Exceptional Holiday and Summer School Workshops
Providing a Holiday or Summer School is one of the easiest and most effective ways to offer truly extraordinary experiences for your able, ambitious or enthusiastic students and those from your feeder schools.
Most importantly, they require no extra work for your staff and cost the school nothing. In fact, a holiday or summer school can generate additional income for the school as we will pay to hire your venue space unless you wish to reduce the cost to parents and provide the venue free of charge, in which case we reduce participant costs
Thinkers in Education make the whole process easy to manage. We can provide letters and leaflets for parents, register the pupils, deliver the event and supervise students during all non-teaching time. We can also offer a secure online payment option for parents through our secure TicketSource portal - meaning the school does not have to process any applications.
"Brilliant! Really immersive, a really well established event! I can see why you guys are so popular. Looking forward to working together again in the future"
G Shanly, Widening Participation Officer, Gloucester University
How it works:
Thinkers in Education deliver the workshop and hire the school venue. Parents pay for their child to attend.
It costs between £70-£150 per pupil for the 2-5 day holiday school duration. Schemes are also eligible for Pupil Premium funding, for which we present an invoice to the school.
Step 1: Check a date for your student workshop on the calendar at the bottom of the page.
Step 2: We send you promotional letters & flyers to distribute to 150+ pupils/parents.
Step 3: If, within 21 days, we have filled at least 25 places - we confirm your booking.
Easy
No Cost
No Commitment
If you can subsidise the event or provide the venue for free, we can work with smaller groups or reduce costs to parents.
Thinkers in Education assume full responsibility for the day – with comprehensive insurances in place and fully qualified staff, all with enhanced DBS checks, looking after the welfare of every participant.
This approach makes it incredibly easy for schools to organise and host the specialist workshop they may not be able to during the school week.
What's Included?
• Provision for up to 36 participants - with options for early drop-off & late pick-up
• Fully Planned, Expertly Delivered Sessions by at least two full-time presenters
• All Specialist Equipment, Risk Assessments & Organisational Guides
• Promotional flyers to distribute to prospective participants and parents
• Easy access to photographs taken during the event for school publicity
• Certificates of Achievement for every participant detailing the skills developed
• Prizes & Medals for all participants from every team
• Gold, Silver & Bronze 'Champion' medals for members of the winning teams
Optional Extra: Open Afternoon - relatives can watch the final games and awards
Holiday & Summer School Costs
• 2-Day Holiday School (£70 per participant*)
• 3-Day Holiday School (£99 per participant*)
• 4-Day Holiday School (£125 per participant*)
• 5-Day Holiday School (£150 per Participant*)
*Costs per participant are based on a minimum of 25 participants and include VAT.
Pupil Premium funds can be used by the school upon request. An invoice will be submitted to the school for payment.
Last Spaces Now Available
July 28-31, Aug 6-8, Aug 20-22, Aug 27-29
Workshop Options
Imagine the thrill of spending 2-5 days in a Holiday or Summer School as a forensic detective solving a dark immersive case. Imagine being part of an amazing space adventure on a dangerous mission to Mars.
Imagine the learning opportunities.
Whatever your choice, our Holiday and Summer School events for Yr5 to Yr12 allow your school to offer something truly unique to your existing and future students. They provide exciting life experiences, shared with new and existing friends, that can change perceptions of learning, improve ability levels and promote the school itself.
Participants will be given the opportunity to partake in STEM-themed activities that simply cannot be delivered during the normal school day or curriculum. If your school can provide the facilities – we will deliver an intricately planned event and provide all of the equipment required.
"A once in a lifetime experience, which I will never forget. It was useful, fun and unique. I am so proud of myself"
N. Bibi, Yr 10, Walshaw High School, Burnley
Choose A Holiday or Summer School
What Promotional Materials Are Available?
You simply need to decide if you want to use the free promotional materials (which you print yourself from our templates) or upgrade to ready printed flyers & posters for a small fee of £10. (The best news is that if you upgrade - you get the money back when the event is confirmed).
Both options include flyers and letters, designed to inform your students and their parents about the event. We find it a powerful combination that typically receives a very good response from parents in either form.
However, it is usually easier to fill places when the ready printed literature is used.
Option 1:
Free Flyers to Print & Digital Flyers to Send:
• Event Flyer - specific to your school
• Designed to minimise ink usage
• Parental Letter - to print below your school's letterhead
• Free Digital Version of full colour Flyer
• Access to Event Webpage
• You will receive the templates via email.
Option 2:
Digital & Printed Flyers For £10:
• 150x Full-colour Double-Sided flyers
• Parental letter - to print below your school's letterhead
• Free Digital Version of full colour Flyer
• Access to Event Webpage
• Flyers & posters will be posted & letter templates emailed
• Cost is refunded when a booking is confirmed
How Do Parents Book?
Typically, we manage all bookings and payments online - making it even easier for you to organise - but you can choose process applications yourself.
Option 1: Parents register online for the event and make payment directly to Thinkers in Education. This approach removes any additional work for the school. We charge a fixed fee of between £70 - £150 per pupil determined by the number of days in the Holiday School. We communicate with parents and with the hosting school to ensure the logistics are all complete.
• Easy online booking & payment facilities for parents.
• We can monitor the uptake & process payments for you.
• It saves you time processing & managing finances.
We need a minimum of 25 participants per day. If minimum numbers are not reached, we will contact you to discuss options but may cancel the event and refund any payments collected from parents.
Option 2: The school collects payments directly, making one single payment to Thinkers in Education for the full amount. The school should keep us informed about the number of participants to expect and we simply invoice the school. The minimum number of participants is 25 and the maximum number is 36. The school determines the charge made to students and keeps any excess funds generated or makes up any shortfall based on the cost per pupil (£70 - £150 per pupil determined by the number of days in the Holiday School).
“My daughter Grace has been inspired by this amazing week. The children have all gained valuable experiences, not only in science and STEM subjects but have learned valuable team building skills. An absolute fantastic start to Manningtree Yr7. Every child should be given the opportunity to attend these summer schools. Simply – Amazing!”
Mrs Butler, Manningtree
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