RCS Middle School
Clubs
And
Activities
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ART CLUB
FACS CLUB
FRENCH CLUB
HIKING CLUB
INTRAMURALS
JAZZ ENSEMBLE
PBIS CLUB
NEWSPAPER CLUB
PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
SCIENCE OLYMPIAD
SELECT CHORUS
SPANISH CLUB
STAMP CLUB
STOCK MARKET CLUB
STUDENT COUNCIL
TRADING POST
TV/ MEDIA CLUB
YEARBOOK CLUB
NATIONAL JUNIOR HONOR SOCIETY
BEST BUDDIES
ART CLUB
Art Club is a club for 7th and 8th grade students. The club provides
opportunities for members to work on creative, in-depth projects and
independent studies. Art Club is more laid back than a typical
classroom setting. Every year Art Club members create a mural that is
hung in the Middle School. This club engages students in a variety of
activities including set-up for the Art Show, learning about different
types of drawing and artists, paintings and crafts, and exploring
individual interests that cannot be covered during regular class. Art
Club is offered during 10th period, Monday through Thursday and
students are required to come at least once during each week.
Typically, Art Club starts in early October and ends the night of the Art
Show in May.
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FACS CLUB
FACS Club is open to all Middle School students. FACS Club is a club that
uses skills learned in Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) to help our
community. Some examples of our activities are:
Raising money for The Leukemia Society.
Making food for the Damien Center or the Senior Projects.
Sewing quilts for the Linus Project.
The Club meets on Tuesdays, 10th period for the entire school year.
Some meetings may be scheduled until 5pm.
In order to participate with field trips or come to special events,
students must have come to at least 3 meetings prior to the event.
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FRENCH CLUB
Seventh and eighth grade students who are taking French 1A or French
1B are invited to join the French Club! Students participate in a variety
of activities which will include: learning about the French –speaking
countries (i.e. France, Canada, Polynesian Islands, Africa), sing Holiday
songs, make Holiday cards, watch French movies, eat French cuisine,
organize the annual Hawaiian Spring Fling Dance and “le Jour de
Bowling” (Bowling Day). Students may also have the opportunity to
travel to Montreal/Quebec, Canada in June. Some community events
may include organizing a food drive and the “Saving Lids to Save lives”
program. A Bientot! (See you soon!)
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HIKING CLUB
This club is open to all students in grades 6-8. The club will offer
students the opportunity to learn aspects of hiking that will make their
hikes safe and enjoyable. Over the course of the year, students will
learn about map reading, nutrition, first aid, equipment, and the
possible dangers associated with hiking.
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INTRAMURALS
Intramurals is open to all students in grades 6-8. It allows students the
ability to participate in additional physical activity. Students will
increase cardio-vascular fitness, develop sportsmanship, and increase
self-esteem. Student’s participation each day is limited to 25 students.
Students who wish to attend can sign up weekly on the PE bulletin
board outside the girl’s locker room. Monday is the 6th grade intramural
day, Tuesday is for 7th and 8th grade girls, Wednesday is for 7th and 8th
grade boys and Thursday is for PE class makeups, for students who
have missed class and want to earn credit for what they missed.
Students will get a pre signed pass from their PE teacher to attend on
Thursdays. If a student needs to make up a class and can’t attend on a
Thursday, they can get a pre signed pass from a teacher to attend on
another intramural day.
Intramurals will begin in late September and end in late May.
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JAZZ ENSEMBLE
The Middle School Jazz Ensemble is a select ensemble open to
instrumental music students in grades 6 through 8 by audition only.
Students who have experience on saxophone, trumpet, trombone,
piano, drum set, bass guitar or electric guitar are welcome to audition.
The group explores music from the areas of jazz, swing, Latin, bebop,
pop, and rock and consists of approximately 18-25 members. Auditions
are held during the last week of September and rehearsals start at the
beginning of October. Rehearsals are held on Thursday evenings from
6-8pm and on some Monday evenings as well.
Select ensemble concerts are held twice a year, usually in January and
May, and other school and community performance opportunities may
be scheduled throughout the year.
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PBIS CLUB
PBIS Club, formerly known as “Natural Helpers”, is a group of students
dedicated to supporting the behavioral expectations throughout the
school. The students are role models encouraging others to reinforce
the PBIS expectations: RESPECTFUL, RESPONSIBLE and READY TO
LEARN.
The group will help with making posters, reading announcements,
making handmade prizes for our Golden Ticket reward system as well
as other jobs necessary to support PBIS. All students are encouraged to
participate in the club. Meetings are period 10 every other Monday.
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NEWSPAPER CLUB
Do you read the newspaper? Want to know more about them? Want to
know what goes into the production of a good newspaper? If so, come
join us! We will take what we learn and conclude the year with an
edition of our own student newspaper, written and edited by club
members. Open to students in grades 6-8.
