Traditional After School Program
Take the bus right to Camp Ketcha from Pleasant Hill or Wentworth School! Camp Ketcha offers pickup from Eight Corners School in our Camp Ketcha bus!
*NEW this year- Scarborough Middle School 6th Grade After School Care!*
Offered Monday-Friday until 6pm.
Part time schedules offered.
Staff : Student ratio of 1 : 12.
After school students participate in theme days, with some examples of activities included:
- Art and Cooking: Seasonal crafts, sewing, making salsa dip, carving pumpkins and roasting the seeds
- Farm: Feeding and take care of our horses, goats, ducks, bunnies, and Carmen the cow
- Guest Visits: Naturalist-led book making, science experiments, visits from the Scarborough Police Department
- Service Learning: Creating a story walk for our trails!
- Social Emotional Learning: Covering topics like self awareness, identity, and coping skills in an age appropriate setting
- STEM: Launching bottle rockets, making lava lamps, and flying drones
- Wilderness Explorers: Using our ropes course, archery, sledding, and hiking
- Free Choice Friday!
Sample Schedule
2:30-3:30 Middle School homework help and CK Kindergarten recess
3:30-4:00 Pleasant Hill, Wentworth, Eight Corners arrival, snack, and community meeting
4:00 – 4:45 Participate in a group activity
4:45 – 6:00 Free choice/play outside (or inside in inclement weather)
After School Care Monthly Pricing:
Pleasant Hill, Wentworth
5 days: $370, 4 days: $330, 3 days: $265, 2 days: $200
Eight Corners (minimum of 4 children needed to run this program)
5 days: $410, 4 days: $370
Scarborough Middle School 6th Grade
5 days: $375, 4 days: $335, 3 days: $270, 2 days: $205
Ketcha Forest School Kindergarten
5 days: $380, 4 days: $340, 3 days: $275, 2 days: $210
Scarborough Schools Early Release Wednesdays
Scheduled afterschool day: $15 Non-scheduled after school day: $30
No School? We have you covered
Coverage offered on: Snow Days, Early Release, Late Delays and Teacher in-service Days
Snow Day Coverage
- Come play outside in the snow, make s’mores, play games, arts and crafts and more! Early care and late care available
- Offered on Scarborough No School Days from 8:15am-4pm
- Late care from 4-5pm
- $65 a day from 9-4pm
- $4 for early care 8:15-9am and $4 a day for late care, 4-5pm
- After School families receive free late care if the snow day falls on their after school scheduled day.
If your town has a snow day, please email klarochelle@campketcha.org the night before, or morning of to check for availability of coverage.
If we do not have power or feel it would be unsafe for our staff to drive we will remain closed.