AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
As part of FernLeaf's rich learning environment we offer a variety of after school activities and sports taught by the FernLeaf team or outside organizations with additional expertise. These offerings change throughout the year and may be available after the initial enrollment period by communication with the instructor. The programs showing below are for our most recent session.
Creek Campus is grades K-4th and Wilderness Campus is 5th grades through High School. Click the campus below to see the offerings for those specific grade levels.
CREEK CAMPUS OFFERINGS
IF A CLASS IS OFFERED ON THE CREEK CAMPUS, PLEASE PLAN TO PICK YOUR STUDENT UP AT THE TIME SHOWN FROM THIS CAMPUS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
Music Exploration
Grades K - 1st
Wednesdays
3:15PM - 4:15 PM
11/08/23 - 2/14/24
COST: $80
Our Music Exploration program is designed to facilitate collaborative music making for young learners. Students will play community-building music games as well as a variety of instruments including, but not limited to, rhythm sticks, hand drums, shakers, boomwhackers, resonator bell kits, and tambourines. Let’s make some joyful noise!
Choir
Grades 2nd - 4th
Mondays
3:15PM - 4:15 PM
11/6/23 - 2/12/24
COST: $80
Join our vibrant choir program designed for 2nd through 4th grade students! In this musical journey, young voices will harmonize, learn to read sheet music, and explore various genres. Through fun rehearsals and a final performance, students will build confidence, teamwork, and a lifelong love for music.
Animal Art Scouts
Tuesdays
3:15 - 4:15 PM
Grades: K - 1st
11/7/23 - 2/13/24
COST: $80
Animal Art Scouts is the perfect creative haven for young animal enthusiasts and budding artists! Each week, our Animal Art Scouts embark on exciting artistic adventures to learn about different animals, all while expressing their love for wildlife through various art forms, such as painting, drawing, and sculpting. Some weeks, a live animal friend may even pay us a visit!
Intro to Digital Art
Thursdays
3:15 - 4:15 PM
Grades: 2nd - 4th
11/9/23 - 2/15/24
COST: $80
In Intro to Digital Art, students will use digital drawing programs to explore art in several bold new directions. Along the way, they'll dabble in pixel art, paint digitally, create animations, edit photos, and even concoct their own memes.
Spanish Club
Tuesdays
3:15 - 4:15 PM
Grades: 3rd-4th
11/7/23 - 2/13/24
COST: $80
This co-ed spanish club is open to all levels of experience. Students will learn the fundamentals of the spanish language in a fun and interactive way with games, sports, scavenger hunts, videos, songs and more. The primary focus will be on conversational spanish within emphasis on practical travel Spanish. We will sample some Latin American comida (food) on occasion. It will be a combination of indoor and outdoor activities depending on the weather. All activities will take place at the FernLeaf Creek Campus.
Basketball Club
Wednesdays
3:15 - 4:15 PM
Grades: 3rd-4th
11/08/23 - 2/14/24
COST: $80
This co-ed basketball club is open to all levels of experience. Students will learn the fundamentals of the sport while improving teamwork, coordination, character-building and endurance. All activities will take place at the FernLeaf Creek Campus. The club will be a combination of skill building activities and games with an emphasis on developing a love of the sport. During wet weather we will practice skills inside.
Dance K-1
Mondays
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Grades K - 1st
11/6/23 - 2/12/24
Cost: $115
Betsy Dixon of Southside Dance and Hendersonville Ballet is offering this dance class. Classes include fun music and creative movement, and focus on beginning ballet, jazz and modern techniques. No special shoes or equipment required. Students should wear comfortable, stretchy clothing for freedom of movement. At the end of the session, students will show off what they have learned in a mini recital in the classroom.
Betsy has been teaching dance classes for 20 years, 15 of them with Southside Dance and Hendersonville Ballet. She has taught ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance to ages 3 through 63. She choreographed an award-winning Bollywood jazz piece for Hendersonville Ballet to take to the Encore dance competition at Furman College. Currently she is choreographing and costuming for Hendersonville Ballet’s Nutcracker and Spring Performance.
NOTE: THIS CLASS TAKES PLACE ON FERNLEAF'S CREEK CAMPUS BUT IS STAFFED BY SOUTHSIDE DANCE STUDIO.
