Ascham Holiday Academy SUMMER 23/24
General Information
Location—Hillingdon Campus Entry via Octagon Road, off St Marks Road, Darling Point
Enrolment in the 2023/2024 Summer AHA program opens for Ascham families on Monday 13 November and external students on Wednesday 15 November, 2023.
Week 1 Wednesday 13 December — Friday 15 December 2023 (Bookings close 6 December) Week 2 Monday 18 December — Wednesday 20 December 2023 (Bookings close 13 December) Week 3 Monday 8 January—Friday 12 January 2024 (Bookings close 3 January) Week 4 Monday 15 January—Friday 19 January 2024 (Bookings close 10 January)
Enrolment for all programs is via TryBooking https://www.trybooking.com/eventlist/aha
General Information Age guidelines
Timing
A student’s age/year group is taken as of the current calendar year. December programs are based on 2023, January based on 2024. Activities will be split into age-appropriate groups (numbers permitting). Prep programs are for students aged 4 and older who start Kindergarten in 2024.
AHA programs run from 9am–3.30pm daily. Please ensure participants arrive, check-in and are collected on time.
Medical conditions Medical conditions should be disclosed at the point of booking and action plans, or relevant documentation, forwarded to the AHA Manager.
Illness Procedures are in place to support both What to bring students and staff. Students may be subject All participants are to wear appropriate to temperature checks on arrival, program clothing, including a hat for when outside, numbers are limited and any students who and closed-in shoes. All children must bring present with cold or flu symptoms will not their own morning tea, lunch and drinks. be permitted to attend the AHA. Additional required items will be advised the week prior to your child’s activities.
Location All holiday programs take place at the Hillingdon Campus of Ascham School. Entry is off Octagon Road, Darling Point.
Drop off and pick up All students attending the programs should enter the School via the Octagon Road gates and proceed around the carpark. A car line will operate from 8.30am (for drop off) and 3.30–4pm (for pick up).
Photo permission Photographs may be taken by AHA staff and may be used for Ascham publications, on the website and social media. If you do not wish your child’s photograph to be used, please notify at the time of booking.
Ascham Holiday Academy Summer 2023
Week 1 Wednesday 13 December - Friday 15 December Bookings Close 6 December
Wednesday 13 December
Thursday 14 December
K-1 Gingerbread & Christmas Creations
K -1 Musical Theatre
2-3 Musical Theatre 4-6 Christmas Treats Cooking Course
2- 3 Bake Club Christmas Treats 4-6 Gingerbread & Christmas Creations Prep Christmas Creations
Friday 15 December
K - 1 Bake Club Christmas Treats 2-3 Gingerbread & Christmas Creations 4 - 6 Musical Theatre
Week 2 Monday 18 December - Wednesday 20 December Bookings Close 13 December
Monday 18 December
Tuesday 19 December
Wednesday 20 December
K-6 Startime Animated Art
K-6 Startime Edible Science
K-6 StarTime Minecraft Explorers
K-6 Tennis Camp
K-2 Tennis Camp
K-2 Tennis Camp
Ascham Holiday Academy Summer 2024 Week 3 Monday 8 January - Friday 12 January, 2024 Bookings Close 3 January
Monday 8 January
K-7 Triple Play
Tuesday 9 January
Wednesday 10 January
K-7 Creation Academy
K-7 STEAM Cosmos & Concoctions
Thursday 11 January
K-7 Triple Play
Friday 12 January
K-4 StarTime Forensic Detectives Years 5-7 Mini Masterchef
Week 4 Monday 15 January - Friday 19 January Bookings Close 10 January
Monday 15 January
Tuesday 16 January
K-7 Triple Play
K-7 Adventure Sports with Bubble Soccer
Wednesday 17 January
Thursday 18 January
Friday 19 January
K-7 Animal Encounters
K-7 Robokids Robotic Olympics
K-4 Dance Day Years 5-7 Trapeze Excursion
Summer 2023
Week 1 Activities Wednesday 13—Friday 15 December (Bookings close 6 December) Gingerbread House Decorating & Christmas Creations Years K-1 Wednesday 13 December Years 4 -6 Thursday 14 December Years 2-3 Friday 15 December 9am - 3.30pm $115 Click here to book
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Get into the silly season spirit with craft and reindeer games. Spend the day being creative with Christmas art and craft keepsakes and top it off by decorating your very own Gingerbread House covered in frosting, lollies and a whole lot of Christmas cheer. Then take your creation home to display with pride or eat right up! Perfect for Mums and Dads who would prefer to leave the mess up to us. Places for this program are strictly limited. Please book early to avoid disappointment.
