Clubs will look a little different this year. Starting Friday, Sept. 20, the school will have its first Club Day, a specialized time where students who are interested in building their resumes with extracurricular activities can meet together as clubs within school hours.
Clubs will be held on either “Blue” days or “Gray” days to maximize the potential for attending different clubs on different days. To check what day clubs are hosted, students will go to the Stone Bridge website under events and check the schedule. Some larger clubs will meet on both days.
“The schedule is a work in progress,” Students Activities Engagement Coordinator Mrs. Jennifer Steeprow said. “On Friday, on Club Day, we will have all the “Blue” clubs. That’ll be the only ones students can pick from. And then, the next week is “Gray” day on that Friday.”
In previous years, clubs were only held before and after school hours. This new arrangement allows students who have a busy schedule to participate in clubs they are interested in within the timeframe that they commit to school.
”Students will be able to have meetings and participate in clubs during the school day,” Mrs. Steeprow said. “They won’t be held back because of other responsibilities, or they might work. They might have sports practice, things like that.”
Club Days will allow for students to participate in numerous fun activities. Popular club options include Girl Up and Global Ambassadors, and newer club options, now formatted for the Club Day schedule, such as history teacher Mr. Collin’s performance-based Sunshine Squad, an improv club, and English teacher Ms. Corpe’s Literary Magazine Club, give students a fresh context for participation and grants teachers hope for new connections.
“I really like the new club schedule,” Ms.Corpe said. “We don’t have to meet that often outside of school hours, especially because I’m doing both Blue and Gray days. So, people who have other clubs are still able to come.”
Students that are not interested in any clubs can go to the library or to any teacher not hosting a club by signing up for the teacher’s roster on StudentVue.
“Students that don’t want to go to the clubs can just sign up to go to a teacher for a study hall,” Mrs. Steeprow said.”It would just be an extra 40 minutes.”
