Holiday programmes in Singapore swing from about $50 a session at a community camp to more than $1,000 a week at an international school, and the gap is rarely about quality. It is about meals, transport, brand and how full the day runs. The year-end break (21 November to 31 December 2026) is the longest of the year, and June (30 May to 28 June) was the other peak. Before you pay full price, two things matter: ActiveSG credits, including the $100 SG60 top-up claimed in 2025, pay up to 60% of an ActiveSG holiday sports programme until 31 December 2026, and the National Library Board runs free school-holiday sessions you can book online. This guide maps what each tier really costs in 2026, where the verified promo codes are, and how to fill most of a holiday with free sessions so you pay for only one or two weeks.
Camp fees track the MOE school holiday calendar, and the two long breaks set the demand. For 2026 the scheduled school holidays are 14 to 22 March, 30 May to 28 June, 5 to 13 September, and the year-end stretch from 21 November to 31 December. Secondary schools used as O-Level exam venues end their final term earlier, on 23 October 2026. June is 30 days end to end, so it carries the heaviest camp programming and the firmest early-bird deadlines.
Providers price by the week, but the school break is not a neat number of weeks, so most camps run rolling weekly intakes from late May through August. That matters for budgeting: a four-week June stretch at a $500-a-week camp is $2,000, while the same child on free and subsidised options can be kept busy for a fraction of that. Knowing the exact dates also helps you hit early-bird windows, which usually close four to six weeks before a camp starts.
If you are mapping the year's outflows, slot camp fees into your personal budget calculator as a seasonal line, the same way you would for school fees or the year-end trip. Treating it as a known June and December cost beats reacting to a $700 invoice in late May.
| Holiday break | Dates | Length | Camp demand |
|---|---|---|---|
| March holidays | 14-22 Mar 2026 | 9 days | Moderate |
| June holidays | 30 May-28 Jun 2026 | 30 days | Highest |
| September holidays | 5-13 Sep 2026 | 9 days | Low |
| Year-end holidays | 21 Nov-31 Dec 2026 | 41 days | High |
Update, 13 October 2026: Camp Beaumont Asia's full-day camps run from 9am to 3pm, not to 5pm as this guide said, so a working parent still needs someone for the end of the day. Holiday programmes fall into three rough price bands. The cheapest are community and government-run camps, where a session can start around $50 and ActiveSG credits can pay up to 60% of an ActiveSG sports programme. The middle band is single-focus camps in art, coding, science, language or drama, mostly $200 to $600 a week. The top band is multi-activity camps at international schools, which run full days with meals and sometimes transport and can pass $1,000 a week.
The single biggest cost driver is hours, not subject. At Camp Beaumont Asia's December camp at North London Collegiate School, the Playtime half day for 3- and 4-year-olds (9am to 12pm) is from $58 a day on its booking page, while the full day for ages 5 to 12 (9am to 3pm) is from $550 for the week of 14 to 18 December, or $440 for the Christmas week of 21 to 25 December (as of October 2026, before promo). Even the full day ends at 3pm, so if both parents work, the hours after camp are part of the bill, and it is worth comparing against an au pair, a relative or a part-day camp plus afternoon care.
Prices below are 'from' rates checked on each provider's own site in October 2026, except the three prices marked June, which we could not re-check on an official page. Camp fees change between intakes and promo codes expire, so confirm on the provider's own page before you pay. Codes marked June were published for the June 2026 season and may have lapsed; the Camp Beaumont and Newtonshow offers are listed on their own sites.
| Programme | Type | From price | Age | Promo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ActiveSG holiday sports | Sports, govt | Credits pay up to 60% | 7-12+ | Search SHP60 on MyActiveSG+ |
| HAHA Chinese | Language | $135 / camp (June) | 4-16 | SASSY26SUM (5% off, June) |
| Newtonshow | Science | $730 / week | 3-14 | $500 week voucher (first 500 sold) |
| All That Jazz | Performing arts | $315 (3-day, June) | 4-9 | SASSY30OFF ($30 off, June) |
| Coding Lab | Coding | $450 / week | 7-18 | SASSY5 (extra 5% off, June) |
| Camp Beaumont Asia | Multi-activity | $58 / half day (ages 3-4), from $440 / full-day week | 3-12 | SUPER15WINTER (15% off to 20 Oct), EARLY10WINTER (10% off to 23 Nov) |
| Camp Asia | Multi-activity | $725 / week | 3-16 | sassymama50 ($50 off, June) |
| Canadian Intl School | Multi-activity | $780 / week (June) | 18mo-14yr | SASSYMAMA15 (15% off, June) |
| Camp Olympia | Multi-sport | $960 / week | 6-12 | None listed |
Update, 13 October 2026: the $100 SG60 ActiveSG credit could only be claimed by logging in to MyActiveSG+ between 2 June and 31 December 2025, and ActiveSG credits pay at most 60% of a School Holiday Programme fee, so they do not make a camp free, as this guide said. Before paying for a single camp, use what the government already funds. ActiveSG credits, including that SG60 top-up, can go towards the ActiveSG School Holiday Programmes, over 500 sessions across more than 20 sports at sport centres island-wide, until 31 December 2026; search SHP60 on MyActiveSG+. Make at least one paid booking in 2026 and what is left rolls over to 2027. For a sporty child, that cuts a week of sessions to 40% of the fee in cash.