Christmas Treats Cooking Course
Prep Christmas Creations
Years 4 -6 Wednesday 13 December 9am - 3.30pm $115
Prep students Thursday 14 December 9am - 3.30pm $115
Ready to advance to the next stage of your cooking
A special Christmas celebration just for our Prep
journey? Our Christmas Treats Cooking Course for
students. Join in all the Christmas fun as we make
Years 4 -6 only will introduce you to new culinary
Christmas craft, prepare Christmas treats, play
techniques as you bake and create a selection of
games and enjoy the festive time of year together.
sweet and savoury Christmas delicacies that are sure to wow any Christmas table.
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Summer 2023
Musical Theatre Camp with Rachael Beck Years 2 - 3 Wednesday 13 December Years K - 1 Thursday 14 December Years 4 - 6 Friday 15 December 9am - 3.30pm $90 Calling all dancers, singers, and actors this is your opportunity to learn from professional
Week 1 Activities Wednesday 13—Friday 15 December (Bookings close 6 December)
Bake Club Christmas Around the World Years 2 -3 Thursday 14 December Years K -1 Friday 15 December 9am - 3.30pm $150
Week 2 Activities Monday 18—Wednesday 20 December Join the Bake Club team to create a range of (Bookings close 13 December) festive treats from around the world - from
Musical Theatre powerhouse, Rachael Beck.
spiced Pepperkaker biscuits from Scandinavia to
A one-day-only amazing opportunity for all
French Bruche de Noel and fun little plum
performers to build skills, learn and create
puddings from England.We will also have some
dance and drama pieces and find out what its
fun with Christmas crafts and wrapping your
like to perform on stages all around the world.
baking so it is all ready to go under the tree!
This is a day not to be missed. Click here to book
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Summer 2023
Week 2 Activities Monday 18—Wednesday 20 December (Bookings close 13 December)
StarTime Animated Art
StarTime Edible Science
Years K–6 Monday 18 December 9am - 3.30pm $115
Years K–6 Tuesday 19 December 9am - 3.30pm $115
Our Animated Art Workshop is the ultimate mixed
Science can blow our minds, deceive our eyes, and
media design challenge! Weaving traditional artistic
now.... Tantalise our tastebuds? Explore chemical
mediums; a pencil, paintbrush and paints; with
reactions and different kinds of energy with these fun
innovative iPad technologies, to create dynamic
edible experiments. Who knew learning could
animated artworks. Bring your art imagination to life!
be so tasty?
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StarTime Minecraft Explorers
Tennis Camp
Years K–6 Wednesday 20 December 9am - 3.30pm $115
Years K–6 (split into small groups) Monday 18 December Tuesday 19 December Wednesday 20 December 9am–3.30pm $90
Attention all young explorers, come join us for an adventure in Minecraft as we delve into the creation of exciting worlds and engage in fun creative
A full day of Tennis! An opportunity to work with
challenges. For new and experienced creators, use
the Ascham Tennis coaches focusing on fitness,
your imagination to create the world only you can
skill development and game play, plus fun
dream of.
games and movement activities.
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Summer 2024
Week 3 Activities Monday 8—Friday 12 January (Bookings close 3 January)
Triple Play
Creation Academy
Years K–7 Monday 8 January 9am - 3.30pm $90
Years K–7 Tuesday 9 January 9am - 3.30pm $90
Triple Play is a mystery bag of three different
Calling all budding artists, it is time to create! At the
activities with no two Triple Play days ever the same.
