Middle School
Summer provides the perfect opportunity to encourage learning outside the student’s normal classroom setting. This year our students attended different programs all over San Diego County:
- For the first time, we had 7 students attend an Entrepreneur Camp at Warren Walker for 2 weeks.
- 2 students attended a 4-week summer program at Francis Parker.
- 17 attended Bishop’s 4-week Summer Knights program.
- 24 attended a week-long workshop at the Elementary Institute of Science.
- 12 attended Nativity Summer School, aka Principal’s Bootcamp, for a smaller, 1:1 tutoring environment which has proved to provide significant improvement.
All students had the opportunity to attend a week-long YMCA summer camp at either Camp Marston (current 7th graders) or Camp Surf (current 8th grade). All these programs were offered to our students at either a low-cost to families or free of charge. From what the students had to share returning back to school, they love attending these summer programs!
High School
This summer all of our high school students either attended summer school at their own school or a two-week Graduate Support workshop at Nativity Prep. From a wide variety of tasks like continuing to develop skills and habits that aided them in their high school transition, and undertaking the college application process, to researching and presenting different colleges and careers and beginning to draft their college essay, all students are one step closer to college readiness.
They ended their summer on a fun note, with an overnight trip to visit Whittier College, Loyola Marymount University, UC Santa Barbara, and CSU Long Beach, where one of our graduates, Moises Cardenas, gave us an insider tour!
