For Grades: 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade

Do you want to master your chess skills, increase your ranking, play more matches, and learn more strategy? Come to PDS Chess Club to learn and play in friendly competition against one another. Beginner Chess players welcome. We partner with Memphis Chess Club and have two experienced and highly rated certified Chess Instructors working with the boys on all types of chess strategy. Come for lots of learning and loads of fun!

Schedule: Tuesdays, 8/27/2024 - 10/15/2024

1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade

Want to spend time after school exploring and creating? Come to Minecraft Club and build with your friends! In this exciting adventure, you will get to participate in building competitions with other boys, mine for precious resources, and fight off those pesky mobs together! Please note that due to the nature of this camp, campers will have one hour of screen time each meeting.

Schedule: Thursdays, 8/29/2024 - 10/17/2024

1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade

Be the star of a movie! In fact, be the writer, producer, director, and editor while you’re at it! In the Young Filmmakers Club, you will create your own movie or TV show using iMovie and Apple Clips. You will gain valuable experience working with the program and experiencing all aspects of creating a movie. You will help film Intramural Basketball Games to create a highlight video! You will also be involved in making videos we show in Chapel!

Schedule: Fridays, 8/30/2024 - 10/18/2024

You are invited to our Reader’s Theatre! During these 5 weeks we will practice our reading, fluency and expression through reading and performing parts in many different stories. No need to memorize here! On the last day we will show our new skills and confidence off in the last few minutes of class. (More details to follow)

Schedule: Tuesdays, 9/3/2024 - 10/1/2024

For Grades: Young Knights Pre-Kindergarten Junior Kindergarten Senior Kindergarten

Come join the fun with Wings Gymnastics! Students will learn and improve tumbling and gymnastics skills on floor, bar, and trampoline. Young athletes will develop strength, coordination, flexibility, and focus in a fun, encouraging, and safe environment.

Schedule: Fridays, 9/6/2024 - 12/13/2024

1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade

Boys will create a clay catch-all or themed slab box that will be fired in the kiln and glazed. Boys will also sculpt a paper pulp bowl that they will paint. Open to all ages in elementary. Skills will vary by age, and will be able to work with all levels of experience.

Please note, we will be using, clay, paper, glue and glazes, hands will get dirty and dress to make a mess. "

Schedule: Mondays, 9/9/2024 - 10/21/2024

1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade

Students will create marbled paper in the first session, the following session students will learn how to put characters in a setting, how to create a story line and illustrate their comics. This will be a 6 week course, meeting every Tuesday from 2:45–4:00.

Could get messy with paint on day 1!

Schedule: Tuesdays, 9/10/2024 - 10/22/2024

Senior Kindergarten

Calling all PDS Jedis…

Join us in a galaxy far far away for some Star Wars fun! We will watch a short Clone Wars movie, have a tasty snack, and play, play play!!

3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade

We are never too young to make a difference! In this first of 4 service opportunities this year, students will learn about food insecurity here in Memphis and what kids can do to help eliminate it. We will do a couple of fun activities and then we will make LOTS of sandwiches to deliver to St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen downtown.

Young Knights Pre-Kindergarten

Come explore in our classroom filled with dinosaurs. We will make a craft, have a snack, play with plastic dinosaurs big and small, learn about different types of dinosaurs, and work dinosaur puzzles. This is a two part adventure. The next date will be October 1, 2024. We will send another post and form home for another $35 fee.