Camp City Year

Every year during the School District's Spring Break, City Year runs a day camp to provide a safe place to play and learn while school is out. Preparations for Camp City Year are well underway, because Spring Break is creeping up on us (April 6-9).

Camps are put together over the course of several weeks leading up to spring break. The camps leadership team--corps members who have applied to take on (over and above their day-to-day, in-class time) the challenges of finding places for, planning curricula for, and coordinating the food for 1,000 Kindergarten through 5th grade students.

This year's theme is "Adventures through Time" and will be hosted at four Recreation Centers throughout the city (Myers in Southwest, Marian Anderson in Center City, Murphy in South, and Rivera in Northeast Philadelphia).

Each camper must pay a $10 fee for the week. It's pretty cheap daycare. Each day, students will get to learn about different times and cultures, be fed breakfast, lunch and snack, and be supervised while playing and learning.