Laurus Summer School is not a holiday club — it is seven weeks of inquiry-based STEAM, designed and taught by our Cambridge-curriculum primary faculty. Each week stands alone, so your child can join for one week or stay the whole summer.
Every week centres on a driving inquiry question — led by the same Cambridge-trained faculty who teach at Laurus through the year.
Each week is a self-contained voyage — a single rigorous theme explored through inquiry, fieldwork, making and reflection. Select a week below to see how the days unfold.
Please note that programme details are subject to change.
Please note that programme details are subject to change.
Welcome and intro to the week, then the history of tea around the world. Afternoon: which ingredients make up herbal tea, and a hands-on Herbal Tea Blending Lab.
Grow rock candy crystals and map flavour profiles. Afternoon: predict flavours by aroma, then craft flavoured butters and salts in a workshop.
Intro to the day and the evolution of chocolate. Afternoon: design an original chocolate product, then make a chocolate spice bark.
A full-day field trip where students explore how foods and flavours are created, connecting the week’s hands-on experiments with real-world food science.
The low-down on Mexican food and the idea of portable meals. Afternoon: blend an original taco seasoning recipe to take home.
A personal herbal tea blend, flavoured butters and salts, a chocolate spice bark and their own taco seasoning recipe — a week of edible science made with their own hands.
Please note that programme details are subject to change.
Perception & illusion basics, drawing optical illusions. Afternoon philosophy: "How do we know what we know?"
A field trip exploring trick art, optical illusions, and visual perception, giving students inspiration for their own illusion-based creations.
What happens when the brain is tricked? Students prepare questions for a guest neurobiologist.
Brainstorm, plan and build original illusion exhibits for the class museum. Decorating in the afternoon.
Museum set-up, class-to-class showcase rounds, awards and certificates.
A class-built trick-art museum with original illusion exhibits, plus a personal museum booklet documenting their week-long exploration.
Live Q&A and demonstration session with a working brain scientist.
Visual lesson slides shared each day so families can follow what is happening.
Please note that programme details are subject to change.
Code-breaking, following clues on a treasure map, exploring different boats and basic boat-building.
Darwin and the HMS Beagle, survival in harsh climates and the jungle, Life Library visit with field journals.
From willow bark & quinine to medicine, sugar cane to sugar, coffee berries to coffee, cacao to chocolate.
Inspiration, planning, making and decorating personal terrariums.
A field trip where students observe living things, habitats, and natural environments, deepening their understanding of ecosystems and exploration.
A living terrarium ecosystem they take home, a decoded treasure map, and a Beagle-style voyage journal of their discoveries.
Please note that programme details are subject to change.
Team formation, brainstorm city atmosphere & identity, compare futuristic / nature-centred / historic / coastal cities. Start the collaborative diorama.
Field Trip day; students build a shared SDG photo album in Canva from what they observe.
Problem cards, sustainability workshop, VR EPCOT Showcase tour, Future Cities & Innovation Lab pitches.
Cultural exploration lab (festivals, music, architecture), symbols workshop, dance studio prep.
Passport-style rotation between city dioramas, stamps & stickers, City Dance-Off, reflection ceremony and awards.
Roads come pre-set; focus on naming, slogans and craft-built landmarks. Inventions use printable robot guides and craft joints. Lower-primary Dance-Off in the 9F Rec Space.
Choose a real-world country or region; consider climate, topography, resources. Solutions must address an assigned SDG problem card, pitched on Canva Whiteboard.
A large collaborative city diorama with flag, landmarks and culture, plus a futuristic innovation pitch — culminating in a class-run Dream City Expo with passport activity.
Immersive sustainability exploration through virtual reality.
Real-world problem cards drive every team's design brief.
Collaborative tools for pitch decks and visual planning.
Please note that programme details are subject to change.
Welcome, ice-breakers and ground rules, then design an island blueprint, lay the island foundation and begin building.
Instruction on adding natural features, then build rivers, forests, mountains and landscapes onto the island.
Instruction on adding manmade features, then construct buildings, roads and structures to bring the island community to life.
