Student Life
After School Programs

Lower School Clubs

Create And Explore

Enhance your child’s academic and creative experience by registering for an After School Club. Clubs meet once a week for one hour, unless otherwise noted in the descriptions below, and are open to all students beginning in mid September. Children enrolled in a club may remain at school in the extended day program between dismissal and 3:15 pm. After School Clubs fill fast so register soon!

Contact Us

Claire Harrison
Director of Extended Day 
617-278-2301

Cassie Abodeely

Director of Auxiliary Programming 
617-278-2350

SPRING 2023 OFFERINGS

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  • Anthony’s Drama Club (Grades 2 – 5)

    Building on what we’ve done this year, while welcoming newcomers to the club, we will explore storytelling through the lens of theater: how can you tell a story with more than just words? We’ll explore movement, dance, music, and self-expression. Students will practice skills like public speaking, projection, and creativity to improve stage presence and confidence. And we’ll have a lot of fun! Anthony Allocca is a Theater Education major at Emerson College in Boston. He has directed, produced, and choreographed children’s theater in New Jersey and Massachusetts. An avid director of musical theater, much of his work targets younger viewers through the Theater for Young Audiences at Emerson. Anthony has worked with our Extended Day team and spent summer 2022 at Brimmer Camp!

    6 Mondays: April 3, 10, 24; May 1, 8, 15
    Time: 3:15 - 4:15 pm. 
    Grades: 2 – 5
    Teacher: Anthony Allocca
    Fee: $180
  • Chess: learning more and more (Grades 1 - 3)

    Join is for this highly engaging chess club adapted to the students’ ages and chess levels. Students will learn the basics of chess, openings, strategy and several chess-variant games like zombie chess and two-time chess. Beginning with free play to evaluate familiarity and comfort level, we will layer in skills to learn and apply them to game play. We will introduce variant games to keep learners interested and focus on connecting chess concepts to the game’s overall framework. Beginners are welcome! Advanced chess wizards will develop a deeper understanding of the game.

    7 Fridays: April 14, 21, 28; May 5, 12, 19, 26
    Time: 2:45-3:45 pm
    Grades: 1 – 3
    Teacher: Vineyardapp Camps
    Fee: $235
  • Chess: the road to Grandmaster (Grades 4-5)

    Join is for this highly engaging chess club adapted to the students’ ages and chess levels. Students will learn the basics of chess, openings, strategy and several chess-variant games like zombie chess and two-time chess. Beginning with free play to evaluate familiarity and comfort level, we will layer in skills to learn and apply them to game play. We will introduce variant games to keep learners interested and focus on connecting chess concepts to the game’s overall framework. Beginners are welcome! Advanced chess wizards will develop a deeper understanding of the game.

    6 Thursdays: April 13, 20, 27; May 4, 11, 18
    Time: 3:15 – 4:15 pm
    Grades: 4 & 5
    Teacher: Vineyardapp Camps
    Fee: $205
  • Journalism (Grades 3 – 5)

    Do you love writing? Have you ever wanted to publish articles online, or have something you wrote go viral? In this club for budding writers, you’ll work on all of the above, as you learn how to be a junior journalist. You’ll interview friends, learn how to write well, and craft weekly articles about events at school. At the end of the class, you will team up to write a real article that will be published in Brimmer’s local paper. Brimmer will supply the necessary tech.

    6 Thursdays: April 13, 20, 27; May 4, 11, 18
    Time: 3:15 – 4:15 pm
    Grades: 3 – 5 (please call if your 2nd grader is interested)
    Teacher: Vineyardapp Camps
    Fee: $205
  • Lego Challenges (Grades 1 - 3)

    Is everything awesome? Is the best day of the week Taco Tuesday? Whether you catch our references or not, join super fun Middle School teacher Will Arndt for this structured Lego Club. In addition to free building, there will be creative and engineering challenges and children will work both by themselves and in teams to accomplish weekly goals.

    6 Wednesdays: April 5, 12, 19, 26; May 10, 17
    Time: 3:15 - 4:15 pm
    Grades: 1 - 3
    Teacher: Will Arndt, Brimmer Middle School Teacher and D&D Camp creator
    Fee: $170
  • PK Soccer Club

    This inclusive soccer club is for ALL kids who want to spend an hour having fun, running around, and enjoying the early release day outside! We’ll teach the fundamentals, develop skills, and play small-sided games. This club is for all PK students regardless of soccer ability.
     
    This club has a 5 student minimum.
     
    7 Wednesdays: April 12, 19, 26; May 10, 24, 31; June7
    Time: 12:15 – 1 pm
    Grade: PK
    Coach: Jonny Bonner
    Fee: $200
  • Sports Smorgasbord (Grades K – 2)

    Join us for this active afternoon of various, carefully chosen sports or high energy games. Through play students will develop greater kinesthetic sense of their bodies in motion, practice teamwork, communication, and self-regulation through sportsmanship. These skills are critical both on and off the
    fields and courts and will benefit your child well into the future!

    Sports include: baseball, soccer, ultimate frisbee, gymnastics and calisthenics, football, obstacle
    courses, and tag.

    7 Mondays: April 3, 10, 24; May 1, 8, 15, 22
    Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm
    Grades: K – 2
    Teacher: Vineyardapp Camps
    Fee: $235
  • Weird Nature Science (Grades 3-5)

    Have you ever wanted to be a scientist? Perhaps you want to increase your understanding of the natural world? Well, you’re in luck! In this class, we’ll be learning about physics and the natural world through hands-on science experiments that you can take home. We’ll learn about states of matter when we build volcanos; we’ll learn about sound as we create ‘naturally occurring’ speakers. We’ll move outdoors and may plant a simple garden and make bird feeders. Join us if you love science, nature, engineering, or just making things blow up.

    6 Wednesdays: April 12, 19, 26; May 10,17, 24
    Time: 3:15 – 4:15 pm
    Grades: 3 - 5
    Teacher: Vineyardapp Camps
    Fee: $205
  • Weird Nature Science (PK – Grade 2)

    Have you ever wanted to be a scientist? Perhaps you want to increase your understanding of the natural world? Well, you’re in luck! In this class, we’ll be learning about physics and the natural world through hands-on science experiments that you can take home. We’ll learn about states of matter when we build volcanos; we’ll learn about sound as we create ‘naturally occurring’ speakers. We’ll move outdoors and may plant a simple garden and make bird feeders. Join us if you love science, nature, engineering, or just making things blow up.

    8 Tuesdays: April 4, 11, 18, 25; May 2, 9, 16, 23
    Time: 3:15 – 4:15 pm
    Grades: PK – 2
    Teacher: Vineyardapp Camps
    Fee: $240
As an inclusive private school community, Brimmer welcomes students who will increase the diversity of our school. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, or any other characteristic protected from discrimination under state or federal law, in the administration of our educational policies, admissions practices, financial aid decisions, and athletic and other school-administered programs.