P.S. 276 After-School
Structure & Variety: The After-School Schedule
Welcome - At the end of the school day, classroom teachers dismiss all students registered for our program directly to our staff, who greet students with a healthy snack and a smile. Students eat and socialize with friends, decompressing from the school day and gearing up for after-school.
Club Time - The sports, arts and enrichment classes that you select when enrolling your child in the program are taught by certified teachers, teaching artists and activity specialists. Each day, your child is dismissed directly to our staff. After a healthy snack, students will attend their main club session from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. After main clubs, they will go to their enrolled Late Club or attend Choice Time activities, described below.
Before and After Class - Students choose from a list of structured and open play activities, set up by our team leaders. These activities include: study hall, gym sports, yard play, indoor games, arts & crafts, music and more. This activity is built into your child’s daily schedule as a structured free play before and after their selected club for the day.
Monday 3:00pm
- Martial Arts (Grade K– 1)
- Cool Crafts! (Grade K– 1)
- Art, Music & Movement (Grade K– 1)
- Tumbling (Grade K– 1)
- Creative Drama (Grade K– 1)
- Next Level LEGOs (Grade 2–3)
- Basketball (Grade 2–3)
- Cartooning & Comic Book Art (Grade 2–3)
- Cooking (Grade 2–3)
- Girls Only STEM (Grade 2–3)
- Basketball (Grade 4–5)
- Chess (Grade 4–5)
- Portfolio Art (Grade 4–5)
- Parkour (Grade 4–5)
Martial Arts
Cool Crafts!
Art, Music & Movement
Tumbling
Creative Drama
Next Level LEGOs
Basketball
Students learn basketball skills, good sportsmanship, and sense of team spirit. Players are divided into groups based on experience and skill level. Each class session includes a lesson filled with drills and a game or scrimmage.
Cartooning & Comic Book Art
Cooking
Our young chefs learn essential kitchen skills, from measuring and converting fractions to slicing and chopping to sauteing and plating. We develop and encourage nutritious food choices while working together to prepare snacks and meals. Every class ends with a delicious treat!
Girls Only STEM
Basketball
Students learn basketball skills, good sportsmanship, and sense of team spirit. Players are divided into groups based on experience and skill level. Each class session includes a lesson filled with drills and a game or scrimmage.
Chess
Portfolio Art
Parkour
Parkour has quickly become one of the world's fastest-growing and most highly efficient training methods for mind, body and spirit. Using the natural environment as a play space, practitioners (called traceurs) test their limits by running, climbing, jumping, vaulting and rolling over obstacles, as a means of adapting to and then overcoming the mental, physical and even emotional challenges that arise from the physical barriers themselves.
Monday 3:50pm
- After-School Swim Lessons (Grade K– 5)
After-School Swim Lessons
We are proud to offer Youth Swim Lessons as a choice in our After-School Programs. Children receive the same instruction and swim experience as our Youth swim lessons. Your child will be picked up directly from their classroom at school dismissal, have a snack, and be transported to the Downtown Community Center for childcare activities provided by our After-school staff.
To find out more on our After-School programs, please click here.
Please note that swim offerings and schedules vary by school.
If you attend a school that is not in our network, you may sign your student up for drop-off After School at the Downtown Community Center.
Monday 4:15pm
- Martial Arts (Grade K– 1)
Martial Arts
Tuesday 3:00pm
- Soccer (Grade K– 1)
- Ballet (Grade K– 1)
- Cooking (Grade K– 1)
- Bookmaking, Origami, & Paper Arts (Grade K– 1)
- Ooey Gooey Science (Grade K– 1)
- Creative Drama (Grade K– 1)
- Cheer (Grade 2–3)
- Creative Writing (Grade 2–3)
- Soccer (Grade 2–3)
- Homework Help (Grade 2–5)
- Cartooning & Comic Book Art (Grade 4–5)
- Improv/Theater (Grade 4–5)
- Photography (Grade 4–5)
- Track & Field (Grade 4–5)
Soccer
Ballet
An introduction to ballet vocabulary and technique. Students develop strength, alignment, musicality, and the grace that is inherent in the form. Dancers in our ballet classes are prominently featured in each semester's dance performance.
Cooking
Our young chefs learn essential kitchen skills, from measuring and converting fractions to slicing and chopping to sauteing and plating. We develop and encourage nutritious food choices while working together to prepare snacks and meals. Every class ends with a delicious treat!
Bookmaking, Origami, & Paper Arts
What can be more fun that writing your own stories, being as creative as you want and making your own books!? In Book Making; storytelling, paper arts and craftsmanship, come together to give your child the immersive experience of creating and publishing their own very own journals, diaries, paper art figures and books!
