How to Start a skills club
Check out our skills club package for all the information to start your own skills club!
Please contact us if you are interested in starting your skills club, to receive the rest of the package, including:
Leader Registration Forms
Student Registration Forms
Posters for students for all Skill Areas
Sign Up Sheets
Volunteer Posters
Got skills to share? Want to learn a new skill alongside your students? Skills Clubs are extra- curricular programs run by teachers, volunteers, and community professionals designed to expose youth to a variety of skilled trades that are not offered in school. Skills Canada Nunavut provides guidance, resources and funding to get Skills Clubs running in any high school across the territory.
Carpentry Club, Cambridge Bay
Decide what you'd like to teach.
If you're not sure, ask your students what they'd like to learn! Here’s some of the clubs offered across Nunavut:
CONSTRUCTION SKILLS
Cabinetmaking
Carpentry
Electrical Wiring
Small Engine Repair
SERVICE SKILLS
Aesthetics
Baking
Cooking
Hairstyling
Fashion Design
Sewing (Northern Fashions)
TECHNOLOGY SKILLS
2D Animation
Graphic Design
IT Software
Photography
Robotics
Videography
EMPLOYMENT SKILLS
Job Search
Job Skill Demonstration
Public Speaking
Workplace Safety
Register your Skills Club
Contact Skills Canada Nunavut and let us know about your interest. If there are multiple teachers at your school starting clubs, select who will be the main contact person. Once registered, you are ready to start recruiting students and accessing funding. Contact us for all the forms you'll need to get started!
OR, find the registration forms here:
Robotics Club learning some code skills at Inuksuk High School
Have your first meeting
Meet with your students and figure out when and where your club will run, and how often you’d like to meet to achieve goals and what topics you'd like to cover. Make sure all students fill in a Skills Clubs registration form, signed by their parents.
Hairstyling Club learns to wash, style and even cut hair!
Outfit your Skills Clubs with supplies
Skills Canada Nunavut wants to ensure that your club as enough equipment to operate effectively. Need a camera for your Photography Club or ingredients for your Baking Club? Not a problem. We can send you supplies or reimburse you for supplies you purchase.
Promote and share your Skills Club!
Now that your Skills Club is ready to go, track your students’ participation. Keep in touch with Skills Canada Nunavut by sending us updates. We love to promote our Skills Clubs and put photos and videos online for the country to see what we’re doing in Nunavut! Encourage local professionals in your community and other teachers to join the fun start Skills Clubs too.
Competition Time!
Skills Club students may be eligible to compete at the Territorial Skills Competition in Iqaluit! Contest descriptions will be posted every year in January. Check it out!
