Good Old Summertime… Sure, It's Dark and Cold Now… but Summer Is on the Way, and the Time to Make Your Summer Plans Is NOW
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Summer Stuff 2016 FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN THE BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS Good old summertime… Sure, it's dark and cold now… but summer is on the way, and the time to make your summer plans is NOW. Will Read this first. you be looking for a job? Many of the best ones have early application deadlines. What about a high-quality academic WHEN WE MEAN… WE SAY… program, internship or volunteer program? You may need ASAP ��������� As Soon As Possible� In to write an essay and get letters of recommendation from a other words, NOW� teacher or adult mentor, and that can take time. There are BPS ����������� Boston Public Schools lots of great things to do in and around Boston. You could get a job, take dancing lessons, learn to sail or play golf, act in Entering grades ������ The grade you will a play, volunteer at a museum or homeless shelter, plan for enter in September 8 college, intern in a science lab or on a farm, and go to free 2016 concerts and films. (You could even work on your math skills.) FC/FS ��������� First Come, First Served� Some programs call this Need ideas? Summer Stuff 2016 is full of good ideas. (We've even thrown in some ideas for this spring and next "rolling admissions�" school year.) Read it through, circle the ones that interest you, then visit their websites or call. They're waiting to hear Deadline ��� The last day to apply from you. Next, apply—now. In many cases, you can apply on-line or print an application from the website. Don’t be put off by the cost of some programs. Many have scholarships, and they are looking for Boston students. In fact, some programs are only for students who go to the Boston Public Schools. Good luck—and have a great summer! u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u ACHIEVE AT NOBLE & GREENOUGH ABCD (ACTION FOR BOSTON Action English also offers one-day and weekend SCHOOL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT) programs. (Here's your chance to try whitewater February 2016 rafting!) Achieve is a tuition-free educational program YOUTH ENGAGED IN ACTION For ................English language learners entering serving low-income middle school-age children YEA! Youth Engaged in Action is a three-week grades 6-12 that seeks to increase students' academic skills, course offered to 150 income-eligible middle- Location .......Daily bus pick-up and drop-off at motivation and self-confidence. It includes school youth. YEA builds on their ability to Madison Park High a rigorous and engaging six-week summer become young leaders through awareness, Dates ............July 5-29 program plus support during the school year. advocacy and the opportunity to take action. (5-day) sessions start every Monday The summer component takes place on Nobles' Throughout the session, they will learn how Hours ...........Mon.-Fri., 8:30 am-4 pm beautiful campus in Dedham near the Boston Cost ..............$259 per week government works, how to take positive action Deadline.......FC/FS city line. The three-year program continues on challenges that face our environment Contact.........Pietro Fiore 1-978-314-4752 year-round through the summer after 8th grade Summer Stuff 2016 and how financial wellness is important for [email protected] and offers guidance through the high school themselves and their communities at large. Website ........actionenglish.net is produced by the application process . Boston Public Schools For ................Middle schoolers, ages 13-14, income- For ................BPS students who are in grade 6 now, eligible ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT Communications Office. income-eligible, in good academic Location .......8 ABCD neighborhood service centers SUMMER YOUTH INTENSIVE standing Dates ............July 18-August 5 Spend your summer with the Bard! Join ASP's Neither the Boston Public Schools nor Location .......Dedham Hours ...........10 am-2 pm Dates ............June 27-August 5, plus 2 Saturdays a Cost ..............Free; participants earn $100 in gift cards four-week Summer Youth Intensive, culminating its employees make any endorsement, month during the school year Deadline.......June 30 in a full production of a Shakespeare play. The recommendation, or representation as to the Hours ...........8:20 am-3:20 pm plus bus ride Contact......... 