Activities & Clubs

High Plains has offered our students a number of extracurricular opportunities for the past school years. We will have a mix of free and fee-based programs to enhance your student's educational experience.

Please note that you can only sign up for ONE club per day. Please note there is a limited number of spots available per club. It is first come first serve.

MONDAYS

Choir

Grades: 4th – 5th Time: 2:45 – 3:45 pm Dates: Jan 26 - May 4 Price: $FREE Registration Link

In choir we learn songs to sing and perform for an audience. This semester, we will be incorporating classroom instruments into our concert, too. It is a fun time learning musical skills and creating music together.

Coding with Kids: Minecraft Modding

Grades: 3rd – 5th Time: 2:50 – 3:50 pm Dates: Jan 26 - Apr 20 (No Feb 16, Mar 16) Price: $285/11 lessons Registration Link

Calling all Minecrafters! Join us in this course to build Minecraft mods (modifications) while learning coding. With a drag-and-drop coding environment, students learn coding concepts, such as Variables, Conditionals, and Loops. They apply the concepts to personalize the game with custom world maps, new items, chat commands, and mini games! It will be an exciting journey of coding and creativity!

Sticky Fingers Cooking Club

Grades: K – 3rd Time: 2:45 - 3:45 pm Dates: Jan 12, 26, Feb 2, 9, 23, Mar 2, 9 Price: $175/session Registration Link

Sticky Fingers Cooking offers young chefs the chance to explore exciting tastes (all seasonal and as local as possible), master culinary skills (that they can use in family kitchens) and nourish their bodies and minds. We provide all the tools, ingredients and instruction needed to cook up a fun, delicious and healthy after-school snack each week. Sticky Fingers Cooking is 100% nut free and CAN and WILL accommodate ANY and ALL food allergies.

TUESDAYS

Art Club

Grades: K - 2nd Time: 2:45-3:45 pm Dates: Feb 3 - Apr 28 (No Mar 3) Price: $20 Registration Link

In Art Club, students will experiment with various art mediums including: painting, fiber arts, tie-dye, ceramics, and more. Students will participate in a visiting artist workshop with Cal Duran: Meow Wolf contributing artist, art educator, and sculptor. Students will bring home art as they finish it unless they would like it displayed in our hallways. Let the fun begin!

Beginning Orchestra

Grades: 4th – 5th Time: 2:45 – 3:45 pm Dates: Jan 13 - Apr 28 Price: $199/14 classes Registration Link

Colorado Music Institute provides music education for students of all ages and experience levels on nearly every instrument. Beginning band students can start on violin, viola, or cello. Students will learn how to play their instruments, read music, understand music theory, and perform in concerts. This class will focus on having fun and building confidence while students learn their new instruments!

Musical Theater

Grades: 2nd & 3rd Time: 2:45 - 3:30 pm Dates: Jan 20 - Apr 21 Price: $Free Registration Link

This spring is a great time for musical theater! Students will take to the stage and learn the arts of acting, singing, and dancing!

STEM Discovery using LEGO

Grades: K - 3rd Time: 2:45 – 4:15 pm Dates: Jan 13 – Mar 10 Price: $176/5-wk session Registration Link

Grades: K - 3rd Time: 2:45 – 3:45 pm Dates: Mar 31 – May 19 Price: $176/5-wk session Registration Link

Unleash your creativity with tens of thousands of LEGO® pieces at your fingertips! Build engineer-designed projects as you discover the world around us through our inquiry-based learning model. Projects are rotated seasonally to ensure that both new and returning students can explore the endless creative possibilities of the LEGO® building system.

Student Council

Grades: 3rd - 4th Time: 2:45-3:45 pm Dates: Jan 13, 27, Feb 10, 24, Mar 10, 24, Apr 14, 28

WEDNESDAYS

Beginning Band

Grades: 4th & 5th Time: 1:45-2:45 pm Dates: Jan 14 – Apr 29 Price: $199/session Registration Link

Colorado Music Institute provides music education for students of all ages and experience levels on nearly every instrument. Beginning band students can start on flute, clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone, or baritone. Students will learn how to play their instruments, read music, understand music theory, and perform in concerts. This class will focus on having fun and building confidence while students learn their new instruments!

