After School Karate

Taught by the True Martial Arts Academy, the after school karate program at BEDP runs three 10-week sessions each academic year. 

Karate is held on Thursdays from 2:55 - 3:40 p.m. in the gym.  Each 10-week session costs 90.00 for the first child and 80.00 each for additional children in the same family.

There are three sessions per school year.

To enroll, click here to access our Community Root site.  There are no paper enrollment forms this year. You must enroll online through Community Root. Payment is by check or money order, payable to BEDP.  

Download a course description here.

Session 3 of after school karate will begin on Thursday, March 7, 2019 and is scheduled to end on May 16, 2019.   Registrations is now open.

After School Cooking Class for Grades 2, 3 and 4

Cooking/Nutrition/Science and something good to eat!  Click here for a description of these classes.  Children sign up for a class they would like to take the week before it is given.  If a class is very popular, it will be repeated the following week to give more children a chance to participate. Click here for a description of the cooking classes.  For more information about the cooking classes and to download the recipes we use, please see the Cooking/Nutrition Classes sub-page of the Special Activities page on this website.

Homework Club (Grades 2-4)

Homework club is held Monday through Thursday from 4:00 - 5:15 in the school library and computer lab.  Parents who want their children to do homework in a quiet, supervised environment while at BEDP may enroll them in the homework club at no extra charge.  Children can do their daily written work, read for their reading logs, practice math facts, study for their spelling tests or any other study that they might need to do. In addition, they may do their classroom teacher assigned computer work.

Gym Activities with Dick Samaria (Mr. S) led by retired Belmont Public Schools gym teacher, Dick Samaria. Mr. S is at BEDP on Wednesdays and Fridays. 

Gym games for Grades 2, 3 and 4

Wednesdays from 3:00 - 4:00 Mr. S leads a number of familiar and novel games for large groups in the gym.  Everybody gets up and moving. Nobody sits on the sidelines

Gym Games for Kindergarten and Grade 1

Wednesdays from 4:00 - 5:00 the younger  kids get their turn.