MCS offering Summer Camps & Safety Town

Muralists at work at a previous MCS summer-camp mural-painting week. Photo courtesy Katie Altherr.

by Sara Swanson

Manchester Community Schools is holding summer camps for kids in kindergarten through 6th grade (2024–2025 school year). They will be held at Riverside Intermediate School and run in the mornings from 8:30am to 11:30am for kindergarten through 2nd graders, and from noon until 3pm for 3rd through 6th graders. Each camp lasts a week, Monday through Friday, June 16 through August 1, and costs $50/camp. Camp focuses this year are baking, cheer, horses (this week will be held at Bridgewater Support Services with horses), games, mural painting, and STEM. There are no summer camps the week of June 30 through July 4.

In addition, Manchester Community Schools will be offering Safety Town the week of July 28 through August 1 for 4- and 5-year-olds. Safety Town is designed to teach many areas of personal safety to children entering kindergarten in the fall. Students learn traffic and bus safety as well as fire, seat belt, stranger, water, gun, poison, and electrical safety through stories, projects, songs, games, movies, and excursions.

To register for a summer camp or Safety Town, visit: https://manchester.revtrak.net/rw-summer-camps. Some camps have already been filled but there are waitlists. Summer camps are sponsored by 5 Healthy Towns Foundation and Washtenaw County Parks and Rec. Questions? Email Katie Altherr at kaltherr@mcs.k12.mi.us.

Previous Safety Town at Klager Elementary School. Photo courtesy of Beckie Brewis.

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by Sara Swanson

Sara Swanson is an editor, writer and founder of the Manchester Mirror.