Recreation & Sport

Recreation Program Vision & Goals

We recognize the importance of building and maintaining quality friendships and acknowledge the positive emotional impact of feeling accepted by one’s peers. Thus, we create multiple opportunities within our middle school and high school programs for social connectivity. Our robust schedule of after-school, evening, weekend, and occasional overnight activities provides students with a platform to enhance and enrich their social skills.

After Schools Clubs

Dance/Arts & Crafts        

Dates: 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20.

Wednesdays, after school to 5:00 PM

Dance: 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

This will be a structured dance class: warm-up, exercises across the floor, and a combination, with the goal of fostering joy, community, and self-esteem through movement. Warm-up is based on Brain-Compatible Dance Education (BCDE), a teaching philosophy and internationally recognized methodology that prepares students for learning and may help with social-emotional skills. It is an excellent full-body and brain warm-up that sequences through eight fundamental movement patterns of early human development and helps to center the brain and body. We will then do a few exercises across the floor, working on gross motor skills, coordination, and moving through the space in different ways. A combination will be taught that we will practice and add to each week. The goal is to have a finished dance to share at the end of the session. Students will have the opportunity to be creative/expressive and to connect with each other in every class through free dance to their favorite songs. 

 

Arts & Crafts: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM

The art class offers opportunities for creative expression through painting and crafting projects. Students will be encouraged to develop freedom of expression while building self-confidence, listening skills, and the ability to work from part to whole in their weekly projects. 

Board Games / Walking Club        

Dates: 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20.

Wednesdays, after school to 5:00 PM

 

Tabletop Gaming Club from 3:00 to 4:15 Relax, Connect, and Play!

Join us for an afternoon of fun and friendship at the Tabletop Gaming Club! This club is a welcoming space for students to unwind after school while enjoying their favorite games in a low-pressure environment. Students will focus on building social connections and confidence through cooperative, lighthearted, competitive play. Featured games include Uno, perfect for fast-paced fun and color-matching; card games; Apples to Apples; and No-Stress Chess, which helps players learn strategy at their own pace without the pressure of a standard clock. Students will be practicing social skills, turn-taking, strategic thinking, and making friends in a relaxed, supportive, and fun environment. Come roll the dice and draw a card with us!

 

Walking Club: 4:15 PM to 5:00 PM

After the gaming club, the group will walk around the LHS campus and track, in all weather, for 45 minutes. 

Gaming Group at Omar’s World

Offered to LABBB High School students who are independent at playing games on the computer or Xbox/Nintendo/Playstation with other friends in a group. 

Dates: 3/11, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20.

Wednesdays, after school to 5:30 PM

 

Students will walk from LHS to Omar’s World of Comics & Hobbies, play on cutting-edge gaming equipment for an hour and a half, then order dinner at Omar’s Bistro with their friends. Pixel Paradise offers top-of-the-line PCs; the latest next-generation consoles, including PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch.

 

 

Bowling Program

Monday Bowling Program

Offered to students in Lexington High Rooms 825, 826, 715, 704, 632, 504, Arlington High, Chenery, Ottoson & Marshall Simonds Middle Schools.

Dates: 3/2, 3/9, 3/23, 3/30, 4/6, 4/13, 4/27, 5/4, 5/11, 5/18

Mondays, after school to 5:30 PM

 

Tuesday Bowling Program

Offered to students in Bedford High, Belmont High, Belmont Middle School, Burlington High, and the 821 & 822 classrooms at Lexington High.

Dates: 3/10, 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19

Tuesday, after school to 5:30 PM

 

Join us for strikes, spares, and great food! Students will receive coaching on the approach and release while practicing functional math skills by counting the balls thrown and the pins knocked down.

Every session wraps up with dinner at Wegmans. The menu includes pizza, chicken fingers, salad, water, and time to socialize with peers!

 

Theater and Performing Arts

LABBB Theater Arts: Spring HS Play Rehearsal and Glee Performance 

“The Wizard of Oz: The Journey Home”       

Open to all LABBB High School Students

Dates: 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/8, 4/15, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27.

