Summer Camps by Week

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.

Explore performance technique with Hutchison Theater's artistic director!

instructor: Anne Marie Caskey (theater artistic director)
cost: $200

instructors: Daija Lowe (Hutchison volleyball coach)
cost: $200

Explore a book through beginning ballet technique. 

instructor: Louisa Koeppel (director Hutchison creative ballet center)
cost: $200

Calling all artists, superhero lovers, or graphic novel enthusiasts. During this workshop you will be putting your storytelling skills and artistic skills (either digital or drawing) to use as you create a story for the ages. Read graphic novels and create your own throughout this weeklong workshop that explores the boundary between art and writing.

instructor: Cydnie Trice (graphic design and communications)
cost: $200

Create products using ingredients found on the Hutchison farm!

Instructor: Caroline Halliday
Cost: $200

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.

Instructors: Hutchison soccer coaches and staff
Cost: ages 7-8 $150 and ages 9-15  $200

cost: $200

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

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

Instructor: Coach Thomas Jones (Varsity basketball coach, AAU coach, and basketball trainer)
Cost: $35/day

Join Ms. Koeppel for ballet technique, contemporary movement, and creative choreography.

instructor: Louisa Koeppel (director Hutchison creative ballet center)
cost: $200

Make cool science projects that mom won't let you do at home! Chemistry rockets, exploding Mentos, elephant toothpaste, egg in a bottle, and smoke bomb launchers. Experiment with magnets, electricity, air pressure, eggs, and sound. Get ready to get messy and have fun!

instructor: Lucy Wesson (lower school science specialist)
cost: $200, all supplies included

Learn basic techniques for taking great digital photographs. Then explore options for improving or enhancing your pictures with various effects, filters, and editing programs. A digital camera will be provided but you will need to bring a 16GB SD card to store your photos. 

instructor: Lacey Hudman (digital media, film, and photography)
cost: $200

instructor: Hutchison lacrosse coaches and staff
cost: $180

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

The Quickstart method makes the game of tennis easily accessible to the little ones by using a smaller court, net, racquet, and larger foam tennis balls.
DROP OFF AND PICK UP AT TENNIS CENTER

instructor: Jay Horne (Hutchison middle school tennis coach)
cost: $135 per session

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.

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

instructor: Whitney Branan (Hutchison alum, choreographer, dancer, actor)
cost: $200

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

instructors: GymStars Staff
cost: $130

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

Build, Experiment, Create! Spend the week exploring different STEM based subjects through fun daily activities that expand your knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math while building your creative mind.

instructor: Lucy Wesson (lower school science specialist)
cost: $200

Students will learn proper technique, rudiments and reading as well as beats.

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

Students will learn proper technique, Rudiments, reading and playing beats.

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

Students will learn fundamentals of drumming, reading and playing.

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

Budding Lin-Manuel Mirandas (Hamilton) will get the opportunity to co-author, perform, and direct their own 10 minute plays during this week-long introduction to playwriting workshop, focused on the theme "What's on the Horizon?" One part creative writing, one part design, and one part action; this class will be all fun!  Participants are encouraged to wear comfortable clothes to fully engage in planned activities.

instructor: Robin Avant (English teacher Desoto County schools and Northwest Mississippi Community College)
cost: $200

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

Use the flowers at the Hutchison farm to make beautiful preserved and living art! Girls will make flower crowns while also practicing patterning and counting. Press flowers for preserving and use flowers as an inspiration for other projects throughout the week. 

instructor: Hattie Rounder (junior kindergarten teacher)
cost: $150

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

instructor: Virginia Cady (upper school teacher)
cost: $350, activity costs included in price

instructor(s): Hutchison soccer coaches and staff
cost: ages 7-8: $150
ages 9-12:  $200

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

Take your dance skills to the next level. Learn the latest hip hop dance techniques that make up this unique street dance style.

instructor: Joseph Sorrentino (freestyle dancer)
cost: $200

Read and analyze the original literature, learn how to care for magical creatures, attend potions class, compete in quidditch matches and so much more.  

instructors: Lucy Wesson (lower school science teacher) and Robert Lofton (upper school science teacher)
cost: $200

Explore fiction and non-fiction books, storytelling, counting, and other hands-on activities in this great fun-filled class.

instructor: Renee Grinder (kindergarten teacher)
cost: $150

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

The Quickstart method makes the game of tennis easily accessible to the little ones by using a smaller court, net, racquet, and larger foam tennis balls. Masks are required.
DROP OFF AND PICK UP AT TENNIS CENTER

instructor: Jay Horne (Hutchison middle school tennis coach)
cost: $135 per session

*Campers must be potty trained to attend

Explore projects in sustainability through reusing and recycling to help reduce waste. Create recycled paper art and jewelry, plastic bag weavings, and bleach dyed clothing to name a few.

instructor: Loren Madore (SCS middle school math teacher)
cost: $225

Read books about zoo animals, learn about natural habitats with hands-on projects, go on a walking safari, and more.

instructor: Jane Dodge (Hutchison graduate and education major)
cost: $150

Create original works of art using various techniques and media.

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

instructor: Thomas Jones (varsity basketball coach, AAU coach, and basketball trainer)
cost: $150 or $35 per day

instructor: Ashlee Marshall (JK assistant teacher and former cheerleader)
cost: $200

Humans are storytellers. In this week-long creative writing class focused on short fiction, participants will draft, edit, revise, and prepare to publish an original short story that meets the criteria for submission in the 2021 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition. Writers will workshop their narratives and wrap up the week with a read aloud.

instructor: Robin Avant (English teacher Desoto County schools and Northwest Mississippi Community College)
cost: $200

Explore projects in sustainability through reusing and recycling to help reduce waste. Create recycled paper art and jewelry, plastic bag weavings, and bleach dyed clothing to name a few.

instructor: Loren Madore (SCS middle school math teacher)
cost: $225

Create original works of art using various techniques and media.

instructor: Martha Berge (lower school art teacher)
cost: $150

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

Learn business basics by creating cookies, brownies, and other baked goods. Design a stand and market your cookies through an original marketing plan. 

instructor: Amanda Killen (professional baker and Center for Excellence Co-Director)
cost: $225, all supplies included

instructors: Gymstars 
cost: $225

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

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

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

Sharpen your spatial reasoning and apply math concepts to real world problems like how to build a circle out of LEGO bricks. Math facts will be a focus. 

instructor: Heather Fontana (kindergarten teacher)
cost: $150

instructor: Melissa Berthelson (second grade teacher)
cost: $200

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

instructor: Nancy Fields (fourth grade teacher)
cost: $200

instructor: Tanya Crump (junior kindergarten teacher) and Hattie Rounder (junior kindergarten teacher)
cost: $200

Change your ADDitude about math with this fun, fast-paced skill building experience. Improve math skills and gain confidence for the new school year. Speed and accuracy of math facts will be a focus. 

instructor: Nancy Fields (fourth grade teacher)
cost: $150

Change your ADDitude about math with this fun, fast-paced skill building experience. Improve math skills and gain confidence. Speed and accuracy of math facts will be a focus. 

instructor: Molly Prewitt (upper school math)
cost: $200

Change your ADDitude about math with this fun, fast-paced skill building experience. Improve math skills and gain confidence. Speed and accuracy of math facts will be a focus. 

instructor: Molly Prewitt (upper school math)
cost: $200

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

instructor: Maggie Haire (third grade teacher)
cost: $200

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