Summer Camp
Summer Camps by Age

Camps for Rising 2nd Graders

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  • Artrageous

    July 19-23 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades 1-4
    Create original works of art using various techniques and media.

    instructor: Martha Berge (lower school art teacher)
    cost: $200

  • Ballet

    June 14-18 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades 1-3
    Explore creative ballet technique, choreography, and imaginative theatre crafts like costuming and prop-making to create an original piece to perform via livestream for parents and friends.

    instructor:     Catherine Barkley (dancer, teacher, and choreographer)
    cost: $200

  • Basketball Skills & Drills

    Date/Time: June 17-18 (TH-F) | 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
    For girls entering grades 1-5.
    Instructor: Coach Thomas Jones (Varsity basketball coach, AAU coach, and basketball trainer)
    Cost: $35/day

  • Build A Better Mousetrap: Rube Goldberg Machines

    July 26-30 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades 2-5
    Have you ever played the game Mousetrap? That contraption is called a Rube Goldberg machine. To make the next great thing, you have to have the next great idea! Stretch your engineering and creative thinking muscles to build your own Rube Goldberg machine. A contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and overly complicated way. 

    instructor:     Oran Rosario (middle school math teacher)
    cost: $225

  • Building Math Skills 1-2

    August 2-6 | 1:00-2:30 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades 1-2
    Sharpen your spatial reasoning and apply math concepts to real world problem solving like how build a circle out of LEGO bricks! Math facts will be a focus. 

    instructor: Renee Grinder (lower school teacher)
    cost: $150

  • Cruisin' Into Second Grade

    August 2-6 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For Hutchison girls entering grade 2
    instructor: Melissa Berthelson (second grade teacher)
    cost: $200

  • Dollhouse Design

    June 28-July 2 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades 1-4
    Each camper will be designing, building, and decorating their very own wooden dollhouse to take home at the end of the week. Campers will learn about blueprints, architectural planning, and spend each day customizing both the exterior and the interior of their dollhouse. We will weave carpets, create custom furniture, decorate the houses with fabric accents and more. 

    instructor: Tanya Crump (early childhood teacher)
    cost: $200, plus $40 dollhouse and supply fee

  • Fairy Adventures Session 1

    June 14-18 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades K-2
    Create Fairy Magic by exploring literature, art, and the world of fairies. Read fairy stories, design and build tiny fairy gardens, tooth fairy keepsakes, and end the week with an outdoor fairy tea party. 

    instructor: Heather Fontana (kindergarten teacher)
    cost: $200

  • Fairy Adventures Session II

    July 12-16 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades K-2
    Create Fairy Magic by exploring literature, art, and the world of fairies. Read fairy stories, design and build tiny fairy gardens, tooth fairy keepsakes, and end the week with an outdoor fairy tea party. 

    instructor: Heather Fontana (kindergarten teacher)
    cost: $200

  • Fancy Nancy Camp Magnifique

    June 21-25 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades K-3

    Imagine the fun you will have in this camp filled with fancy stories, creative crafts, pirouettes (that's a fancy ballet name for spins), and other activities that are tres magnifique. Based on books from the Fancy Nancy series by Jane O'Conner.

    instructor: Linda Winchester (first grade teacher)
    cost: $200

  • Farm Spa Creations

    June 7-11 | 9:00 am-12:00 pm
    For girls and boys entering grades 2-4
    Create products using ingredients found on the Hutchison farm!

    Instructor:     Caroline Halliday
    Cost: $200

  • Gymstars Gymnastics K-2

    July 26-30 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades K-2
    instructors: Gymstars 
    cost: $225

  • LEGO Movie Magic

    June 28-July 2 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades 1-5

    Working together or individually, students will be able to easily create awesome stop motion animated movies with titles, credits, and sound effects. All supplies including LEGO's and tablets are provided, but students are welcome to bring to class their own LEGO pieces or other action figures. At the end of camp, the movies will be sent out to each students parent for in-home viewing.

    instructors: Bits Bytes and Bots 
    cost: $220

  • LEGO Movie Magic

    July 12-16 | 1:00-4:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades 1-5
    Working together or individually, students will be able to easily create awesome stop motion animated movies with titles, credits, and sound effects. All supplies including LEGO's and tablets are provided, but students are welcome to bring to class their own LEGO pieces or other action figures. At the end of camp, the movies will be sent out to each students parent for in-home viewing.

    instructor: Bits, Bytes, and Bots
    cost: $220

  • Make a Day of it with SPARK Day Camp

    June 1-August 13
    9:00 am-3:00 pm (early and aftercare available)
    Combine Center for Excellence summer camps with SPARK Day Camp for the best of both worlds - a full-day camp experience and specialty camp offerings.

