A: All of our registration for Enrichment, AfterCare, vacation camps, and summer camps can be found online at https://breakwaterlearning.campbrainregistration.com/. To register your child, you will need to create a log-­in and complete a registration for each program you would like for your child to participate in. 

A: Our after school programs accommodate children ages K to 8th grade. Enrichment classes are offered specific to grade level from K-8 and summer camps are available for toddler-rising 9th graders. Please email enrichment@breakwaterschool.org with any questions or summer@breakwaterschool.org for questions about summer camps.

A: Our ‘homebase’ is in the Dan with enrichment classes and other activities taking place on the playgrounds/field in addition to the Brick building and Jesse building. For more information about our campus click here

A: Enrichment classes vary in time from 30 minutes to over two hours (longer classes are usually our middle school biking and skiing enrichments) with the majority being 1 hour. Please refer to our schedules for each class and session. 

AfterCare schedule is as follows:

• Monday: 2:10pm ­- 5:30pm

• Tuesday: 2:10pm ­- 5:30pm

• Wednesday: 1:10pm ­- 5:30pm (PPS Early Release Days)

• Thursday: 2:10pm -­ 5:30pm

• Friday: 1:30pm - ­5:30pm (BWS Early Release Days)

A: We accommodate Breakwater’s early release on Fridays beginning AfterCare at 1:30pm. 

For the Portland Public School System, we begin AfterCare at 1:10pm on Wednesdays for district-wide early release days.

A: We provide transportation for Portland Schools for grades K­-5. We will pick up students at dismissal on one of our 14 passenger mini-­buses or smaller vans. Parents are responsible for taking their child home after programming. At this time we provide transportation from Amanda C. Rowe Elementary School, Longfellow Elementary School, and Ocean Avenue Elementary School.

To learn more about the dismissal process for your school, please email enrichment@breakwaterschool.org

A: For our K-8 after school program, a regularly scheduled day looks like (schedule varies on early release days):

• 2:10 - 3:00pm Dismissal for Longfellow and Ocean Ave

  • Longfellow and Ocean Ave students have outdoor recess or an early enrichment class

• 3:00pm: Breakwater School dismissal. Activity invitations in the gym or the Hive (after school classroom). Invitations may include a gym game, drawing, building, reading, or climbing our horizontal rock wall

• 3:30: Clean-up and snack. Breakwater provides each student with one snack. Rowe School dismissal

• 3:45pm Enrichment classes and AfterCare activities begin. AfterCare activities usually consists of an art / low key option and an active outdoor option (weather dependent). Children in AfterCare can also choose to read, do homework, or participate in free draw.

• 4:30­ - 5:30pm Free Choice and Free Play. Enrichment classes end

• 5:30pm: Final pick-up

A: Due to limited capacity and staffing ratios we need to maintain, we do not offer drop-in aftercare.

A: Pick-­up and drop off for K­-8 Enrichment and K-­5 AfterCare students take place in “The Dan” Gymnasium (the building on the corner of Brighton and Capisic St.). Please be sure to check in with our AfterCare staff if your drop your child off and during pick-up.

Please complete and return Breakwater Enrichment’s Pick-­­Up Permission Form to notify staff of the list of adults authorized to pick your child(ren) up from our AfterCare or Enrichment Class.

A: We will always allow students to work on their homework during AfterCare programming. We are unable to provide one-on-one assistance while staff are leading activity options. 

A: Please notify the Enrichment Director at Extension 238 if your child will be absent for a scheduled Enrichment Class or AfterCare Program. If your child did not attend school or was dismissed early due to an illness, they are not able to attend their scheduled Enrichment Class or AfterCare program.

A: Our AfterCare program is certified by DHHS as a licensed childcare facility.