Wednesdays, after school to 5:00 PM

Play Date: 5/28 6:30 Performance 

 

Follow the yellow brick road with a modern twist! This semester, the LABBB Theater program is producing a special, student-friendly 45-minute adaptation of the classic story. But this isn’t just any trip to Oz—we are mixing in your favorite pop hits! Cast members will sing, dance, and act to songs like “Shake It Off” (Taylor Swift), “Roar” (Katy Perry), “A Sky Full of Stars” (Coldplay), and “Don’t Stop Believin'” (Journey).

Not an actor? No problem! Sign up for Stage Crew to help design costumes, build sets, and run the show from behind the scenes.

Overnight Trips

Coco Keys Water Park Trip       

October 23-24, 2025

This one night stay will include, hotel, transportation right from school on Thursday, 1 dinner, 1 breakfast & 1 lunch. Entrance to Coco Keys water park of New England on Thursday & Friday.  Return to Lexington High School on Friday at the end of the school day.  Cost includes:  LABBB van transportation, 1 night hotel stay, LABBB staff chaperones, 3 meals, 2 day pass to water park.  

Maine Beach Trip       

May 5-8, 2026

This three night stay trip will include, hotel, LABBB vans transportation, 1 show, beach time, hiking, zoo, sightseeing on the Maine coast.  Cost includes: Transportation, hotel, LABBB staff chaperones, 3 dinners, 1 show, entrance fees for zoo and tours.

 

LABBB Dances

All dances will be held at the Lexington Community Center unless otherwise specified

6:30PM – 8:00PM unless otherwise noted

$10.00 payable at the door unless otherwise noted

 

October 16, 2025

Halloween Dance

November 13, 2025

Fall Harvest Dance Middle School Invited

December 4, 2025

Holiday Party Dance

January 15, 2026

Ring in the New Year Dance

February 5, 2026

Valentines Day Dance

March 5, 2026

St. Patricks Day Dance

April 9, 2026

Spring Dance Middle School Invited

May 14, 2026

End of School Year Dance
Zoom Trivia Night

Zoom Trivia Night         

Monday, 6:30PM-7:30PM         

Dates: 9/15, 9/29, 10/20, 11/3, 11/24, 12/8, 12/22, 1/12, 2/2, 2/23,  3/9, 3/23, 4/6, 4/27, 5/11, 6/1

For LABBB students and alum.  A Zoom link will be sent via email prior to each Class.    We will play themed trivia games each week.  Name that tune, name that movie, name that sport, names that Disney…..just to name a few.  Winners of the most games will receive a prize sent via email.      

 

Special Olympics

In 2014, Bedford High School won both the Massachusetts and the National Best Buddies Chapters of the year. Chenery Middle School, won the International Best Buddies Middle School chapter of the year in 2016. In 2018, Lexington High School won the Massachusetts Best Buddies Chapter of the year and was the 2018 runner up National Best Buddies Chapter of the year. LABBB and our Best Buddy Chapters are very proud of these accomplishments. We try every year to duplicate those “insanely great” years. 

 

The Best Buddies Programs are at Arlington, Bedford, Burlington and Lexington High Schools as well as Chenery Middle School, Belmont High School has a PALS program.  The PALS program provides similar activities as Best Buddies but is done as a group instead of pairs.  All are anxious to start as quickly as possible. Please help, by signing up early, so that we can get these programs up and running by the end of September/early October for all our LABBB classrooms.    

 

*If your student is interested in PALS Please email their teacher by September 2 , 2025.

“If your student is interested in Best Buddies, please register your student with this link by September 2, 2025.  

 

www.bestbuddies.org/join

Best Buddies High School

Best Buddies Middle School

 

This will help all involved to get the programs running sooner.  Sign up for these programs is only in September.

 

If you have any questions regarding Best Buddies or PALS, please feel free to e-mail Mike DiCenso at MDicenso@LABBB.net.