The winners of the competition for the organization of children’s and youth camps and non-formal education events of municipal institutions have been determined

in the municipality of Ogre regionin February approved funding for municipal authorities so that they could organize children’s and youth camps and non-formal education events in the summer and autumn period. The municipal authority responsible for ensuring the tender process and coordinating the project is the Education Board of the Ogre region. In total, the Education Administration received 24 applications, the total amount of which was 30% higher than the available municipal support.

Although not all applicants can be supported within the existing budget, however, with greater competition, most of the applications submitted are qualitatively developed, there is a well-thought-out program of events and camps. This year, the application evaluation commission has approved 7 children’s and youth camps, which will be held in Ogre, Lēdmane, Ķeipene, Madlien, Tīnūži, while 10 informal education events will take place in Ogre, Lielvārde, Lēdmane, Ķeipene, Birzgale.

This year, municipal authorities, which are mostly primary and secondary schools in our region, will organize sports camps, for example, Madliena secondary school will organize the traditional “Madliena summer” camp, Ogre region sports center will participate in the orientation camp children and young people with and without functional disabilities, the aim of which will be to promote a more socially inclusive environment in the local community, civic activity and social responsibility of young people, as well as the running of the camp will help in the personal growth of young people. The participants of the Ogre Center elementary school camp “My story of experience in Latvia” will be Ukrainian, remigrant and minority children and young people who need support in learning the Latvian language, while at the Jaunogre secondary school camp “Raiba valodiņa” special emphasis will be placed on in-depth training and understanding of the Latvian language. This year, the evaluation commission was pleasantly surprised by the application of Lädmanes elementary school “Sensual camp”, which reflected a qualitatively developed content presentation of the camp in the volume of 13 pages, which describes in detail the methods and tools with which camp organizers want to develop various social-emotional skills in children. Ľeipene elementary school plans to hold a “Values ​​camp”, the main goal of which is to develop and strengthen reading skills, expand positive experiences and vision, and promote psycho-emotional well-being in children, while Tīnūži primary school wants to promote children’s cooperation skills and purposeful spending of time without digital devices in the summer camp “Find out how much You can do a lot!”.

The offers of organizers of non-formal education events for children and young people are just as exciting and diverse. Ogre Central Library’s “Kepa uz kbište” and Lielvārde City Library’s “Read and Create!” the cycle of classes is designed to develop reading skills, as well as to awaken children’s love of reading and interest in books. An unprecedented opportunity will be offered by the Lädmanes elementary school, where children and young people will learn the art of improvisation and demonstrate the acquired skills in an improvisational theater performance. Ogres PII “Strautiņš” will offer students to learn ukulele skills together with musician Katrīnas Dimantas, while Birzgale elementary school will present the learning of Wingfoil sport, thereby promoting comprehensive physical education and the development of sportsmanship in young people. Active lifestyle activities and different types of sports will also be presented by Ogre county sports center “Open doors in sports”, Birzgale primary school “Esi active and healthy” and Ogre PII “Strautiņš” with a set of events “Active summer”. Through dance, music and poetry, the Ogre Centra elementary school wants vencourage cooperation between students and people with special needs at the event “My Fatherland is beautiful throughout the year”. Through various attractive tasks and team cooperation erudition game “Investment in your future” Keipene primary school want to promote friendship and cohesion among the young people of the immediate area..

The Education Board of Ogre region thanks the municipal authorities for their activity in the project competition, we appreciate the work done by the organizers in the development of applications for both camps and non-formal education events, and we hope for a response next year as well!

The information was prepared by the Education Board of Ogre region

The picture is from the 2023 activities.