The trading card club is starting soon, and after I heard that come over the announcements I had one question: how did this get started? I’ve always been interested in doing a club, but sometimes they’re just too boring to me. I’d be down to do fishing or boxing but chances are boxing won’t work so fishing it was. The question still remained though: how do I start a club? I started at the office, looking for answers, where I ended up speaking to Ms. Varney on how to start one.
“Step one is making sure you have a staff sponsor,” Varney said. “Any school staff member could agree to be a sponsor, and there’s a form for the staff member to fill out.”
With a staff member’s support, then a club has the potential to be formed. There are nearly no limits to what can be formed, either.
“We don’t have any written rules on what’s permitted or not, we would want to have student interest and staff support, and most of the time it would go through.”
Examples of this is the trading card club sponsored by Mr. Blood and the DND club by Ms. Rogers. All that’s needed is student interest and staff support, and given the loose rules, nearly anything you want can become a club. Of course, if you want to join a national group/competition (i.e. robotics), it requires a bit extra.
“If there was [groups] then it would just be asking for funding from the district from the district to pay for that membership and to pay for whatever other sorts of things that would come through that,” Varney concluded.
In short, all it takes is student interest, staff support, and funding for any other additions needed to make the club real. From there, it’s just staff and student agreements to show up on time and do the thing the club’s for. So if you’re looking for a club, but just can’t seem to find one that suits you, just ask a teacher and see if they’ll sponsor it. And who knows, maybe your club will be the best one yet. Only one way to find out.