Clubs and Organizations

There are 817 Boys and Girls Clubs in American schools. The Club is a safe place for students to develop their learning, build confidence, and self-esteem while having fun. Our Boys and Girls Club offers services to students before and after school to help them with their studies as well as help developing the child into a citizen of this community. To learn more about the Boys and Girls Club, please visit their website at http://www.bgca.org

The SCA is a student government organization that meets monthly after school. SCA sponsors twin day, food drives, Christmas caroling, T-shirt day etc. Fourth and Fifth graders campaign for the offices of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer every Spring. Each homeroom in grades 2-5 chooses a SCA representative.

Our goals and objectives are:

1. To promote positive school spirit.
2. To promote the ideals of good government.
3. To reach out and help others in the community.
4. To develop productive members of the community.
5. To encourage the development of character; trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship.
6. To show appreciation of school staff.
7. To make improvements to our school.
8. To have fun and enjoy each other.

Peak Performers is for fourth graders and Pinnacle is for fifth graders who have excelled in music and want to continue to develop those skills. The Peak Performers and Pinncale is directed by the music teachers. Students perform on xylophones, glockenspiels, metallophones, recorders, and various other instruments. In addition, students may add vocals and/or movement to the pieces they perform. The instruction is based on a method developed by the German composer, Carl Orff.

Traveling with the instruments is difficult, so most performances take place in the school. We plan to present a show near the end of the year for the student body, and perhaps that evening to the parents.

As a member of the Book Club, the student reads one book per month for five months and then meets to discuss the book during a lunch period near the end of each month. The five book titles have been choosen from the Virginia Young Reader's list. Participating students will have the chance to vote on their favorites. At the conclusion of the program, their votes will be compiled with students from all over Virginia to determine the state winner. These books are on the Accelerated Reader List so students may earn points too.

They are two fifth graders from each class representing one of the many themes of our school, which is to solve our problems rather than fight over them. The mediators go through training by the guidance counselor to develop skills on how to help solve problems between two or more people. They perform plays in all of the classrooms letting other children know where to go to get help in solving their problems.

We have a peer/conflict mediation center centrally located in the school where they meet regularly. The mediators serve as excellent examples to the younger students promoting non-violent resolution.