2014 Birmingham City Schools Summer Enrichment/Acceleration Opportunities

Elementary Summer Enrichment Sites

Middle School Summer Enrichment Sites

High School Summer Enrichment Sites

Schools Offering Their Own Enrichment Programs

Brown Elementary

Inglenook Green Acres Middle Parker Glen Iris Elementary

Huffman Academy Huffman Middle Huffman Hudson K-8

West End Academy Wilkerson 6-8 Ramsay Tuggle Elementary

Bush Hills Academy Wenonah Princeton Elementary

Robinson Elementary

Program Title

Description

Audience

Dates

Time

Location

Tuition

Specialty Programs

Superintendent’s Academy

(Invitation Only)

The Superintendent’s Academy is for rising 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. Rising 6th grade students are selected to attend the program based on their ARMT scores and principal referral. Rising 7th and 8th grade students are invited to attend based on completion of the program during the previous summer. The enrichment program teaches all of the core subjects through a common theme. There is no tuition, but students may be asked to pay field trip expenses, such as bus/lunch.

Selected 6th

, 7

th and 8

th

graders

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Washington K-8

None

Tuition Free for Birmingham City School students only. Out of district students are eligible to attend for a fee. Contact Arthur Watts, 231-4606

for the fee schedule.

ACT Summer Camp Program (Invitation Only) Milton Hopkins

231-5400

ACT Summer Camp Program

(High Schools)

IRead Dr. Dimple Martin

231-467

ILit Dr. Sandra Harrell

231-2023

Students will work on skills from Kaplan that will prepare them for positive gains on the ACT Test. Reading acceleration program for students in Grades 1-3 that will enhance a student’s reading level. Reading acceleration program for students in Grades 6-10 that will enhance a student’s reading level. Each student will be provided an iPad.

Grades 7 & 8

Grades 9-12

Grades 1– 3

Grades 6-10

June 9 – July 10

June 9 – July 10

June 9 – July 10

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

8:00 – 1:00

8:00 – 1:00

8:00 – 1:00

Huffman Middle

Wilkerson Middle

All High Schools

Inglenook Huffman Acad.

West End Acad. Bush Hills Acad.

Princeton Robinson

Washington K-8

None

None

None

None

Credit Acceleration

Program Beverly Kimes

231-8014

Students will enroll in a web-based course for advance credit. They can earn one Carnegie Unit of work.

Grades Rising 9

th

And 10 - 12

June 9 – July 10 8:00 – 1:00 Huffman Ramsay

Wenonah

None

Pre-K Hello School

Enrichment Program

Arlene Williams

Contact: 231-2409

A summer enrichment program designed to prepare four-year old children for their first experiences in a formal school setting. The primary focus area of “Hello School” will be social-emotional awareness, which is the foundation for all learning. The secondary focus area of “Hello School” will be reading aloud to children, which is the single most important activity for building the knowledge required for success in reading.

Students

entering Pre-K for the first

time in the fall

June 9– July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Brown Bush Hills Acad. Martha Gaskins Huffman Acad. Inglenook K-8 Phillips Acad. Tuggle Elem.

Washington K-8. West End Acad.

None

Kindergarten Kinder Camp

Arlene Williams

Contact: 231-2409

A summer enrichment program designed to ensure that each child has acquired new academic and social skills relative to when they enter school and to aid in the transition to kindergarten. The area of focus will be on pre-reading and prewriting skills that are necessary for future work with letters and sounds.

Students entering

Kindergarten in the fall

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Brown Bush Hills Acad. Martha Gaskins Huffman Acad. Inglenook K8 Phillips Acad. Tuggle Elem.

Washington K-8. West End Acad

None

Read 180 Dr. Sandra Harrell

231-2023

Reading acceleration program.

Grades 6-12

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Parker Green Acres Smith Middle

None

Pre-AP

Scholars Camp

Dr. Sandra Harrell

231-2023

Students will learn Pre-Advanced Placement literature and language strategies for chosen reading, analyzing texts, synthesizing multiple texts and writing argument prose, poetry and drama.

Pre-AP

Students

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Wilkerson

None

Credit Recovery

Ezra Shine 231-1063

High School students can recover Carnegie Units from courses not mastered

Grades 10 –

12

June 9 – July 10

7:30 –3:00 2 Sessions

All High Schools

None

Compensatory

SPED Nelva Walker

231-4600

An instructional program for our SPED students who neede additional instructional enrichment.

