BASEC 2020 Summer Vacation Camp Registration is now open!

BASEC Summer Enrichment Camp blends the best elements of BASEC programming into a diverse experience of exploration, learning, and fun. BASEC educators are the heart of soul of Summer Camp. Our combination of curriculum specialists, professional teachers, and high school and college-aged teaching assistants develop and implement a wonderful curriculum that builds the 21st Century skills so important to our youth.

In 2020, BASEC is celebrating our 11th year providing summer camp to the Belmont community!

2020 Summer Camp When & Where

Week	Dates	Location	Time	Details	Status
1	6/24-6/26	Beth El Temple Center	8:00 AM–5:30 PM	3-day week!	Open
2	6/29-7/3	Beth El Temple Center	8:00 AM–5:30 PM	Reg. Curric. choices	Open
3	7/6-7/10	Beth El Temple Center	8:00 AM–5:30 PM	Regular Curriculum choices	Open
4	7/13-7/17	Beth El Temple Center	8:00 AM–5:30 PM	Regular Curriculum choices	Open
5	7/20-7/24	Beth El Temple Center	8:00 AM–5:30 PM	Regular Curriculum choices	Open
6	7/27-7/31	The First Church in Belmont	8:00 AM–5:30 PM	Regular Curriculum choices	Open
7	8/3-8/7	The First Church in Belmont	8:00 AM–5:30 PM	Regular Curriculum choices	Open
8	8/10-8/14	The First Church in Belmont	8:00 AM – 5:30 PM	Regular Curriculum choices	Open
9	8/17-8/21	The First Church in Belmont	8:00 AM – 5:30 PM	Academy Week	Open
10	8/24-8/28	The First Church in Belmont	8:00 AM – 5:30 PM	Academy Week	Open

*A huge thank you goes out to our partners: Beth El Temple Center and First Church in Belmont. These community organizations have been amazing to work with in this process and we are excited about again utilizing these two locations.

Summer Curriculum Choices

Throughout the summer, we offer the classes described below. Please indicate your child’s curriculum preferences when signing up for camp. We will place them in groups for each week, allowing us to keep group sizes balanced and best allocate our teaching staff. We will do our best to ensure that every child is able to participate in their preferred choices, but groups do fill up. Preference is given on a first-come, first-served basis.

Our registration system allows for a first choice and second choice; however, more detailed information (ranked choices, special health circumstances, and LARP or Coding specific week requests) are helpful as we create our curriculum groups. Following your registration, please email us at vacationcamp@belmontbasec.org to communicate more detailed information than the fields below allow.

If you sign up for more than 5 weeks of summer camp, we’ll reach out to you for more information regarding your curriculum choices.

Most curriculum groups meet in the morning only, leaving the afternoon for swim, free play, and teacher-led choices in outdoor games, art, yoga, engineering, and theater. Your child can make different choices every afternoon, but will be in the same morning curriculum block for the whole week.

The first 8 weeks of camp offer a wide cross-section of the curriculum choices below for all students in grades 1 – 8. While not every curriculum choice will garner enough interest to run every week, we’ve seen many choices (like Sports and STEM) run each of the first 8 weeks of summer. When we have received enough registrations to confirm camp curriculum choices for the summer, we’ll communicate that to you by email.

BASEC Academy
(weeks of August 17 & 24)

Based on the latest research to counteract academic “summer slip.” Students entering grades 1 – 4 spend half the day in summer activities and the other half refreshing their academic skills to hit the ground running in September. With a focus on language arts and math, our programming provides students with rote practice of skills, as well as the engaging, open-ended lessons that promote deep understanding of concepts.

Students entering grades 5 – 8 will participate in either Makerspace or LARP for the weeks of August 17 and August 24.

Outing Club and LARP: A Camp within a Camp

You must indicate when enrolling if you are signing up for one of those choices, and for which week. An additional fee applies for Outing Club ($32 per week) and LARP ($28 per week).

Please Note: In order to effectively place campers in Outing Club or LARP slots, we must receive a separate email requesting Outing Club or LARP for specific weeks that coincide with a camp registration for that same week. Please send this email to vacationcamp@belmontbasec.org.

Slots will be filled when both the registration for a camp week and an email requesting LARP for that particular week are received.

Summer Curriculum Choices

The registration link below allows you to select two curriculum choices. For more specific or for a larger number of requests, please email us at vacationcamp@belmontbasec.org following your registration.