If your child has been struggling to succeed with basic academic skills, with or without a diagnosed learning difficulty, we may be able to help. Our specialists understand learning difficulties and students who struggle with learning in general. This academic summer camp is designed to help those struggling students clarify some basic skills before returning to school in the fall, and to help prevent the “big slide” in skills that occurs with the long summer vacation.

Each day at summer camp for school aged children includes three specific small group instructional blocks. Our Orton-Gillingham block emphasizes and teaches specific sound/ symbol relationships, common spelling rules and blending sounds or syllables to improve decoding (reading). Our Writing Skills block enlightens our students about parts of speech, the basic structure of sentences or paragraphs (depending on level of group), how to overcome “writer’s block” and brainstorm for ideas, and how to overcome the fear of producing written work. Some students, such as those with diagnosed written output difficulties, will be given strategies to enable their writing, including scribing if necessary.  Our Multisensory Math block works on clarifying basic math skills, according to the level of the group. Math skills are woven into real-world situations so students understand the bigger picture of why these skills are necessary.

Students have two breaks each day, including a snack break and a yoga/ brain gym break, emphasizing strategies for refocusing and overcoming and dealing with anxiety.

Students work through each block in small groups (between 3 and 6 children per group). With small group instruction in a highly supported environment (just over 3:1 ratio of staff to students), our students experience success while bringing up their skills. Our main summer camp program is available to students just completing grades 1, 2, 3 or 4.

**New: Register for between 2 and 6 weeks of camp. Pick the weeks that work in your family’s summer schedule and register for just those weeks! Discounts are available for multiple weeks of summer camp lessons. Register online to secure your seat (deposit required) and your discount code will be emailed to you when your child’s registration documents have all been received and reviewed.

 

In response to family requests to aid in planning for summer, we are tentatively noting our summer student schedule. Please note that registrations will be open soon and weekly schedule is currently tentative. Confirmation and registrations will be available soon.

Summer Camp will be scheduled on a week-by-week basis.

Summer registration will be open soon!

Weeks of:

June 25 – 29: North Van Centre closed

July 2 – 6: REACH North Van Summer Camp

July 9 – 13: REACH North Van Summer Camp

July 16- 20: REACH North Van Summer Camp

July 23- 27: REACH North Van Summer Camp

July 30 – Aug. 3:

Aug. 6- 10: North Van Centre closed

Aug. 13- 17: REACH North Van Summer Camp

Aug. 20 – 24: REACH North Van Summer Camp

Aug. 27 – 31: REACH North Van Summer Camp

Sept. 3 – 7: North Van Centre closed