Summer
Rich and varied activities are hallmarks of San Francisco School camps. Join us and have a summer to remember!
SFS SUMMER CAMPS 2023
This year, all summer camps will be held on our beautiful village campus! We offer three sessions for rising Preschool 4 to Middle School students filled with joy, exploration, and discovery. Programs are led by experienced faculty and staff who are passionate about summer learning and fun.
And though camp hours end at 3:00 pm, the fun continues in Extended Care. Students may stay from 3:00 - 5:00 pm for an additional fee (Session 1 & 2 cost $270 and Session 3: $300, $30/day).
If space allows, we are able to accommodate single one-week registrations (with the exception of River Camp).
| Preschool/Kindergarten (rising PS4-K) | Lower Elementary (rising 1st-3rd) |
Elementary (rising 3rd-6th) |
Middle School (rising 7th-8th) | |
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Session 1 June 20 -30 |
smallworldwow |
smallworldwow |
River Camp |
Leaders-in- Training |
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Basketball FUNdamentals |
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Session 2 |
smallworldwow Discovering Science with Saundra and Cressa |
smallworldwow |
River Camp |
Leaders-in- Training |
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Basketball FUNdamentals with Coach Mike |
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Session 3 |
smallworldwow |
smallworldwow |
Leaders-in- Training
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Cost (includes lunch)
PRESCHOOL/KINDERGARTEN CAMPS
Our youngest campers (rising Preschool 4 to Kindergarten) have their own special program to bridge the time between the spring and fall semesters. In this camp, familiar faces and secure surroundings are high priorities in our efforts to promote socialization skills and to build confidence.
Daily Schedule
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9:00 am - 9:15 am |
Arrival/free play |
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9:15 am - 9:30 am |
Morning circle |
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9:30 am - 10:30 am |
Indoor activity time/outside time |
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
Clean up/Set up lunch |
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11:00 am - 12:00 pm |
Lunch |
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm |
Nap time/other students transition to indoor activity time/outside time |
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2:00 pm - 3:00 pm |
Free choice |
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3:00 pm - 5:00 pm |
Pick up begins/Aftercare |
smallworldwow (PS/rising PS4-K)
with Saundra Brown, Cressa Wilmoth, Dahlia Galicia, and Desiree Roussell
smallworldwow inspires children to be curious about the world, embrace new cultures, and live mindfully. This camp honors cultural heritage celebrates community, and builds connections to the world.
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This camp is designed for campers entering Preschool 4 to Kindergarten. All campers must be 4 years old by their first day of camp and fully potty trained. Guided by SFS’s progressive philosophy, campers build community in a safe environment while developing their social-emotional skills. A day at smallworldwow includes ample outdoor active play in the North and South Yards as well as opportunities for specialized engagement through STEAM classes. Campers are divided by age into groups of approximately 18 children and we maintain a staff-to-child ratio of 1:67. Camp groups are led by lead teachers and are supported by an assistant and junior counselors.
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| Session 1: Mud, Dirt, Sand, and Clay |
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Blend ancient history, science and art! Use just dirt and water to sculpt, squish, press, coil, pinch, smooth, and make something, OR just experiment and enjoy the amazing feel of mud! Preschoolers will get to try making pinch or coil pots, sculptures, dyeing with mud dye, or making plantable seed balls. Capacity 18 Cost: $1215 (includes lunch) |
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Session 2: Discovering Science |
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Unleash your child’s inner scientist through stimulating experiments, scientific discovery and imaginative play that will take them from earth’s core to the outer limits of the universe. Capacity 18 Cost: $1215 (includes lunch) |
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Session 3: Exploring Imagination |
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Creative opportunities for role play and dramatic play will encourage your child to embrace the power of their imagination during this fanciful session! Capacity 18 Cost: $1360 (includes lunch) |
LOWER ELEMENTARY CAMPS (Rising 1st - 3rd)
SFS Elementary camps for rising 1st to 3rd graders are designed to offer a variety of enrichment, skill-building, and play opportunities. Each week, a variety of full-day camps will be available from 8:45 a.m to 3:15 p.m.
