Our School Programmes are linked to both the IB and British National Curriculum

Drawing upon more than 12 years of experience working closely with schools, we have created a comprehensive Outdoor Education Curriculum with links to both the International Baccalaureate Curriculum and the British National Curriculum. Our programmes focus on whole-person development as we nurture the sensitivity, tolerance, creative thinking and potential of tomorrow’s global leaders in today’s students.

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Registration for school camps should be no later than three month before the starting date of the camp. Peak camping dates (Sept-November) are often requested a year or more in advance for both residential and camping.

We provide insurance coverage for all participants on our programmes. Schools and parents are required to have medical and dietary information submitted to us before all programmes start to ensure a safe and enjoyable experience. Please contact us for our policies.

We promote life long learning by ensuring that students assess and reflect upon the experiences they have undertaken and incorporate it within the interlinked ripples of inquiry, action, reflection, application, completion. Our camp curriculum objectives set the scene for our chosen activities. We believe young learners develop social skills through a balanced understanding of Adventure, Community and the Environment. The key human traits and attitudes set the focus for what we are developing which offers opportunities based on inquiry learning. In keeping with the natural transition of self-discovery and ensuring a durable base of skills and knowledge throughout the years, every activity has relations with other activities and allows commonality of structure. Each activity includes an introduction and debriefing on the expectations and reflections of their experiential learning. Reflections will include self-assessment, group assessment and feedback.

Inquiry Based Learning:
We promote life long learning by ensuring that students assess and reflect upon the experiences they have undertaken and incorporate it within the interlinked ripples of inquiry, action, reflection, application, completion. Our camp curriculum objectives set the scene for our chosen activities. We believe young learners develop social skills through a balanced understanding of Adventure, Community and the Environment. The key human traits and attitudes set the focus for what we are developing which offers opportunities based on inquiry learning. In keeping with the natural transition of self-discovery and ensuring a durable base of skills and knowledge throughout the years, every activity has relations with other activities and allows commonality of structure. Each activity includes an introduction and debriefing on the expectations and reflections of their experiential learning. Reflections will include self-assessment, group assessment and feedback.

Progressive Programmes
We aim to integrate primary level curriculum outcomes with our outdoor education courses. We provide opportunities to foster an awareness, love and respect for self, others and the environment. In terms of self, we enable progression of mental, physical and emotional attributes by concentrating on the development of the IB Learner Profile:

Year 2 – Family Day camp
Year 3 – The Year of Discovery
Year 4 – The Year of Empathy
Year 5 – The Year of Investigation and Inquiry
Year 6 – The Year of Leadership and Application

Our Activities List:
We have an exciting and ever growing range of activities to offer! Please contact us: for our complete list. We work with teachers to customize our programmes for your school.

Our year band camps can offer five-day/four-night camping, residential experience and/or multi-day programmes. Incorporating elements from the IB, MYP and British National Key Stage Three curriculum, this also introduces the CAS elements at an early stage secondary school. Contact us for more information on our programmes.

Tribal Camp Objectives

• EMPOWERMENT – allow students to apply and evaluate their ethics, skills and understanding within their tribes
• REFLECTION – provide students with multiple opportunities to reflect upon their ability to inquire, take action, reflect and apply changes
• COLLABORATION – create a collaboration between Treasure Island and schools in order to fulfill the needs of students in terms of experiential learning opportunities

CAS Elements:

(AYP) Award for Young People
Our programme staff provides support to schools looking for support in regard of their AYP programmes in Hong Kong and China. We can also provide the schools with a camping base on Lantau should they need equipment and training facilities.

Youth Leadership Training
Our Youth Leadership Training takes place on the first weekend of September for all International Schools who will be sending Leaders on Tribal Camps / School camps. We train Student Leaders on leadership skills, first-aid and safety on programmes, games and activity skills. This is a great opportunity for Youth Leaders in Training to represent their school during the programme. Please book by school and contact us.

Global Adventures – China Trips
Global Adventures is is deisgned for our CAS students in the upper years and we have trips in China and Hong Kong. In Hong Kong we run Leadership programmes for CAS students who are looking to gain community service opportunities, certication in Adventure Leadership, First Aid and Leave No Trace. For the China programme we are based in Lijiang and our focus here will be on a school and orphange outdoor programme with the Naxi and Yi minority groups. For schools and youth interested in this programme please click on the following programmes on offer:




CAS Youth Leader Training
Global Adventures provides ongoing leadership training for youths who assist younger students on Treasure Island Tribal Camp and Summer Surf Camps. This training programme takes place over 2 years with options to accumulate CAS hours for students attending IB curriculum schools and is also the true essence of community service and volunteer work.


