The school holidays come around quickly and it can be a struggle as a working parent to find childcare. Here’s a great list of May June Half Term holiday activity camps running around Oxfordshire that will keep your kids entertained. Click on the links in red below for further information.
SPOTLIGHT – ELITE CAMPS
Elite Camps Ofsted registered Multi-Activity Holiday Camps are suitable for boys and girls aged 4-13. They have an exciting programme of Sports and Elite Activities to fulfil the needs of energetic children looking to learn new skills, build confidence and make new friends while having fun!
House of Fun Holiday Camp – my boys have been here before and had a great time. They’re family run and have a huge amount of energy and lots of variety from sports to crafts and cooking. The multi-activity camps including cookery, sports and arts & crafts for 5-12 year olds in every school holiday, with sites in Oxford and Abingdon. Children choose all their activities each day, and through a safe, fun environment under the supervision of a fantastic team of friendly and experienced staff, giving children the chance to just be kids.
Calling all budding engineers – ibrick at House of Fun is excited to invite you on an all-new Lego adventure. Action-packed holiday camp days for children aged 6-13 years old, using bespoke ibrick kits to design, build and innovate with mechanised Lego models.
- Cutteslowe, Oxford
- Chilton, Didcot
- Cowley, Oxford (inset day 3rd June)
SuperCamps Multi-Activity day camps offer a wide range of fun activities to keep kids aged 4-12 entertained during the school holidays. all camps.
Oxford Active Camps – children’s multi-activity camps are for children aged from 3 to 14 years and have a wide range of fun activities for kids to enjoy during the school holidays. With venues at top independent schools with outstanding facilities from indoor and outdoor swimming pools to sports playing fields, woodlands and 100’s of acres to explore.
Active Adventure focuses on all things outdoors, muddy and wet. Its suitable for those new to bushcraft as well as those who are at home in the woods or on a kayak.
Introducing Active Chefs this May ( for children aged 8-14 years ) – a really fun way to introduce young people to the enjoyment that comes from cooking. Running Thursday 30th May
Kid Active Holiday Clubs (Headington, Oxford) – offer children aged 4-12 a fantastic mix of high and low energy activities. The exciting timetable is delivered over spacious indoor and outdoor areas offering arts and crafts, construction, board games, toys, music, dance, bouncy castle and all the sports.
Jane Brooks intensive swimming courses offer intensive swimming courses during the school holidays designed to help children make rapid progress. I can give this one a personal recommendation as my kids have been and it really giving them such a boost in confidence and skills. So much so that they now have the regular weekly Jane Brooks swimming lessons.
NOX Gymnastics Camps are designed to be a fun space for children (of all gymnastics abilities!) to learn, play and make new friends through the school holidays. A variety of activities makes every day different, including outdoor playtime, choreography, a variety of different sports activities, team building games, races, arts & crafts activities, and of course plenty of gymnastics! Camps running 28th to 31st May 2024
Ultimate Survival Camps are for adventurers aged 7 to 14 years. Go wild during the holidays being fully-immersed in the natural environment, trying brilliant outdoor activities and games, and making new friends!
- Hill End Centre, Farmoor near Oxford
Cygnets Art School run two holiday workshops per day during the May half term holiday spread between Abingdon and Didcot, so you can choose to attend one, several, or all of them! Abingdon classes are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and Didcot classes are on Tuesday and Thursday. They have a ‘Children’s Book Illustrations theme with a Hogwarts inspired castle, James and the Giant Peach, Beatrix Potter projects to draw and paint. Suitable for kids of all abilities aged 5-13.
Bright Sparks Events May half term Science Holiday Clubs involve a day, jam packed full of science tricks, messy experiments, fun games and science crafts. The workshops will be a roller-coaster adventure of funfair physics!
As well as fantastic family friendly theatre shows at The North Wall, they also regularly have a variety of creative workshops during the school holidays. Over May half term they have workshops on 31st May.
8 to 12 years will have a full day getting to grips with animal studies! This is a popular technique used in drama; inspiration is drawn from animals and their behaviour to create new characters. This is a fun way to explore personality traits and physicality.
For 12 – 17 year olds a full day exploring how to create detailed, nuanced, and convincing characters. Expect lots of games, drama exercises and fun.
The Hedgehog Club holiday club will run at May half term 29th – 31st May. Tailored for 5 to 12 year olds, spend the day in the woods building dens, swinging in hammocks, whittling, making fires, cooking on the fire, crafting and much, much more.
Vicky’s Holiday Club (near Witney) – wider range of activities including arts, crafts and sports.
Rainbow Bicester preschool offer Easter holiday clubs for children aged 3 to 11 years.
Woodcote Pre-School (Woodcote) – Easter holiday club.
Ignite Sport (Oxford) – half-term holiday camps are suitable for 4-16 year olds.
Get Active (Didcot) – fun-filled holiday camps with friendly support and encouragement to a child so that they can enjoy up to 9 activities per day.
Artworks Holiday Classes (Oxford) – held in a huge, bright and spacious room at St Mary’s and St Johns Primary School, in a huge big room, aspiring artists will really enjoy. My eldest loved printmaking and we have his picture framed at home.
Jamie Cassidy Soccer School (Bicester) – Boys, girls and all abilities are welcome to learn new skills and techniques at these popular school holiday football holiday clubs in Bicester.
Premier Tennis Camps – For children age 5 – 15
- Faringdon
- Oxford
Peapods Nursery School (Henley) runs a Holiday club for the Henley on Thames/Peppard area, during the Summer, Easter & Christmas holidays and all half term breaks, for children aged 1 – 8 years old.
Just For Kids Company (Bicester) – musical theatre holiday camps
Serious4Sport – (Grove) children’s Sports Camps with a whole range of sports and activities
Next Thing Education (Oxford) – holiday tech camps allow children to gain technical skills from a young age enabling them to shape the future.
Imperium Sports (Kidlington) offer a wide range of physical activities and sport throughout the day as well as a crafts and games.
Junior Adventures Group – multi activity camps with a mix of sports, activities and creative sessions
- Thame
- Oxford
Star Hot Shots holiday camps are fun, energetic, creative and challenging enough to develop every child’s skills without overwhelming the less confident ones.
- Henley
- Goring Heath
Springbox Gym Club (Henley) – general gymnastics and fun camp for non members and have fun, games & colouring while learning gymnastics
Longridge Activity Camps (near Marlow) – activity days are for young people between the ages of 8 and 12.
WR Sports – multi activity camps and gymnastic workshops
- Oxford
- Abingdon
- Watlington
Ridgeway Adventures Activity Days (South Oxfordshire, not far from Moulsford) a fun and engaging holiday club for 11 to 15 year olds.
TA Sport Stars aim to make every child’s experience on camp the best it could possibly be!
- Faringdon
- Wantage
- Shrivenham
Atlas Camp‘s (Brize Norton) multi-activity kids camps offer fun-filled school holiday childcare to children aged 4-14
Just Camps (Banbury) run fun based activity camps during every school holidays for children from 4-12 years
