After-School ProgramS

After-school climbing is back! Join us at the climbing wall (located in the southeast wing of TIS) for some bouldering and top-roping fun! Every week during this introductory climbing program, students will cover basic indoor climbing skills, such as terminology and communication, route completion, hold type identification, body movement, figure eight knot tying and belaying basics. Each afternoon will end with a fun game to help students hone in on their newly developed skills. When weather permits, we might even head outside to one of our favorite bouldering sites to experience real rock and participate in science experiments about geology, balance, momentum and the physics of rock climbing.

Please send your child daily with plenty of snacks, a water bottle and closed-toed tennis shoes.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

GRADES: 1-3 | MONDAYS, APRIL 17 – MAY 15

Academy staff will meet 1st and 2nd-grade students at 3:08 at the bench between the playground and the main stairs. They will then walk to the climbing gym as a group. Third-grade students should meet at the climbing gym at 3:15. Parents will pick students up at the climbing gym at 5 pm.

INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL STUDENTS

GRADES: 4-6 | WEDNESDAYS APRIL 19 – MAY 17

Intermediate school students should meet Academy instructors in the climbing gym when classes are dismissed. Parents will pick students up at the climbing gym at 5 pm.