Youth Leadership 2 Year Training Programme
Year 1

Fall: September 1st Weekend
• Weekend Leadership Camp for Tribal Camp: Hong Kong
• Camp Skills / Group Initiatives / Safety / First Aid
Spring: March &-July
• 10 Day Leadership Camp: China / New Zealand
• Surfing / First Aid / Rock Climbing / Leadership
Summer: July–August
• Quiksilver Surf Camps Instructors: Hong Kong

Year 2

Fall / Spring (during School sessions)
• Global Adventures Expeditions
• Outbound Community Service Programmes
• Expeditions to China / Laos / Philippines / New Zealand
Winter:
• Youth Leadership Completion / Awards and Recognition
• CAS completion
• Gap Year Programme and Work Abroad

Wilderness and First Aid Training
Once a year students and teachers looking to be certified in Wilderness and First Aid training will be offered in the Spring. Programme will start in March 2009. Please contact us for more information.

Treasure Island and Global Adventures are based on Lantau Island with other locations in Hong Kong and throughout Asia.

Our Pui O base camp, located on Lantau Island and one of Hong Kong’s safest beaches, includes a private camp site, a restaurant, showers and washroom amenities, en-suite bedrooms for school staff and a multi-function room with all necessary IT and wireless Internet infrastructure.

Our Residential Camp Facility includes the new YWCA in San Shek Wan, Lantau Island, just five minutes from Pui O Beach. This new residential facility complements our programmes with on-site activities such as archery, rock climbing, ropes course and can include an Overnight Expedition where the students sleep overnight in tents.

Other locations include camping and residential sites in the Asia-Pacific region: China, Philippines, Thailand, Laos and New Zealand / Australia.

Our Environmental Day Camps are designed to help students better understand our environment within curriculum-based programme taught in the field.

Our topics include:
River Studies, Local Plants and their traditional uses, Wetland and Sandy Shore Habitats, Tree Id, Composting, Water Cycle and Pollution, Land Usage and Features, and more. Additionally, community service projects can be incorporated into any of our environmental day camp programmes. Preparing farmland, reading support programmes, rural communities research, visiting homes for the elderly and beach clean ups are a few of our community projects.


We offer two special programmes in the spring season:

• SOS (Save our Seas Programme)

The Save our Seas programme, held on World Ocean Day, looks at marine life and habitats in our environment and ways to protect our Blue Planet.

• Eco-Camp

Students will spend a day on eco-camp looking at carbon footprints, water shelters, herbal plants and self-sufficient living with our mini-garden and organic cooking sessions.

Want your EAL/ESL class to experience a uniquely stimulating language platform?

Our English Outdoor Education Day camps provide the perfect motivation for enhanced communication in English, as students experience English Language immersion, having to communicate in real life situations with our native English Speaking Treasure Island Leaders.

Students employ active listening skills as well as a variety of speaking skills (including pronunciation development with native English speakers and confidence in interacting in a real conversation). Reading and writing skills are also brought into play as students learn new topics, do research, and fill in related worksheets.

International Schools

• Australian International School
• Canadian International School
• Chinese International School
• French International School
• German Swiss International School
• Hong Kong International School
• International School Foundation
• Japanese International School
• Kellett International School
• Singapore International School
• Yew Chung International School
• Utahloy International School – China
• Okpo International School – Korea



• English Schools Foundation (ESF) Schools
• Secondary
• Island School
• King George V School
• Sha Tin College
• South Island School
• West Island School
• Primary
• Clearwater Bay School
• Glenealy School
• Kennedy School
• Kowloon Junior School
• Peak School
• Sha Tin Junior School
• Hong Kong Schools
• Mary Knoll Convent School
• St. Paul’s Co-educational College Primary School

“We have been running camps and day activities in partnership with Treasure Island since 2003. The camps have been ran very successfully and, most importantly, safely. Our students greatly enjoy these opportunities for outdoor education and we find the camps to be a valuable addition to our whole-school CAS programme.”


“Thanks for all your organization. Overall management has performed really well with such a large group and that we are really pleased with the outcome.


“All the staff I’ve encountered have been thoroughly professional friendly and enthusiastic.”





Does the programme work with your school objectives while on camp?

“It was excellent for teambuilding, cooperation and having fun! It also gave children the opportunity to show skills that were non-academic”.


“Yes, it did very much so. It linked very well with the PYP learner profile and activities were investigative and inquiry based”.


“I have used Treasure Island’s expertise in Outdoor and Environmental Education for day-long field trips, residential and outdoor camps for the past 10 years. Their knowledge, professionalism and love of the outdoors ensures an educational, meaningful and above all fun experience for both teachers and students alike.”

email us at inquires@treasureislandhk.com