Ooey Gooey Science
Every kid knows that you don't really learn anything unless you make a mess and get your hands dirty. This class focuses on everything oozy, grimy, slippery and slimy that exists in nature or can be made (safely!) in a test tube. Fun for all!
Creative Drama
Cheer
Creative Writing
Students will explore multiple kinds of creative writing from short stories to comics and learn several tools of the trade for writing, expanding their creative horizons through the timeless art of the written word
Soccer
Homework Help
We offer a formal Homework Club, as a class choice for students who need extra help focusing on their assignments.
Cartooning & Comic Book Art
Improv/Theater
Photography
Track & Field
Run like the wind in this fun fitness club! Children will learn all the basic elements of a track and field competition, including sprints, middle and long distance running, long jumps, high jumps, shot put and relay races.
Tuesday 4:15pm
- Music & Movement (Grade K– 1)
Music & Movement
Drawing from a variety of songs from classic jazz standards to pop tunes, we will teach students vocal production, singing and choreography. Classes introduce and develop rhythm, music theory, ear training and harmony.
Wednesday 3:00pm
- T-Ball (Grade K– 1)
- Group Piano (Grade K– 1)
- Puppet Theater Workshop (Grade K– 1)
- Hip Hop (Grade K– 1)
- Superhero Club (Grade K– 1)
- Baseball (Grade 2–3)
- Jewelry Making/DIY (Grade 2–3)
- Musical Theater (Grade 2–3)
- Cooking (Grade 4–5)
- Skateboarding (Grade 4–5)
- Studio Art (Grade 4–5)
- Tennis & Table Tennis (Grade 4–5)
T-Ball
Students learn basics skills, good sportsmanship and a sense of team spirit. Each class session includes a lesson, drills and a game.
Group Piano
Puppet Theater Workshop
Hip Hop
A high-energy class for dancers of all experience levels. The dance studio will be hopping as students learn individual and teamwork skills that evolve into polished dance numbers. All students participate in a Manhattan Youth dance performance at the end of each semester
Superhero Club
Students invent their own superheroes: complete with unique superpowers, original alter egos, handmade capes and costumes, cartoons, skits, stories and more! The class explores a variety of stories and comics, while learning about all kinds of superheroes to figure out what it takes to become one.
Baseball
Students learn baseball skills, good sportsmanship, and sense of team spirit. Players are divided into groups based on experience and skill level. Each class session includes a lesson filled with drills and a game or scrimmage.
Jewelry Making/DIY
Musical Theater
Cooking
Our young chefs learn essential kitchen skills, from measuring and converting fractions to slicing and chopping to sauteing and plating. We develop and encourage nutritious food choices while working together to prepare snacks and meals. Every class ends with a delicious treat!
Skateboarding
Studio Art
Tennis & Table Tennis
Wednesday 3:50pm
- After-School Swim Lessons (Grade K– 5)
After-School Swim Lessons
We are proud to offer Youth Swim Lessons as a choice in our After-School Programs. Children receive the same instruction and swim experience as our Youth swim lessons. Your child will be picked up directly from their classroom at school dismissal, have a snack, and be transported to the Downtown Community Center for childcare activities provided by our After-school staff.
To find out more on our After-School programs, please click here.
Please note that swim offerings and schedules vary by school.
If you attend a school that is not in our network, you may sign your student up for drop-off After School at the Downtown Community Center.
Wednesday 4:15pm
- Studio Art (Grade K– 1)
Studio Art
Thursday 3:00pm
- Dinosaur Club (Grade K– 1)
- Art, Music & Movement (Grade K– 1)
- Yoga (Grade K– 1)
- LEGO Club (Grade K– 1)
- Fun with Spanish (Grade K– 1)
- Ooey Gooey Science (Grade K– 1)
- Chess (Grade 2–3)
- Flag Football (Grade 2–3)
- Improv/Theater (Grade 2–3)
- Studio Art (Grade 2–3)
- Dungeons & Dragons (Grade 2–5)
- Dungeons and Dragons (Beginner) (Grade 2–5)
- Homework Help (Grade 2–5)
- Create-a-Game Lab (Grade 4–5)
- Flag Football (Grade 4–5)
- Hip Hop (Grade 4–5)
- Coding and Creative STEM (Grade 4–5)
Dinosaur Club
Do you have a kindergartner or first grader who is obsessed with dinosaurs? Why fight it? Here's a place for learning about the prehistoric creatures, drawing them, talking about them, and, perhaps, roaring like a T-Rex.
Art, Music & Movement
Yoga
LEGO Club
Fun with Spanish
Ooey Gooey Science
Every kid knows that you don't really learn anything unless you make a mess and get your hands dirty. This class focuses on everything oozy, grimy, slippery and slimy that exists in nature or can be made (safely!) in a test tube. Fun for all!
