Holiday Hort – Vacation at School

During the school holidays, Holiday Hort is offered for Primary children as a whole-day, educational and recreational programme between 07:00 and 17:00. We offer Holiday Hort in the Autumn, Christmas, Winter, Spring and Summer breaks.

In the Spring Holiday Hort we start our Kindergarten to Grade 1 transition programme, where EY3 children from LIK join the programme for the first time. The goal is it to create a smooth transition from pre-school to school for our future first-graders. This is of invaluable benefit to our smallest learners. They get to know the school premises, the spaces in Hort, the educators who will be assisting in their classes as well as older students in Primary. It makes their step up to big school so much smoother and takes the jitters out of the first weeks. The Summer Holiday Hort happens just before they begin Grade 1 and really rounds off the transition. The EY3s can spend their whole summer break at LIS together with Primary students and already feel like part of the school when they come in for their very first day of Grade 1.

Six to ten weeks before an upcoming Holiday Hort, parents are asked to sign up their children for the Holiday Hort in advance until registration deadline. Holiday Hort services carry a separate fee, for the speciality programme, filled with activities and fieldtrips and includes transport and warm lunches.

This past Autumn Holiday Hort was themed Survival and students were wrapped up in mushroom hunting, orientation games, building shelters, kayaking and going on treasure hunts. When the weather was unfriendly, they could stay indoors and take part in cooking and crafting activities, movie days, experiments or activities in the gym or active space. Outings to Jump House or in summer to the local pool are always a huge highlight with the kids. We are also lucky enough to have a forest right next to the school and a beautiful school garden in which we can learn and play.

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