What We Offer During School Holidays
School holidays should be a time for children to explore, create and have fun. But keeping children genuinely engaged for days or weeks at a time is a real challenge, whether you are running a holiday club, managing a local authority programme, or simply looking for something worthwhile for your own children to do.
Our holiday STEM programmes use hands-on activities adapted for the timetable, age range and setting agreed with the organiser. Children can build robots, program drones, create digital 3D designs, crack codes or explore artificial intelligence, depending on the workshop booked. We bring the specialist workshop equipment, set it up and run the agreed sessions. The organiser provides the confirmed venue setup.
Who Our Holiday Programmes Are For
Our holiday workshops are designed to work for a range of organisers and settings. Here is who typically books with us:
- Schools running holiday clubs: Schools running holiday provision can ask about a workshop as one part of their programme. The organiser remains responsible for checking any funding, attendance, food, safeguarding and reporting requirements that apply.
- Local authorities and HAF providers: Local authorities and HAF delivery partners can ask us for current activity details, the activity risk assessment and available business documentation. The commissioning body or delivery partner decides whether the proposed workshop meets its current programme, funding, reporting and compliance requirements.
- Community groups and youth organisations: Scout groups, Brownie packs, youth clubs, church groups and community centres can enquire about holiday workshops. We bring the specialist workshop equipment and confirm the activity, capacity, timetable and venue setup before booking.
- Parents and private bookings: Parents organising activities for groups of children during the holidays can enquire directly. A tailored private-booking quote confirms the price, activity, session length, capacity and venue setup before booking.
Workshop Options for Holiday Programmes
Ask which workshops, dates and formats are available for your holiday programme. Options include:
- Robotics (Beginner and Intermediate): Children build and program robots to complete challenges. Beginner is for ages 5 to 11 and Intermediate is for ages 7 to 14. Capacity depends on the workshop, age group and format, and is confirmed in the quote.
- Drone Coding: Children program autonomous drones to fly through obstacle courses and complete missions. A spectacular activity that generates huge excitement. Groups of up to 30, requiring a space with high ceilings.
- 3D Design and Printing: Children design their own 3D models on screen and watch a demonstration print in real time. One demonstration print stays with the setting; individual 3D Doodle creations are take-home only when that longer format is booked. Groups of up to 32 per session.
- Cybersecurity and Cryptography: Children crack codes, solve ciphers and learn how digital security works through hands-on challenges. The workshop accommodates up to 32 participants per session.
- AI and Machine Learning: Children train machine-learning models and use them to control robots. The workshop accommodates up to 32 participants per session.
- Stop-Motion Animation: Children create their own animated films using stop-motion equipment. Capacity is up to 32 participants per session for KS1 ages or 45 for KS2 ages.
How Holiday Workshops Differ from Term Time
Holiday settings are different from school classrooms, and our workshops reflect that. During term time, sessions are tightly scheduled around the school day and organised by year group. During the holidays, the atmosphere is more relaxed and the groups are often mixed-age, which changes the dynamic in positive ways.
We adapt our sessions for holiday programmes by allowing more open-ended exploration time, adjusting the pace to suit mixed-age and mixed-ability groups, and placing extra emphasis on fun and collaboration rather than curriculum coverage. The learning is still there, but it is wrapped in an experience that feels like a treat rather than a lesson. Children leave buzzing about what they built, coded or created, not feeling like they have been in school during their time off.
How to Book a Holiday Programme Workshop
Booking is straightforward whether you are a school, a local authority, a community group or a parent organising a private session. Here is the process:
- Choose your workshops: Browse the workshop range and tell us which activities, dates and age groups you are considering. We confirm which formats are suitable and available.
- Get a quote: Use our instant quote tool to preview school-workshop catalogue prices, or contact us for a tailored holiday-programme quote.
- Confirm your dates: Get in touch with your preferred dates. We will confirm current availability and the suitable workshop options. Short-notice enquiries are welcome, but no date is guaranteed until the booking is confirmed.
- Leave the rest to us: We bring the specialist equipment, set up before the children arrive, run every session, and pack away at the end. We bring the specialist equipment. Schools provide a suitable indoor space, tables, chairs and power; the CAD workshop also needs reliable internet access. We confirm the exact setup before the visit.