Club Opportunities in the Upper School
Admissions Ambassadors
Mission: To assist the Office of Admissions with special events and to serve as hosts and hostesses for prospective students during the course of the year.
Art Club
Mission: To expose and educate students interested in the visual arts about various movements, influential work and careers that are not part of the mainstream art curriculum.
Blue Review
Mission: To produce the Charlotte Latin literary journal.
Book Club
Mission: To encourage reading for pleasure and to offer an opportunity for discussion about literature among peers.
Captains' Council
Mission: To bring together athletes who are leaders or aspiring leaders of teams to discuss how to inspire teammates to overcome obstacles and stay focused. Learning to manage team conflicts and encouraging responsible behavior on and off the field are also emphases.
Chess Club
Mission: To offer the opportunity to any Upper School student to learn and play chess in a supportive and respectful environment. The club will hold an annual CLS Chess Championship and maintain a fair rating system for all players while supporting good sportsmanship, winning with grace, and losing with dignity.
Creative Writing Club
Mission: To provide students with creative writing workshops and opportunities for readings, competition and publication.
Diversity Club
Mission: To promote diversity in and outside of our school community through the organization of events that celebrate our cultural, religious, ethnic, social and racial diversity. We strive to promote diversity in our daily lives and increase respect for all kinds of human diversity through an atmosphere of appreciation and acceptance.
Do Random Acts of Kindness Club
Mission: To bring unexpected joy to people at our school and in our community by being spontaneous and charitable.
Environmental Club
Mission: To develop an awareness of environmental issues, maintain the stream on campus through the "adopt-a stream" program, assist in the campus recycling efforts, and participate in the Sierra Student Coalition.
Forensics Club
Mission: To introduce students to interscholastic competition in debate, public speaking, and interpretation of literature. Forensics involves a significant time and financial commitment as the team travels regularly to regional and national tournaments. Meetings are generally held on Thursday afternoons after school.
Garden Club
Mission: To create a garden at Charlotte Latin that will produce vegetables for consumption or sale while composting waste from the cafeteria and to learn about "green" lifestyle choices.
Honor Council Advisory Board
Mission: To serve as a resource group to the elected Honor Council by helping plan ceremonies and assemblies and to act as liaisons with other divisions of the School. Those aspiring to be elected to the Council in the future are strongly encouraged to be active in Advisory Board activities.
Hug Club
Missions: To help relieve stress from students and to encourage them to be caring and creative. Comfort food and stress-relieving exercises will be part of the group's monthly meetings.
Improv Club
Mission: To provide students with an outlet for their creativity out of the confines of the classroom and/or in addition to their participation in drama department productions. Meets once a month on a Friday afternoon after school.
International Thespian Society
Mission: To honor excellence in high school theater. The Society, a part of the Educational Theatre Association, has chapters in more than 3,900 secondary schools in North America.
Italian Club
Mission: To instruct members in conversational Italian and offer basic knowledge of Italian culture, such as cuisine, local customs, and history. Group meets twice a month on Fridays after school.
Media Production Club
Mission: To hone skills in video and audio computerized applications using the newest technology. Projects may include producing short films and podcasts. Club meetings are held periodically after school.
Movie Club
Mission: To talk about current movies and become better critics and review writers; to discuss current issues and social themes and examine their role in movies; to educate people about classic films and references; to have fun.
National Junior Classical League
Mission: To encourage an interest in and an appreciation of the language, literature, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and to impart an understanding of the debt of our own culture to that of classical antiquity.
Photography Club
Mission: To provide interested students the opportunity to take pictures and improve their skills in photography. Members must own or have access to a working 35 mm film camera and/or a digital camera (preferably three megapixels and above).
SADD (Students Against Drinking and Driving)
Mission: To raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving.
Science Olympiad
Mission: To form a team, composed of groups of two or three students for events in engineering, physics, chemistry, forensics, ecology, entomology, geology, and biology, to compete in local, regional and state competitions. Interest is the only prerequisite.
Service Council Advisory Group
Mission: To serve as a forum for students and faculty to discuss issues pertaining to the volunteer work of the CLS community with the goal of fostering servant leadership and a lifelong love of community service.
Spanish Club
Mission: To provide students enrolled in Spanish levels three, four, and five the opportunity to foster an appreciation for the Spanish language and culture while exploring all that they have to offer. We plan to discuss different cultural practices from all over the world, to experience typical cuisine, and to listen to Spanish music, as well as become involved in service projects such as interacting with Lower School students in Spanish on a regular basis.
Table Francaise
Mission: To promote the French language and culture in an informal setting. All French students, past and present, are invited to participate in club meetings and activities.
Transcendental Club
Mission: To read and reflect on the literary works of nature explorers, to go on
hiking trips to develop a greater appreciation for the natural world, and to produce a club newsletter that features student writing, artwork, and photography.
World Quest
Mission: To prepare students for global citizenship through an awareness and study of current affairs, geography, general historical knowledge, and people in the news. The School's team competes annually with those representing other local high schools.
SPECIAL NOTES
The Student Council is comprised of officers and representatives elected from each grade level. While this process is begun for rising grades 10-12 in the spring, freshman officers and two representatives-at-large from each grade are chosen after the school year begins in the fall. The Student Council addresses student concerns of all kinds with the faculty and administration and plans and executes various events on campus throughout the year.
In addition to the many opportunities listed above, there are numerous service-related activities organized by the CLS Service Council available to students each and every week. Students may choose to submit their service hours to the Service Coordinator. Those who accumulate more than 150 hours during their tenure in the Upper School are recognized at the end of their senior years as members of the Charlotte Latin Service Society.