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Languages Club

2024-2025 Chair: Olivia Qin

Languages Club is offering Spanish classes this year for all grades K-5. No prior language exposure required!

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Info Night

Arts Club, Languages Club, and Robotics Club are co-hosting an Info Night is on Tuesday, September 10th, 2024, 5pm-6pm*. The club chairs will share information about their club and answer any questions. Please join us! Both parents and students are welcome to attend!

*This page previously incorrectly listed the info night time as 6pm-7pm. 5pm-6pm is the correct time. Sorry for any confusion.

General information

Language Club is excited to offer Spanish classes this year, featuring an immersion-based approach designed to foster a love for both the language and the culture while developing essential language skills. Our native-speaker teachers utilize thematic units and a communicative approach, incorporating movement, games, music, props, and gestures to make learning engaging and fun for everyone.

Learners of all skill levels are welcome—no prior language exposure is required! This year’s thematic units are entirely new, offering fresh and exciting content.

K-2nd: 12 students

3rd-5th: 12 students
The curriculum is consistent across both levels, with 3rd-5th students receiving additional vocabulary and tackling more advanced tasks in their coursebook work, including reading and writing activities.

Registration

Registration opens: Tuesday, September 17th at 9am

9/18/2024 UPDATE: Languages Club is full, and the waitlist is closed. Thank you for your interest!

How to Register: Languages Club is for PTA members Only. Please purchase/renew your PTA annual membership before registration day. Otherwise you cannot find the registration form. Find the Languages registration form in My Family's Forms/Paperwork once registration opens. Complete the form and payment. You can choose to send a check. If the spots you want are all sold out, please join the waitlist.

If you need financial assistance to pay the club fee, please choose the "pay by check" option when checking out, so your registration will not be delayed. Then, contact our counselor Ms. Geck (gecke@bsd405.org) to initiate the process.

IMPORTANT: To register, you must agree to all Languages policies on the registration form. Read the policies.

Cost: $850. The registration fee covers instruction, materials, year-end party, and general operating expenses.

Club Meetings

Club meetings begin October 1st and run on Tuesdays, 2:45pm-4:00pm through May.

Tentative meeting dates are listed below, but all dates are dependent on room availability. If we must cancel Languages Club, we will email parents with as much notice as possible.

Month	Days
Oct	1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Nov	5, 12, 19
Dec	10, 17
Jan	14, 21, 28
Feb	4, 11, 25
Mar	4, 11, 18, 25
Apr	1, 15, 22, 29
May	6, 13

Policies

Updated: September 11, 2024

FEES: For a student to participate in any after-school club, there cannot be an outstanding balance on the family's PTA's account. Tuition and all outstanding fees must be paid in full by October 1st, 2024 (or by the next class date if registering after October 1st). If you do not pay all fees by this deadline, your child will be withdrawn from Languages Club and a 5% tuition processing fee will be added to your account.

To remain enrolled in Languages Club, families must timely pay any Medina PTA fees (not just club fees) incurred during the course of the school year. You understand that failure to pay fees on time may result in your student being withdrawn from the club with no refund.

ELIGIBILITY: Our afterschool clubs (including Languages Club) are ONLY for CURRENT-ENROLLED Medina students with ACTIVE Medina PTA membership. Your child must be enrolled with Medina Elementary school at the time they are attending the club and you must have a valid Medina PTA family or individual membership for the 2024-2025 school year. You agree that if your kid is not currently enrolled with Medina Elementary school OR you do not purchase PTA membership by the first class, your child will be withdrawn from all afterschool clubs with no refund.

REFUNDS: Refunds can be requested up until the first two classes. You will be charged for the classes attended, plus a 5% processing fee. After October 9th, no refunds will be issued for any reason.

PROCESSING FEE: Any student registration for an afterschool club that you cancel will incur a 5% processing fee. This includes cancelling a duplicate registration (e.g., when the parents sign up the same child twice for the same club) or cancelling one registration to sign up for a different Medina PTA club on the same day. The 5% fee applies for all transaction types (credit card, cash, or check).

BEHAVIOR:

Intentional violent behavior directed at another individual during the club (including another student, teacher, coach/instructor, parent, or volunteer) and resulting in physical harm is grounds for immediate removal from that club without refund. Medina PTA retains the discretion to remove this student from all other enrolled afterschool clubs/programs and prevent this student from registering for future afterschool programs in the same school year.

Parents and students are expected to behave respectfully to each other and the coaches/instructors:

If the club chair determines that a student’s behavior is disruptive during the program/club, or the student is consistently disrespectful, a warning will be issued to the student and parent. After the warning, a second offense will result in removal of the student from the club with no refund, unless the club chair decides to issue a second warning. The chair my also require the parent to provide full-time adult supervision of the student for the duration of the club. The adult supervisor must be a PTA member and have a BSD background check. A third offense will result in removal of the student from the club program with no refund.
If the club chair determines that a parent’s behavior is disruptive or consistently disrespectful, a warning will be issued to the parent. After the warning, a second offense will result in removal of that parent’s child from afterschool clubs with no refund.
At the discretion of Medina PTA, any withdrawal due to disruptive or disrespectful behavior may also affect the family’s ability to register for future afterschool programs.

PICK-UP: Our parent classroom volunteers are required to stay until the last child is picked up from class. Please respect our volunteers’ time by picking your child up promptly at dismissal time unless your child is staying at Medina Elementary with the Boys & Girls Club. If you wish to permit your child to sign him/herself out from class and walk/bike home, you must complete the Medina PTA Permission Slip for Self-Checkout of Afterschool Clubs 2024-2025 found on our website, and return it to our Languages Club Chair. Repeated late pickups may result in withdrawal from Languages Club with no refund, and you may forfeit the ability to register for future afterschool programs.

ABSENCES: If my child will not be at an afterschool program, I will email languagesclub@medinapta.org prior to that day’s class start time. I understand that two unexcused absences may result in removal of my student from the club without refund.