Daily Schedule
| 8:45 am - 9:00 am | Drop off/free play |
| 9:00 am - 9:30 am | Camp activity |
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Recess |
| 10:00 am - 11:00 am | Camp activity |
| 11:00 am - 11:10 am | Snack |
| 11:10 am - 12:00 pm | Camp activity |
| 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm | Camp activity |
| 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm | Snack and recess |
smallworldwow on the go
smallworldwow inspires children to be curious about the world, embrace new cultures, and live mindfully. This camp honors cultural heritage celebrates community, and builds connections to the world.
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This summer there will be greater focus on exploring the world off campus. While at our home base, we will be using art, cooking, story, music, dance, and games to connect with traditions of the world. Through engaging field trips and adventures, smallworldwow focuses on the multicultural joy that comes with being a little citizen of our greater community and the world. By introducing campers to new cultures each week, we empower every camper to be conscious and confident, breaking barriers of prejudice and misunderstanding. Starting by celebrating San Francisco’s multicultural and indigenous communities, we then focus on mythology and traditions from around the world. Our campers will make connections to:
Campers are divided by age into groups of approximately 18 children, and we maintain a staff-to-child ratio of 1:6. Camp groups are led by head counselors and are supported by an assistant and junior counselors. |
| Session 1: I❤️SF: Our Big City and Its Little Neighborhoods |
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with Nina Palada ’12, Jennifer Fletes, and Jon Abello Ths camp is a fun celebration of the city, giving kids the opportunity to be tourists in their own town visiting SF cultural districts: African American Arts and Cultural District, Chinatown, North Beach, Japantown and Calle 24 in the Mission among others. Capacity 18 Cost: $1215 (includes lunch) |
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Session 2: Trailblazers |
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with Maceo Anderson ’14 and Jennifer Fletes Grab your hiking books for a week of special adventures to unique landmarks and locations. This theme includes exciting hikes to scenic destinations other campers don’t experience. Exploration requires teamwork and Trailblazers will work together to develop each person’s individual leadership style.
Capacity 18 Cost: $1225 (includes lunch) |
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Session 3: Treehouses and Treasures |
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with Angelica Faustino, Jon Abello, and Jennifer Fletes Do you love to play outside? Do you love to explore? What kid doesn’t dream of finding a treasure map leading to a secret treehouse for kids only. Not just your average treehouse either, a special magic treehouse, colorful, fun and filled with treasures. We’ll wander the McLaren Park, gathering materials from nature. We’ll gather up found & recycled materials. And we’ll use all of these to craft awesome bird feeders, tree monsters, dream catchers and more! Join us as we explore these Treehouses & Treasures! Your child will spend three hours at the studio creating and exploring classic SFS process art-themed crafts, using tons of different art-making materials. We can’t wait to see what they create! Capacity 18 Cost $1360 (includes lunch) |
Basketball FUNdamentals
with Michael Travis
Did you know that our own Preschool Teaching Assistant Michael Travis was a semi-professional basketball player who played in college, and in Alaska, Canada, and China? Currently, he coaches for SF Recreation and Parks as well as club basketball with his oldest son!
| Session 1: Basketball for Rising 1st - 3rd Graders |
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Younger campers will get comfortable on the court while improving basic motor skills such as jumping, running, and sliding and learning basketball FUNdamentals. Capacity 18 Cost: $1215 (includes lunch) *No camp on June 19 |
UPPER ELEMENTARY CAMPS (Rising 3rd - 6th)
SFS Elementary camps for rising 3rd to 6th graders are designed to offer a variety of enrichment, skill-building, and play opportunities. Each week, a variety of full-day camps will be available from 8:45 a.m to 3:15 p.m.
