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Summer Camps Vancouver 2022
Pear Tree Education is offering the ultimate in Vancouver summer camps for boys and girls aged 5-14.
We have summer camps at our Vancouver for 8 weeks (starting 4th of July and finishing 26th of August), our East Van and North Van locations for 7 weeks (starting 4th of July and finishing 20th of August), and our White Rock location for 6 weeks (starting 4th of July and finishing 20th of August). Individual summer camps last 1 week.
Our courses fill up very fast, so make sure that you book soon to avoid disappointment!
IMPORTANT: 2022 Location Confirmation
This camp will again be hosted at our newly renovated and expanded school:
Pear Tree Education (map link)
215-2678 W Broadway
Vancouver, BC V6K 2G3
We will be running our Hot Lunch Program at this location.
Pear Tree Education has become one of Vancouver’s most popular educational summer camp companies, both because of the quality and diversity of our courses. Our wide range of course types will engage your children in new and challenging activities, including cooking, sports, music and dance, drama/public speaking, technology, art/crafts, and academics.
All of our Vancouver summer camps are designed by Pear Tree.
Led by experienced Vancouver school teachers, our summer camps offer exceptional levels of safety, enjoyment and education!
Camps are from 9am – 3pm, with options to extend these times using our optional pre-camp and/or after-camp supervision services.
At $400 per 5-day camp, you won’t find a better value for money summer camp anywhere else in Vancouver!
We have summer camps at our Vancouver location for 8 weeks (starting 4th July and finishing 19th August), as well as summer camps in East Van, Burnaby, North Van, and White Rock. Individual summer camps last 1 week.
We also offer two additional services including a Hot Lunch program ($70/wk) and pre-camp/after-camp care ($150/wk combo).
1) Pear Tree’s Summer Camp Vancouver brochure
Video Tutorial
Need help booking multiple weeks? Check out our short video tutorial!
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Week 1: July 4th - 8th
Pets (Ages 5-6)
Kids love pets! But whether they are dogs, cats, hamsters, or fish, owning a pet comes with big responsibilities!
In Pear Tree’s ‘Pets’ camp, students will learn about different kinds of pets, what their needs are, and how to interact with them appropriately.
Students will work on amazing mini-projects that incorporate science, math, and arts & crafts. Some activities include making pet finger puppets, math games related to feeding and caring for pets, drama activities, reading picture books about pets, and experiments about foods pets like.
Depending on COVID restrictions, we may invite families to do short visits with their pet.
Adventurous Athletes (Ages 7-9)
Whether you’re already sporty or an aspiring athlete, this week is a great way to get outside with new friends and get moving!
Each day, there will be skill-based activities related to specific sports, and many opportunities for collaborating with peers. We’ll be playing games like Capture the Flag and California Kick Ball, as well as more traditional sports like tennis and soccer. Not only that, but we will be doing different fitness-based activities to improve our strength and stamina! Each day, different students will have opportunities to model and explain these activities, which help public speaking and leadership skills.
This week will be held outdoors, rain or shine!
Kids Can Cook! (Ages 10-14) – 2 x SPACES REMAINING!
Do you want to learn how to make healthy and delicious snacks and meals? Join us in another week of more cooking and baking! In this hands-on course, you’ll learn how to read recipes and measure ingredients, learn about nutrition and healthy living, as well as the importance of kitchen safety. You’ll go on a field trip, too!
Each day you’ll cook two dishes, and will take home your own recipe book at the end of the course.
PLEASE NOTE: Pear Tree’s Hot Lunch Program is mandatory for this course, as food is provided throughout the week. Therefore, an additional $70 must be added to the camp price.
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Week 2: July 11th - 15th
Under the Sea (Ages 5-6) – 1 x SPACE REMAINING!
Pear Tree Education is lucky to be located close to some of the most perfect beaches for beachcombing and exploration!
During the Under the Sea course, we will explore both local and exotic marine life.
Each day will include experiments, art, stories, water sensory activities and even drama related to the ocean.
