Summer School Programmes
Choose from a wide selection of workshops to create a bespoke day!
Our Summer School days are a fantastic way to generate real excitement around the school, while actively signalling to students, teachers and parents alike the importance your school attaches to skills development, confidence building and creative thinking.
Summer School Programmes
You’ll find some examples of Summer School workshop options below, but we are also able to create a day tailored to your specific requirements.
One Day Programme
Maths:
– The Trading Game
Literacy:
– CSI: Reading Skills
Science:
– Journeys into Space
Two Day Programme
Maths:
– The Trading Game
– The Bunker
Literacy:
– CSI: Reading Skills
– Spotlight on Shakespeare
Science:
– Journeys into Space
– Seven Innovations that Changed the World
Three Day Programme
Maths:
– The Trading Game
– The Bunker
– CSI: Bake Off
Literacy:
– CSI: Reading Skills
– Spotlight on Shakespeare
– Poetry in Sight
Science:
– Journeys into Space
– Seven Innovations that Changed the World
– CSI: Forces
Includes the Drama Olympics!
Flexible Workshop Options
You can choose to build a day for current students, focussing on one, two or three subject areas. Alternatively, you can build a day aimed at the new Year 7 cohort, exploring different areas of the curriculum they’ll be studying next year, or centred around a theme of your choice.
At a Glance
- Build your own day – choose from a wide range of workshops
- Tried and tested activities – As Creatives has worked directly with more than a million pupils!
- Unashamedly fun – because everyone learns more effectively when they’re enjoying themselves!
- Able to accommodate large groups of students over the course of one day
Get in touch for more details – we’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Summer school Workshops – build your own day
New! CSI: Maths Mansion
Shock, horror – the Mona Lisa (the world’s most mathematical painting) has been stolen! And the Art Detective Agency’s Inspectrice Aquarelle needs your pupils’ help to unravel a baffling mystery.
New! The Wonder of Poetry – National Poetry Day 2026
Poetry is nothing if not playful – because, rooted in the imagination, poetry is simply playing with words!
CSI: Maths
A series of challenging mysteries to engage your students and get them thinking logically.
Introducing Shakespeare
A fantastic and very energetic way to engage your students in the playwright, his life and works – and prepare them for their studies to come.
The Race into Space (Secondary Schools)
The search is on for the UK’s next astronaut – and Major Tom wants your pupils’ help in selecting the best person for the job!
Refugee Week Rhymes: The Courage to be Kind
Mark Refugee Week 2026 with a poetry workshop, exploring this year’s theme of Courage. Workshops suitable for primary and secondary schools – UK wide
New! Making the Most of Mental Health
This drama-based programme has been designed to support children in creating “toolkits for mental health” – and linking words to actions by celebrating them in rhyme.
Curious About Science (Secondary Schools)
School Workshops Curious About Science – Secondary Schools Curious About Science gives students the opportunity to discover the…
The Trading Game
School Workshops A high energy activity that challenges students’ understanding of shape, probes concepts of “value” and asks…
Selling Maths
School Workshops Which discovery had more impact on the world – the concept of zero or the ratio…
Spotlight on Shakespeare
This workshop takes students right through the play, exploring the backstory, meeting the main characters and bringing key moments to life.
Number Patterns: The Bunker
A fast-paced workshop contextualising sequencing and making connections between maths and other subjects!
World Poetry Day – Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Celebrate the lives and achievements of some amazing British writers from diverse backgrounds.
Maths and the World of Work
School Workshops Developed to support students in contextualising maths and understanding how important the subject is to their…
Murderous Maths
School Workshops Interactive problem solving for up to 180 pupils (with follow-up workshops for up to four classes,…
Playing with Poetry – National Poetry Day
Poetry is nothing if not playful – because, rooted in the imagination, poetry is simply playing with words!
The Priorities Game
Working in teams – and responding to change – to put maths in context!
The Regeneration Generation – Secondary
School Workshops Climate change is the biggest challenge the world faces – so The Regeneration Generation explores what…
Soundscape Poetry
Those pupils who said they don’t like poetry will be writing furiously at the end of this magical workshop.
The Science of Change! – Secondary Schools
The Science of Change opens with an investigation of how “change” affects (and often improves) every aspect of…
Personification Poetry
Students will harvest the fruits of their imaginations and explore notions of empathy to construct uniquely moving poetry.
CSI: Reading Skills
Specifically designed to support pupils in making connections between different ways of “reading”.
Journeys into Space – Secondary
Students will explore the unique and fragile nature of Planet Earth and the story of human exploration of…
Drop Down Day – Enrichment Workshops
You can mix and match workshops to build your own Enrichment or Drop Down Day. Perfect for an end of term celebration!
Thinking Back, Looking Forward
School Workshops Specially developed to promote conversations and laughter around learning (in the past, the present and the…
Bags of Confidence
School Workshops Bags of Confidence challenges your Year 6s to work in teams on an independent carousel exploring…
Memory Lane
School Workshops Your Year 6 pupils will surprise themselves as they work with us to realise just how…
Poetry in Sight
Our poetry writing workshops encourage pupils to play with words and rhythms while working to the restrictions imposed by different poetic forms.
CSI: Periodic Table
A challenging mystery to engage your students with chemistry!
Cinquains of Truth – People Whose Choices Shaped the World
School Workshops Progress towards equality in a diverse world has been made possible by people who made choices…
Big Enterprise Day
School Workshops A Big Enterprise Day gives you the opportunity to create a real “enterprise buzz” by taking…
The Trading Game (Enterprise)
A high energy activity that challenges students to cope with the unexpected!
International Women’s Day Poetry Workshop
Celebrate the power of women working together, remembering their achievements through verse.
Black History Month – Poetry Workshops
School Workshops This year we are celebrating the achievements of some Black scientists and inventors, all of whom…
CSI: Rollercoaster
How do different forces operate – and what do they actually do?