Above: This fall’s RAP session covers a range of activities including Flag Football, Archery, Dodgeball, Slime Making, and Trottier’s Cross Country program. (images clockwise cropped from pics posted to flickr by Seth Lemmons and by ProAdventure and to Facebook by Fast Athletics, photo by Beth Melo, and pic cropped from Facebook post by Paradise Island Kids)
Registration is now open for the fall session of after school programs. I love that Recreation always offers a wide range of choices. This time around, they run from A to T (Archery to “TWINE”).
This first session of RAP (Recreation After-school Programs) is a mix of fun active, creative, and educational classes. Most of them will begin the week of September 17th, with Wednesday classes pushed out an extra week. (Remember, Wednesday, September 19th is Yom Kippur.)**
If you’re new to RAP this year – the programs take place directly after school – usually at the school. After the course ends (usually about 1 to 1 ½ hrs) students must be picked up at the school (or head over to their extended day programs).
There are some exceptions. Several of Trottier’s programs are down the hill at Neary School. And Neary and Trottier Pottery students will be transported to the Recreation/Arts Center building at 21 Highland Street.
Choices include sports, gym games, robotics, creative writing, chess, arts & crafts, acting, and making/decorating desserts. There’s also fun with math, STEM, and ever-popular slime.
Not on the Neary RAP flyer, but also coming this fall is Neary’s popular theater program. Stay tuned for another post on that. (Or check out details here.)
The programs are offered by and through the Rec Department.
Registration for most RAPs are currently listed as due by September 4th. (That is sometimes extended – especially for the programs starting later. But programs can also fill up in advance – or get cancelled if not enough register by that date. So, I recommend signing up soon.)
But you’ll need to sign up by this Friday to join Trottier’s Cross Country program. Although listed as part of Trottier’s RAP, it also has its own special flyer with more details (here). Practices begin this coming Wednesday. As of this morning, there are still several slots open. You can register for XC here.
Below is the list of RAP classes by school. (For details, click on your school below to open the flyer. To register use the form or click here.):
- Basketball
- Breakout
- Capture the Flag
- Chess Wizards
- Expressions KIDS
- Fan Favorite Crafts
- Floor Hockey
- Karate
- Sand Art
- Soccer
- STEM Concoctions
- STEM LAB
- Super Hero Science
- Tennis
- Basketball
- Chess Wizards
- Creative Writing
- Decorating with cookies, cupcakes, cake pops and mini cakes
- Design & Build Club
- Dodgeball
- Expressions KIDS
- Flag Belt Games
- Floor Hockey
- Geometry JAM & Fraction Fun
- LEGO Robotics
- Skyrise Theater “Moon Cheese”
- SLIME Lab
- STEM Concoctions
- Archery
- Basketball
- Dodgeball
- Flag Football (2 day program)
- Floor Hockey
- Halloween, Thanksgiving & Holiday Baked Goods
- Pottery
- Robotics Programming
- SLIME Lab
- Team Handball
- TWINE
- Archery
- Cross Country (3 day program)
- Basketball
- Flag Football (2 day program)
- Halloween, Thanksgiving, & Holiday Baked Goods
- Pottery
- Robotics Programming
- SLIME Lab
- Team Handball
- TWINE
To register for the programs online, click here.
*Updated (8/30/18 10:31 am): Originally, I referred to the 19th as a K-8 half day. It’s actually Yom Kippur – so no school. (Thursday, September 13th is the K-8 half day.)
