“Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel.  

Join us this summer for our interdisciplinary summer school program that will develop learners’ writing skills through textual interaction and creative collaboration, building towards a final performance element. 

Our innovative curriculum will initially expose students to a range of stimulating text types, focussing on how writers are able to communicate their ideas through features such as plot formulation, character and dialogue construction, and tension building.  From there, students will have the opportunity to produce and perform their own pieces of imaginative writing with the expert support and guidance of our English and Creative Arts educators.   

Thanks to the outstanding level of teaching they will receive during the summer school, students are sure to gain new confidence in their use of a range of English skills whilst flourishing intellectually.  Through an increased understanding of how both written and non-linguistic forms of creative expression work in harmony, students will leave this summer school course feeling more confident in their writing abilities and more appreciative of the power of the written and spoken word to convey their thoughts and ideas.    

Target age range: 12-14 

“Science, Math and Engineering can give you the exhilarating power to become not mere spectators or consumers, but the active explorers, makers and doers who will help invent the future.”  - Dr Susan Hockfield 

Inspired by Hockfield’s words, Akademeia’s inaugural STEM summer school course will introduce learners to the power of the STEM subjects (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), in order to start our students on a journey to becoming the doers of tomorrow’s world. Both mathematics and science never work in isolation and, by taking the solar system as our focus point, we will ensure participants are equipped with both the mathematical tools and practical contexts to help develop their understanding of our universe.  

In the words of Roger Bacon: ‘Mathematics is a door and key to the Sciences’. We will therefore start by equipping students with the necessary mathematical concepts and analytical tools to unlock the practical focus on our course. With this achieved, our science educators will take our learners on a journey across our universe as they learn about the fascinating dimensions and phenomena in the solar system.  

Our STEM summer school course will provide students with new and interesting math concepts, data analysing, modelling, 3D printing, group work, presentation skills, and a lot of fun!  

Target age range: 13-16