617-348-6583 youth ensemble works daily with Shakespeare's suitability or appropriateness of any non-BPS Cost ..............Free; meals and transportation are Website ........bostonabcd.org/youth-engaged-in- language, voice, movement, and stage provided action.aspx combat, guided by ASP company members and program, organization, or resource listed in Deadline.......Priority deadline February 12; final experienced teaching artists. this publication. deadline March 4 ACTION ENGLISH, INC. Contact ..........Nora Dowley-Liebowitz 781-320-7125 For ................Age 14 and older, regardless of Website .......www.nobles.edu/achieve ENGLISH ADVENTURE SUMMER CAMPS experience with Shakespeare Looking for summer ideas English Adventure is a one-week summer day Location .......Charlestown Working Theater for younger students? A STEP AHEAD BASKETBALL camp just for English language learners. It Dates ............July 5-31 The Boston Public Schools also combines ESL instruction with a full schedule of Hours ...........9 am-4 pm weekdays and one weekend This program offers clinics and camps year-round Cost ..............$1,300; some scholarships available publishes Summer Stuff Jr� for around for serious basketball players at several activities. There are two five-day programs. Deadline.......Apply by June 1 Kindergarten-Grade 8. locations near Boston. ASA also encourages In Outdoor English Adventure, you will meet at Contact ........ 617-776-2200 ext. 228 It's available in March 2016 in schools, youth to become leaders and role models on and Madison Park High School and travel by bus to Website ........actorsshakespeareproject.org libraries, neighborhood centers, off the court, to exhibit good sportsmanship, the Blue Hills in Milton for lessons plus hiking, Some Boston Public Schools students may be and on the BPS website: and to respect their peers, parents, teachers and mountain biking, map reading and nature study. eligible for credit for programs run during the bostonpublicschools.org/summer coaches. In Urban English Adventure, you will explore the school year! Call for details. 617-635-9265 All A Step Ahead (ASA) programs: Freedom Trail, learn how to use the MBTA—the For ................Boys and girls ages 9-17 "T"—, and visit local colleges and universities. Contact......... 617-909-5990 All materials, lunch, and transportation are Website ........asahoops.com included. u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n u n AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER (A.R.T.) & 826 BOSTON SUMMER THEATER & WRITING CAMP BPS Summer School In this project-based writing program, students The regular school year may end in June, but many Boston Public Schools students will be back in school in July. will work in small groups to script, stage, and perform their own original plays. The program BPS has many special summer programs. All are free—but only eligible students may attend. (In fact, some students must attend in order to be promoted to culminates in a one-night-only performance at a the next grade.) To find out if you are eligible for one of these programs, ask the principal or teacher. partner theater. Presented by 826 Boston and the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). SMARTER SUMMERS (GRADES 3-8) Location .......Madison Park/O'Bryant complex, East ARABIC SUMMER ACADEMY For ................Ages 11-14 Boston High, and Charlestown High. Location .......3035 Washington St., Roxbury This is the primary BPS summer program for Students who attend the exam schools: The Arabic Summer Academy is an intensive Dates ............Mid-July to mid-August students in grades 3-8. In partnership with the Boston Latin School language course designed for high school Hours ...........Mon.-Thu., 1:30-5:30 pm BELL Foundation, the program provides a 6-hour Dates ............July 11-August 11 students who have never studied Arabic. Cost ..............Free; $40 deposit requested at program, offering rigorous academics as well as Hours ...........Mon.-Fri., 8 am-12:30 pm In addition to learning to read and write registration which will be refunded if enrichment activities and field trips. Students Cost ..............Free the Arabic script, students become familiar the student attends all five weeks Deadline.......Ask your guidance counselor will be invited by his/her principal according to enough with the Arabic language and Deadline.......Round 1 registration: March 18 (est.) Contact.........Your guidance counselor Round 2 registration: May 6 (est.) the following priorities: culture to interact with Arabic speakers at a Remember: only eligible students will be Contact......... 617-442-5400 1. Students who have not yet attained basic level. They end the course with greater invited to these programs. Ask the principal or [email protected] "proficiency" on PARCC, not met BPS grade curiosity and sensitivity towards the Arabic- Website ........826boston.org headmaster if you are eligible. The grades are the level benchmarks, or who are in danger of speaking world through cultural encounters in grades the student is in now (2015-2016 school being retained at grade level classes, co-curricular activities, and field trips. year). Those who complete the program may receive 2. Students who could benefit from an credit for a full year of high school Arabic. The engaging and rigorous summer experience SUMMER ARTS INTENSIVES program can accommodate students who to make gains and be prepared for the next are not fluent in English. Instruction will be year Register today for free summer programs in ( instrumental music, vocal/performing arts and primarily in Arabic.