Ancient Olympians (Ages 7-9)
In this course, students will learn about Ancient Greek myths and legends, and make connections to how Ancient Greece influenced today’s society.
We’ll cook food and feast like the Ancient Greeks, create some Greek mosaic art, build a Greek-inspired building and perform Greek Reader’s Theater.
Our course will be concluded with “Mini Olympics”, where students in the course design the activities for all Pear Tree students to participate in! This is a great leadership and community-building opportunity.
Why not join the same camp at our East Van location? It’s located near Olympic Village.
Alternatively, please email us at info@pear-tree.ca to join our waitlist
Sound & Vision (Ages 10-14)
Humans take for granted how important sight and hearing is to their lives both personally and culturally.
This course explores the huge role that light and sound play in our daily lives and in our society as a whole.
We will learn about sound and vision from a biological perspective, and make a model of ears and eyes and learn about how they function. We will look at different songs and lyrics, and look at art to see how artists express themselves. We’ll do experiments with prisms and sound waves, and work towards making a group light and sound installation for the end of the week!
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Week 3: July 18th - 22nd
Food Glorious Food (Ages 7-9) – 1 x SPACE REMAINING!
Yes, food is glorious! Vancouver is such a “foodie” city, with so many different dishes and fresh,
healthy things to eat. In this course, we’ll introduce students to basic nutrition, prepare a dish each class, learn about fitness and healthy living. We will do blind taste-testing, make food art, and even take food photography! Students will gain an appreciation for trying new things and how food impacts their bodies.
PLEASE NOTE: Pear Tree’s healthy Hot Lunch Program is mandatory for this course, as food is provided throughout the week. Therefore, an additional $70 must be added to the camp price.
MakerSpace (Ages 10-14)
In Pear Tree’s Makerspace camp, students work on collaborative, technology-driven projects that require the creative use of resources and multidisciplinary knowledge.
Taking place over a 4-day week, your child will explore circuits, music, art, and robotics. Some of the technology we will use will include Makey Makey, Little Bits, Snap Circuits, and a Dash robot.
Urban Gardeners (Ages 5-6)
In this course, we’ll give you tips to be a successful gardener in the city. Each day will be filled with different gardening activities, from learning to recognize weeds from plants, to how much to water, to different kinds of seeds. Every day, we’ll spend a significant amount of time outdoors. We’ll also use the flowers we see outside to inspire observational painting, and use our math skills to calculate numbers of seeds we need, or basic plots of the garden to plant in!
We’ll plan a different seed daily, so you’ll have a number of seedlings to take home at the end of the week. We’ll also visit one or more local community gardens, to learn to recognize different kinds of plants and vegetables.
Why not join our Urban Gardeners course at our East Van location near Olympic Village?
Alternatively, email us at info@pear-tree.ca to be added to our wait list!
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Week 4: July 25th - 29th
Film Noir (Ages 10-14) – SPACES REMAINING!
Pear Tree is bringing the old with this homage to Film Noir cinema. We have one week to create, film, and edit a Neo-Noir movie, and we need your help!
With movies requiring a massive team, there is guaranteed to be a role for you: live acting, voice-overs, directing, filming, editing, music, or writing.
Come and find out if you can make it in the movie industry.
Interesting Insects (Ages 5-6)
Leave your bug spray at home! Find out how insects are important for our community and environment.
After making our insect sanctuaries, we will go on daily nature walks and collect insects to observe and research. Some of these insects include pill bugs, centipedes, and ladybugs!
Our students will also take part in learning about and raising butterflies. The butterflies will be released in the summer as part of an inclusive field trip.
Why not join the same camp at our East Van location? It’s located near Olympic Village.
Alternatively, please email us at info@pear-tree.ca to join our waitlist
STEM Challenges (Ages 7-9)
Join us for a week of fun, daily STEM challenges!
Using a wide variety of team-based activities, students will work together to solve science, technology, engineering and math-related problems using a mixture of everyday and specialized materials.
Please email us at info@pear-tree.ca to join our waitlist
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Week 5: August 2nd - 5th (4-day week)
Super Structures (Ages 5-6) – 1 x SPACE REMAINING!
