Course Length:  Six weeks 2026 Schedule:  Wednesdays  with Helen Harrold at 11:30am CST/5:30pm UK. Click Here to find the Registration Form at the Bottom of the Summer Course Page About Summer Courses at Dreaming Spires Our summer classes are great for homeschoolers who are preparing for high school in the US or exams in the UK, a chance to sample a subject before doing a deep dive for the coming year. All courses will meet an hour weekly for six weeks. There will be the usual reliance on living books and some homework to ensure good participation, and at the end a certificate will be awarded. About Spotlight on Entrepreneurship:  We Bought a Zoo In order to run a zoo, you would first of all have to buy one. Where can I go to buy a zoo? Once I have my zoo, I need to fill it with animals- from cheetahs to chimpanzees, from lions to lamas- what shall I choose?  And then how do I look after them and feed them? Meat for the cheetahs and hay for the lamas? It ......

Course Length:  Full academic year (30 weeks) This Year's Schedule :  Click here to view   Overview of Dreaming Spires Science Courses All our science courses use a unique approach to scientific study -- instead of boring, dry textbooks, students are drawn into the subject through reading modern, award-winning books like  The Secret Wisdom of Nature  for Biology , or  The Poisoner's Handbook  for the forensics unit in Chemistry ....

Course Length:  Full academic year (30 weeks) This Year's Schedule :  Click here to view Register Here Aims of the Course The main aims of this course are to introduce students to short stories from a wide range of authors, from classics from Somerset Maugham, O Henr, Twain and Kipling, to modern authors such as Raymond Bradbury and Kit de Waal. Short stories offer a bite size way of exploring a marvellous range of genre and classic authors. They are engaging, offering an open door to highly crafted texts, so students can jump right into the nuts and bolts of great literature and develop valuable skills in close reading before they are asked to perform close readings in the (much larger) space of a novel.. Their length is great for building confidence to tackle longer works in the future. Short stories are also great family reads. The length of the works means lessons can be scaffolded to support students with specific learning needs, or those who find longer text overwhelmi......

Course Length:  Full academic year (30 weeks) This Year's Schedule :  Click here to view Register Here Aims of the Course Does your child have a head for business or an interest in marketing? Or perhaps they can picture themselves running a company one day, or playing a crucial role in the growth and success of an organisation. What about having aspirations to be a manager in a business, or just have an interest in the news and how the government and its policies affect their everyday lives? If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then Business Studies and Marketing is the right introduction for them! Students will explore the essential building blocks of business while developing a strong understanding of marketing in action, covering topics like business foundations and the forces that shape a business; marketing and brand power; using digital assets; and a focus on how this all works in the real world. Homework Expectations Each week, students will come together via......

Course Length : Full academic year (30 weeks) This Year's Schedule :  Click here to view Register Here Aims of the Course This course on Advanced Algebra and Probability is aimed at high-school students who have already shown strength and aptitude for mathematics, or who want a course that's out of the ordinary.  For UK students, that may be someone who's studying A-levels already, or who has finished a GCSE-level exam and waiting to start a higher course.  For US students, it's likely that they've completed Algebra 2 and are shoring up their transcript for a competitive college.  The motivation for putting Algebra and Probability together in a single course is that they provide the foundations for data science.  These areas of mathematics are becoming increasingly important when studying mathematics in college and also for many technology jobs.  They are also beautiful and challenging in their own right....

Course Length:  Full academic year (30 weeks) This Year's Schedule :  Click here to view Register Here Aims of the Course This course, "The Power of Looking Widely: Painting, Sculpture and Architecture," will look at a broad range of art and artists from painting to sculpture to architecture, and how the subject area of Art Appreciation and Art History are about fun, curiosity and exploration, fulfilling ways in which to learn about the world....