Organizing Your Club
You will need to have permission to have a club from your School Principal. You will also need a school sponsor, an adult volunteer from the community and finally a meeting place and time. After your principal gives you permission to have a club and assigns a room for the club to meet, you will meet with your school sponsor and discuss meeting structure plan. Each school is different in available space. Each setting may present different limitations. The one described here is a school that has the available use of a large multi-purpose room floor space. Gyms and multipurpose activity rooms are ideal. Some schools are limited in space and meet in libraries and class rooms. One school uses a large hall way in a classroom wing that was available. Limited meeting space will affect how many students can meet at one time. Those meeting within limited space can ask to have multiple meetings and divide the club into groups by grade.
Let's Plan the Meeting
Plan your meeting structure so you can meet with possibly 60% of the student population. If your school has 200 K-5 students that would be 120 students in one meeting. You will want them to sit in rows. Each grade sits on its own row. The younger grades sit nearest to you so everyone can see and be seen by you. It is important so they will be safe and feel safe. Plan for 5th grade students to be Row Monitors at both ends of the rows. Also have 5th grade students hold doors open for both entry & exit. If there are stairs make sure there are Safety Monitors to help. When starting the meeting, a student will contact the office to announce to those who have arrived at school, "All Kids For Christ Club students may go to the __?__ meeting room."
All 5th grade students who join may participate as helpers. 6-8 weeks after meetings begin, a leadership team will be chosen by all 5th grade club members to serve as a leadership team/committee for the club. This leadership team will:
Communicate with the school sponsor about concerns from & to the school.
Lead the Club meetings
Help invite speakers to come to the club,
Invite other 5th grade students to volunteer for roles in the meetings & events.
NOTE: Students may request community volunteer(s) to assist them with any aspect of their club.
(It is a really good idea to make the request in writing. E-mail can be used as a written request)
The 5th Grade leadership-team will meet before the general meeting to organize for the general meeting and have a morning devotional. This team will work together to create the meeting from start to finish.
General Meeting Arrival:
Have the opening music playing as students arrive and are finding their seats. The Row Monitors stand where the students When every grade has arrived have a student turn the music off. Now you are ready to begin the meeting. Introduce the student who volunteered to open in prayer. The time is short so everyone must be at their posts and must be ready to start on time. It is a good idea to use the same song as a theme for several meetings or even all year.
Let's Plan the Meeting
Plan your meeting structure so you can meet with possibly 60% of the student population. If your school has 200 K-5 students that would be 120 students in one meeting. You will want them to sit in rows. Each grade sits on its own row. The younger grades sit nearest to you so everyone can see and be seen by you. It is important so they will be safe and feel safe. Plan for 5th grade students to be Row Monitors at both ends of the rows. Also have 5th grade students hold doors open for both entry & exit. If there are stairs make sure there are Safety Monitors to help. When starting the meeting, a student will contact the office to announce to those who have arrived at school, "All Kids For Christ Club students may go to the __?__ meeting room."
All 5th grade students who join may participate as helpers. 6-8 weeks after meetings begin, a leadership team will be chosen by all 5th grade club members to serve as a leadership team/committee for the club. This leadership team will:
Communicate with the school sponsor about concerns from & to the school.
Lead the Club meetings
Help invite speakers to come to the club,
Invite other 5th grade students to volunteer for roles in the meetings & events.
NOTE: Students may request community volunteer(s) to assist them with any aspect of their club.
(It is a really good idea to make the request in writing. E-mail can be used as a written request)
The 5th Grade leadership-team will meet before the general meeting to organize for the general meeting and have a morning devotional. This team will work together to create the meeting from start to finish.
General Meeting Arrival:
Have the opening music playing as students arrive and are finding their seats. The Row Monitors stand where the students When every grade has arrived have a student turn the music off. Now you are ready to begin the meeting. Introduce the student who volunteered to open in prayer. The time is short so everyone must be at their posts and must be ready to start on time. It is a good idea to use the same song as a theme for several meetings or even all year.
