Back to School is right around the corner and NOW is the time to register for St. Michael's Fall After-School Enrichment Classes (Grades K-8), Middle School Sports and Robotics, and Middle School Fall Season Extended Day.

Fall Registration CLOSES on Friday, August 18.

More Back-to-School communications will be sent continually over the next three weeks, so stay tuned to your emails. We are excited for a GREAT year ahead. See you soon!

Fall Athletics, Robotics, and After-School Enrichment (ASE) Program Registration NOW OPEN!

St. Michael’s believes that important learning happens outside the classroom with purposeful exposure to a broad variety of activities and experiences. Our After-School Enrichment (ASE) program provides opportunities for students to explore a variety of interests and develop new passions.

The following after-school sports, robotics, and enrichment classes will be offered this fall. We have lots of exciting new offerings!

LOWER SCHOOL (Grades K-5)

Mondays, Grades K-5

Delicious Designs with Little Scholars for Grades K-2 (3-4 p.m.)
Animaltronics with CodeVA for Grades 3-5 (3-4 p.m.)

Tuesdays, Grades 1-5

Bricks for Kids -LEGO Engineering for Grades 1-5 (3-4 p.m.)
Lower School Intramural Soccer for Grades 3-5 (3-4:15 p.m.)
Resin Art with Paint N Play RVA for Grades 5-8 (3-4:30 p.m.)

Wednesdays, Grades K-5

Flag Football with ProSkillz (3-4 p.m.)

Thursdays, Grades K-5

The World Around Me Mixed-Media Art with Arthaus (3-4:30 p.m.)

Fridays, Grades 3-5

Friday Fishing at St M's Lake Winston with Virginia Outside for Grades 3-5 (3-4:30 p.m.)
Lower School Intramural Girls' Field Hockey for Grades 3-5 (3-4:15 p.m.)
Take a Dive -- Sea STEM/Science for Grades 5-8 (3:30-5 p.m., free Extended Day & snack until class start time)

MIDDLE SCHOOL (Grades 6-8)

Tuesdays

Resin Art with Paint N Play RVA (3-4:30 p.m.)

Fridays

Take a Dive -- Sea STEM/Science (3:30-5 p.m., free Extended Day & snack until class start time)
Robokai Robotics (3-5 p.m.) -- Note: this is a full-year commitment; see below for detailed program description

MIDDLE SCHOOL SPORTS (Grades 6-8)

Co-Ed Soccer
Co-Ed Cross Country
Co-Ed Mountain Biking
Girls' Field Hockey
Girls' Tennis

Online registration is NOW OPEN and will close on August 18.
Click the buttons below to register.

Click HERE to register for Extended Day After-School Enrichments

Click HERE to register for Middle School Sports

Click HERE to register for Middle School Robotics

Middle School Robotics

St. Michael’s is excited to announce a partnership with RoboKai to lead our 2023/24 Robotics Program. RoboKai’s highly skilled and trained coaches will teach students building, programming, and coding with an emphasized hands-on approach. Under the leadership and expertise of RoboKai’s instructors, our Middle School Dragons will use a variety of self-directed techniques while receiving guidance and assistance as needed.

Students will use engineering processes and designs to build, test, and improve their team's robot. With smaller group sizes and a longer season, students are sure to be highly engaged. Classes will meet weekly on Fridays from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., starting September 8. The students will work on perfecting their robots up until the early spring competition season. The local/regional competitions take place in late January/early February. Based on performance results, the teams could advance to additional state competitions later in the spring. Robotics is a full-school-year commitment.

Sponsored by the Robotics Education and Competition Foundation, the VEX IQ competition engages more than 1 million students in 70 countries. Students will compete on the VEX IQ platform in teams of four to eight students under the guidance of experienced coaches. The tournaments are high-energy events that develop sportsmanship, confidence, perseverance, and other social skills among participants while testing their robots against other teams.

VEX IQ Robotics Competition Full Volume is played on a 6’ x 8’ rectangular field. Two robots compete in the Teamwork Challenge as an alliance in 60-second-long teamwork matches, working collaboratively to score points. Teams also compete in the Robot Skills Challenge where one robot takes the field to score as many points as possible. These matches consist of Driving Skills Matches, which will be entirely driver-controlled, and Autonomous Coding Skills Matches, which will be autonomous with limited human interaction.

The 2023/24 Robotics program is an expanded version of St M’s previous programs
This full-year, fee-based program (billed in three installments) includes: registration, new & improved robotics equipment, computer devices, expert coaching, small-sized teams, and entry fees for initial competitions
Should St M teams qualify for additional competitions, additional travel fees may apply

Please contact Natasha Reed, Director of Extended Programs, with any questions.

Click HERE to register for Middle School Robotics

Middle School Extended Day Program Registration

Due to the vast extracurricular offerings at the Middle School (e.g., athletics, theater, etc.), enrollment in the Middle School Extended Day program is determined on a seasonal basis (fall, winter, spring) rather than annually. We offer 2-day, 3-day, and 5-day care options.

Click HERE for our 2023-24 Extended Day Policies.

Pick-Up Locations: All parents and/or guardians who are collecting their student(s) from the Extended Day Program must park in the Gym Lot and walk to the Extended Day Room (next to the Allen Library door). Middle School students will be escorted from the Singleton building to Hubbard Hall by a staff member. Parents must walk inside to pick up students and sign out with the staff members on duty.

Online registration is NOW OPEN and will CLOSE on August 18.

Questions about Sports? Email Wally Kern

Questions about ASE, Robotics, or Extended Day? Email Natasha Reed

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Richmond, VA | 23235 United States

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