After School Clubs

If you have any club questions, suggestions, or feedback, please email clubs@SAILptso.org.

 

 

 

Good to know:

  • Clubs are posted when all the information is confirmed for each individual club. Once all the data from the different clubs has been collected and verified, the schedule will be announced via ParentSquare. We typically have 15-20 clubs per semester, so this information collection can take some time.
  • Note the grades for each club below. They can change, but typically these are consistent. There are more clubs for elementary-aged students than middle school. We do our best to have each grade have at least one club option a day, but that availability also depends on the clubs themselves, so it is not guaranteed. Many clubs will not offer spots to Kindergarteners the first semester, but then open up to including them in the second semester.
  • A club may announce to families that had a student in their club the year before that their registration is open, but the remaining 14 or so clubs that semester will still be working on setting us up on their end. Half the clubs at our school are run by small- to medium-sized companies with established infrastructures that can set-up registration quickly and the other half are small businesses that need more time, so we request patience.
  • Fall clubs are announced by the first week of school, and most start around the third week of September. They run up through the end of the second week of December.
  • For spring, clubs can start as soon as classes resume after winter break, and they have the option to continue until the end of April. These are typically announced by the end of the second week of December.
  • Some clubs are only available in the fall, not spring or vice versa. This is due to several factors, including coaches, campus space usage, and general interest. Scroll down to see which clubs are usually available during one semester or the other.
  • Ending times for the clubs vary, but most release at 4:30pm.
  • Students can be excused from any club still at SAIL to ASEP, if already enrolled there.
  • Most clubs must have 10 participants enrolled by a respective registration date or they will be cancelled for that semester.
  • Some of the clubs do have max participant numbers as well. Once clubs are announced, make sure to enroll your student in your respective club choices asap, even if there seems to be a few weeks of open registration time. Clubs that have maxed out quickly in the past, include: Chess, Piano, MadScience, Girls on the Run, Theatre, and Lacrosse. Some of these clubs also are "sleeper clubs." Many times we will announce a club is in danger of not meeting their minimum registration numbers to find that club then maxed out within hours of that announcement.
  • Though most clubs require tuition for a set number of weeks (typically 6-12 weeks depending on the club), there are a few that have offered month-to-month payments as well (Soccer, Futsal, Theatre, and Yoga in the past). Some of these month-to-month clubs also allow you to attend or not attend the club per month, depending on your schedule.
  • Financial aid is offered for most clubs. What this is and how they apply the aid varies per club. Some offer discounts, tuition-free spots, clothing and shoes (typical for running clubs), or payment plans. Qualifiers for financial aid ranges from as simple as just making the request to requiring evidence from the school that the family qualifies for the CMS' reduced- or free-lunch program. It is awarded on a first-come, first-served basis and is determined and awarded by the club. When registration is announced via ParentSquare, a financial aid request form link will be added to this webpage and will need to be set-up separately.

 

 

 

 IMPORTANT:

Remember to complete the transportation form every day your club is held, not just the first day! Click the button below to set up an easy service to remind you not to forget to do so.

 

What is the SAIL transportation form?

When school starts in the fall, your teacher will ask how your student should usually get home from class. That will be their default transportation home. No additional communication to the school, including this form, will be needed any day they take the default means of transportation home. This default way can be the bus, ASEP (considered a transportation stop on the way home daily), or being picked up via car (a car rider).

 

If your child deviates from their default way of getting home, the transportation form is SAIL's official means of communicating with your student's teacher and the front office about their new stop on the way to transporting the student home from their 3:15 dismissal. Attending a club is a deviation; the form must be filled out every day they attend the club. Due to safety reasons, teachers cannot change how your child goes home without your permission, which is given through this transportation form.

 

 

SAIL Transportation Form Reminder

 

After you fill out this form and your student attends the club, the club will have collected the information about how students continue their transportation home. When the club ends each session, most students are picked up via car, but you can also request that the club send the student to an additional transportation stop via ASEP if your student is enrolled.

 

 

 

Example Schedules

Please note that these are only to give you an idea of what a club schedule could look like for each semester. Many of the clubs shift days and duration year-to-year.

 

 

 Fall

 

 Theatre Club for K-5 is tentatively planned for Wednesdays in the fall. Futsal may be moved to either Wednesdays or Thursdays in the fall.

 

Spring

 

 Tentative updates: The theatre club will most likely be moved to Wednesdays next year, and Futsal may be moved to either Wednesdays or Thursdays.