community. We look forward to an adventurous summer filled with joyous and memorable experiences designed to keep your child learning and entertained.
Daily Activities are well-rounded and developmentally appropriate experiences; incorporating bible lessons, moonwalk, indoor/outdoor movement, music, books, art, gross and fine motor play opportunities, and weekly special entertainment.
Our camp classrooms are staff with Northside Church’s caregivers, as well as Cobb County and APS school teachers. We are proud of our 95% teacher return rate.
- Choose individual days or an entire week
- Open to the NUMC congregation and community
- Free Camp T-Shirt
- Daily Special Entertainment and Events
- Like our FB page to see in real time your child’s daily activities
- Lunch
Lunch
You will be required to pack a lunch for your camper. We ask parents to refrain from including any items with nuts.
- Illness
Illness
Your child should be kept home if he/she has had a fever or has been ill within the previous 24 hours. If your child becomes ill or is showing symptoms of pink eye, excessive loose bowel movements, body rash, fever, or nausea while at camp, you will be called to pick up your child. You are required to be reachable by phone any time your child is in our care.
Primarily for sanitary and safety reasons, no one is to enter the classrooms other than caregivers and children. Please allow the welcoming caregiver to assist your child through the door. Please feel free to call and check on your child sporadically throughout the day. If we are unable to comfort/console your child, we will call to inform you and ask for your assistance
- Dress Code
Dress Code
Casual play clothes with tennis shoes. During camp, campers will be participating in craft activities, painting projects, petting zoos, etc.
- Registration & Tuition
Registration & Tuition
SAVE the DATE!
Mark your calendars for our wonderful summer camps! Specific themes and details will be announced on January 5
with early February registration. Below you will find the weeks of camp. We super excited to share the summer weeks
with your child!
June 11-14
June 18-24
June 25-28
July 9-12
Tuition
1 day of camp per week $50
2 days of camp per week $90
3 days of camp per week $120
4 days of camp per week $145
TUITION IS DUE BY APRIL 10, 2017. You may pay by cash or check. If you pay in cash, please have the correct amount. If full tuition is not paid by 4/10/17, and you have not made payment arrangements with Estee, your child’s space will be forfeited. Checks for tuition and the registration fee must be separate from other camps. Please make your check payable to NUMC. Your camp tuition payment may be mailed to: Northside United Methodist Church, 2799 Northside Drive NW, Atlanta, Ga. 30305, Attention: Estee Lassiter/Rise & Shine Camp.
Availability is based on spaces vacant for each individual classroom. ABSOLUTELY NO REFUNDS WILL BE GIVEN FOR ABSENCES. In the event of an illness, you may switch days (based upon availability). We know that many changes can occur to your schedule and to try to help accommodate schedule changes, we will allow parents to switch dates chosen if space is available. If space is not available a tuition refund will be issued for changes made only before April 10, 2017.
- Welcome to Camp & Carpool
Welcome to Camp & Carpool
All confirmed campers will receive a Welcome Packet the week of May 22, 2017. This packet will have information reminders, nametags, room assignments, and your carpool tag.
Carpool
Your camper has been assigned a carpool number. This number allows our staff to recognize you as a camp parent and appropriately get your camper unloaded and loaded during carpool. Your carpool tag must clearly be displayed when entering the parking deck. Always hang your carpool tag from your rearview mirror. Keep it displayed during the entire carpool process.
Children are unloaded and loaded from the driver’s side back door only but not over the driver and not through the driver’s door. We cannot unload or load any children from the rear end of the car (station wagon, hatchback, or utility vehicle).
You must notify the camp director no later than 11am the day of with any carpool changes. Notification must be made by email to, riseandshine@northsideumc.org subject line as CARPOOL CHANGE. Please include the name of the person authorized to pick up your child. For your child’s protection, we will not put him/her in a car without a camp carpool tag.
The safety of your children is a priority; therefore, please be aware of the following additional requirements:
MORNING CARPOOL (8:50am)
- Camper’s in Rooms C, D, E, F, G & H must be dropped off in morning carpool.
- Carpool line forms from Kingswood Lane into the parking deck. (See map)
- A camp representative will be available to unload your camper from the driver’s side only.
- You should drop off all carpool participants before walking younger siblings in.
- Do not use cell phones (talking, texting, emailing) while in the carpool line.
- Do not allow your child to stand up through sun-roofs or hang out open windows while in carpool line.
LATE MORNING DROP OFF
If you arrive after 9:05am, you must park in the parking deck and walk your child in. Each camp class will have a rotation schedule outside their door to inform you of their current location.
AFTERNOON CARPOOL (12:45pm)
- Carpool Tags MUST be visible upon entering the parking deck. We call your child’s CP number as you enter.
- Top speed for entering and traveling through the parking deck is 5 MPH.
- Carpool line forms from Kingswood Lane into the parking deck. (See map)
- A camp representative will be available to load your camper from the driver’s side only.
- Cars will continue moving through the line and up the hill near the Chapel to buckle children.
- All cars MUST follow directions of carpool process for it to run smoothly. (See map)
- Please do not leave children unattended in car.
- If you have multiple children attending various camps, you will be asked to circle around the carpool line until your child’s camp is ready for pick up.
- Rise & Shine carpool will begin promptly at 12:45pm.
LATE PICK UP
Rise & Shine carpool ends at 1:00pm. A late fee of $15 will be due upon arrival for late pick up. Camper’s whose parents are late, after 1pm, may pick their child up in the Children’s Ministries Lobby.
EARLY DISMISSAL
If you need to pick up your child BEFORE carpool, you will need to park in the parking deck and walk in before 12:40pm. We will not dismiss any camper to a guardian after 12:40pm unless it is through the carpool line.