Summer Science Camps in London: Your Child's Next Big Adventure!
Join us for a summer of fun and interactive Science Camps.
This summer, give your child an experience that sparks their imagination and deepens their understanding of the world. Little House of Science offers an exciting lineup of Summer Camps in London, designed to be engaging, educational, and genuinely fun. We provide a space where children aged 5-14 can dive into hands-on science, making new friends and discovering new passions.
Our camps are conveniently located across London, offering a supportive environment where curious minds can truly flourish. Each week brings a brand new theme, ensuring there’s always something new and exciting to explore.
Why Choose Little House of Science for Your Child’s Summer?
- Hands-On Learning: Our camps focus on practical, engaging experiments that make science come alive.
- Expert Instructors: Our passionate team is dedicated to fostering a love for science in every child.
- Real Educational Value: Our programs are designed to be fun while offering genuine educational benefits.
- Safe Environment: We provide a nurturing and secure space where children feel comfortable to explore and ask questions.
- Flexible Options: With various weekly themes and convenient London locations, you can choose what works best for your family.
Spaces fill quickly! Secure your child’s spot for an unforgettable summer of scientific exploration.
Summer Science Camps 2026, London
8 Weeks of Science Camps This Summer
- Locations
- UCS Senior School NW3, Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH
- Marlborough Primary School, Draycott Ave, London SW3 3AP
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6-10 Jul 2026 - Week 1:
Think Physics Newton Volta Einstein & Quantum Physics -
13-17 Jul 2026 - Week 2:
Geographic Explorers Discover the Planet -
20-24 Jul 2026 - Week 3:
Journey to the Center of Biology -
27-31 Jul 2026 - Week 4:
Faster Higher Deeper Further How Physics & Engineering Push the Limits of whats Possible -
3-7 Aug 2026 - Week 5:
When Science Meets Architecture - Shapes Materials & Cities of the Future -
10-14 Aug 2026 - Week 6:
Inhabitants of Earth Zoology& Botany Explored -
17-21 Aug 2026 - Week7:
When Science Meets Architecture - Shapes Materials & Cities of the Future -
24-28 Aug 2026 - Week 8:
Engineering Minds Problem Solvers in Action
Week 1 - Summer Science Camp (July 6–10)
The Physics LAB (Newton, Volta, Einstein and Quantum Physics)
- Day 1: What is Gravity and its Effect in Our Universe?; I Galileo Galilei; Leonardo and the Science of Flight; Rocket Science and How Far Can We Get?
- Day 2: From Solid to Plasma: States of Matter; What are Forces?; Isaac Newton and the Newtonian Laws; What is Energy?; Density and the Property of Materials
- Day 3: Electromagnetisms and Light; Electricity and Circuits; Alexander Volta and the Invention of the Battery; Green Energy and New Materials
- Day 4: Dance of Particles: Introduction in Particle Physics; Strange Atoms/Week and Strong Forces; A Journey Through the Life of Stars; Stephen Hawking and the mystery of Black Holes; Is Time Travel Possible?
- Day 5: The Physics of Sound; What are Waves: A Journey Through the World of Vibrations; What is Echolocation?; The Invention of the Telephone and How this Changed Us
- Locations
- UCS Senior School NW3, Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH
- Marlborough Primary School, Draycott Ave, London SW3 3AP
Week 2 - Summer Science Camp (July 13–17)
Discovering Earth: Journey into Geography and Geoscience
- Day 1: Mapping the World; First Navigators: Polynesian Wayfinders, Vikings, Ancient Greeks and more; How the Compass Changed the World; Continents and Oceans; Jacques Cousteau and the Exploration of Undersea World
- Day 2: Weather and Seasons; The Power of the Wind; What is Temperature?; The Story of Water Cycle; Clouds and Fog and the Mysteries of the Sky
- Day 3: Evolution of the Landscape; The Story of Alfred Wegener and Pangea; Geological Strata a Real Time Machine; How Marie Tharp changed Geology Forever; The Science Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Day 4: The Geography of the African Continent; The Sahara: Earth’s Largest Desert; Amazing Amazonian Rainforests!; From Mount Everest to the Mariana Trench; Alexander von Humboldt: From Berlin to Bogota
- Day 5: How Wolves can Impact Geography; Endurance: Shackleton’s Antarctic Odyssey; Ranulph Fiennes Great Adventurers and Explores; Tales of Survival and Modern Explorers
- Locations
- UCS Senior School NW3, Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH
- Marlborough Primary School, Draycott Ave, London SW3 3AP
Week 3 - Summer Science Camp (July 20–24)
The Biology LAB: Exploring How Living Things Work
- Day 1: From Bacteria to Humans; The Life of the Cell: the Perfect Mini Factory; The Secret of Mitochondria; Lynn Margulis and symbiosis; Tiny Titan: The Amoeba’s World
- Day 2: Robert Hook and the Invention of the Microscope; Viruses: are Aliens Living Amongst Us?; Microorganisms and their Importance; What is vaccination and why we need it?; Who was Edward Jenner?