Do you like to build things? Are you an aspiring engineer? Then this hands-on exploration course is for you!
During this course, you will learn basic building principles and apply your knowledge by taking part in daily structure challenges!
You will learn how to apply critical thinking skills, how to be a creative designer and problem-solver, and apply math, science and design concepts using a variety of building materials, including straws, paper, clay, blocks, K’Nex, Lego and even eggs!
Connect to Nature (Ages 7-9) – 1 x SPACE REMAINING!
We are so lucky to live as close as we do to forests and beaches! Connect to Nature is a great course for students who love to spend time outdoors.
During the course, we will do many Waldorf-inspired nature crafts, play nature games outside, and get some time both in the forest and at the beach.
Some activities include wood-burning crafts, nature mobiles, exploring music and nature, and building mini gnome houses.
TV Reporters (Ages 10-14)
Do you like being in front of the camera? Whether you’re interested in Talk Shows, weather reports, movie reviews, or on-location News Reports, Pear Tree’s TV reporter has something for you.
Over the week, you’ll prepare and create a series of different TV productions using digital technology, and edit them using sophisticated video editing software you’ll even use Green Screen effects!
This is an amazing course for developing Public Speaking skills!
(NOTE: The CBC tour is still not available, sadly, due to CBC’s rules about COVID)
Please email us at info@pear-tree.ca to be added to our wait list.
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Week 6: August 8th - 12th
Painter’s Pallet (Ages 5-6)
As painters, we will have lots of time to try different paints and painting techniques! We’ll work with watercolor, acrylic and tempera paints.
Our paintings will be inspired by nature, animals, literature, our friends and family, and even the summer weather!
The young artists of this course will have a small portfolio of art pieces to share with you at the end of this week.
Marine Biology (Ages 7-9) – 3 x SPACES REMAINING!
With so many interesting sea creatures and aquatic plants, who doesn’t love exploring beaches?
With beaches so close to Pear Tree, we’ll have lots of opportunities to explore local marine life.
As a young biologist, you’ll develop important skills such as observing, documenting and comparing.
We will also learn about other marine life in other parts of the world, including sharks, coral reefs and jellyfish!
Young Detectives (Ages 10-14) – 1 x SPACE REMAINING!
If you love problem solving, science and a good mystery, this is the course for you!
Through age-appropriate mysteries, you’ll learn about DNA, fingerprints, footprints and other trace evidence, as well as facial composites.
You’ll develop deduction, math skills, problem-solving and critical thinking skills by working collaboratively.
The skills you learn will be put to the test on the final day when we create a crime scene for you to investigate.
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Week 7: August 15th - 19th
Amazing Artists (7-9) – 2 x SPACES REMAINING!
Mixed media is the best of all art forms because it blends a variety of them to make masterpieces!
Rather than focusing on one form of media such as a piece of art that only works with paint, these pieces will include a variety of media.
Some of our art pieces will include painting, papier-mache, fabric, wood, and pastels. We will also incorporate photography, magazine ads and different fonts.
Amazing Artists is a wonderful course to exhibit creativity while still learning about different art techniques.
Graphic Novels (Ages 10-14) – 5 x SPACES REMAINING!
Come and experience Pear Tree’s amazing updated version of its already much-loved Graphic Novels course!
Taking advantage of some amazing changes in technology, your child will get to create graphic
novels on a level of sophistication never before imaginable and with unlimited potential.In this course, we combine literacy, acting, photography, art and technology to create our own high-quality digital graphic novels to take home at the end of the course.
Transportation (Ages 5-6)
Planes, trains, and automobiles are only some of the ways of getting around in our Transportation theme!
Through a wide range of activities that include STEM, math, literacy, singing, drama, and art, we look at Vancouver’s options of buses, sky train, helicopters, and boats.
Depending on COVID restrictions, this theme may include a field trip.
Please email us at info@pear-tree.ca to join the wait list
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Week 8: August 22nd - 26th
Our Living Oceans (Ages 10-14) – 4 x SPACES REMAINING!
