One of the best things about summer classes is that they’re not part of your teens’ academic grades, which makes learning more focused and fun!
Whether you’re looking for classes to supplement skills taught in school or to develop an entirely new practical or creative skill, here’s a list for you and your teens to check out!
Cooking is a survival skill. While your teens live in this day and age where food can be delivered with only a few clicks, they must learn that preparing their own meals is beneficial for their health and budget when they need to live on their own.
The 5-day Junior Chefs League Program of International School for Culinary Arts and Hotel Management will teach your teens how to cook and bake simple dishes, snacks, pastries, and desserts through hands on-activities. Through their immersion from preparing ingredients to actual cooking and serving, your teens will appreciate the values of patience, focus, hard work. Moreover, they will learn useful techniques and safety protocols in the kitchen.
At the end of the 5-day class, expect your teens to extend their classroom to your own home, and together, you can explore new dishes to try – and maybe even sell in the future.
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Location: Katipunan Avenue, Loyola Heights, Quezon City
For inquiries, contact: 0917-836-8772 | (02) 8926-8888 | sales@iscahm.com | Website | Instagram
While chefs and cooks feed the body, artists feed the soul. If your teens have expressed inclination on acting, creative writing, and singing for theater, by all means, encourage them to try!
Philippine Educational Theater Association is home to theatrical plays families enjoy, experience, and learn from. They also make sure to develop the craft of budding artists through summer classes like Teen Theater and Musical Theater for Teens.
Recognizing that it’s an entirely different discipline to be on stage, Teen Theater will sharpen teens’ knowledge and skills on aspects of drama – creative drama, sound and music, creative writing, body movement and dance, and visual arts – lessons and workshops that aim to unleash your teens’ inner artist.
Musical Theater for Teens, on the other hand, is designed for the musically inclined, and emphasizes the strong connection between body, music, and storytelling.
Your teens’ discipline, empathy, and creative expression will definitely be strengthened in these PETA theater classes, no less.
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Location: No.5 Eymard Drive, New Manila Quezon City
For inquiries, contact: 0960-240-0897 (Yel) | udelacruz.peta@gmail.com | Instagram
In the Philippines, teens as young as senior high school already drive their way to school. Why not? If they are at least 16 years of age, they can already apply for a student license and begin to help at home through running errands that need driving.
Many of these students learned their driving skills from their parents or older siblings, and they supplement these through attending driving classes. A-1 Driving School offers Theoretical and Practical Driving Courses not just for summer, but the whole year round.
What’s great about A-1 Driving is that it’s very accessible, because its branches are typically in malls near you.
As in learning other essential skills, let “start them young” be your mantra in teaching and enrolling your kids in a driving course.
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For location and inquiries, visit: A-1 Branch Locator
Playing a musical instrument has been a timeless creative expression. Nowadays, your teens can “play” a musical instrument through an app, but of course, nothing beats playing the real thing.
The Music Carpet offers lessons on violin, piano, guitar, and drums. Learning and mastering an instrument takes time, and it’s a great avenue for your teens to learn the value of patience. Your teens can even opt to enroll in their voice lessons, a perfect complement to the instruments class.
Playing an instrument is a worthwhile off-screen activity, and gives way to a never-ending pursuit of self-appreciation and discovery.
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Location: Madison Galleries Lifestyle Mall, Alabang Hills, Muntinlupa
For inquiries, contact: 0995-461-5611 | Facebook | Instagram
The importance of speaking with confidence in today’s day and age cannot be underscored enough; kids and teens not only need this skill for school, but also for their recreation such as vlogging, hosting, live selling, and creating content.
Moreover, they can use this skill in hosting family gatherings or other events. They may even discover they’d like to pursue this as a side hustle later on.
John Robert Powers has been an authority in the field of public speaking, hosting, personality development and more, and enrolling your teens in one or two of their classes will have them reap the benefits immediately and in the future.
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Location: 195 Salcedo Street, Makati City | Cinderella Building, 825 EDSA, Quezon City
For inquiries, contact: 0917-819-5337 (Makati) | 0917-517-5391 (Quezon City) | makati@johnrobertpowers.com | quezoncity@johnrobertpowers.com
Aside from developing physical fitness among your teens, team sports such as football reinforces their decision making and collaboration in a team, skills necessary for them in school and in their chosen profession.
Of course there are other ways to learn these skills, but sports offers to sharpen your teens’ minds at the same time they exercise their bodies. Football Academy for Kids, a program of Sparta PH, is available for your kids ages 7-14.
You don’t have to worry about the heat as well – their setup is completely indoors, and you can also be a spectator in their drills and matches should you want to cheer your teens on!
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Location: 126 Pioneer St. Mandaluyong
For inquiries, contact: 0967-269-1761 | Facebook | Instagram
If you want to check out other summer classes for your tots and teens, check out our list here.