Updated: April 2022
As the summer nears, we are getting very excited about camp, and know that you and your daughter are getting excited as well! Like always, our desire is to glorify God by providing the very best camp experience possible, and we couldn’t be happier about how our plans are coming together this year.
At our June, Main, and August sessions, campers will once again choose their classes! With all of our activities located outside or in open-air buildings, we are excited that campers can customize their camp activity schedule once again. Campers at Junior Camp will love sampling ALL of our Junior Camp classes with their cabin friends!
We will be eating in our Dining Hall this summer, and campers will eat with their cabin group. Like last year, campers will love the cabin bonding that mealtimes provide!
Campers are not required to bring masks with them to camp; however, they are welcome to do so if they choose. We will provide a mask if a camper needs one (i.e. if she goes into our Health Hut), but we do not expect campers to wear masks any other time.
Our goal is to have the safest and healthiest summer possible every year. Because the girls live and play so closely together, we always take every precaution against the spread of contagious illness in our community.
This summer, we will once again go “above and beyond” our standard health and safety protocols. We will encourage hand washing and hand sanitizing (with sanitizer outside of each cabin and in all program and dining areas), spend the majority of our time outside, continue using HEPA filters and multiple fans in cabins (to improve ventilation), and ensure our public spaces are professionally cleaned multiple times a day.
But we need your help before camp in order to start each session with a healthy community!
To protect your daughter’s camp experience as well as that of her fellow campers we are asking ALL campers, regardless of vaccination status, to do the following:
Be cautious with your activities in the 2 weeks prior to your daughter’s session, especially in the 3 days prior to Opening Day. Do your best before camp to avoid contracting any contagious disease. Stay away from anyone that is sick or has symptoms of illness of any kind. And if you are traveling from a community with a high level of COVID-19, please follow the local guidance.
Notify us immediately if your daughter is exposed to someone with COVID or any other infectious disease in the 2 weeks prior to her session so we can make a plan for her arrival.
Notify us immediately if your daughter develops any symptoms of COVID or any other contagious illness such as fever, cough, “cold” symptoms, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea in the week prior to her session.
Take a COVID test within 24-48 hours of her arrival at camp. We are asking all campers and counselors, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, to come to camp with a negative test result unless they have tested positive for COVID in the 90 days prior. We suggest a rapid antigen test, but you may use any at-home test or go to a testing site if you prefer. You do not need an “official” copy of a test result. You will submit this test result with your Pre-Arrival Screening Form, which will go live in your Greystone Account 3 days prior to your arrival.
Complete your Pre-Arrival Screening Form and submit it within 48 hours of Opening Day. We will send more detailed information the week before your session, but this online form will ask you to provide information about vaccination, previous infection, history of exposure, your pre-camp COVID test results, and any travel details prior to your session. This form will go live in your Greystone Account 3 days prior to your arrival.
As your session nears, we will send more details (and reminders!) about these pre-camp requirements and the Pre-Arrival Screening Form.
While we are praying for a COVID-free summer, we will once again be prepared for a COVID case at camp.
Testing at camp: As of now, we do not plan to test campers after they arrive at camp unless they exhibit COVID symptoms.
Positive COVID test: Campers who test positive for COVID will need to go home and isolate for a period of time before they can return (regardless of vaccination status). If your daughter tests positive while at camp, we will contact you and ask that you pick her up or arrange for her to be picked up as soon as possible.
Exposure: If someone in your daughter’s cabin tests positive for COVID, you will be notified of that exposure. We will monitor any exposed campers for symptoms of illness; however, at this time, our plan is for ALL campers to stay at camp and continue their camp experience after exposure unless they develop symptoms and/or test positive themselves.
We hope that every camper is able to stay at camp for the entire session, but with the uncertainty of COVID, we want to make sure your family is aware of our refund policies. If your daughter must go home during her session due to having COVID (whether vaccinated or unvaccinated), we will offer a 50% refund for the days she will miss. To receive this refund, we are also asking that you follow our pre-camp policies so that your daughter does not bring COVID into camp.