Attention future marine biologists, wildlife lovers, and avid beachcombers! Are you fascinated with the ocean and the life within it? Are you worried about the impact of human activities on our ocean sustainability?
Despite the fact that the ocean is right at our doorstep, there is still so much to explore and discover within it. Would you be surprised to learn that the oceans house the world’s largest invertebrate (the Colossal squid, topping out at a whopping 14 meters), and yet we know almost nothing about them?
But the oceans are so much more than a source of facts and oddities. Oceans are fascinating, complex, and incredible ecosystems, vital to the health of our planet, our economy, and our culture.
Learn about ecosystems here on the coast, see live animals at the Aquarium, research and present about human impact on the oceans, and even sea kayak at Jericho Beach!
As this course includes a field trip to Vancouver Aquarium and a sea kayaking lesson at Jericho Beach, there is an additional fee of $50.
Fairytale Theatre (Ages 5-6)
Once upon a time at Pear Tree, we had a camp about Fairy Tales! Kings, evil stepmothers, princesses and magic are some of the topics we will explore.
Some of the exciting activities we’ll do include planting Jack’s magic beans, playing math games related to the different fairytales, creating playdough gingerbread men, and engaging in dramatic play related to fairy tales. We will even read fractured fairy tales! This is an excellent course to develop speaking skills in a fun and creative way!
Please email us at info@pear-tree.ca to be added to our wait list.
Space (Ages 7-9)
Do you know what it takes to fly to the moon, or even beyond? Take a trip into space with Pear Tree’s out-of-this-world Space Invaders camp!
Train like an astronaut, build and test space technology, and learn about the possibility of living on other planets. We’ll also make lunatic landers and other simulated spacecrafts to explore life in space and other planets.
At the end of the week, we’ll apply our knowledge of space to our “Space Mission”, to see if human life can exist on a mysterious new planet.
Please email us at info@pear-tree.ca to be added to our wait list.
Summer Camp Vancouver Prices 2022
By booking 4 weeks or more of our Vancouver summer camps, you could save up to 20% off our regular price. We’re confident you won’t find a better value-for-money Vancouver summer camp! Prices are for 5-day weeks. On weeks with statutory holidays, the price will be calculated for the actual number of days. This applies to our Hot Lunch program, too.
All prices subject to GST
Non-Refundable Deposit = $100 per course registration
Additional Options
Pear Tree’s Healthy Hot Lunch Program
Why not take advantage of Pear Tree’s Hot Lunch Program? For just $70 per week, your child will receive a healthy combination of a hot meal with veggies, and a morning and afternoon snack!
Our menu is approved by a certified nutritionist, and is prepared by our in-house chef.
Pear Tree Summer Camp Highlights
- 16 x kids per summer camp (maximum)
- 1 x school teacher per class
- Plus classroom assistant (for young classes)
- Very high quality summer camps
- Amazing value for money!
- 1:5 ratio on field trips
- Healthy balance of indoor/outdoor time
Pear Tree Education is about to change your idea of summer camps! With any Pear Tree summer course, your child will spend as much time as possible outside, experiencing education hands-on in the open air. Your child will learn and experience diverse skills and goals, such as multidisciplines (science, math, social studies, and language arts), creativity, teamwork, technology, public speaking, sports, and critical thinking.
Furthermore, Pear Tree offers some of the most unique educational experiences, connecting education to the community!
If your child has never taken a course with Pear Tree, we’re about to change your understanding of education, too, because Pear Tree Education is Vancouver’s one and only 21st-century private elementary school and learning centre. All of our courses are taught by fully-qualified, experienced school teachers passionate about our system of learning. We’re confident you won’t find a better educational summer camp.
Due to Pear Tree’s elementary school expanding to become a middle school starting this September, we will be hosting our Kitsilano camps at the following nearby location:
Pear Tree School (map link)
215-2678 W Broadway
Vancouver, BC V6K 2G3
We will be running our Hot Lunch Program at this location.