Descriptions

• Tennis (Mondays or Tuesdays): Tennis for tots! Learn the basics of tennis while also improving physical strength, flexibility, balance, and fine motor-skills!
   
• Challenger Soccer (Mondays or Fridays): Soccer Tots! Learn the basic skills of soccer while also building skills such as hard work, focus and attention, coordination and balance, and sportsmanship in a fun and energetic way.
   
• Let's Play (Theater/Drama): In this fun introduction to the world of theater, students get the chance to explore their creative sides through fun and adventurous theater games. This active class will teach the basics of the theater world such as stage directions, memorization skills, and improve confidence in public speaking. Everyone gets up, plays, and participates!
   

• Flamenco: Flamenco is back!! Enjoy this fun and active Flamenco club with Ms. Inma and learn the very traditional dance of Flamenco. We will learn new dance moves, songs, customs and culture about Spain.
   
• Mini Gymnastics: This class will focus on beginner tumbling skills, such as balance, flexibility, rolls, backbends, handstands, and cartwheels. Gymnastics is great for enhancing physical development, and for creating healthy habit of physical fitness throughout a child's lifetime.
   

• LEGO (Wednesdays or Thursdays): Playing with legos helps kids develop their hand muscles as well as improving hand/eye coordination. Building things with legos helps to stimulate creativity and opens your child’s imagination while improving focus.
   
• Ballet: Ballet is a unique synthesis of artistry and technique, of self expression and discipline. It's challenging, great fun, and is the basis for all dances. This class stresses age-appropriate skill development, creative expression, and music appreciation.

Descriptions

• Challenger Soccer (Mondays or Wednesdays): Learn the basic skills of soccer while also building skills such as hard work, decision making, the importance of teamwork and cooperation, balanced by good sportsmanship.
   
• Book and Cook: Calling all chefs and readers! Each week, we'll explore a new book then bring an aspect of the book to life through food. This club is meant to inspire the love of reading and nourish bellies after the school day. We will laugh, snack, and have so much fun!
   
• Robotics and Coding: Students will learn to code and program while playing interactive games and completing challenges with robots. Coding fosters creative thinking, analytical skills, builds confidence, and establishes grit while having fun interacting and exploring with peers and technology.
   
• Flamenco (Mondays or Thursdays): Flamenco is back!! Enjoy this fun and active Flamenco club with Ms Inma and learn the very traditional dance of Flamenco. We will learn new dance moves, songs, customs and culture about Spain.
   
• Mad about Hoops: Each week the kids will learn cool hula hoop tricks, hula hoop dance moves and partner moves! This class will improve balance and coordination while creating healthy bodies, but it's also a great way of building self confidence through creative movement! You'll be so impressed with your hooper stars at the end of the semester, you'll think they joined the circus!
• Crochet: Kids will learn the basics of crocheting. Crocheting helps with hand/eye coordination while stimulating your child’s imagination, it’s a calming stress reliever, and a hand made article can help reinforce your child’s appreciation of creating something on their own.
   
• Mini-Gymnastics: Tumbling-Fitness, Flexibility, & Fun: This class will focus on beginner tumbling skills, such as balance, flexibility, rolls, backbends, handstands, and cartwheels. Gymnastics is great for enhancing physical development, and for creating healthy habit of physical fitness throughout a child's lifetime.
   

• Global Dance, Bella Diva: Have your children learn the art of expression through the world of Bollywood dance, where East meets West. Classical Indian dance fused with more modern western forms of dance like jazz, hip hop, and salsa. 
   
• Yoga and Mindfulness: Welcome to Yoga for Kids! Through games, coloring, books, breathing techniques, and fun poses, your children will learn how to focus, calm, and center themselves. Come get your zen on!
   
• PALS Chess: Our lessons help students develop self-esteem, sportsmanship, critical thinking, concentration, logic, imagination, patience, and planning skills through chess. The word “PALS” is not just an acronym for “Play, Achieve, Learn, Succeed” – it also reflects our view of chess as a friendly game that transcends borders, gender and generations by reinforcing the four C’s of 21st century learning: Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking, and Creativity, all of which are emphasized and brought together through the far-reaching benefits of a worthy “Fifth C,” Chess!
   
• Tennis: Learn the basics of tennis while also improving physical strength, reflexes, balance, coordination, and fine motor-skills!

• Polynesian Dance of the Islands - This beautiful cultural dance is known for its soft knees, swaying hips, intricate arm, and hand movements. The modern hula is called Hula ʻAuana (oh-wan-ah) and created in response to Western influences that came to the islands.  ʻAuana means to wander or ramble, which aligns with the deviation of this particular type of hula as it drifted away from the sacred elements intrinsic to Hula Kahiko.
   
• Let's Play! - Drama and theater - Let's Play! Theatre/Improv (Creative Drama)-In this fun introduction to the world of theater, students get the chance to explore their creative sides through fun and adventurous theater games. Theater can be a wonderful tool to help children break out of their shells and become more confident in other areas of their life. Through silly play-making and challenging improv exercises, imaginations are expanded and horizons are broadened. This active class will also teach the basics of the theater world such as stage directions, memorization skills, and improve confidence in public speaking. Everyone gets up, plays, and participates! Perfect team building class!
   

• Robotics and Coding - Students will learn to code and program while playing interactive games and completing challenges with robots. Coding fosters creative thinking, analytical skills, builds confidence, and establishes grit while having fun interacting and exploring with peers and technology.
   