- Day 3: Guardians of the Genetic Code: The DNA; The Digestive Journey of a Sandwich; Respiratory System in Humans and Animals; Five Senses in Human and Animals
- Day 4: Biology Thermometer: Cold Blooded vs Warm Blooded; Mightily Calcium: Skeletons, Teeth and beyond; Why our Brain is so Special?; Hearing and Vision in the Animal World
- Day 5: Solution for Survival: How Animals Adapt to Extreme Conditions; Platypuses: The Most Mysterious Animals; Jane Goodall: The Woman who Walked with the Apes; The Story of Evolution and Where It Takes Us; Can we become an Interplanetary species?
- Locations
- UCS Senior School NW3, Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH
- Marlborough Primary School, Draycott Ave, London SW3 3AP
Week 4 - Summer Science Camp (July 27–31)
Faster Higher Deeper Further:
How Physics & Engineering Push the Limits of whats Possible
- Day 1: Let’s Move!; Simple Machines Wheels and Axle; Steam Engine and James Watts; Motors and the Evolution of Cars; Driving faster that the speed of sound (supersonic cars); What is Green Energy
- Day 2: Up in the Air; Brothers Montgolfier and First Hot Air Balloons; Feathers, Birds and Bats; The Secret of Flight; From Davinci to Wright Brothers; Roaring into the Jet Age
- Day 3: Adventure in Rocket Science; Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the First Rockets; Beat the gravity: Blast off (forces of aerodynamics); Sputniks, Space Shuttle, Apollo 13, ISS; Engineering Design Challenges in Building Rockets; How Fast is Light?; How to Become an Astronaut
- Day 4: Down under the Ocean; The science behind sink versus float (buoyancy); History of Navigation and great explorers; Tools we use to navigate; Brunel’s Great Big Ships; Deep Sea diving in a Submarine; Echolocation or how submarines see underwater
- Day 5: The shape of Things to Come!; Faster, further into the future!; Who wants to be an engineer; Space Missions, Voyager 1 and 2; James Webb Telescope; Time Travel and Wormholes
- Locations
- UCS Senior School NW3, Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH
- Marlborough Primary School, Draycott Ave, London SW3 3AP
Week 5 - Summer Science Camp (August 3 - 7)
When Science Meets Architecture - Shapes Materials & Cities of the Future
- Day 1: Engineers or Architects?; Architectural Styles Through the Ages: A Journey Through Time; Architectural Landmarks; How the Wheel changed the World; Architectural Wonders: From the Coliseum to The Duomo; Properties of Materials in Architecture
- Day 2: The Power of Columns; Structural Mastery: Beams, Vaults, and Arches; The invention of the simple machines; Introduction to Towers: Engineering Above the Clouds; Pisa’s Famous Lean: Architecture, Engineering, and Resilience
- Day 3: Who was Antonio Gaudi?; Green Architecture: Embracing Nature’s Designs; Zaha Hadid and the Diversity of Shapes; The Role of Light in Architecture: Shaping Atmosphere and Space; Engineering the Seas: How Naval Architects Shape the Ocean
- Day 4: Animal Architects: Beavers, Termites, Spiders and Bees; Who was Isambard Kingdom Brunel; Sustainable Architecture and how Bucky Fuller Changed the World; How climate affects Architecture and Vice Versa; Urban Design: Creating Cities That Work
- Day 5: The Anatomy of Castles; Biomimicry and Architecture; Let’s Build Bridges / The Bridges of London; Young Architects and their Vision; Space Architecture
- Locations
- UCS Senior School NW3, Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH
- Marlborough Primary School, Draycott Ave, London SW3 3AP
Week 6 - Summer Science Camp (August 10 - 14)
Inhabitants of Earth Zoology& Botany Explored
- Day 1: Darwin's Voyage: Exploring the Roots of Evolution; Reptile Realms: Exploring the World of Scales and Slime; Hidden Structures: A Dive into Endoskeletons and Exoskeletons; Big Foot and other Mysterious Creatures: Myth or Reality
- Day 2: The Toughest Animals: Extremophiles and Tardigrades; The Battle between Moths and Bats; Animals Amazing Eyes of the Mantis Shrimp; Animals Superpowers; From Desert Dwellers to Ocean Navigators: The Lives of Turtles and Tortoises
