After School Enrichment Program
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Program Description: Enrichment Clubs are offered to encourage and support the wonderful variety of interests and abilities of students. Staff, parents, community members, and community organizations combine resources to bring children a range of enrichment experiences. Students stay after on the same day for several weeks which enables them to explore a topic in depth with his or her peers. Club offerings and dates change each year based on available resources.
Funding: This program is not a fund generating program, it is offered by PTA volunteers as a cash-in/cash-out program.
Program Dates: Historically the clubs ran during the month of January in conjunction with the other elementary school. Recently, each school has run their own clubs independently of each other. CHES typically now offers the clubs in the Winter during the moonths of February or March.
Volunteer Needed:
1 Chairperson – responsible for recruiting volunteers; creating clubs, creating flyers and forms; registering students, making deposits, tracking expenses, tracking daily permission slips, overseeing team of volunteers, and responsible for the safety of the students.
1 Co-Chairperson – assist Chair as needed and attend club dates to assist with arrival and dismissal.
Volunteer Time Commitment:
Chairperson – you will need to commit a 4 month span of time. During the first 2 months you will be involved in pre-planning and you should be prepared to spend about 20 hours each month. During the 3rd month, plan on spending 30-40 hours. During the 4th month, plan on being at the school during each club date (in a.m to check permission slips and during club time) – you will also spend an additional 10 hours on administrative tasks.
Co-Chairperson – involvement is based on needs of the chairperson, but you would need to attend all or most clubs when running. Help is particularly needed when club registrants are arriving and departing.
Club-Leaders – 3-5 hours time commitment needed. You can be present for all club meeting times or can arrange to co-teach with other volunteers. You will need to spend some time for planning and lesson development.
Club Assistants - 1-3 hour time commitment needed. You can volunteer all club dates or any number of individual dates.
Skills Needed: The chair should have an understanding of budgeting, word processing, excel a must, curriculum creation helpful, detail oriented with strong organizational skills.
Meeting and Planning Schedule: Chairs and co-chairs should meet in person to organize the pre-planning once or twice. The rest of the coordination can be done via email and phone calls. Club-leaders and Club Assistants can communicate via email.
Primary Files and Forms that will be helpful in running the program for 2010:
Dismissal Note 2010 - new policy that worked great
Primary Files and Forms that will be helpful in running the program for 2009:
Other Forms and Files that may come in handy:
Note to Volunteers Announcing Class Registrations and Procedures
Lego Kits Inventory and there are 4-5 large containers of building legos to occuply 30 children at a time.
