Thursday Activities Junior Gardeners - winter Offered by: Lynn Prosen Grade Level(s): 1 – 4 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Room 108 Dates: Jan. 14 – Feb. 18 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Cost per student: $325 Did you know that soil is made of different things? Did you know that there are good and bad insects in a garden? Did you know that some plants can take over 100 days to grow? We will learn about these things and more in the Junior Garden Growers (JGG). As a part of this program, you will help to prepare seeds and plants for the GSB Community Garden. Each JGG member will get a garden tool kit, a seed starter kit (which we will start under the grow lights or in the greenhouse), and will help to plan a special JGG raised bed in the garden.
Junior Gardeners - spring Dates: April 7 – May 12 Soccer - spring Offered by: Tony & Donna Bednarsky Grade Level(s): PK – 4 Location: Meet outside Security Office Dates: April 7 – May 12 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $175 Players will be exposed to individual skills via drills and games. Learn soccer in a safe and fun-filled environment. Lego Architects - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy Grade Level(s): PK - K Location: Evans Hall Dates: Jan. 14 – Feb. 18 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $270 Min. / max. enrollment 7/20 Are you crazy about building with LEGOs? Come build with us and keep the Lego sets you work on!
We will focus on basic architectural building, creative design and different educational themes. We offer a huge selection of models with many of the latest released themes. Chess - spring Offered by: Marty Sobin of Jersey Chess Grade Level(s): 1 – 4 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Evans Hall Dates: April 7 – May 26 Time: 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Cost per student: $225 Learn to play the wonderful and fun game of chess at the “GSB Chess Club.” The program will not only teach you all the rules of the game, but also give you an idea of how to go about winning your game from the opening to the end game. If you already know how to play, your game will improve through competitive play, puzzles and instruction tactics and strategies. Some students will be invited to play outside tournaments and events.
Friday Activities Kids Chemistry - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): 3 & 4 Location: Art Room Dates: Jan. 15 – Feb.19 Time: 3:00 – 3:45 p.m. Cost per student: $225 See Wednesday for description. Animal All Stars - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy Grade Level(s): PK - K No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Evans Hall Dates: Jan. 15 – Feb. 19 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $225
together an exciting series of afterschool shows! We will compare how sharks and alligators live; we will look at five of the world’s greatest predators, spend one day looking at snakes and another at turtles, and see some of the best camouflaged animals in the world! Girls’ Lacrosse - spring Offered by: Janet Holdsworth No. of Sessions: 5 Grade Level(s): 3 & 4 Location: Meet in front of Security Office Dates: April 22 – May 20 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $175
Girls will be exposed to the sport of lacrosse, develop skills through drills Snakes-N-Scales presents Animal and fun activities. Former college All-Stars, a brand new series of after- coach and current GSB Varsity school animal programs where we will Head Coach, Janet Holdsworth, has look at and compare some amazing developed a youth curriculum that is groups of animals. We will use live fun, provides exercise to young girls, animals, models, skeletons, skins, and gives them the opportunity to photos and other materials to put develop confidence in the sport.
Key leadership concepts will be introduced each session to enable the girls to better understand what it takes to be a true leader on and off the lacrosse field! Equipment required: Stick, youth goggles and mouth guard. Any questions regarding equipment can be directed to: CoachJan@winningforlife. org. Basketball Clinic - spring Offered by: Mergin Sina No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): PK -4 Location: Meet in front of LS Office Dates: April 8 – May 13 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $325 Basic fundamentals of basketball. Concentration of dribbling, passing and shooting. Balance, skill work and a fun environment.
Gladstone, NJ • Primary - Grade 12 • gsbschool.org Gill St. Bernard’s is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory day school.
Lower School After-School Programs
Dear Lower School parents,
Tuesday Activities
Welcome to Gill St. Bernard’s after-school program!
Kids Chemistry - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): PK - 2 Location: Room 221 Dates: Jan. 12 – Feb.16 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $225 Min. / max. enrollment 8/12
Clay Creations - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): PK - 2 Location: Art Room Dates: Jan. 12 – Feb. 16 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $250 Min. / max. enrollment 6/8
This program is great for both beginning and experienced golfers! You will learn everything about the game of golf using Evan’s Hall or outside facilities. Program covers swing fundamentals, etiquette, gross motor skills, visual perception, character development, focus, and coordination.
Want to explore the world of chemistry through experimentation? See, hear, smell and touch what science is all about! Come learn about atoms, acids, molecules, electrons, metals, catalysts and all kinds of interesting mixtures and solutions while conducting handson experiments. To help gain an understanding of the world around them, students will create acid/base solutions, observe chemical reactions, combine chemicals to create invisible gases and investigate all sorts of physical changes. (All “chemicals” are child safe and non-toxic).
