Grade 3 – 8 Summer Boost Camps - CLOSED
Online registration for Black Gold Summer School 2025 will open at
9:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 26.
Welcome to Black Gold’s Grade 3 – 8 Summer Boost Camps!
This is a one-week camp dedicated to boosting your child’s numeracy and/or
literacy skills. Students will benefit from a small classroom environment, focused instruction, along with hands-on learning activities and experiences. At the end of the week, students will be sent home with physical resources and strategies that can be used to extend their learning.
Who can attend? Current Black Gold students who have just completed grades 3-8, and are interested in working on their literacy and/or numeracy skills. We do not accept Non-Black Gold students into these programs.
Current Grade 9 students who are interested in taking a Summer School course should enroll in either our Module-Based or Classroom-Based High School programs.
Note – If parents are registering their child in both the Math Boost Camp and Purposeful Reading & Writing Boost Camp, they MUST pack their child a lunch. Lunch-hour supervision will be provided.
Courses Offered at:
West Haven Public School (325 West Haven Dr., Leduc Alberta)
or
Ecole Champs Vallee School (6002 30 Ave., Beaumont, Alberta)
Program Fee:
The fee is $125.00 for a one-week session, per camp. The cost for both camps is $250.00 total.
** If the program is not full by June 30th, the program may be cancelled. Please register promptly.
Reading and Writing Boost Camp -
Beaumont Location is FULL
The focus of the Reading and Writing Boost Camp is to provide targeted opportunities for students to work on and further develop their reading and writing skills. By the end of the week, the goal is for students to leave feeling more confident in their reading and writing abilities!
Reading: Students will receive instruction about specific reading comprehension strategies to use when reading fiction and nonfiction texts. Students will have the opportunity to practice and apply strategies to accomplish various reading skills throughout the week.
Writing: Students will receive instruction about each aspect of the writing process. They will practice and apply the aspects of the writing process as they write for various purposes (persuade, inform, entertain). Students will incorporate specific strategies that are tailored to each writing purpose as they create various pieces of writing.
What do students need to bring?
- pencils/pens/highlighters/eraser
- lined notebooks
- duotang
- scissors/glue
- Something they enjoy reading (ie. novel, magazine, graphic novel)
Math Boost Camp
The focus of the Math Boost camp is to develop foundational numeracy skills. This camp will offer hands-on activities in areas including place value, operations with whole and decimal numbers (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing), fractions, basic facts, and problem-solving. By the end of the week, the goal is for students to leave feeling more confident in their math skills.
What do students need to bring?
- Pencils, eraser, highlighter
- A deck of cards
- Dice
- Masking tape – 1 roll
- Whiteboard marker
- Grid paper notebook
Good to know information!
If the program is not full by June 30, the program may be canceled, so please register promptly. If you would like to be put on a waitlist because a camp is full, please email [email protected]
CALENDAR
July 2025 | ||||||
Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
1 CANADA DAY | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
6 | 7 Elementary Math JH ELA 9:00-11:45 am Elementary ELA JH Math 12:30-3:15 pm | 8 Elementary Math JH ELA 9:00-11:45 am Elementary ELA JH Math 12:30-3:15 pm | 9 Elementary Math JH ELA 9:00-11:45 am Elementary ELA JH Math 12:30-3:15 pm | 10 Elementary Math JH ELA 9:00-11:45 am Elementary ELA JH Math 12:30-3:15 pm | 11 Elementary Math JH ELA 9:00-11:45 am Elementary ELA JH Math 12:30-3:15 pm | 12 |