Parent Corner
Your camper's Olympiad progress, how IB Summer Camp works, and a printable weekly checklist.
📋 The idea
IB Summer Camp gives your child (and her friends) a structured but playful summer: roughly 3–4 hours a day across six blocks. The trail walks through the IB curriculum in order — Math & English revisit the whole Grade-4 syllabus on IXL with printable worksheets, while Discovery Lab and Create & Explore progress through each IB Unit of Inquiry's lessons (a specific video + a hands-on project + a worksheet). Each child logs in with a username, a PIN and a secret spark emoji; progress, streaks, and badges sync across devices.
✅ Getting started
- Open Camp Base. Each child taps New camper and picks a username (letters and numbers only), a 4–6 digit PIN and a secret spark emoji. Their display name starts as the username and can be changed in their profile.
- On another device, they type their username and PIN and tap their spark. Progress follows them.
- Each morning, open Today's Trail and work through the 6 blocks.
- Math & English blocks open IXL (your subscription) and a printable worksheet.
- Check off each block. Finishing all six completes the day and keeps the streak going.
At the end of a finished day your child writes one line about what she learned or made. Read these together in the 📔 Camp Journal on her Trophy Tent page — it's a simple window into what's sticking. A missed day is fine: one rest day no longer breaks her streak.
🏅 Olympiad practice
The Olympiad tab has Grade 4 + 5 practice for the SOF and Silverzone Olympiads in Science and Maths. Each chapter has a Level 1 (main ideas) and a Level 2 (harder Olympiad formats). Each level has 100 questions, all open from the start; the first 50 cover the main ideas and come up first. Every answer shows an explanation. The Practice papers are timed like the real exams: 35 questions in 60 minutes (SOF NSO and IMO) and 30 questions in 40 minutes (Silverzone). Use the progress report above to see what is done, what is not started, accuracy by chapter, paper scores, and the questions your child misses most.
⏱️ Screen-time balance
Two of the six blocks (Create & Explore, most Free Choice options) are screen-free by design. Discovery Lab pairs one short video with a hands-on experiment. A reasonable rhythm: screen blocks in the morning when focus is high, hands-on and outdoor play later. Encourage real breaks between blocks.
🤖 AI Maker Lab & Showcase
One block each day is the AI Maker Lab: your child builds a real thing with AI (a story, a trained image-spotter, a quiz game) and also investigates how the AI works. Finished projects are sent to the Camp Showcase. Submissions wait for your approval before they appear publicly — use the Showcase approvals panel here with the grown-up key. Tools are open: any AI helper works, with a grown-up nearby.
🔒 Privacy
Children log in with a username, a 4–6 digit PIN and a chosen secret spark emoji. There is no email and no personal detail. PINs and sparks are stored hashed (never in plain text) on the camp's own small server. The site is public, but each camper's progress needs their own login. Parents create their own account (username and password) and add a child with the child's username and PIN; a parent sees only the children they have added. Progress is checkmarks, points, badges and Olympiad answers.
🗓️ Weekly camp checklist
| Block ↓ / Day → | 🗺️ Explorer Day | 🔬 Inventor Day | 🎨 Storyteller Day | 🌍 Planet Day | 🤝 Community Day | ⛺ Weekend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔢 Math Camp | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| 📖 Word Workshop | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| 🔭 Discovery Lab | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| 🎨 Create & Explore | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| 🤖 AI Maker Lab | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |
| ⛺ Free Choice | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ | ☐ |