Did you know the oldest ceramic piece is about 27,000 years old? Come join us as we explore and have fun with one of the earliest art forms. Let your imagination soar as you mold and decorate air-dry clay projects. Bring your masterpieces home to display or give away as special gifts.
Bubble Bonanza - spring Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy Grade Level(s): K-2 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Meet outside Evans Hall Dates: April 5 – May 10 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $225
After-school programs are a great way for children to enhance in-class learning and expand extracurricular activities and athletics. The National Center for Education Statistics has reported that after-school activities “reinforce lessons learned in the classroom” and evoke “values of teamwork, individual and group responsibility, physical strength and endurance, competition, diversity, and a sense of culture and community” among students.
Honor Taft
Lower School Director
We offer both an extended day program, which includes both supervised playtime and a nutritious snack, and a variety of enrichment programs during the fall, winter and spring. Gill’s enrichment programs are available for a supplemental fee and offer experiences in sports, science, yoga, fine art, music, crafts and more. Whether athletics, arts or other after-school offerings, these opportunities allow students to acquire new skills, discover their individual selves, overcome challenges and develop character. Please contact Lower School Administrative Assistant Nancy Stober at extension 241 for more information on signing up for any of Gill’s afterschool enrichment programs.
Cindy Wyatt Director of Camp & Auxiliary Programs
Monday Activities Drama Production: The Aristocatswinter & spring Offered by: Amy & David Southerland Grade Level(s): 1 - 4 Location: Meet in front of LS office Dates: 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 3/7, 3/28, 4/4, 4/11, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9 (Snow Dates: 2/22, 2/29 & 4/18 if needed)
Golf Program - spring Offered by: Enrich and Grow Academy No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): PK - 2 Location: Meets outside Evans Hall Dates: April 5 - May 10 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $225
Wednesday Activities Girls On The Run - spring Offered by: Cindy Wyatt & Cendahl Cornellio-Alter Grade Level(s): 3 - 5 No. of Sessions: 19 Dates: April 4– June 6 Cost per student: $225 Minimum enrollment: 7
Girls on the Run is an organization that teaches young girls to empower Special rehearsal on Sunday, May 15, themselves through the development 3:00-5:00 of life skills, using the sport of running as a motivator and goal Show date: May 16, 6:00 PM & 7:15 setting vehicle. In twice-weekly p.m. sessions over 10 weeks, girls learn about respecting themselves, their friends and their community. The Time: 3:00– 4:15 p.m. program is aimed at helping each Cost per student: $365 girl to better understand herself, Check out our flyer on KnightSite for while learning to hear her own voice and developing instincts to handle more details. difficult life situations. Each week the girls discuss a new topic and practice their walking/running skills,
culminating on Sunday, June 12, in a 5K event in Somerville with other groups from central New Jersey.
Lego Robotics - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy Grade Level(s): 3 & 4 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Room 107 (Language Arts Room) Dates: Jan. 13 – Feb. 17 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $270 Min. / max. enrollment 6/20
Yoga - winter Offered by: Kathleen Conte Grade Level(s): 1-4 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Evans Hall Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Dates: Jan. 13 – Feb. 17 Cost per student: $120
For six weeks, students will explore the art of yoga. Classes will enable Do you enjoy Legos and want to each child to feel strong both inside take it to the next level? Come create and out. Participants will also play working models of amazing machines games that incorporate yoga. and creatures, like a floatplane simulator, a hungry alligator or a Yoga - spring pair of singing parrots. You will Dates: April 6 – May 11 build LEGO® models featuring Cost per student: $120 working pulleys, gears, motors and sensors. Then you can connect your Girls On The Run - spring model to a computer that uses basic Offered by: Cindy Wyatt & Cendahl programming code to bring your Cornellio-Alter imaginative creatures to life! Dates: April 4– June 6 See Monday for description.
Follow brother-and-sister team, Jacob and India, as they help to create a stage show about bubbles for an amusement park in California! Explore how bubbles behave and investigate the properties of different materials as you engineer bubble wands for the perfect bubble performance!
Dear Lower School parents,
Tuesday Activities
Welcome to Gill St. Bernard’s after-school program!
Kids Chemistry - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): PK - 2 Location: Room 221 Dates: Jan. 12 – Feb.16 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $225 Min. / max. enrollment 8/12
Clay Creations - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): PK - 2 Location: Art Room Dates: Jan. 12 – Feb. 16 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $250 Min. / max. enrollment 6/8
This program is great for both beginning and experienced golfers! You will learn everything about the game of golf using Evan’s Hall or outside facilities. Program covers swing fundamentals, etiquette, gross motor skills, visual perception, character development, focus, and coordination.
