Clubs

Participation in student clubs provides students with an important avenue for exploring an area of interest, developing leadership skills, and furthering connections with others.

All Upper School clubs are student initiated and student run in conjunction with a faculty advisor. All students are encouraged to participate at some level. As students develop new areas of interest, they may start a new club by submitting a proposal to Forum, the student government.

Upper School Clubs

  • Art Club
  • Astronomy Club
  • Black Awareness Club (B.A.C.)
  • Book Club
  • Callisto
  • Chapel Events
  • Cooking Club
  • Focus
  • Francais Fantastique
  • From Screen to Screen
  • Gay Straight Alliance
  • Girls for Step (GFS)
  • International Club
  • Jewish Student Association
  • Loving Every Animal & Spreading Humanity (L.E.A.S.H.)
  • Latin Club
  • Logical Games
  • Model UN
  • Multicultural Student Alliance
  • My Sister’s Circle
  • Politics Club
  • Robotics Club
  • Service League
    • Amnesty International
    • Equine Service Club
    • Green-Norm Lawler
    • Kids Who Care
    • Invisible Children
    • Soup Kitchen
    • Student Sharing
  • Spanish Club

Middle School Clubs

  • Forum
  • Improv
  • Club Library
  • Club Podcasts
  • Word Games/Puzzles
  • Drop Everything and Read (DEAR)
  • Middle School Productions
  • Art Club
  • Jumping For Jacks
  • Green Club
  • Paws and Claws Club
  • Grizzly Gazette
  • Diversity Club
  • Photography Club
  • Songwriting Club

Lower Division Extra-Curricular Activities

Grades One through Five

  • Yoga
  • Robotics
  • Brownies and Girl Scouts
  • Lacrosse
  • Golf
  • Instrumental Music
  • Girls-on-the-Run
  • Riding 

Weekend Activities

Garrison Forest offers numerous weekend activities for Upper School students. These chaperoned activities, which are available to day and residential students (including the Eighth Grade residential students), offer girls the opportunity to explore a variety of cultural, athletic, social, and community service interests and to get to know the Baltimore region. Perhaps most important, weekend activities create the perfect atmosphere to bond as friends and classmates.

Here is a sampling of activities offered in 2009-10.

  • Amazing Glaze-Paint Your Own Pottery
  • Annapolis Trip
  • Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concerts
  • Cultural outings, such as Chinese New Year dinner and Korean American festival in Baltimore
  • Baltimore Zoo
  • Boarding Schools Social Activities Committee mixers & events
  • Coffee houses
  • Craft festivals
  • ESPN Zone Fall Fest
  • Fall Fest
  • Restaurant Trips: Paper Moon Diner, Hard Rock Café
  • GFS Theatre, Art, Music, and Dance Productions
  • Halloween events-haunted attractions, pumpkin picking & corn mazes
  • Hiking and biking trips
  • Inner Harbor trips
  • Kings Dominion
  • Local boys school mixers, productions and athletic events
  • Local concerts
  • Longwood Gardens
  • Medieval Times dinner and tournament
  • Miniature golf
  • Movie trips
  • Museum trips: Baltimore, Philadelphia & Washington, DC
  • Mystery activities trips
  • National Aquarium in Baltimore
  • New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC trips
  • Oriole baseball games at Camden Yards
  • Plays, musicals, and dance concerts at local venues
  • Race for the Cure
  • Maryland Renaissance Festival
  • Service League events
  • Shopping trips to regional malls, including Towson, Arundel Mills, Columbia,Tyson's Corner and King of Prussia
  • Snow skiing and tubing trips
  • "Studio Sundays" Art Workshops at GFS