Summer Program: The Third ‘Semester’—Lower and Middle School

Ideas & Perspectives
Ideas & Perspectives

Volume 40

No. 5//

April 17, 2015

In the upper school, planning the summer program as the third semester (S3) provides a way to develop the curriculum more profoundly.1 In the middle and lower schools, it is slowly going to transition to an intentional process that builds on traditional fun and challenge. Those programs of sports, arts, and general and specific interest camps will continue to be a viable model as schools meet the marketplace need for child care during the summer break. However, schools more proactive in their approaches might see this move to S3 as an opportunity to challenge their paradigms. There will be two changes that impact what schools do—intentionality and innovation.
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