Want to explore the world of chemistry through experimentation? See, hear, smell and touch what science is all about! Come learn about atoms, acids, molecules, electrons, metals, catalysts and all kinds of interesting mixtures and solutions while conducting handson experiments. To help gain an understanding of the world around them, students will create acid/base solutions, observe chemical reactions, combine chemicals to create invisible gases and investigate all sorts of physical changes. (All “chemicals” are child safe and non-toxic).
Did you know the oldest ceramic piece is about 27,000 years old? Come join us as we explore and have fun with one of the earliest art forms. Let your imagination soar as you mold and decorate air-dry clay projects. Bring your masterpieces home to display or give away as special gifts.
Bubble Bonanza - spring Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy Grade Level(s): K-2 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Meet outside Evans Hall Dates: April 5 – May 10 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $225
After-school programs are a great way for children to enhance in-class learning and expand extracurricular activities and athletics. The National Center for Education Statistics has reported that after-school activities “reinforce lessons learned in the classroom” and evoke “values of teamwork, individual and group responsibility, physical strength and endurance, competition, diversity, and a sense of culture and community” among students.
Honor Taft
Lower School Director
We offer both an extended day program, which includes both supervised playtime and a nutritious snack, and a variety of enrichment programs during the fall, winter and spring. Gill’s enrichment programs are available for a supplemental fee and offer experiences in sports, science, yoga, fine art, music, crafts and more. Whether athletics, arts or other after-school offerings, these opportunities allow students to acquire new skills, discover their individual selves, overcome challenges and develop character. Please contact Lower School Administrative Assistant Nancy Stober at extension 241 for more information on signing up for any of Gill’s afterschool enrichment programs.
Cindy Wyatt Director of Camp & Auxiliary Programs
Monday Activities Drama Production: The Aristocatswinter & spring Offered by: Amy & David Southerland Grade Level(s): 1 - 4 Location: Meet in front of LS office Dates: 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 3/7, 3/28, 4/4, 4/11, 4/25, 5/2, 5/9 (Snow Dates: 2/22, 2/29 & 4/18 if needed)
Golf Program - spring Offered by: Enrich and Grow Academy No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): PK - 2 Location: Meets outside Evans Hall Dates: April 5 - May 10 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $225
Wednesday Activities Girls On The Run - spring Offered by: Cindy Wyatt & Cendahl Cornellio-Alter Grade Level(s): 3 - 5 No. of Sessions: 19 Dates: April 4– June 6 Cost per student: $225 Minimum enrollment: 7
Girls on the Run is an organization that teaches young girls to empower Special rehearsal on Sunday, May 15, themselves through the development 3:00-5:00 of life skills, using the sport of running as a motivator and goal Show date: May 16, 6:00 PM & 7:15 setting vehicle. In twice-weekly p.m. sessions over 10 weeks, girls learn about respecting themselves, their friends and their community. The Time: 3:00– 4:15 p.m. program is aimed at helping each Cost per student: $365 girl to better understand herself, Check out our flyer on KnightSite for while learning to hear her own voice and developing instincts to handle more details. difficult life situations. Each week the girls discuss a new topic and practice their walking/running skills,
culminating on Sunday, June 12, in a 5K event in Somerville with other groups from central New Jersey.
Lego Robotics - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy Grade Level(s): 3 & 4 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Room 107 (Language Arts Room) Dates: Jan. 13 – Feb. 17 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $270 Min. / max. enrollment 6/20
Yoga - winter Offered by: Kathleen Conte Grade Level(s): 1-4 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Evans Hall Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Dates: Jan. 13 – Feb. 17 Cost per student: $120
For six weeks, students will explore the art of yoga. Classes will enable Do you enjoy Legos and want to each child to feel strong both inside take it to the next level? Come create and out. Participants will also play working models of amazing machines games that incorporate yoga. and creatures, like a floatplane simulator, a hungry alligator or a Yoga - spring pair of singing parrots. You will Dates: April 6 – May 11 build LEGO® models featuring Cost per student: $120 working pulleys, gears, motors and sensors. Then you can connect your Girls On The Run - spring model to a computer that uses basic Offered by: Cindy Wyatt & Cendahl programming code to bring your Cornellio-Alter imaginative creatures to life! Dates: April 4– June 6 See Monday for description.
Follow brother-and-sister team, Jacob and India, as they help to create a stage show about bubbles for an amusement park in California! Explore how bubbles behave and investigate the properties of different materials as you engineer bubble wands for the perfect bubble performance!
Thursday Activities Junior Gardeners - winter Offered by: Lynn Prosen Grade Level(s): 1 – 4 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Room 108 Dates: Jan. 14 – Feb. 18 Time: 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Cost per student: $325 Did you know that soil is made of different things? Did you know that there are good and bad insects in a garden? Did you know that some plants can take over 100 days to grow? We will learn about these things and more in the Junior Garden Growers (JGG). As a part of this program, you will help to prepare seeds and plants for the GSB Community Garden. Each JGG member will get a garden tool kit, a seed starter kit (which we will start under the grow lights or in the greenhouse), and will help to plan a special JGG raised bed in the garden.