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  • Mosaics 1-4

    August 9-13 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades 1-4
    Work with local mosaic artist, Kristi Duckworth, and design your own mosaic tile art pieces. Space is limited. 

    instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
    cost: $225

  • Pottery Intensive 2-4 and 5-8

    Week 1: June 14-18 and/or Week 2: June 21-25 
    For girls and boys entering grades 2-4 and 5-8
    Grades 2-4: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    Grades 5-8: 9:00 AM-3:00 PM
    Choose from a one or two week course that includes hand building and throwing on the wheel. 

    instructor: Kristi Duckworth (ceramist and painter)
    cost:
    Grades 2-4 $225 per week or $400 for both weeks
    Grades 5-8 $450 per week or $800 for both weeks

  • Renegades of Rhythm Summer Intensive

    July 26-30 | 8:30 AM-1:30 PM
    For students in elementary through high school
    Students will learn fundamentals of drumming as well as rudiments, proper technique. Students will also learn group beats and play as a full group while preparing for the upcoming performance season.
    All equipment is provided.

    instructor:     Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
    cost: $275

  • S.M.I.L.A. Summer Reading Clinic

    June 1-18 | 9:00 am-12:00 pm
    For girls and boys entering grades 1-5
    The SMILA mission is to help ensure that all children succeed in the basic language skills of reading, writing, and spelling.

    instructors: SMILA certified teaching staff
    cost: $800; $75 non-refundable deposit is required to hold a space in this camp. Payment in full is due no later than May 21, 2021.

  • Soccer Camp Session 1

    June 7-11 
    For girls ages 7-8 and 9-15
    Ages 7-8: 8:30-10:30 am
    Ages 9-15: 8:30-11:30 am
    Instructors: Hutchison soccer coaches and staff
    Cost: ages 7-8 $150 and ages 9-15  $200

  • Soccer Camp Session II

    June 28-July 2
    For girls ages 7-8 and 9-12
    Ages 7-8: 8:30-10:30 am
    Ages 9-12: 8:30-11:30 am
    instructor(s): Hutchison soccer coaches and staff
    cost: ages 7-8: $150
    ages 9-12:      $200

  • The "Renegades of Rhythm" Quad Camp

    June 21-25 | 2:00-4:00 PM
    For girls and boys elementary through high school
    Students will learn proper technique, rudiments and reading as well as beats.

    instructor:     Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
    cost: $130

  • The "Renegades of Rhythm" Snare Camp

    June 21-25 | 8:30-11:30 AM
    For girls and boys elementary through high school
    Students will learn proper technique, Rudiments, reading and playing beats.

    instructor: Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
    cost: $150

  • The "Renegades of Rhythm" Tom Bass Camp

    June 21-25 | 12:00-2:00 PM
    For girls and boys elementary through high school
    Students will learn fundamentals of drumming, reading and playing.

    instructor:     Andrew Hatfield (director, Renegades of Rhythm)
    cost: $130

  • Theatre Camp with Marques Brown

    July 26-30 | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
    For girls and boys entering grades 1-4
    Students will play, discover and get creative.
    Summer Theatre Workshop students in Grades 1-4 will develop theatre skills in a supportive, collaborative, and imaginative environment. Guided by Mr. Brown, a professional teaching artist, students will work together as an ensemble to explore and expand their “Actor Toolbox” – their body, voice, and imagination.  As a part of each day of the workshop, students will participate in Creative Drama & Improvisation classes, and the week long course will culminate in a short filmed showcase to share and display what they have learned, which will be made available to friends and family.

    instructor: Marques Brown (actor and theater technical director)
    cost: $200

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