Glam Dance

Grades: K – 5th Time: 1:45 - 2:45 pm Dates: Jan 14 - May 13 Price: $85/month *JOIN THE WAITLIST*

This high energy dance class will go in depth with hip-hop training, including the latest dance trends and break-dancing moves. This class is great for the student who just wants to come and get funky as well as the serious dancer looking to improve their hip hop skills. We will have a show to finish the dance session in December!

Little Coders: Minecraft Modding

Grades: K – 2nd Time: 1:50 - 2:50 pm Dates: Jan 28 - Apr 22 Price: $309/12 lessons Registration Link

Unleash your creativity while customizing your beloved game, Minecraft! In this course, students will learn fundamental coding concepts like Sequence and Loops. They'll apply these skills to create exciting projects, such as building their own zoo, aquarium, dazzling diamond house, and even code a magic wand. Get ready to embark on a journey to code your very own Minecraft mods!

Spanish Club

Grades: K - 5th Time: 1:55 - 2:40 pm Dates: Jan 14 – May 20 Price: $61/mo+$90 reg. fee Registration Link

Spanish Enrichment is designed to teach the Spanish language and culture through our academic year-round based program that focuses on developing auditory, visual and verbal skills in a fun, fast paced environment by professional Spanish speaking instructors.

THURSDAYS

Art Club

Grades: 3rd - 5th Time: 2:45-3:45 pm Dates: Jan 22 - May 14 (Not Apr 30) Price: $20 Registration Link

Chess Wizards

Grades: K – 5th Time: 2:50 PM - 3:50 pm Dates: Jan 15 - Mar 12 Price: $200/8 classes Registration Link

Chess Wizards offers challenging chess lessons, fun group activities, exciting tournaments and more! If your child is brand-new to chess, we'll teach them the basics and them playing right away.

Science Matters Club

Pop, Bang, Fizz! Time: 2:45 – 3:45 pm Dates: Jan 15, 22, 29, Feb 05 Price: $99/theme Registration Link

Wild About Weather Time: 2:45 – 3:45 pm Dates: Feb 12, 19, 26, Mar 12 Price: $99/theme Registration Link

Super Sonic Sound Lab Time: 2:45 – 3:45 pm Dates: Apr 2, 9, 16, 23 Price: $99/theme Registration Link

Prepare yourself for more science, more fun and more eye-popping experiments!

FRIDAYS

Girl Scout Troop 68072

Grades: 3rd Time: 2:45 – 4:15 pm Dates: Jan 30, Feb 27, Mar 27, Apr 24 Price: $45+$25 troop fee Registration Link

We are welcoming 3rd grade girls to join our Brownie Troop, #68072! We will be meeting one Friday a month at High Plains. A limited number of spaces for new members are available. We will be hosting a meeting for interested families on Friday, September 26 at 3pm in the school library. If you have questions, feel free to email Amy Van Arsdale at avanarsd@gmail.com or Sarah Kaye at kaye.sarah.2@gmail.com.

Math Problem Solving

Grades: 4th & 5th Time: 2:45 – 3:45 pm Dates: Sept 27- Feb 13

If you are a 4th or 5th grader and you LOVE math, please be one of the first 25 students to join the first Math Problem Solvers Club. Students will collaborate with others as they solve complex story problems and puzzles. Problems will be differentiated so that your child is both challenged and successful.

Running Club Mornings

Grades: 2nd - 5th Time: 7:10 – 7:45ish am Dates: Mar 27- Apr 24 Price: $Free Registration Link

If your child loves to run this is the club for them! Running club is club that meets before school to encourage students to run/walk as many laps around the track as possible in the time given. We meet in the gym and make our way up to run around the track.

UPDATED: 01/12/2025