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PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
The Photography Club is open to all students in grades 6-8. The
students will use cameras as a tool in one of the six modes of visual
learning ---exploring, recording, communicating, expressing,
motivating, and imaging. In addition, photography has its own
vocabulary and its own grammar. The students will learn and apply
some basic photography principles as member of this club. Students
will gain an understanding of the value of photography as a modern art
form. We plan for students to be able to enter photography contests.
The club meets every other Wednesday, 10th period. Please note
students may have to stay until 5:00 pm for special activities.
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SCIENCE OLYMPIAD
Science Olympiad is a selected team of 15 middle school students (may
include up to five ninth graders who were on the team the previous
year) who are committed to become experts on several science or
technology topics. The topics vary from year to year and cover a wide
range of scientific disciplines. They will be part of a team that will
compete at the regional level, and if the team qualifies, compete at the
state tournament. Interested students must fill out an application, take
a test, and be dedicated to the team. Science Olympiad meets at least
twice a week for two hours each meeting until all competitions are
over.
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SELECT CHORUS
Select Chorus is offered by audition to all chorus students in grades 6-8.
It provides students an opportunity to sing a variety of challenging
music and varied genres in a small ensemble. There are approximately
24-28 students selected. There are 2 concerts per year. Due to the
limited amount of rehearsal time, attendance is very important for each
singer. Information that is more detailed will be available from the
music staff at the beginning of the school year.
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SPANISH CLUB
The purpose of the Spanish Club is to develop an appreciation of the
Spanish Language and culture through fun, hands-on activities.
Students may be involved in Hispanic holiday celebrations, Hispanic
craft sessions, and holiday singing.
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STAMP CLUB
The Stamp Club is open to all students in grades 6-8. Members of this
club will become involved in using rubber stamps, color pencils,
markers, watercolor, etc. to create art. Creating scrapbook pages will
also be part of this club.
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STOCK MARKET CLUB
The Stock Market Club is open to all students. It is a computer
simulation of Wall Street trading played on the internet from
September through April. The Club meets every other Wednesday
during the tenth period. Students are placed in teams and are given an
imaginary $200,000 to invest in common stocks. Students learn about
investments and lessons for life. The club integrates math/reading,
social studies, language arts, and computer skills. There are two 10week games played. One will be played in the fall and one in the spring.
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STUDENT COUNCIL
Student council is open to all students in grades 6-8. Only 7th and 8th
graders may be officers. This group works on individual projects to
make our school community a better place. The group also sponsors
and organizes the student activity nights and dances for the school.
Student Council Officers meet twice a month. The entire Student
Council (officers and homeroom representatives) meets once a month.
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TRADING POST
TRADING POST in Our middle school is an entrepreneurial business with
students as the operators. The Trading Post is located on the main
hallway in front of the nurse’s office. Items for sale include all necessary
school supplies, suggested supplies such as locker accessories, USB
“Flash/Jump” Drive, a light weight and handy way to transport work
from a home computer to school and more.
Students interested in running and working at the school store will be
invited to an organizational meeting in September. Listen to the daily
announcement for the date and time.
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TV / MEDIA CLUB
This club is open to all students in grades 6-8. Students are introduced
to a variety of video and computer techniques to produce commercials;
movie promos, and information films. Members will learn what
technologies are available to make creative projects and multi-media
presentations. Students will also be introduced to computer coding
and programming to create simple video games. Club meets Tuesdays
10th period for the entire school year.
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YEARBOOK
Students collaborate to put together the current year’s yearbook. They
choose a theme, design the front cover, take photographs of student
life, use the computer to design pages and edit.
The club is open to 7th and 8th grade students and usually meets one
day a week during 10th period from September to March. Depending on
the amount of work to be done, our meetings, at times, can run until 45pm.
A limited number of students are accepted, usually 8-12. In order to be
considered, students must complete an application packet.
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NATIONAL JUNIOR HONOR SOCIETY
NJHS is open to all seventh and eighth grade students who have
maintained a minimum 90 average each quarter and have also had a
minimum number of absences with no misconduct reports. After
meeting these minimum requirements they must write a brief essay
and receive faculty support. In the club we develop and promote the
ideals of community, leadership and service. We do this through
fundraisers to improve the school and the community. At the end of
the year there is a celebratory field trip along with the induction
ceremony of the incoming class.
We generally meet the first Wednesday of each month from October
through June.
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BEST BUDDIES
Best Buddies is an organization dedicated to establishing one-to-one
friendships for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities
(IDD).
Our middle school chapter meets twice a month, one 10th period
meeting and once until 5:00 pm for an activity. We do a few
fundraisers a year that students participate in. We also participate in
regional best buddies events sponsored by our program manager for
Best Buddies New York.
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