Clubs & Activities

Advisor: Mrs. Southerland 

Middle School students can take participate in after-school musicals each year. Recent past performances include Annie, The Lion King, Sleeping Beauty, and Aladdin. Students rehearse after school one day each week, with additional rehearsals before the performance. Registration is required for this activity. 

Advisor: Mrs. Butler 

Open to students in grades 7-8 with an interest in the classics, there are trivia matches regarding Greek and Roman mythology, history, language, and grammar. In addition, Latin students can compete in Certamen Princeton in March.  

This club allows students to engage in casual and informative conversation about relevant topics of interest. It is open to all students in the Middle School and is perfect for anyone who wants to be more informed about the larger world. 

The club is an affinity space for students to receive support, socialize, and educate the community on topics related to the spectrum of gender and sexual identities. 

Advisors: Ms. Katz 

Half the Sky Club is open to girls in grades 5-8 who are seeking to raise awareness of human rights issues for women and girls around the world. “Women hold up half the sky,” in the words of a Chinese saying, and their empowerment is thought by many experts to be the potential key to alleviating poverty and extremism. We will meet to understand the global rights disparities that girls face in other countries, with the eventual goal of designing a campaign to promote awareness and fundraise to support the education of girls in Nepal. Last year, we raised enough to support over a dozen girls for a year of school! This year, we will have a chance to write to them.  

Advisor: Mrs. Southerland 

Jr. Knight Voices is an auditioned group of students in grades 5-8 who rehearse once a week to learn musical pieces for our Middle School concerts. Students must be a member of the regular 5-6 or 7-8 school chorus to participate. Jr. Knight Voices also participate in various school events throughout the year. This group is about making a choir, not about soloists, so you won't have to sing individually very much at all! Anyone is welcome to audition. Students in grades 7-8 may also be asked to join the Jr. Gillharmonics.  

Advisors: Ms. Lasher, Mr. Corrado, Mrs. Chandra, Ms. Temnycky 

Math Boost is available from 3:15 – 4:00 p.m. at least one day a week for each grade level. Students should come with specific questions or with assignments, tests, or quizzes on which they need help. This is a good time to get instruction on lessons missed due to absence. 

Advisors: Ms. Hogan 

Opportunities exist in the Middle School for student leadership within our Student Council structure. 

Advisors: Mr. Roslund, Mr. Ort and Dr. Lutz 

This club teaches students basic mountain biking skills and techniques by starting with easy/novice riding situations early in the year and progressing to a more intermediate level by the end of the year. Bike and trail maintenance are also taught. Riding trails will include Home Winds Farm, Natirar, and other local trail systems. 

Outdoor Club is a chance for students to explore the beautiful GSB campus. Driven largely by student interest, the club travels to all corners of the school and explores the stream, pond, woods, and garden in order to learn about all the organisms that share our campus.

Do you like to read to younger children? The Reading Buddies partner one-to-one with preschool and prekindergarten students to read to them four times each year. Reading Buddies sing songs (always in a group), read with our buddies, and do small projects. Reading Buddies is a highly rewarding experience and lots of fun. The number of buddies is limited to the number of preschool/prekindergarten students. 

Ski Club and Snow Boarding Club is open to students in grades 6-8. The club sponsors five Friday night trips in January and February to Camelback Mountain. This club is calendar and weather-dependent. 

Advisor: Ms. Brown 

Spanish Hour is open to any students who need additional review and practice. Spanish help is available by appointment after school. 

Advisor: Mr. Ort 

Students can design and build small projects and further their experiences in woodworking. 

Advisors: Ms. Tuohy 

The students will be responsible for designing pages in the Middle School yearbook. They will be actively involved in taking photographs, planning interesting and creative spreads, handling layouts, and meeting deadlines.  

Advisor: Mr. Corrado 

Yo-Yo Club teaches students in grades 5-8 some basic and advanced yo-yo tricks and some of the skills to make their own tricks.