CO-CURRICULARS - Middle School

 

Middle school is an excellent time for girls to get involved in co-curricular activities. Girls can explore their interests and beliefs, and achieve their goals. Becoming involved in athletics, clubs, and organizations helps students learn how to manage their time effectively and take on responsibility and leadership roles. They also learn that they can have a positive impact on their friends and peers.  

 

Activities include:

 

Ambassadors Club:  Open to all students grades 7-12.
Student ambassadors from all grade levels have an important role at the Elms.  They assist the Admissions Office in a variety of capacities, including hostess duties for several school events, tour guides at Open Houses, and representatives at community events.

 

Drama Club:  Open to all 7th and 8th grade students.
The Drama Club meets monthly to explore various aspects of theatrical production, including direction, stage make-up and costumes.  Students practice their improvisational skills and work with original and adapted plays.

 

Foreign Language Clubs:  Open to all students of French, Spanish, grades 7-12, and those interested in the cultures of other lands.
The club's purpose is to further student understanding of the culture and heritage of each of these language groups.  Students participate in service projects, singing, dancing, theatre outings, cooking and contests.

 

Glory Girls:  Open to all 7th and 8th grade students.
Seventh and eighth grade girls are responsible for raising and lowering the American flag on the Elms campus.

 

History Book of the Month Club:  Open to all 7th and 8th grade students.
Students read works of historical fiction about various time periods in American history, such as colonialism, European and Asian immigration, WWI, and the civil rights movement, just to name a few.

 

Liturgical Ministry Team:  Open to all students grades 7-12.
Student members meet with the liturgical director to plan Masses, Friday Word and Communion services, and other prayer and paraliturgical services for the Elms community.  Students participate in various ministries during Mass and throughout the year.

 

Math Counts:  Open to all 7th and 8th grade students.
Math Counts is a mathematics enrichment program that includes competition in the Math Counts Invitational at The University of Akron. 

 

Middle School Student Council:  Open to all 7th and 8th grade students. 
Middle School Student Council elects officers annually.  Officers meet monthly to discuss student concerns, plan Middle School events, including dances, and Middle School pep rallies.

 

Music Club:  Open to all students grades 7-12.
The Music Club is the ?spirit club of the Music Department.?  It meets weekly  to organize social activities and fundraisers to promote the Elms? ensemble performances to the school and area communities.

 

Music Ministry:  Open to all students grades 7-12
Music Ministry students provide music for our all-school liturgies.

 

Newspaper:  Open to high school students, grades 7-12.
The school newspaper, The Elm Leaf, is published 4-6 times each year.  Earning ? academic credit, the grade 9 -12 student reporters, editors, photographers, and artists carry out each step of newspaper production, from decisions about story ideas and photo assignments through page design and in-house desktop publication.  The Elm Leaf has won many awards, including a first-place rating for a small school from the Northeast Ohio Scholastic Press Association in 2003 and a first-place rating from the American Scholastic Press Association in 2002. Several middle school students are selected each year to represent middle school students on the newspaper staff.

 

Power of the Pen:  Open to all 7th and 8th grade students.
Power of the Pen provides a creative outlet for young writers.  Students share their original works and explore various writing styles and techniques.  Competitions occur at local, district and regional levels, with a statewide competition at year?s end.

 

Science Club:  Open to all 7th and 8th grade students.
The Science Club utilizes the natural environment of the campus for additional science projects and labs.

 

Ski Club:  Open to all students grades 7-12.
The Ski Club skis at Boston Mills once a week, January through March.

 

Social Action Club:  Open to all students grades 7-12.
Social action and responsibility is vital to the growth of women in leadership.  All students are encouraged to participate in some aspect of the Social Action Club.  Student interests and activities include AIDS awareness and support of the Community AIDS Network of Akron, food and clothing drives, recycling, respect for human life from the unborn to ending the death penalty, working at area soup kitchens and food pantries, hunger awareness, SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions), and other activities as issues of social justice arise.

 

Spirit Club:  Open to all students grades 7-12.
Spirit Club sponsors two fundraisers, pep assemblies, a Halloween Party, a Christmas Hallway Decoration Contest, and Spirit Week.  Club members provide support for the athletic teams and recognize student and staff birthdays.  The goal of the Spirit Club is to increase school spirit and support all co-curricular activities with fan support.

 

Yearbook (Egress):  Open to all students grades 7-12.
Students are involved with the yearbook throughout the school year.  Students work in teams under the direction of the layout, copy and photography editors.  They also have the opportunity to learn the business end of sales and advertising.  The yearbook is ready for print the last week of school, and is distributed to students in the fall of the following school year.
 

 

For more information, please call Admissions Director Kathleen Norman, at 330.867.0918 or email her at  KNorman@TheElms.org.