Cooking Academy - Grades 4 & 5

Cooking Academy for 4th and 5th grades!

Summer Cooking Academy is an exciting class that will encourage the love of cooking and baking in your student. This class is 100% interactive as students will prep and prepare every dish. Each day features exciting recipes from around the world which are representative of different countries, nationalities and cultures. All cooking supplies are included in the registration cost. This is a very popular camp with limited enrollment, so to avoid disappointment, book now!

This camp is for students who will be entering 4th and 5th grade in the fall. Please enroll your student in the grade they will be in the fall of 2026.

Teaching this class is Colleen Castro (Hessler) of Mumm's Cakery!

This weekly camp will run from June 15 through July 17 (with no camp on June 19 or July 3), from 8:30 am until 12:30 pm. You sign up by the week so you can choose one week or all five as each week will be different! Teaching this class is our popular Cooking Academy teacher, Staci Sperber.

Does your student want to stay the full day? Great because we have Afternoon Summer Fun from  12:30 pm to 5:00 pm for all five weeks of camp! The participants will enjoy 4 ½ hours of unstructured fun, both indoors and out, under the supervision of ESUSD personnel. You can add this option to this registration or come back and register separately.

SUPPORT THE CAMP THAT SUPPORTS YOUR SCHOOL! Our camps are taught by ESUSD teachers or Ed! associates, so your enrollment supports local teachers and community members. All profits go directly back to ESUSD through the grant Ed! pays to the district. Assisting the teachers are motivated ESHS high school students who are working to get an internship on their high school transcript. Our program is a win on so many levels!

ACCOMMODATIONS:
The Academy is not part of the El Segundo Unified School District (ESUSD) and therefore cannot offer accommodations or special resources that your student receives from the district during the school year. If your student requires special accommodations, to avoid a cancellation fee, please get in touch with us at [email protected] to discuss before enrolling in a camp. 

If you would like to provide an aide to support your student, please allow enough time for the aide to be cleared by ESUSD Human Resources, which requires the aide to be fingerprinted and background-checked.

The charge on your credit card will be from the El Segundo Education Foundation!

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