Specialty Camps

During this one-week course, you will plan and then build – using task board materials – a unique custom home of your own design.

During this one-week. half-day sewing camp, students will learn how to safely use a sewing machine. By the end of the week they will make a backpack and zippered pencil case.

Chess trains the mind and stimulates the intellect. It’s a game we can play all our lives, almost anywhere. Come learn from a chess master, our own Alexander Gustafsson.

When applying to selective colleges, how can you stand out among many qualified applicants? One way is with a compelling essay. Get a competitive advantage, jumping in for five mornings of intensive, helpful and enjoyable essay writing help.

Spend a week this summer with us learning about the genius of Shakespeare, through reading, acting out, and viewing A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Timon of Athens. In this one-week theater intensive, students will workshop for the first four days at our Black Box Theater (9:00-12:00) and then finish the week with an overnight trip (Thursday and Friday) to the world-renowned Shakespeare Festival in Cedar City.

Whether you have been through our 5th grade FLL robotics program, have done robotics and coding elsewhere, or are just starting out, this is the right place. It provides a great next step towards the FTC robotics in high school.

Join the Waterford Dance Academy for a late summer dance camp and get back in the groove before the school year begins. The camp will be taught by Waterford dance faculty and guest teachers.

If you find yourself craving something made by house elves at Hogwarts, produced in Professor Snape’s potions class, or perhaps off the menu at the Boar’s Head, come learn how to make it for yourself.

Spend a week helping to write, produce, and perform a mini-musical with a group of other creative and fun campers and the help of music, dance, and acting specialists. Campers will participate in every stage of this production.

This for-credit class fills a graduation requirement and can free up a future spot to take a one term class during the academic year.

Calling all writers! Come join us for a week of extreme literary shenanigans! Students will experiment with several creative genres over the course of this five-day camp.

Join us this summer for our Young Dancer’s Classical Ballet Summer Camp. The curriculum is created to encourage age-appropriate creativity, musicality, and physicality. Your child will dance and have fun with an emphasis on the foundations of ballet.

In this fun camp we will be focusing on the essential skills of middle school: organization, note-taking, planning, mindfulness, friendship, self advocacy and school resources. We’ll be learning all this through wild interactive activities, designed to help you build friendships and confidence.

This is a camp for students entering 5th grade, who have already gained some basic experience with Lego Mindstorms robotics and coding, whether in the Waterford Class IV program or at an outside source.

This class gives students the opportunity to explore basic printmaking techniques. Students will learn a wide variety of monotype techniques using the intaglio press. They will also be introduced to relief printmaking through linoleum cuts, woodcuts, or found objects. Medium and small-scale prints are produced. Taught by our longtime faculty member and former department chair, Colby Brewer.

Grass-stained knees, wildflower crowns, and dusty trails seem a little distant in the chill of  February, but have no fear! Sun-drenched, nature-rich opportunities await. For five straight days, meet brave leaders Jazmyn Card and Sadie Brower in the cool hours of the morning to take a hike and explore. Each day is a new location, with new adventures waiting for you and your friends

This summer class will explore the many adaptations of the Harry Potter series, ranging from video and tabletop games to theatrical performances and theme parks.

From poetry to parody to original song writing, we will look at some of our favorite lyrics through fresh eyes, learn some new styles and strategies, and work to write our own songs!

Come learn the basics of realistic painting with Bruce Hale. You will learn how to make the 3-D world come alive on a 2-D canvas, beginning with pencil sketches on the the first day and moving on to acrylic paints.

This for-credit visual arts class fills a graduation requirement and can free up a future spot to take a one term class during the academic year. Students will learn monotype printmaking techniques, using the intaglio press, and will also be introduced to relief printmaking through linoleum cuts, woodcuts, etc.

Join our Building Supervisor and outdoor enthusiast Camilo Castillo to master the basics of rod and reel fishing. Spend the first two days on campus, learning about angling safety, how to use the equipment, basic anatomy and the habits of fish. We will then try our new skills first at a local pond, then at a lake, and finally in a mountain stream.

Service benefits those that are being helped and changes those that are performing the service. Their world and their lives are enlarged and enriched as they see how others live. Service creates a canopy of relationships that can overarch all communities. This weeklong camp will instill these values while encouraging your student to become a service-minded member of the community, which is a lifelong process.

Spend a week improving your balance and flexibility and rhythm, pushing your limits, and learning the basic skills of tumbling and cheer from Coach Katelynn Halpren.

Grass-stained knees, wildflower crowns, and dusty trails seem a little distant in the chill of February, but have no fear! Sun-drenched, nature-rich opportunities await. For five straight days, meet brave leaders Amy Dolbin and Cindy Alm in the cooler hours of the morning to take a hike and explore. Each day is a new location, with new adventures waiting for you and your friends

The course covers basics of scuba diving techniques, safety, and equipment use. Participants will learn about pressure, dive tables, respiration and planning. This course emphasizes lifelong fitness and wellness concepts. Participants need to be comfortable in the water and able to stay afloat for ten minutes.

Join legendary Early Childhood teacher Kristie Jensen and her staff for a week of nature-based songs, rhymes, storytelling, gardening, food prep skills, plant, animal and insect observation, nature crafts, sensory awareness games, and outdoor cooking. Childhood joy, wonder, and friendship will flourish outside!

Learn about the basics of business in this two-week course, everything from marketing to finance to operations, culminating in a business plan competition. During week one learning practical business concepts. In week two, teams will apply those concepts in researching and crafting viable business plans and then presenting them to a panel of successful entrepreneurs.

Learn the basics of SCUBA with Waterford teacher, Becky Modderman, and her friends at Neptune Divers. Get your SCUBA Explorer and Snorkel Explorer ratings, and much more working in a warm, heated pool.

Camp goals/Description: This camp aims to teach young girls about all the opportunities and variety of STEM topics. Through hands-on experiments and lesson plans we want to show girls the unlimited potential of science, technology, engineering, and math.