When: 22 June to 17 July
Who: Children who have completed nursery through Grade Two
Hosted by: Shanghai Community International School
cost: From 2,000RMB/week
Contact: www.scis-his.org
The Shanghai Community
International School (SCIS)
is organising summer
camps at their Hongqiao
and Pudong campuses slew of programmes that will keep the little
ones entertained and stimulated with all the
activities specifically designed with the early
learner in mind. The line-up include a lot
of games, sports, outdoor exploration, fun
field trips, art and music classes, as well as
Mandarin lessons.
The social development aspect will also be
covered during these camps as the children
get to interact with one another during course
work and play time. Both full-day and halfday
tuition include lunch and all summer
camp activity costs. Parents can also pay an
additional fee to have transportation included
in the package.
When: 22 June to 17 July
Who: Children ages 5 to 12
Hosted by: Dulwich College Shanghai
Cost: 2,000RMB (Dulwich students), 2,250RMB non-students
Contact: info@dulwich-shanghai.cn
If your child is budding sportsperson who
just cannot keep still, this camp by Dulwich
College Shanghai (DCS) is one of the best
choices for treating him or her to an eventful
and enriching summer. The DCS Active
Summer Camp allows your child to take part
in not just one but a variety of sports, learning
its proper techniques as well as understanding
its rules. These include daily swimming
sessions with elite coaches, soccer, basketball,
badminton, hockey, cricket, T-ball, table tennis
and multi-gym sessions. Held at the college
grounds and the newly refurbished swimming
pool at the German Center in Pudong, the camp
will also engage your child’s creative side with
age-appropriate art and craft lessons, giving
him or her a well-rounded, fun and educational
break this holidays.
When: 22 June to 7 August
Who: Children of all ages
Hosted by: The Essential Learning Group
Cost: Email ELG to find out
Contact: services@chinaelg.com
The Essential Learning Group (ELG) is well
known for its teaching methods, one that
stands out from the crowd with its mantra
of ‘teaching the student’ instead of the
group. The classes held at ELG are highly
individualised, catering to each student’s
specific level as well as needs, ensuring
that he or she gets the most effective
learning experience.
The school will be adopting this approach
in its summer camp this holidays, with a focus
on developing behaviour, communication and
social skills. The school’s qualified team of
therapists, educators and program facilitators
will provide participants with a structured,
theme-based schedule that features field trips,
arts and crafts lessons and therapy-based
group activities that will allow the children to
mingle and develop their social skills.
When: 22 June tp 21 August
Who: Children aged 5 to 14
Hosted by: Children's Boutique
Cost: 1,080RMB/week
Contact: 5897 7313, info@childrensh.com
Give your kids a memorable summer at
Children’s Boutique where they will make
new friends while having a ball of a time
learning about new things at its summer camp.
These Monday to Friday camps provide a
holistic learning experience with a fun-filled,
comprehensive itinerary that will keep your
child physically and mentally fit. Some of
the highlights include kid’s golf, swimming,
tennis classes, arts and crafts lessons, musical
theatre performances and creative writing
guidance. There are half and full day camps to
choose from and those enrolling more than two
children will enjoy discounts. Transportation
can also be arranged for an additional fee.
When: 27 to 29 June, 1 to 3 July
Who: Children aged 6 to 17
Hosted by: British International School Shanghai
Cost: 3,890RMB/week
Contact: info@manutdsoccer-schoolschina.com
If there’s one thing that will convince your kid
to get off the couch this summer and out into
the sun, it’s got to be Manchester United. The
Red Devils, who have won the most English
league titles in history, boast having one of the
most popular football schools in the world.
And they will be conducting two three-day
football camps at the British International
School’s Puxi and Pudong campuses.
The children will undergo six different
coaching sessions in addition to three
leadership workshops, getting to experience
first-hand the ‘Manchester
United Way’ of playing football
from some of the best coaches
in England. These highly
experienced coaches will be
on hand to ensure that all
participants, regardless of how
old they are, receive challenging
but achievable training.
When: 22 June to 7 August
Who: Chilrden who have completed kindergarten through to grade 10
Hosted by: Shanghai American School
Cost: 6,00RMB
Contact: Jeff.Thompson@saschina.org
Dedicated to providing students with topquality
academic guidance, the Shanghai
American School is rolling out their Summer
Discovery programme that offers a wide range
of courses covering science, English language
development, music, Chinese classes and
sports training.
Lunch is provided for all programmes, and
attendees will even receive a course T-shirt,
backpack as well as a program certificate.
Some of the highlights include the Green
Science course for lower and upper elementary
children where they will learn about where
trash goes, the process of decomposition
and how our lifestyles and decisions affect
the Earth. The course will also delve into
topics such as green energy sources like
solar and wind power, and the students will
get to construct their own ‘green’ devices by
implementing what they have learned.
