Summer Camp
Each summer, Aspire offers a six-week, full-day intensive summer camp to bolster your student’s reading and prevent summer learning loss. Summer camp themes are set in January of each year and reinforce academic content, including concepts from the Virginia Standards of Learning. Every summer, students use their unique voice, culture, and experience to build academic and critical thinking skills that will stay with them long after the summer ends. Students also have lots of opportunities to make friends, try new things, and have fun!
Our life-changing summer learning camp includes hands-on learning projects, a daily hot meal, educational field trips, and a fun and caring environment that offers your child opportunities to make friends and memories that last a lifetime.
For 2025, Aspire’s summer camp begins on June 23rd and ends on August 1st.
In the summer of 2024, the theme was Avatar: The Last Airbender. Students learned about the environment and environmental stewardship, and participated in hands-on learning activities including practicing math and engineering skills by making their own kites, learning about the habitats of polar bears and sea turtles, researching and reading about the mythology of fire in different cultures, taking a field trip to the Botanic Gardens, and more!
If you’re interested in sending your child to our summer camp, enrollment typically opens in the spring. There is no cost to send your child to our program. We accept students entering 3rd through 8th grade. We are not able to accept students enrolled in grades below third at this time.
A Typical Camp Day
Although schedules can vary depending on the week, Aspire's summer camp will have the same components every day.
8:45 AM
Student Drop-Off
Students may be dropped off between 8:45 and 9:15.
9:00 AM
Icebreakers & Announcements
Students are given time to participate in an icebreaker and hear announcements.
10:00 AM
Academic Activity
Students participate in an academically-focused activity.
11:00 AM
Activity 1
Students participate in the first scheduled themed activity for the day.
11:30 AM
Activity 2
Students participate in the first scheduled themed activity for the day.
12:00 PM
Lunch
Students are provided with lunch.
12:30 PM
Brain Break
Students participate in a quick structured break to prepare them for the remainder of the day.
1:00 PM
Reading
Students participate in individual or group reading each day.
1:30 PM
Activity 3
Students participate in the third scheduled themed activity for the day.
2:00 PM
Project Time
Students take time to work on a small daily or weeklong project.
3:00 PM
Free Choice/Recess
Students are given time for supervised free choice activities and recess.
4:00 PM
Snack & Dismissal
Students receive a snack as parents arrive to pick them up for the day.
4:30 PM
Closure
Latest time parents may arrive to pick up students before our program closes for the day.
Summer Schedule
Aspire’s six-week summer program usually begins in late June and concludes in early August.
How do I enroll my child?
Afterschool: Enrollment for our 2025-2026 afterschool program is currently open.
Summer: Enrollment for our 2025 summer program is currently open.