The Artpreneur Club is not just the regular art club as it incorporates the ideals of entrepreneurship as well. The club aims to teach kids how to become innovative thinkers through the use of different resources with the different art skills. With each output, or in this case, each product, that the kids create, they also learn how to communicate what their product is all about. By the end of this year, the students will gain a better understanding about how the world works.
The Bannister Alumni of Batch 2020 is taking advantage of the students’ love for online competitive games by offering an eSports Club, the Bannister GG. The club offers coaching for the games: Valorant, Tekken 7, Overwatch 2, and Minecraft for casual gamers and kids. For the first three games mentioned, the club has high-ranking coaches that will teach its members the fundamentals to get better at the game. They will even get the chance to go against elite players in the local scene. For Minecraft, students will be expanding their creativity as any Minecraft player would but this time at the guidance of experience players who will give them challenges and prompts.
With TikTok coming up as one of the more popular social media especially during the pandemic, many different dance crazes have been the content of many videos. As face-to-face clubs are coming back, the Dance Club allows the kids and teens to formally train their TikTok dance skills into more coordinated group dances. They will be performing in this year’s events dancing to different genres of dance and music.
The Cooking Club, as it is aptly named, will teach the students how to properly cook different meals that they can do by themselves at home. Students will properly measure ingredients, make different broths, adjust seasoning, etc. to cook good tasting homemade meals. The goal of the club is to rival that of restaurants as they produce meals at a cheaper price by using their own ingredients with their own hardwork. Club members will explore different tastes and expand their palates to produce delicious food as they jump from one country’s cuisine to another.
Competitive online games might not be some people’s form of entertainment. With the Board Games Club, members will go back to physically moving their miniatures on the board as they roll their dice. The club will have a wide range of board games to choose from. The board games will continually change throughout the year to make things more interesting for its members as they try out different kinds of game genres from role-playing and deduction to deck-building and co-op.
Jiu jitsu is all about technique over strength: using what you have as a leverage even when at a disadvantage. As one of the more practical martial art forms, kids and teens will learn how to use the proper techniques for self-defense and survival. This martial art teaches its students to have discipline and be able to control the situation they may find themselves in whether it is on the mats or in real life.
This year, Bannister will be forming the school’s very first Chess Club and Varsity. As a mind sport, members will go through mental challenges in learning different openings, techniques, moves in order to beat their opponent continually honing their problem-solving skills the more they play the game. However, outside the game, this club and varsity aims that the members be able to use that some problem-solving ability in their real-life problems.
We’ve recently launched a bike club that provides students with the opportunity to learn how to ride a bike in the city, navigating through different places while gaining confidence and ensuring safety.
Many social issues have been coming up recently in society and kids are becoming more socially aware of these. The Debate Varsity gives these kids the proper diplomatic avenue for, as this generation calls it, their “wokeness” as they express themselves in the proper means. This will hone the students’ oral skills and confidence in presenting arguments in front of a crowd. Even before making these arguments, they will also be learning how to listen intently to gather and analyze information to make their own conclusions.