Another exciting option is the Robo
Transformer and Wild Animal Park course
where kids will learn about the principles
of mechanical movement, from machine
linkages, gears to motors, before building
their own robot from scratch. For the wildlife
segment of the course, children will be
introduced to a microscope and view plant
and animal cells upclose, as well as learn
about the science behind flying kites and
powerful catapults.
When: 29 June to 10 July/ 13 July to 24 July
Who: Children of ages 5 to 11
Hosted by: YK Pao School Primary Division
Cost: 10,500RMB
Contact: summercamp@ykpaoschool.cn
Shanghai may only be your child’s adopted
home but why not make the most of this
experience and let him or her master the
Chinese language? The YK Pao School’s
summer classes promise to enhance your
child’s conversational skills in Chinese, as well
as hone their ability to read and write Chinese
characters via activity-based lessons and reallife
learning. Besides classroom-based lessons,
your child will also be taking part in fun-filled playing, calligraphy
classes, martial
arts sessions and
community visits - that
will enhance the whole
learning experience.
The course materials
prepared for all
students are specially
designed to provide
non-native Chinese
speakers with a fun and
effective way to learn
about the language and
China’s culture.
When: 29 June to 17 July
Who: Children of ages 3 to grade 10
Hosted by: Western International School of Shanghai
Cost: From 3,000RMB
Contact: summer@wiss.cn
If you’re looking to enrol your child in a
summer camp that offers distinctive courses
not seen in other educational institutes, the
movie-making and video game design lessons
held by the Western International School of
Shanghai (WISS) certainly stand out. Apart
from a selection of academic enrichment
programmes that focus on literacy, numeracy
as well as science skills and concepts,
WISS has included these two exciting courses
in this year’s summer camp itinerary that
promises to expand your child’s capacity for
creative thinking.
Children taking part in the movie-making
class will learn how to work together as a film
crew to bring their ideas to
life on the silver screen. They
will also be taught how to
write, produce, direct and
even act in their own films.
All film equipment will be
provided during the course
so there’s no need to worry
about buying your child a
super expensive camera
(though that might be a good
excuse to get yourself one!) before he or she can attend
the course.
Needless to say, the
video game design course
will undoubtedly be a hot
favourite among children
because for once in their
lives, they’ll actually be
creating a game instead
of playing it. Participants
will learn how to use Kodu
Game Lab, a game design software that
was designed specifically to be accessible
to children, and it promises to be a whole lot
of fun because the kids will be using visual
elements to create a program instead of
having to type endless lines of code. The
course will teach children about different
gaming concepts and the processes involved
in animating a character, and there will even
be a friendly competition among students to
determine who can create the best game.
When: 29 June to 28 August
Who: Children ages 4 to 11
Hosted by: Colorbox Arts
Cost: From 350RMB/day
Contact: www.artstation20.com, 6467 7002
Colorbox Arts, the sister studio of Art
Station 20 along Xiangyang Nan Lu, will be
holding two summer camps for children of
different age groups this summer, and each
will provide a colourful learning experience
using innovative art and science classes. The
Summer Art and Science Fun course, for
children aged 4 to 6, will engage kids with
music and story-telling while also introducing
to them one of the world’s most famous artist
– Andy Warhol – and have them attempt to
recreate some of Warhol’s colourful works.
Children aged 7 to 11 can participate in
the Summer Art and Science Camp where
they will learn slightly more advanced art
techniques and be taught how to develop their
own interpretations and create personalised
works of art. The project themes in this camp will be based on Warhol, Monet, Matisse,
Louise Nevelson, Brigit Riley, Serat, Japanese
printmaking and Chinese watercolor painting.
Exciting science experiments also features in
both courses, and the children will be involved
in projects that touch on friction, inertia, light,
as well as simple chemical reactions in the
form of paper mache volcanos and inertiadriven
pendulum paintings. Children aged 12
and above are also welcome to join and parents
get enjoy a 10 per cent discount on course fees
when enrolling more than one child.
When: 29 June to 21 August
Who: Children ages 3 to 6
Hosted by: Montessori School of Shanghai
Cost: Emailed Montessori to find out
Contact: admission.qingpu@montessorisos.com, admission.xuhui@montessorisos.com
This summer break, let the children be
immersed in the unique teaching environment
a Montessori school provides, and see them
reap the benefits of this educational approach.
Developed by Italian physician and educator
Maria Montessori, this teaching philosophy
has a keen focus on a child’s independence and
natural disposition for learning, and aims to
develop skills based on group instruction and
cooperation, instead of through memorisation and drills.
The Montessori School of Shanghai will
be holding their Summer Wonder Journey
camp this holiday season and it aims to
help stimulate children’s’ creativity and
imagination while letting them make new
friends. Activities include art classes where the
participants will get to have fun with mixing
different colours to create new ones, while fun
practical experiments during science lessons
will allow them to have a better grasp of basic
theories. Also included in the camp are cooking
classes, pottery lessons and colourful field
trips. The summer programs will span across
eight weeks and six sessions, and parents have
the flexibility of enrolling their children into
any particular session.
