LAS Summer in Switzerland
Leysin, SwitzerlandLeysin American School
- Dates
- Jun 27 – Aug 6, 2027
- Duration
- 20 days
- Ages
- 9–16
$3,810
Per week on a 3-week stay
Shortest stay: 3 weeks — $11,431
Junior Program
Summer in Switzerland is the residential summer programme of Leysin American School, held on the school's campus in the Swiss Alps and running since 1949. It takes two age groups: a Junior Program for ages 9 to 12 and a Senior Program for ages 13 to 16. Mornings are spent on one of three tracks chosen before arrival — Language Acquisition in English or French, Leadership, or Enrichment. Afternoons bring a club that each student keeps for the whole session (Team Sports, Cooking and Baking, Hiking and Climbing, Music and Video Production, Visual Arts or Tennis) followed by a different activity each day, from horseback riding to ice skating. Evenings are themed, and the session closes with a Final Banquet.
Age
9–16 yrs
Language
English
Program type
Art Camps, Language Camps
Accommodation
Campus
About
About the Course
Mornings are spent on one of three tracks, chosen before arrival and kept for the session: Language Acquisition, where students work on English or French; Leadership, for those drawn to running things; or Enrichment, a spread of summer subjects. The Junior Program takes ages 9 to 12 and the Senior Program ages 13 to 16.
What’s Included
The session fee covers tuition, accommodation on campus, meals, the afternoon and evening programme, and transport between Geneva Airport and the school on official arrival and departure days. The Leadership Track carries an additional course fee, and the overnight European Adventures are booked separately. Students who stay for both sessions are given special programming in the days between them.
Accommodation
Students live in dorms on the LAS campus in Leysin, among students of the same age and gender group. Roommates are deliberately paired across languages, so that children who share a first language are not put together and English is the language of the room.
Meal Plan
Meals are provided on campus for the whole session.
Activities & Excursions
Each afternoon starts with a club the student keeps for the whole session — Team Sports, Cooking and Baking, Hiking and Climbing, Music and Video Production, Visual Arts or Tennis — and is followed by an activity that changes daily. Past activities have included floor hockey, beach volleyball, dirt biking, ukulele lessons, painting and drawing, yoga, hiking, tie-dye, football and dance. Evenings are themed, from sports nights to fireside evenings, and the session ends with the Final Banquet.
Facilities
The programme runs on the school’s own Alpine campus in Leysin, in the canton of Vaud, with residence accommodation for all participants.
Camp Experience
Leysin American School has run its residential summer programme since 1949. It is a boarding school campus in the Swiss Alps turned over to a summer intake, which is why the day is structured like school — a morning track, an afternoon club, an activity, an evening event — rather than left open. Students come from outside the school as well as from it, and are separated by language in their rooms so that English is what gets spoken.
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Junior Program
20 Lessons · 9–12 yrs · All levelsDates
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The Junior Program of Summer in Switzerland, for students aged 9 to 12. Each student chooses one morning track per session — Language Acquisition in English or French, Leadership, or Enrichment — then joins an afternoon club and a changing daily activity.
Morning classes on the chosen track: Language Acquisition in English or French, Leadership, or Enrichment. The track is chosen before arrival and kept for the session.
Language, leadership or enrichment in the mornings; clubs, activities and themed evenings for the rest of the day.
Daily Schedule
Breakfast
07:00–08:00
Classes
08:30–12:30
Lunch
12:30–13:30
Dinner
18:30–19:30
Evening activities
20:00–22:00
Lights out
22:30
Included items
Optional Extras
Recommended for most families
Smooth arrival and fewer surprises.
Transport between Geneva Airport and the school on a day other than an official arrival or departure day, charged per student per transfer. Transfers on official days are included in the session fee.
Students who choose the Leadership Track for their morning programme pay an additional course fee.
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School
Leysin American School
Leysin American School is a Swiss boarding school in Leysin, in the canton of Vaud, offering the US High School Diploma, the International Baccalaureate and ESL programmes. Students take part in sports, arts, drama and music, in a ski term and in cultural travel, and university counselling is a central part of school life. Alongside the academic year the school has run a residential summer programme on its Alpine campus since 1949, open to students from outside the school.
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