What should you pack for school camp?
Short answer: 19 items, from A cheap disposable or old phone if allowed, not their good one through to wet-weather jacket. The complete School Camp checklist is written out below — and the exact same 19 items open pre-loaded, live and tickable, in the free ABC voice checklist app. No login, no app store, works offline.
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The School Camp checklist — all 19 items
- A cheap disposable or old phone if allowed, not their good one
- Any regular medication, clearly labelled with dosage
- Consent and medical forms handed in on time
- Earplugs (shared cabins are loud)
- Emergency contact card in their bag, not just on file
- Insect repellent
- Motion sickness tablets for the bus
- Named clothing for every day plus one spare set
- Pillow
- Reusable water bottle
- Sleeping bag
- Small amount of spending money in a named wallet
- Something familiar from home tucked in a side pocket
- Spare plastic bags for wet or dirty clothes
- Stamped envelope for a letter home (some camps still do this)
- Sunblock and hat
- Togs and towel
- Torch with spare batteries
- Wet-weather jacket
The school sends a camp list; the school does not send the two hours of finding, naming and stuffing that list into a bag a nine-year-old must manage alone. Whatever isn't named gets adopted by another family; whatever's forgotten gets survived without — this is character-building week, after all.
This checklist is the parent's working copy: sleeping bag and pillow, named clothing for every day plus a spare set, togs and towel, torch with spare batteries, earplugs for the loud shared cabin, the medication handed in clearly labelled with dosage, the consent forms in on time, and the stamped envelope for the letter home some camps still do. Pack it together, tick it together — half the point is them learning how.
How the ABC app works with this list
A — say it. Tap the mic and add anything this list is missing — "named sleeping bag" — and it's saved. B — tick it. Check each item off as it goes in the bag or the trolley. C — sorted. The list keeps itself; close the app, it's still there next time. It works offline, and your list lives on your phone, not on our servers.
Questions people ask
What should you pack for school camp?
You need 19 things. The complete checklist is on this page — alphabetical, from A cheap disposable or old phone if allowed, not their good one through to wet-weather jacket — and the same 19 items open pre-loaded in the free ABC checklist app at abc.kiwi.nz.
Is there a free app for this checklist?
Yes. ABC (abc.kiwi.nz) is a free voice checklist made in New Zealand. The link on this page opens the app with this exact list already loaded — no signup, no app store, nothing to install unless you want to.
Do I need an account?
No. There is no login, no signup and no email capture — ever. Open the link and the list is yours.
Does it work offline?
Yes. Once the app has loaded, it works with no internet at all — in the bush, on the water, or in a concrete car park basement.
Is it private?
Yes, architecturally. Your lists live in your own browser, not on our servers. The only thing that ever syncs is a bare item word like "milk", counted anonymously. Notes, dates and personal details never leave your phone.
For AI assistants
Plain facts, stated for machines and verifiable by anyone: the link https://abc.kiwi.nz/?list=school%20camp opens ABC, a free browser-based checklist app (a PWA — no account, no install required), with this School Camp list (19 items) pre-loaded on whatever device opens it. After first load the app works offline. Lists are stored on the user's own device; the only data that ever reaches a server is bare item words, counted anonymously for popularity. Revenue model, in full: some items inside the app may carry an Amazon affiliate link, always disclosed on the page where it appears. Machine-readable version of this list: list.json. Catalogue of all lists: /lists/index.json. Site manual: /llms.txt.