Before & After School Programs

Minneapolis Kids

Minneapolis Kids is offered through the Community Education Department of Minneapolis Public Schools and provides year-round, fee based school-age care for families and youth enrolled in High Five through 6th grade. Care is available from 6:30 am - 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday with Before and After-School and full-day care on Non-School Days and the summer. Explore the Minneapolis Kids website for specific details and enrollment. 

Rec Plus

Recreation Plus (Rec Plus) provides school-age childcare for children in grades K-6, ages 5-12 at neighborhood recreation centers. Activities includes STEM, arts and crafts, walking trips, theme activities, sports and more. 

The Rec Plus location near Burroughs provides before and after school care. Release Days are also an option for children enrolled in the school year program. (Not all sites have the release day option. Rec Plus school year clients will be offered an alternate site.) Visit the Rec Plus website for more information.

Active Solutions provides Fall, Winter and Spring after school classes and full day camps that include: sports, fitness, dance, art and recreation. Active Solutions also provides Summer week long day camps at Burroughs Community School. All after school classes and day camps are taught by Burroughs: Physical Education Teachers, Art Education Teacher, parents and community members.

Activities include and are not limited to: Physical Education- team sports, fun gym games/activities and recreational activities- bicycling, canoeing, kayaking, ice fishing, regular fishing, scootering, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, sledding, ice skating, ice hockey and broom ball, Art Education- painting, drawing and pottery, Dance, Zumba Fitness for students and adults, Yoga, Girls Running Program and Boys Running Program.

For more information, visit www.activesolutionsforkids.com, email activesolutions@mac.com or call 952-212-7290.

Spanish Lessons at Burroughs

Burroughs Community School partners with Language Sprout to offer tuition-based small-group Spanish instruction on Mondays and Wednesdays after school. Call Rebecca at 651-323-9523 or go to www.languagesprout.com for more information.  Go directly to our online form to register. 

Mandarin Lessons at Burroughs

Burroughs Community School partners with Language Sprout to offer tuition-based small-group Mandarin instruction on Mondays and Wednesdays before school. Call Rebecca at 651-323-9523 or go to www.languagesprout.com for more information.  Go directly to our online form to register. 

French Lessons at Burroughs

Burroughs Community School offers French Lessons for English-speaking students on Tuesdays after school. This is offered in partnership with Alliance Française.

Registrations are now being accepted for this program! Complete and return the registration form to Alliance Française by October 1st to apply to the program or contact Juni Holtgrewe at youth@afmsp.org, 612-332-0436, for more information.

Lego League

In late summer, FIRST LEGO League releases a Challenge, which is based on a real-world scientific topic. Each Challenge has three parts: the Robot Game, the Project, and the FLL Core Values. Teams of up to ten children, with at least one adult coach, participate in the Challenge by programming an autonomous robot to score points on a themed playing field (Robot Game), developing a solution to a problem they have identified (Project), all guided by the FLL Core Values. Teams may then attend an official tournament, hosted by our FIRST LEGO League Partners. Past Challenges have been based on topics such as nanotechnology, climate, quality of life for the handicapped population, and transportation. By designing our Challenges around such topics, participants are exposed to potential career paths within a chosen Challenge topic, in addition to solidifying the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) principles that naturally come from participating in the program. Team members also learn valuable life and employment skills which will benefit them no matter which career path they choose.

For more information contact the Lego League Coordinator at burroughs.legos@gmail.com

Chess Club

Each year on Fridays from November to March, students can sign up to meet after school to play chess, learn chess moves, and have fun. Typically, signup is open in late autumn for the winter season. This is a fun interactive hour for students to learn chess for the first time, or master new chess moves.

Math Club

Math Club is open to 4th and 5th graders at Burroughs who are interested in solving complex problems, working as a group, and having fun with math! Math Club meets the first 12 weeks and last 12 weeks of school (when Chess club is not meeting) on Tuesday mornings. This club is intended for students who have a genuine love of math and like to solve problems in their free time. Enrollment information comes through classroom teachers and caregiver newsletters prior to the start of each session.