The National Library Board runs free school-holiday programmes for children and teens aged roughly 7 to 17, bookable through the NLB events page. These are short workshops and reading sessions rather than full-day care, but stacked across a week they fill mornings for nothing. Community clubs under the People's Association also run low-cost holiday workshops, and NTUC members get extra rates such as up to 20% off UPlay family activities and 15% off NTUC First Campus Outdoor School, an offer NTUC says runs to 31 December 2026.
There is a wider menu of zero-cost outings beyond structured camps, which we map in our guide to cheap activities to do in Singapore. The point is sequencing: spend ActiveSG credits and book free sessions first, then pay only for the gaps.
If you do pay, the savings come from timing and codes, not from picking the cheapest brand. Early-bird windows are the biggest lever: providers like the Canadian International School and I CAN READ offered roughly 10% to 15% off for booking weeks ahead, and those windows close before the holiday starts. Sibling and group discounts are the second lever; Children's Worklab takes $30 off per child when three or more sign up together for a two- to four-day camp, or $50 for a five-day camp, plus $50 to $100 off a second camp in the same season, and British Council advertises up to $400 off its November and December camps (as of October 2026).
Promo codes are real money but volatile. Codes like SASSY50, HAPPYSASSY and PRSASSY10 were live for the June 2026 season through aggregator partnerships, yet they expire and change between intakes, so treat any code as 'check before you pay'. Stacking an early-bird rate with a current code, where the provider allows it, is where the deepest discounts sit.
Run the half-day-versus-full-day maths against your actual childcare need, at a provider that runs both for your child's age. If a grandparent or part-time helper can take the afternoon, the half-day camp plus that cover is usually cheaper, and the saving compounds across a four-week holiday. If you reinvest those savings, see what regular top-ups do over years in our compound interest calculator.
Work backwards from the break, not forwards from a brochure. A 30-day June holiday has about four working weeks. Decide how many of those weeks genuinely need paid cover, then fill the rest with ActiveSG credits, NLB sessions and home days. A common low-cost plan is one paid specialist week the child is excited about, one ActiveSG sports week part-paid with credits, and two weeks of NLB workshops plus outings, which keeps the month's cash cost not far above the price of that one paid week.
Compare that with the default of three back-to-back $500 weeks at $1,500, and the structure, not the spending, is doing the work. The same logic applies to the year-end break, which is longer at 41 days, so decide early which weeks need paid cover before the early-bird windows close. Spreading paid weeks across both June and December also smooths the cash hit.
If holiday programmes are pushing your monthly spend off track, that is usually a signal to revisit your overall plan, not just the camp line. Our breakdown of how to track expenses with budgeting apps helps you see the seasonal spike before it becomes a credit card balance, and a quick read of compounding explains why money kept out of camps and invested instead grows faster than most parents expect.
Holiday programmes range from about $50 a session at community camps to over $1,000 a week at international schools. Among the camps we re-checked on providers' own sites in October 2026, single-subject weeks ran from $450 (Coding Lab) to $805 (British Council English), and full-day camp weeks from $440 (Camp Beaumont Asia's Christmas week) to $960 (Camp Olympia), before promo codes. Hours per day, meals and transport drive the price more than the subject does.
Yes. The National Library Board runs free children's and teen workshops during school holidays, and ActiveSG credits, including the $100 SG60 top-up claimed in 2025, pay up to 60% of ActiveSG holiday sports programmes until 31 December 2026. People's Association community clubs also run low-cost holiday workshops near most homes.
MOE scheduled the 2026 school holidays for 14 to 22 March, 30 May to 28 June, 5 to 13 September, and 21 November to 31 December. June and the year-end break are the long ones, so camp demand and prices peak in those windows.
Book in the early-bird window for roughly 10 to 15 percent off, ask about sibling and group discounts, and apply a current promo code after verifying it on the provider's own page. Where a provider runs both for your child's age, a half-day camp plus home afternoon cover usually costs less than a full day.
This is general financial information for Singapore, not personal financial advice. Figures change, so verify current rates against the official sources above before acting. See our full disclaimer.
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