Basketball FUNdamentals
with Michael Travis
Did you know that our own Preschool Teaching Assistant Michael Travis was a semi-professional basketball player who played in college, and in Alaska, Canada, and China? Currently, he coaches for SF Recreation and Parks as well as club basketball with his oldest son!
| Session 2: Basketball for Rising 3rd - 6th Graders |
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For older kids in the rising 3rd-6th group, basketball FUNdamental offers a chance to improve skills they’ve learned in structured drills (dribbling and shooting) situational play, scrimmages, and timed games. Capacity 18 Cost: $1215 (includes lunch) *No camp on July 4 |
Riveropolis Maker Camp
with Gregory Gavin and Dolores Elkin
Welcome to Riveropolis Maker Camp! There’s nothing like the sight, sound, and feel of cascading water to stimulate the imagination! In River Camp, kids explore art, architecture, and engineering as they construct a fantastic model river world with real rain, waterfalls, lakes, and islands. Along the banks of the river, campers will learn arts and craft techniques as they build houses, towers, castles, forests, gardens, statues, and more. Creating special features that link individual plots such as fences, walls, gates, roads, bridges, sky-rides, and boats introduces concepts of collaboration, civics, and urban design. The resulting 35-foot river landscape becomes the centerpiece for a Grand Tour for parents and friends on the final day of camp!
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Riveropolis Maker Camp looks skyward this year! Young architects and storytellers will work individually and together to create a society of people and creatures who live along a river flanked by towering tree-houses! Each child will devise a vertical landscape to include trees, trees-houses, areal gardens, exotic birds, bird people, angels, fairies, scary creatures and mythological figures. Along the way campers will learn about architecture, design, civics (how to get along and create things together) and a smidgen of biology and geology. The finished 35-foot river landscape will be the centerpiece for a Grand Tour for parents and friends! NOTE: This camp presumes an interest in developing craft-skill and demands periods of collaboration, creative focus, and self-direction |
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Session 1. Land of the Tree People |
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Capacity 18 Cost: $1215 (includes lunch) *No camp on June 19 |
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Session 2. Land of the Tree People |
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Capacity 18 Cost: $1215 (includes lunch) *No camp on July 4 |
MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPS (Rising 7th - 8th)
SFS Leaders-in-Training (LIT)
Application required. Please wait to be accepted into the program before registering. Sharon Ng will provide a unique code when you are accepted.
We are so happy to bring back our LIT program after a great summer in 2022. LITs not only help create outstanding experiences for our campers, but they also develop many amazing memories of their own. If you have attended camp in the past few years, this camp is designed for rising 7th and 8th graders who are interested in becoming leaders in their community. Students will participate in various rotations as well as receive hands-on experience by supporting the programming and day-to-day activities of other camps at SFS.
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In their morning training, students will be equipped with a basic toolbox for childcare by learning CPR and basic first aid, age-specific games and activities, teaching strategies, conflict resolution, and leadership skills. In the afternoon, leaders in training will be distributed among the other camps at SFS to support headteachers, work with younger campers and practice their new skills. This will also give the middle schoolers the opportunity to build stronger relationships with other teachers at SFS and with the younger students who they may not normally interact with. This camp is meant to empower our middle school students to become mentors and role models for their younger peers, as well as inspire them to be independent and self-starting. Each two-week session is structured as follows: Leaders-in-training choose which camper age group they’re most interested in working with (PS 4 – K, 1st – 3rd grade, or 3rd – 6th grade) and help mentor those campers as they design and create art, games, and maker projects. |
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Session 1 |
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Choose from:
Capacity 10 Cost: $270 (lunch and supervision included) |
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Session 2 |
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Choose from:
Capacity 8 Cost $270 (lunch and supervision included) |
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Session 3 |
Choose from:
Capacity 4 Cost: $300 (lunch and supervision provided) |
Register HERE
Refund Policy
Up to April 28, 2023: Receive a full refund minus a $25 processing fee per session canceled.
May 1-31, 2023: Receive a refund minus a cancellation fee of $100 per session.
After June 1: No refunds
- No refunds for those needing to quarantine/isolate due to COVID.
- If SFS cancels the camp, camp fees will be fully refunded.
- All refunds will be credited via the original payment method.