Dance 2nd-4th
Wednesdays
3:15 - 4:15 PM
Grades: 2nd - 4th
11/8/23 - 2/14/24
COST: $115
Betsy Dixon of Southside Dance and Hendersonville Ballet is offering this dance class. Classes include fun music and creative movement, and focus on beginning ballet, jazz and modern techniques. No special shoes or equipment required. Students should wear comfortable, stretchy clothing for freedom of movement. At the end of the session, students will show off what they have learned in a mini recital in the classroom.
Betsy has been teaching dance classes for 20 years, 15 of them with Southside Dance and Hendersonville Ballet. She has taught ballet, tap, jazz and modern dance to ages 3 through 63. She choreographed an award-winning Bollywood jazz piece for Hendersonville Ballet to take to the Encore dance competition at Furman College. Currently she is choreographing and costuming for Hendersonville Ballet’s Nutcracker and Spring Performance.
NOTE: THIS CLASS TAKES PLACE ON FERNLEAF'S CREEK CAMPUS BUT IS STAFFED BY SOUTHSIDE DANCE STUDIO.
Ninja K-1
Thursdays
3:15PM - 4:15PM
Grades: 3rd - 4th
11/9/23 - 2/15/24
COST: $150
Get ready to climb, jump, and flip after school with Blue Ridge Kids Center! Our NEW Blue Ridge Kids Club is a high-energy outdoor class that encourages students to be active, audacious, and sociable in a fun and no pressure environment. Students will learn new gymnastics, tumbling, and parkour skills while developing an overall understanding of fitness and flexibility. NOTE: THIS CLASS TAKES PLACE ON FERNLEAF'S CAMPUS BUT IS STAFFED BY BLUE RIDGE KIDS CENTER.
Ninja 2-4
Tuesdays
3:15 - 4:15 PM
Grades 2nd - 4th
11/7/23-2/13/24
COST: $150
Get ready to climb, jump, and flip after school with Blue Ridge Kids Center! Our NEW Blue Ridge Kids Club is a high energy outdoor class that encourages students to be active, audacious, and sociable in a fun and no pressure environment. Students will learn new gymnastics, tumbling and parkour skills while developing an overall understanding of fitness and flexibility. NOTE: THIS CLASS TAKES PLACE ON FERNLEAF'S CAMPUS BUT IS STAFFED BY BLUE RIDGE KIDS CENTER.
Instant STEM Challenges
Thursdays
3:15PM - 4:15PM
Grades: 3rd - 4th
11/9/23 - 2/15/24
COST: $80
Come have fun while working as a team, being creative and solving problems. Each class, students will be presented with a stem challenge and materials to solve it. How they're solved it is up to you and your teammates!
Winter Musical
Thursdays
3:00 - 4:00 PM (Dress Rehearsals are 3:00-5:00PM)
Grades 2nd - 4th
11/30/23 - 2/2/24
COST: $250
In this after school class, children will learn musical theater singing, dancing, and acting skills. Explore costumes, props, and experience what it takes to put on a show. Students will rehearse and perform choreographed dances, songs, and ensemble scenes from The Wizard of Oz to perform for family and friends as a part of the FernLeaf winter musical. No audition or experience required. Presented by Playground Stage and led by teaching artist Morgan Piner. Tuition includes use of costumes and family tickets to the final performance.
REHEARSALS: Thursdays, 11/30, 12/7, 12/14, 1/4, 1/11, 1/18, and 1/25, 3:00-4:00pm. Dress rehearsals, Monday-Thursday, 1/29-2/1, 3-5 pm.
PERFORMANCES: Thursday, February 1, 5:00 pm. Friday, February 2, 9:30 am.
To sign up for after school activities please use MyPaymentsPlus. If you would like to discuss financial assistance for these activities please fill out this form.
If a CREEK CAMPUS class you would like to sign up for is full, please fill out this waitlist form so we can contact you in the event of an opening.
NOTE: The costs of after school activities & sports are shared by the enrolled students. As a result, FernLeaf will not provide refunds for after school activities that are missed due to absence, loss of privileges, suspension, opt-out, or other circumstances that result in a student not participating.
WILDERNESS CAMPUS OFFERINGS
IF A CLASS IS OFFERED ON THE WILDERNESS CAMPUS, PLEASE PLAN TO PICK YOUR STUDENT UP AT THE TIME SHOWN FROM THIS CAMPUS UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED.