Junior Gardeners - spring Dates: April 7 – May 12 Soccer - spring Offered by: Tony & Donna Bednarsky Grade Level(s): PK – 4 Location: Meet outside Security Office Dates: April 7 – May 12 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $175 Players will be exposed to individual skills via drills and games. Learn soccer in a safe and fun-filled environment. Lego Architects - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy Grade Level(s): PK - K Location: Evans Hall Dates: Jan. 14 – Feb. 18 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $270 Min. / max. enrollment 7/20 Are you crazy about building with LEGOs? Come build with us and keep the Lego sets you work on!
We will focus on basic architectural building, creative design and different educational themes. We offer a huge selection of models with many of the latest released themes. Chess - spring Offered by: Marty Sobin of Jersey Chess Grade Level(s): 1 – 4 No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Evans Hall Dates: April 7 – May 26 Time: 3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Cost per student: $225 Learn to play the wonderful and fun game of chess at the “GSB Chess Club.” The program will not only teach you all the rules of the game, but also give you an idea of how to go about winning your game from the opening to the end game. If you already know how to play, your game will improve through competitive play, puzzles and instruction tactics and strategies. Some students will be invited to play outside tournaments and events.
Friday Activities Kids Chemistry - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): 3 & 4 Location: Art Room Dates: Jan. 15 – Feb.19 Time: 3:00 – 3:45 p.m. Cost per student: $225 See Wednesday for description. Animal All Stars - winter Offered by: Enrich & Grow Academy Grade Level(s): PK - K No. of Sessions: 6 Location: Evans Hall Dates: Jan. 15 – Feb. 19 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $225
together an exciting series of afterschool shows! We will compare how sharks and alligators live; we will look at five of the world’s greatest predators, spend one day looking at snakes and another at turtles, and see some of the best camouflaged animals in the world! Girls’ Lacrosse - spring Offered by: Janet Holdsworth No. of Sessions: 5 Grade Level(s): 3 & 4 Location: Meet in front of Security Office Dates: April 22 – May 20 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $175
Girls will be exposed to the sport of lacrosse, develop skills through drills Snakes-N-Scales presents Animal and fun activities. Former college All-Stars, a brand new series of after- coach and current GSB Varsity school animal programs where we will Head Coach, Janet Holdsworth, has look at and compare some amazing developed a youth curriculum that is groups of animals. We will use live fun, provides exercise to young girls, animals, models, skeletons, skins, and gives them the opportunity to photos and other materials to put develop confidence in the sport.
Key leadership concepts will be introduced each session to enable the girls to better understand what it takes to be a true leader on and off the lacrosse field! Equipment required: Stick, youth goggles and mouth guard. Any questions regarding equipment can be directed to: CoachJan@winningforlife. org. Basketball Clinic - spring Offered by: Mergin Sina No. of Sessions: 6 Grade Level(s): PK -4 Location: Meet in front of LS Office Dates: April 8 – May 13 Time: 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Cost per student: $325 Basic fundamentals of basketball. Concentration of dribbling, passing and shooting. Balance, skill work and a fun environment.
Gladstone, NJ • Primary - Grade 12 • gsbschool.org Gill St. Bernard’s is an independent, nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory day school.
Lower School After-School Programs
2016 WINTER & SPRING Term After-School Activities You will not have to pre-pay for After-School Activities; you will be billed through the GSB business office. Please see activities brochure for prices. Please include your primary e-mail address so the facilitator can communicate with you directly in the event of a cancellation or change in an activity. Please call the Camp Office at ext. 250 or 234-0067 if you have any questions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Kindly fill out the information below and return to the Lower School office by January 6. Student’s Name: Grade:
Teacher:
Emergency phone number: E-mail:
Parent’s Signature: Place a check mark next to each activity below that your child would like participate in, and return this portion to the LS office. Please keep the remainder of the information for your reference. All activities will take place unless you are specifically notified that an activity has been cancelled. There will be make-up sessions TBD in the event of a school closing. Students must be picked up no later than 15 minutes after the program ends or they will be placed in extended day for a $30.00 fee. Lego Robotics Clay Creations
Yoga~Winter
JR. Gardners~Winter
Kids Chemistry PK-K
Soccer
Girls LAX
Chess
JR. Gardners~Spring
Kids Chemistry 3&4
Spring Basketball Clinic Lego Architect
Yoga~Spring
Girls on the Run
Animal Adventure Bubble Bonanza
Lower School Musical – The Aristocats
Golf