Chess
Flag Football
Students develop skills, good sportsmanship and a sense of team spirit. Players are divided into groups based on experience and skill level. Each class session includes a lesson, drills and a game or scrimmage.
Improv/Theater
Studio Art
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons and Dragons (Beginner)
Homework Help
We offer a formal Homework Club, as a class choice for students who need extra help focusing on their assignments.
Create-a-Game Lab
What's more fun than playing by someone else's rules? Making up your own, of course! The Create-a-Game Lab offers children a place to develop, build and play their own board games, puzzles, riddles, and even physical challenges!
Flag Football
Students develop skills, good sportsmanship and a sense of team spirit. Players are divided into groups based on experience and skill level. Each class session includes a lesson, drills and a game or scrimmage.
Hip Hop
A high-energy, intense class for dancers of all experience levels. The dance studio will be hopping to today's pop stars as students learn individual and teamwork skills that evolve into polished dance numbers. All students participate in a Manhattan Youth dance performance at the end of each semester
Coding and Creative STEM
Coding is learning to communicate with computers and requires reflection on what motion is, how we describe colors, and how we organize and share things like space and time. Learning to create 3D objects on computer is part of it too. STEM means learning how things work and can include taking things apart and learning how to make new things.
Thursday 4:15pm
- Jazz & Show Dance (Grade 2–5)
- Chess (Grade K– 1)
- Dungeons and Dragons (Advanced) (Grade 2–5)
Jazz & Show Dance
This challenging class explores a range of styles from around the world, ranging from contemporary to classical, and emphasizing jazz funk and Broadway. Students will learn dance combinations while improving individual and group skills. The class culminates with participation in two fully-staged dance performances by Manhattan Youth's entire dance ensemble.
Chess
Never mind that chess is a great exercise for the mind that increases math and literacy abilities. Chess is a great game, and kids love it! We offer beginner, intermediate and advanced chess classes, as well as an annual tournament for students in our Manhattan Youth programs.
Dungeons and Dragons (Advanced)
Friday 3:00pm
- Sports & Games (Grade K– 1)
- Chess (Grade K– 1)
- Fairy Tale Club (Grade K– 1)
- Group Piano (Grade K– 1)
- Jewelry Making/DIY (Grade K– 1)
- Cool Crafts! (Grade 2–3)
- Hip Hop (Grade 2–3)
- Mad Scientist (Grade 2–3)
- Parkour (Grade 2–3)
- Volleyball (Grade 3–5)
- Soccer (Grade 4–5)
- Filmmaking (Grade 4–5)
- DCC MY Etsy Workshop/DIY (Grade 4–5)
Sports & Games
Chess
Never mind that chess is a great exercise for the mind that increases math and literacy abilities. Chess is a great game, and kids love it! We offer beginner, intermediate and advanced chess classes, as well as an annual tournament for students in our Manhattan Youth programs.
Fairy Tale Club
Children study their cherished bedtime stories, from Hans Christian Andersen to the Brothers Grimm, learning the foundations of storytelling and magical imagery, to invent their own enchanting tales.
Group Piano
Jewelry Making/DIY
Cool Crafts!
Hip Hop
A high-energy, intense class for dancers of all experience levels. The dance studio will be hopping to today's pop stars as students learn individual and teamwork skills that evolve into polished dance numbers. All students participate in a Manhattan Youth dance performance at the end of each semester
Mad Scientist
Parkour
Parkour has quickly become one of the world's fastest-growing and most highly efficient training methods for mind, body and spirit. Using the natural environment as a play space, practitioners (called traceurs) test their limits by running, climbing, jumping, vaulting and rolling over obstacles, as a means of adapting to and then overcoming the mental, physical and even emotional challenges that arise from the physical barriers themselves.
Volleyball
Soccer
Filmmaking
In this hands-on class, young filmmakers will conceptualize stories and bring them to life. Students will learn how to handle and use camera equipment, basic short composition, direction, collaboration, and basic editing skills in order to turn their story ideas into short films.
DCC MY Etsy Workshop/DIY
Do you have a budding artist or entrepreneur on your hands? My Etsy Workshop is the perfect opportunity for your little one to bring their creative ideas to life while launching their own small business! In this class, students will design and create a product, build a marketing strategy, and then open for customers at our one-day Pop-Up Shop at the end of each semester. Throughout the year, students will also learn core life skills including problem solving, leadership and financial literacy while, gaining confidence and further exploring their artistic creativity.
Friday 4:15pm
- Cool Crafts! (Grade K– 1)