MS Disc Golf
Thursdays
3:30 - 6:30 PM
Grades: 6th - 8th
Dates: 11/6,11/9,11/16,11/30,12/7, & 12/14
COST: $130
Attention all discers! Introducing WNC's Middle School Disc Golf League! Open to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders! Whether you have never thrown a disc before and it's your first time or if you've played every course in WNC, you're invited! Come join us for the dates below! We will be playing at three different courses: Jackson Park, Avery's Spring, and Flat Rock Middle.
The first meeting at each course will be a skill building/practice day. The second meeting at each course will be tournament day!
11/6,11/9,11/16,11/30,12/7,12/14
Orienteering & Adventure Racing
Wednesdays
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Grades: 5th - 7th
8/25/23 - 9/22/23
COST: $100
Become an Adventure Racer! Students will put their navigational skills, map reading, and fitness to the test as they participate in outdoor navigation races! Students will learn how to read a map and compass in concert and use this knowledge to locate checkpoints, all on a timer. Skillbuilding activities and courses will be on campus.
5-7 Hiking Club
Mondays
3:00PM - 5:30PM
Grades: 5th - 7th
11/6/23 - 2/12/24
COST: $100
Join us for a walk in the woods. Hiking club will meet once a week to explore the trails near FernLeaf.
8-10 Hiking Club
Wednesdays
3:00 - 5:30 PM
Grades: 8th - 10th
11/08/23 - 2/14/24
$100
Join us for a walk in the woods. Hiking club will meet once a week to explore the trails near FernLeaf.
Trail Building Crew
Thursdays
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Grades: 6th - 8th
11/9/23 - 2/15/24
$100
Join the FernLeaf Trail Building Crew. The Trail Building Crew will spend one afternoon a week working to develop FernLeaf’s Trail System at the Wilderness Campus. Projects might include: blazing and marking trails, erosion control, brush clearing, step building and campsite development.
8-10 Bowling
Tuesdays
3:00 - 4:45 PM
Grades: 8th - 10th
11/7/23 - 2/13/24
$150
Come roll with us. FernLeaf’s bowling club will travel once a week to TarHeel Lanes in Hendersonville to bowl. No experience needed.
5-7 Bowling
Mondays
3:00-4:45 PM
Grades: 5th - 7th
11/6/23 - 2/12/24
COST: $150
Come roll with us. FernLeaf’s bowling club will travel once a week to TarHeel Lanes in Hendersonville to bowl. No experience needed.
Open Art Studio
Tuesdays
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Grades: 8th - 10th
11/7/23 - 2/13/24
$100
Welcome to the Art Studio! In this after school class, you will be able to work on an art project of your choice. You are encouraged to propose your own creative idea, or a provided project will be available. This class will be set up as an independent study. Support will be provided on how to structure your project, how to plan for needed materials and how to work in an art studio. Standard art room materials will be supplied. Our goal will be to create and display our final projects and to have fun together making art!
Ladies in the Lab
Wednesdays
3:00 - 4:15 PM
Grades: 6th - 10th
11/08/23 - 2/14/24
COST: $100
Ladies in the Lab is an after school program where students are empowered and learn about women professionals and their contributions in the science world. During our time together we will meet local women scientists and learn about their profession, what it took to get where they are today, and what type of science they participate in. Students will get to ask questions and meet with local professionals. Then the following week we will conduct a lab that aligns with similar science that we just learned about. In addition to our learning about women in the field of science, our goal of Ladies in the Lab is to also build a network of students within our school community that have similar interests in hopes of mentoring and supporting one another. We are encouraging 9th and 10th grade students to join to help mentor some of our middle grades students through our labs. Through learning and networking we can empower more women to enter in the science professions.
5th-7th Ping Pong Club
Tuesdays
3:15 - 4:30 PM
Grades: 5th - 7th
11/7/23 - 2/13/24
$80
Ping Pong Club is here! Want to learn how to play ping pong and compete against others at FernLeaf? Come join us! We will be learning the basics for forehand and backhand. We'll learn the rules and how to play the game and even have club tournaments! Whether you're just starting and are a beginner or you have experience playing, sign up! Hope to see you there!
