Maybeck students engage in a broad range of activities, and show great independence and initiative in doing so.

While students can pursue almost any interest they choose to promote, they can also take part in the regularly scheduled activities listed below. Finally, each year two students are elected by their peers as representatives to the Rules Committee.

Clubs

If the school’s current extracurricular activities do not satisfy their interests, they often initiate their own clubs or organizations. Students who want to initiate an activity should discuss their plans with a staff member who can offer guidance and serve as a sponsor.

Current clubs include: Asian Student Union; Black Student Union; Croquet; Campy Movie Club; Volleyball.

Past Clubs have included: Animal Rights, Gay-Straight Alliance, Gardening, Gourmet, Jerking, Literary Magazine, Play-Reading, Shakespeare and Pie, Student Newspaper, and Sushi.

Student Activities Committee

The Student Activities Committee (SAC) meets weekly to organize events for the school. It is a primary venue for students to become involved with the school community and promote activities that interest them. Two days each year are reserved for activities planned by SAC. In the past few years we have gone to the beach in the Marin Headlands; to Tilden Park where the whole school spent a day playing volleyball, frisbee, soccer and having fun; to Caesar Chavez Park at the Berkeley Marina; we have visited the Oakland Zoo; the Exploratorium/Palace of Fine Arts (a Bernard Maybeck designed building) in San Francisco; held a scavenger hunt around the UC Berkeley campus followed by a film festival; and held a harvest/Halloween festival. SAC also plans the Secret Santa gift exchange, the prom, and several theme days as well as Bernard’s (the student store) with proceeds being deposited in the scholarship fund. SAC has the opportunity to make proposals to the staff as to changes in school policy. Recent proposals have included a revised student drug-use policy;

Yearbook

Maybeck’s Yearbook is student-produced under the guidance of a staff supervisor. Students take photographs over the course of the year and meet to plan and lay out the yearbook. The project is coordinated by a team of core editors, who take part in a spring class focused on design and production. Anyone can work on the yearbook: the school seeks contributors and photographers from all grade levels, as we aim to produce a yearbook that reflects all of the facets of Maybeck.