• Photography -Shoot from the side, shoot up high, shoot down low, take a photo of your toes! In this class students will develop basic photography skills by doing fun, hands-on photography activities such as “story time” and “scavenger hunt.” The class will culminate in a gallery showing some of the best photographs taken. Prerequisites for the class: a device that takes digital pictures (smartphone cameras, point-and-shoot, or DSLR) & a cord to connect to the instructor's computer for editing.
   
• Karate - Shotokan Karate is a weaponless martial art that is founded on the basic techniques of punching, striking, kicking and blocking, yet there is a deeper aspect to serious Karate training which deals with character development. Shotokan Karate is a way for an individual to realize greater potential and expand the limits of that individual's physical and mental capabilities. Shotokan Karate remains firmly rooted in a strong martial arts tradition, emphasizing lifetime training for a healthy mind and body, rather than strictly as a sport.
   
• Flamenco - Flamenco is back! Enjoy this fun and active Flamenco club with Ms Inma and learn the very traditional dance of Flamenco. We will learn new dance moves, songs, customs and culture about Spain.
   
• Art Club - Do you love to make art? Then join the Art Club where you can spend time being an artist every week. Let your imagination soar while you explore your favorite ideas and art materials, develop art making skills as you learn new techniques, and create connections with others while being a part of an art community within our school.
   
• PALS Chess - Our lessons help students develop self-esteem, sportsmanship, critical thinking, concentration, logic, imagination, patience, and planning skills through chess. The word “PALS” is not just an acronym for “Play, Achieve, Learn, Succeed” – it also reflects our view of chess as a friendly game that transcends borders, gender and generations by reinforcing the four C’s of 21st century learning: Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking, and Creativity, all of which are emphasized and brought together through the far-reaching benefits of a worthy “Fifth C,” Chess!
   
• Challenger Soccer - Fine tune skills of soccer while also building skills such as hard work, focus and attention, coordination and balance, and sportsmanship in a fun and energetic way. 
   
• Basketball Development Club - Fine tune skills of basketball and even increase basketball IQ. This club is sure to bring out the baller in any child in a fun, competitive, and energetic way. 

• Photography: Shoot from the side, shoot up high, shoot down low, take a photo of your toes! In this class students will develop basic photography skills by doing fun, hands-on photography activities such as “story time” and “scavenger hunt.” The class will culminate in a gallery showing of some of the best photographs taken. Prerequisites for the class: a device that takes digital pictures (smartphone cameras, point-and-shoot, or DSLR) & a cord to connect to the instructor's computer for editing.
   

• Modern Band Ensemble: In Modern Band Ensemble, students will learn songs of their choosing with the teacher's guidance. Any genre and era is possible and all skill levels are permitted. Students will play by ear as well as read traditional notation. Whether you play guitar, accordion, piano, drums or anything else, please join! If you are a beginner and want to play music, you can join too! Depending on skill level, we will write music as well! (Note: currently wind instruments and vocals are not happening because of COVID restrictions. We should be getting updated by medical advisory soon. When that changes, vocals and wind instruments will return. If you sing or play a wind instrument, you can join and we'll find another instrument you can play!)
   
• Karate: Shotokan Karate is a weaponless martial art that is founded on the basic techniques of punching, striking, kicking and blocking, yet there is a deeper aspect to serious Karate training which deals with character development. Shotokan Karate is a way for an individual to realize greater potential and expand the limits of that individual's physical and mental capabilities. Shotokan Karate remains firmly rooted in a strong martial arts tradition, emphasizing lifetime training for a healthy mind and body, rather than strictly as a sport.
   
• Drama Club: Drama Club is designed for students interested in learning more about the aspects of theater. This includes learning stage terminology, working on acting skills (performance), set building, and costumes/makeup design.
   
• Art Studio: Art Studio is a creative space for students to explore using a variety of art materials while creating projects that may include drawing, painting, and mixed media lessons. This is a time and place for artists to come together to share and create together!
   

• Vineyard Apps and Entrepreneurship: In this course, you will learn the skills of a coder and the mindset of an entrepreneur, through actually building and releasing an iPhone app with your friends! You'll gain an exciting set of 21st-century tech skills and learn how to make your own apps and games. To start, you’ll learn about logic, coding (Javascript and React), and design, through fun, group-based activities, led by an enthusiastic instructor. At the end, you'll complete a final project where you make an app for a real non-profit organization. Previous students have created real apps being used right now by a mental health charity, a New York non-profit, and a charter school in the UK for their final projects. You don’t need any previous experience or special software for the course: all you need is your creativity and a computer!
   
• PALS Chess: Our lessons help students develop self-esteem, sportsmanship, critical thinking, concentration, logic, imagination, patience, and planning skills through chess. The word “PALS” is not just an acronym for “Play, Achieve, Learn, Succeed” – it also reflects our view of chess as a friendly game that transcends borders, gender and generations by reinforcing the four C’s of 21st century learning: Collaboration, Communication, Critical thinking, and Creativity, all of which are emphasized and brought together through the far-reaching benefits of a worthy “Fifth C,” Chess!

In Grades 3, 4 and 5, learners can expand their language study in an after-school program, with the option to continue that language of instruction in the Middle Years Programme (Grades 6, 7, and 8).