Finishing touches and painting, final preparation, then set up the Imagination Island Model Gallery display.
A field trip where students gather ideas from nature, landscapes, and outdoor environments to inspire their own imaginative island designs.
A detailed 3D island model — built from blueprint to finished landscape with natural and manmade features — presented in their own Imagination Island Model Gallery.
Please note that programme details are subject to change.
A silent line-up and animal signals game, then research animal signals to build a poster, present it, and design an original species project.
A field trip exploring how people, animals, signs, and symbols communicate in the wider world.
Gesture charades and a silent classroom, key words in BSL, pompom Braille, and a sensory maze — exploring how everyone communicates.
From emoji sentences to an intro to telecommunication, code breakers, a cup-and-string phone, and a human network relay.
A whisper chain and the Bouba/Kiki effect, an alien translator challenge, and building an original language from scratch.
An animal-signals poster and original species design, a hand-built cup-and-string phone, and their own invented language — plus hands-on experience of Braille, BSL and codes.
Please note that programme details are subject to change.
Team-building, "what is an escape room?", mechanics, theme selection, searching & observation drills, broken-puzzle challenge.
Assemble broken artefacts and obstacles, visual & pattern recognition, time for a trial escape.
Introduction to ciphers, writing secret messages with ciphers, designing a cipher craft to share with peers.
Morse code, hidden writing, invisible-ink craft, preparation for the final day.
A field trip where students explore clues, codes, observation, and teamwork, building ideas for their final escape-room challenge.
A working classroom escape room of their own design, plus personal cipher and invisible-ink craft artefacts.
Real-world investigation context to anchor the cryptography week.
Each team's room is run by their peers on the last afternoon.
Every week follows the same rhythm so students know what to expect. Monday through Thursday build toward Friday's excursion, where theory meets the real world.
| Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theme Day | Introduce Inquiry | Investigate | Build & Test | Create & Refine | Field trip |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Welcome & Introduction | Welcome Game | Welcome Game | Welcome Game | Welcome & Prep |
| 10:30 – 10:55 | Intro to Today's Theme | Intro to Today's Theme | Intro to Today's Theme | Intro to Today's Theme | Field Trip |
| 10:55 – 11:05 | — Break — | ||||
| 11:15 – 11:40 | Activity 1 | Activity 1 | Activity 1 | Activity 1 | |
| 11:40 – 12:40 | Lunch & Recess | ||||
| 12:40 – 13:30 | Reflection & Activity 2 Intro | Reflection & Activity 2 Intro | Reflection & Activity 2 Intro | Reflection & Activity 2 Intro | Field Trip |
| 13:30 – 13:40 | — Break — | ||||
| 13:40 – 15:00 | Activity 2 | Activity 2 | Activity 2 | Activity 2 | Return to School |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | Cleanup & Reflection | ||||
| 15:20 – 15:30 | Dismissal · Bus students collected by assigned staff | ||||
* Sample schedule. Weekly activities and trips vary by theme.
Weekly pricing, tax included. Fees cover instruction, materials, lunch, Friday field-trip transport and insurance. Sibling discounts are available on the enrolment fee.
Next to Tokyo Tower, our Primary & Secondary campus occupies four themed floors of the 2023-built Shiba International Building. Designed by our founding director as a "knowledge amusement park," each floor runs a different branch of science — from ocean to orbit. Summer School students move through all four.
Four science-themed floors.
See the campus where summer happens.
"At first my child was anxious about English, but thanks to the teachers' support, they were presenting in English by the final day. They fell in love with science experiments and now want to do them at home."
"With different themes each week, my child was excited asking 'what are we doing tomorrow?' We planned to join for one week but ended up staying for four."
"The visit to the National Astronomical Observatory and the JAXA staff lecture provided real-world experiences. My child now says they want to work in a space-related field."
"Cutting-edge exposure — programming, robotics, experiments — that regular school can't offer. Our child naturally started conversing in English with the foreign teachers and new friends."
Reserve your child's place below. Application deadline: one week before each week's start date. Popular weeks — especially the first and last — fill quickly, so we recommend applying early.
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