Vacation Programs Overview

A unique experience filled with fun and learning

Open to all students in grades K – 8. Students from all four Belmont lower elementary schools, Chenery Upper Elementary, and Belmont Middle School attend BASEC Belmont Vacation Programs, making it a great place to connect with old friends and meet new ones! Classes are taught by our professional BASEC teachers and are designed to build the 21st-century skills so important to our youth.

Belmont BASEC February Vacation Program Belmont BASEC April Vacation Program Belmont BASEC Summer Vacation Camps

What grades attend BASEC Vacation Programs?

BASEC Vacation Programs are school-age programs open to students in grades K – 8.

To meet our licensing requirements, we can only accept students during the summer that attended school between the grades of K – 8 during the previous school year; therefore, a student entering kindergarten in September is not yet eligible for BASEC Summer Vacation Programming.

BASEC programs are intentionally designed to be developmentally appropriate for students of different ages (e.g.: K students are automatically enrolled in their own specialized curriculum). To best engage our students, certain curriculum choices are available only to students in specific grades. Please see our curriculum choices page for more information.

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Field Trips

February & April Vacation Field Trips

February Vacation Program

Friday, February 21, 2025 – “Flora & Ulysses” at Wheelock Family Theater

April Vacation Program

Friday, April 25, 2025 – TBD

Summer Vacation Field Trips

We are still planning for the summer of 2025.

Please click here for a list of last year’s summer field trips.

What else should I know?

Curriculum Choices

Students will be grouped based on curriculum choices chosen at registration. Teachers and Curriculum Specialists will implement choices across a broad spectrum, including STEM, Sports, Performing and Visual Arts, and much more!

Outing Club

This curriculum option will not be available for our 2025 February Vacation Program but will run for our 2025 April Vacation Program for current 6th – 8th graders. For summer 2025, Outing will be running for rising 6th – 8th grade campers. The summer Outing weeks are still to be determined.

Swimming

We will be providing more information about swimming for our 2025 Summer Camp in the spring of 2025.

Counselor-In-Training (CIT):

The CIT programming is available during the summer for rising 9th graders. Inquiries for the summer of 2025 can be sent to vacationcamp@belmontbasec.org.

BASEC Camp Behavior Management Guidelines

Please click here for more information.

Get more info: vacationcamp@belmontbasec.org

BASEC February and April Vacation Programs are licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ Department of Early Education and Care.

BASEC Belmont Summer Camp must comply with the regulations of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (105 CMR 430.00) and be licensed by the Belmont Board of Health.