SPED

Students

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Barrett

None

ELL Summer Enrichment Program

Dr. Rosalva Ballin Contact: 231-4600

The ESL Summer Enrichment Program will be offered to Spanish-speaking ELs. As in the past, we will give priority to newcomers and to students who are scoring below 3.0 in the WIDA ACCESS Test for ELs. Second order of priority is to ELs who academic performance is not as strong as desired to progress soundly to the next grade. Students will be participating in cultural and artistic activities. Transportation will be available to students from across the district.

Rising 3rd

– 11

th

Grade ESL Students

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Washington K-8

None

JROTC

STEM Camp Col. Ken Storey

Contact 231-3255

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) Camp will introduce selected JROTC Cadets to STEM Career Opportunities. The cadets will be provided direct exposure to the college atmosphere, STEM curriculum and STEM related work sites. Cadets will strive for excellence in all areas, continue their education beyond high school and pursue STEM related career opportunities.

Cadets must be a rising

sophomore, junior and

seniors cadets, have a minimum 2.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale, must be of strong moral

and ethical character, be

in good

June 9 - 13

Set at Camp

Mississippi State University

None

standings in JROTC. Be physically fit and must be

recommended by the SAI. (20

Cadets from Birmingham

will be selected)

Summer

Advantage

Dr. Selena Florence 231-8620

Summer Advantage is a program used nation-wide to provide an academically rigorous curriculum and enrichment activities to decrease summer learning loss for students. Parents can apply by going online to http://tinyurl.com/SummerAdvantage

Grades 1 – 3

June 23 – July 25 Monday-Friday

8:00 – 3:30

Oliver Elementary

None

Breakthrough Birmingham

Anthony Oliver 205-354-3709

A program for grades 7 & 8 to enhance their skills in math, science, reading and writing.

Grades 7 & 8

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 4:00

Hayes K-8

Bush Hills Acad.

None

Mathematics

Contact: Mrs. Dorothy Hollings Phone: 231-1060 Mrs. Beverly Kimes Phone: 231-8014

Algebra I Extended Year

This program is designed for eighth grade Pre-AP Algebra I students to reinforce and complete skills that were not mastered in grade eight. Students completing the program will enroll in Pre-AP Geometry in August 2014.

Current

eighth grade students

enrolled in Pre-AP

Algebra I

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Ramsay

None

AP Summer Scholars Program

This program is designed to prepare rising seniors to take Advanced Placement Calculus during the 2014-15 school academic year. Mathematics AP Summer Scholars will be held during the summer school program.

Rising Seniors

June 9 – July 10

7:30 – 3:00

Ramsay

None

Special Education Contact: Maria Young Phone: 231-4766

Extended School Year (ESY)

The Special Education Extended Year Services are provided to students with significant disabilities who are at risk for experiencing significant regression in critical skills during an extended break from the regular school program.

The

student’s IEP team

must determine whether a student is eligible to participate

in the SPED ESY

program.

June 9 – July 10

8:00 –12:00

Epic

None

Reading\Language Arts Contact: Dr. Sandra Harrell (Grades 6-12) Phone: 231-2023 Dr. Dimple Martin (Grades 1-3) Phone: 231-4667

Middle School Scholars Camp: Pre-Advanced Placement English Preview

Students will learn Pre-Advanced Placement literature and language strategies for annotating, analyzing, synthesizing, and writing about fiction, non fiction, poetry, and drama. The class will incorporate resources from the CollegeBoard and Laying the Foundation.

Rising sixth, seventh and

eighth graders

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Wilkerson

None

Physical Science Contact: Mrs. Patricia Davis Middle School Science Phone: 231-4600

STEM

The development of skills in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math is collectively known as STEM. Students will be exposed to and master STEM skills.

Grades 10-12

June 9 – July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Parker

Huffman

None

Fine Arts Contact: Mr. John McAphee Phone: 231-4655 Contact: Ms. Debora Mayes

June Tunes

A summer music camp open to students across the District. Students are given an opportunity to take band lessons from qualified instructors. Students will present

Students in grades 4-

June 9 - July 10

8:00 – 1:00

Hayes K-8

None

a culminating program to the public. Students will be given a tee shirt and a lunch on the day of the performance. The program date and time will be announced.

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Enjoy Your Summer!