8th-10th Ping Pong Club
Wednesdays
3:15 - 4:30 PM
Grades: 8th - 10th
11/08/23 - 2/14/24
COST: $80
Ping Pong Club is here! Want to learn how to play ping pong and compete against others at FernLeaf? Come join us! We will be learning the basics for forehand and backhand. We'll learn the rules and how to play the game and even have club tournaments! Whether you're just starting and are a beginner or you have experience playing, sign up! Hope to see you there!
MS Basketball Team
Tuesdays & Thursdays
3:15 - 4:30 PM
Grades: 5th - 8th
11/7/23 - 2/15/24
$150
Join the Middle School Co-Ed Basketball team. We will practice twice a week, and play games against other charter and private schools. No experience necessary.
Creative Writing - The Word Sculptors
Thursdays
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Grades: 7th - 8th
11/9/23 - 2/15/24
COST: $100
This winter, work with ELA teacher Zoe Hauser, a self-published author, to hone your writing skills! Bring your short stories, novels, or poems. We'll work on all aspects of the writing process, including plot development, characterization, conflict, scene building, descriptive language, dialogue, voice, and style. Most importantly, we'll practice deepening your story's underlying emotional conflict -- the current that pulls your readers along and ties your narrative together.
Creative Writing Workshop
Thursdays
3:30 - 4:30 PM
Grades: 9th - 10th
11/9/23 - 2/15/24
$100
The Creative Writing Workshop provides a nurturing place for creative and curious writers of any genre to share what you are most excited about in your writing world. This club is meant to be a space where students can simply let go of the structured school day and let your creativity run loose. Activities will include periods of silent writing or brainstorming, mini-lessons on craft, opportunities to read or share work in community, and discussions of writing-related topics. The Creative Writing Club is open to any high school student with an interest in writing creatively, regardless of prior experience. Feel free to bring your creative works in progress or a blank notebook and a willingness to dig into your imagination!
Strength & Conditioning
Thursdays
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Grades: 8th - 10th
9/1/23 - 10/13/23
COST: $150
This program is designed to show you how cool it is to be strong. After all, a life that includes regular, challenging exercise is critical for physical, mental and emotional health. From your athletic pursuits - be they on the trail or on a dance floor - to your relationships with friends and family, from your academic goals this year to your long-term aspirations, strength and conditioning practices are important tools to know how to use. We will spend six hour-long sessions at Summit CrossFit South where certified coaches there will instruct us on strength and conditioning exercises including the safe and appropriate use of free weights and equipment. Following the instruction period, the coaches will lead us through a focused exercise program to get our heart rates up and bodies moving. The program is open to any 8th-10th grader regardless of experience as long as students are medically able and willing to participate in high intensity, regular exercise. For sessions at the gym, students will need to be picked up by 4:30 at Summit CrossFit South.
Dance Club
Mondays
3:15 - 4:15 PM
Grades: 9th - 10th
11/6/23 - 2/12/24
$80
Have you ever been interested in joining a dance performance group - than Dance Club is the place to start. There will be an emphasis on team-oriented dance, however, each 9th-10th grade participant has the opportunity to learn new dance skills in the realms of jazz, contemporary, and hip hop styles of dance, improve flexibility and strength, grow as an artist with expression through movement, learn choreographed dance routines, participate in a community performance at the end of the session.
Winter Musical
SEE DATES BELOW
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Grades: 5th - 10th
12/1/23 - 2/2/24
$250
FernLeaf Musical Theater, in collaboration with Playground Stage, presents The Wizard of Oz. In this class, students will develop skills in acting, singing, dancing, and aspects of technical theater (costumes, sets, props, etc.) while rehearsing a staged, choreographed musical production of The Wizard of Oz. Directed and choreographed by Morgan Piner, with production and musical direction by Eric Scheider, the show will conclude with final performances for family and friends. Tuition includes use of costumes and family tickets to the final performance.
REHEARSALS:
Fridays, 12/1, 12/8, 1/5, 1/12, 1/19, and 1/26, 12:00-2:00. Mondays, 1/8 and 1/22, 3-4 pm, and Tuesday, 1/16, 3-4 pm. Dress rehearsals, Monday-Thursday, 1/29-2/1, 3-5 pm
PERFORMANCES:
Thursday, February 1, 5:00 pm. Friday, February 2, 9:30 am.
