After School Program McHarg Elementary

Beans and Rice runs an After School Program at McHarg Elementary School during the academic year. Teachers and adminstrators at McHarg identify the children for the program. This program targets the most a)academically, b) emotionally/behaviorally, and c) economically challenged children in the school. Two AmeriCorps VISTA members oversee this program, Valerie Badley and Kayla Peery.  The rest of the staff is made up of interns from the Social Work Department (more on them in another post) and Service Learning Students from various classes. All are from Radford University.  We have 50 children in this program.  The size is limited by the number of children we can handle in one trip of one school bus. In the program we serve a snack provided by the school,

   

                                              the children get homework done

                                                                          

sometimes with tutoring

we have storytime which is always very popular

Sometimes a young person just has some quiet time

Sometimes they just need to cut up a little

and sometimes they are just friends

In good weather we have recreational time in the playground, if not we have organized activities in the multipurpose room at the school.  The program runs Monday through Thursday from school dismissal to 5:15 when we start getting the children on the bus for home.  We have had this program at McHarg since Fall 2006.  We also have a Summer School Program that combines McHarg and Belle Heth children.