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.
Our faculty is currently shaping the day-by-day plan with partner institutions. Full details will be published shortly. The overview and field trip above remain confirmed.
Please note that programme details are subject to change.
Perception & illusion basics, drawing optical illusions. Afternoon philosophy: "How do we know what we know?"
Guided exploration with a museum booklet. Students collect inspiration and favourite trick-art examples.
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.
Guided exploration, then return to school for awards.
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.
Excursion 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.
Our faculty is currently shaping the day-by-day plan with partner institutions. Full details will be published shortly. The overview and field trip above remain confirmed.
Our faculty is currently shaping the day-by-day plan with partner institutions. Full details will be published shortly. The overview and field trip above remain confirmed.
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.
Excursion in the morning, then back to school to run the final student-designed escape rooms in two groups, ending with awards.
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 available on request.
We operate school bus services for drop-off and pick-up. Routes are planned with consideration for proximity to the school and to ensure ride times do not become too long. Please contact us for details on schedules, fees, age requirements, and height restrictions.
| School | Bus Route |
|---|---|
| Minato-ku Primary School | Primary School Bus |
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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