- Day 3: Introduction to Botany: The Study of Plants and Their Secrets; The Mystery Seeds; The Soil Spectrum: Delving into the Science of Earth's Layers; Plants Extremophiles: Lets Learn about Adaptations
- Day 4: Inside the Green Machine: Unveiling Plant Anatomy; Why Wasps Love Figs: Let’s Learn about Symbiotic Relationships; The Secret Life of Trees; The Power of Pollination: Why Bees Matter
- Day 5: The Invisible World: Microorganisms and the Ecosystem; The Mighty Migration: How Animals Navigate the Globe; Symbiosis in Action: The Interdependence of Life; Wild Wonders: Exploring the Diversity of Animal Adaptations; The Future of Conservation: Protecting Biodiversity / Rewilding Projects
- Locations
- UCS Senior School NW3, Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH
- Marlborough Primary School, Draycott Ave, London SW3 3AP
Week 7 - Summer Science Camp (August 17 - 21)
When Science Meets Architecture - Shapes Materials & Cities of the Future
- Day 1: What is Chemistry? From the first Alchemists to modern Chemists; What is the matter? Incredible atoms and the Periodic Table; Hydrogen and Helium: The Universe’s first Elements; Chemical bonding: How the Elements interact
- Day 2: What is a Chemical?; Explosive Chemical Reactions and amazing Physical changes; What are the States of Matter? From the Coldest Condensates to the Hottest Plasmas; The Properties of Matter: Amazing Materials of the Future!; Non-Newtonian Liquids that break all the Rules!
- Day 3: Corrosive Acids and Caustic Alkalis; The Magic of Water, and its Evil Twin, Hydrogen Peroxide; The Element of Life: Adventures with Carbon; Can you freeze a Gas? Experiments with Carbon Dioxide; Radioactive! Marie Curie and the most Dangerous Elements
- Day 4: Heavy Metal: The Metallic Elements and their Properties; The Superpowers of Iron and Copper; Dazzling Polymers and how to make them!; Plastic and Paper: Recycle, Reuse, and Reduce!
- Day 5: How Density Shapes the World Around Us; The elements in your body!; Dorothy Hodgkin and the beautiful World of Crystals; Experiments with Chromatography: the Chemistry of Colour
- Locations
- UCS Senior School NW3, Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH
- Marlborough Primary School, Draycott Ave, London SW3 3AP
Week 8 - Summer Science Camp (August 24 - 28)
Engineering Minds Problem Solvers in Action
- Day 1: Engineering and Problem Solving; How Simple Machines Changed our Life; Cogs and Wheels; The Invention of Cars
- Day 2: How do Submarines Work?; How do we Build Dams and Why We Need Them?; Leonardo Da Vinci, Catapults, and Divers; The Challenge of Building tall Towers
- Day 3: Investigate Bridges and Tunnels; Kingdom Brunel and his big Engineering Dreams; Property of Materials; Friction and Resistance
- Day 4: Margaret Hamilton and the Apollo Mission; Space Engineers: The Science of reusable Rockets; How to Land on a Comet: The Amazing Rosetta Project; The Invention of the Telephone
- Day 5: Maths in Nature: Fractals, Symmetry, Fibonacci and more; Amazing New Materials; Biomimicry! Engineered by Nature; The Introduction in Artificial Intelligence
- Locations
- UCS Senior School NW3, Frognal, Hampstead, London NW3 6XH
- Marlborough Primary School, Draycott Ave, London SW3 3AP
Why Choose Little House of Science?
Expert Educators
Engaging Programs
Our programs are designed to be interactive, fun, and educational for students of all ages.
Tailored Approach
Comprehensive Support
Ready to Bring Science to Life in Your School?
Interested in bringing our Science in Schools programmes to your institution? For more details, to arrange a visit, or to book a trial session, please contact us:
- 0800 092 1062
- info@littlehouseofscience.com
We’re excited to discuss how we can bring our Little House Science club or workshop to your school or nursery, tailoring our programmes to fit perfectly into your educational framework. Let’s collaborate to inspire the next generation of scientists and innovators.