Although summer school was once the domain of students who had failed to perform up to expectations during the school year, it’s lately become a place where many students take extracurricular courses and other lessons that are designed to be fun and provide students with a creative outlet to continue learning during the summer. Sometimes these classes are referred to as enrichment classes and they include such opportunities as classes that teach cooking, guitar lessons for beginners, swimming lessons and competition and many different arts and crafts options.

For students who have never picked up a musical instrument for lessons or have never had the opportunity to learn how to cook, the lessons can be engaging and fun even though they’re teaching students something that they’d likely already need to know anyway for life skills and school advancement. Sometimes students are attending class throughout the summer and because the classes are made to be fun, it’s often the case that a student will want to take the classes instead of his or her parent forcing them to attend.

In Green Bay, Wisconsin, over three thousand students take part in summer sessions and in neighboring suburbia there are thousands of other children in classes as well. The main goal of the classes is to combine the aspect of learning with something that’s fun so that students don’t feel as though they’re missing out on having a summer. Learning over the summer has been shown to greatly improve how students perform when another school session opens up in the fall.