Creation Academy students will bring to life works of
Students will use their imagination and stretch their
art as guest artists teach students a range of
creativity in new and exciting ways by participating in
techniques, using a variety of mediums, to produce
activities such as art, craft, cooking, sport, STEM,
one-of-a-kind creations to take home and display with
incursions, construction and drama.
pride. Artists and activities vary.
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STEAM Cosmos & Concoctions
Triple Play
Years K–7 Wednesday 10 January 9am - 3.30pm $90
Years K–7 Thursday 11 January 9am - 3.30pm $90
This STEAM day is out of this world! Students will
Triple Play is a mystery bag of three different
step into a real planetarium to explore the stars and
activities with no two Triple Play days ever the same.
planets that make up our galaxy. Its just like being in
Students will use their imagination and stretch their
outer space! They will then create inter-stellar
creativity in new and exciting ways by participating in
concoctions, learning all about chemical reactions,
activities such as art, craft, cooking, sport, STEM,
and what makes things go pop, fizz and bubble!
incursions, construction and drama.
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Summer 2024
Week 3 Activities Monday 8—Friday 12 January (Bookings close 3 January)
StarTime Forensic Detective
Mini Masterchef
Years K–4 Friday 12 January 9am - 3.30pm $115
Years 5–7 Friday 12 January 9am - 3.30pm $115
Detectives, gather round! We've got a case to solve... who will be the first to uncover the suspect? Collaborating with fellow detectives, and together with StarTime Coaches, children will race against the clock as detectives, to solve this baffling mystery! Learn how to crack codes, solve puzzles, follow clues, and create simple gadgets to retrieve an important piece of evidence. Click here to book
A brand new program to ignite your culinary fire! In groups, students will be allocated a budget, plan a menu, prepare shopping lists, shop for their ingredients and then prepare a selection of dishes for their group. This day will challenge students as they learn new skills. work collaboratively and bring their ideas to life.
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Summer 2024
Week 4 Activities Monday 15— Friday 19 January (Bookings close 10 January)
Triple Play
Adventure Sports with Bubble Soccer
Years K–7 Monday 15 January 9am - 3.30pm $90
Years K-7 Tuesday 16 January 9am - 3.30pm $90
Triple Play is a mystery bag of three different
MultiSports but not as you know it! Join us for a day
activities with no two Triple Play days ever the same.
full of adventurous and unique games and sports,
Students will use their imagination and stretch their
including Bubble Soccer, frisbee golf and water
creativity in new and exciting ways by participating in
balloon tennis! Let all that holiday energy out as you
activities such as art, craft, cooking, sport, STEM,
learn new skills, play new games and meet new
incursions, construction and drama.
friends.
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Dance Day
Trapeze Excursion
Years K–4 Wednesday 17 January 9am - 3.30pm $90
Years 5–7 Wednesday 17 January 9am - 3.30pm $130
Calling all dancers! This is a fantastic opportunity to
Fly through the air with the greatest of ease, the
work with dance industry experts as you workshop
daring young child on the flying trapeze! For this
different styles. Groups will be split into smaller age
excursion we head out to Sydney Trapeze School to
groups and students will participate in three different
spend the day flying, flipping, climbing, spinning and
workshop styles. If you love to dance, this day is not
learning the ropes (literally) of all things aerial
to be missed!
acrobatics. No experience necessary!
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Summer 2024
Week 4 Activities Monday 15— Friday 19 January (Bookings close 10 January)
Animal Encounters
Robokids Robotics Olympics
Years K–7 Thursday 18 January 9am - 3.30pm $90
Years K-7 Friday 19 January 9am - 3.30pm $90
It’s time to get up close and personal with the cute
Fun with engineering, coding, programming and
and cuddly, feathered and furry, and the scaly and
construction awaits in this Lego Robotic Olympics
scary! In a day all about animals we will receive an
workshop. Facilitated by Robokids you will create and
exciting visit from the Taronga Zoomobile and spend
build your own robots then put them to the test in a
the day participating in art, craft and cooking activities
variety of games and challenges to see whose robot
all about animals and mini-beasts and their habitats.
will be the victor!
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