After school clubs

[Snowsquonk]

How many after school clubs are available to your child?

I'm not talking about after-school childcare type clubs, but the sort of thing which might be for an hour or so after school.

What clubs do you have, and who runs them and do you have to pay anything?

Cheers !

[Groovee]

Our school offer Gymnastics, Dance, Football, and basketball as active schools which are cheapish as run by the council. There are also classes offered by the high school for a small charge like the above classes.

We also get offered french, spanish, Judo and computer class. I pay £34.50 to the computer class and it was similar price when the kids did french. These are run by outside organisations.

[sparkle12mar08]

In KS1 there's football, gymnastics and multisports through the school, all of which a run vis outside agencies and cost around £40 for a term, year round. In summer term there's also cricket free through school. I don't know much about KS2 yet, though I know there's a wider choice, including technology, music, choir, orchestra, science, maths, etc.

[crazygracieuk]

Football and Multi-sports are £40 per term and run by an outside company at the school..
Cross country, badminton and dance club are free.


Lunchtime clubs include gardening, environmental club, guinea pig club, choir, football, library, band and cooking.

[Takver]

Once a week after school - alternate weeks of Adran (Welsh language youth club) and after school sports club. Sports club is free, Adran used to be 50p a week for craft materials but I don't know now as dd hasn't been for ages.

No lunchtime clubs as such - but the school does offer children from yr 4 up free instrument lessons once a week for those that want.

They also do absolutely loads of practice for Eisteddfod singing/reciting in the spring term both after school and at lunch/break times, again all free.

crazygracie, dd would love a guinea pig club!

[Takver]

Sorry, all run by the teachers except the after school sports & instrument lessons which are run by peripatetic Council specialist teachers.

[ColdToast]

Our after-school clubs are run by teachers and TAs and are usually free.

It varies from one term to the next but usually includes sports (football, hockey, rugby, multi-sports), art (pottery-making, crafts, drawing), languages (Spanish, French, English for children who don't speak it as a first language), IT, choir, and homework clubs.

It depends on the time of year, availability of staff, and the individual interests and abilities of staff members.

Families in the area tend to have low incomes so the school avoids expensive activities.

[sittinginthesun]

Most clubs are run by private companies etc. DS1 does a multisports (£25 per term), but has done tennis, science, and choir. I think there is a gym club, gardening club, IT, Lego, and football and netball for older children.

There are a few freebies, like running, but it depends on the teachers and varies term to term.

[An0therName]

quite alot - some private eg drama -they are quite expensive
some run by teachers - eg music - that is 1 pound a week
local tennis club did some lessons as well

[MincePieFlavouredVoidka]

Ballroom dancing, netball, football, multisports.
Environment club, homework club, computer club, library club.

They are all run by the school, there are loads of others local to us run by private companies at the various churches and halls round here.

[RaspberryLemonPavlova]

My son's Junior school has a lot for free, some run by teachers, some by outside agencies. Regular free after/before school clubs include gymnastics, orchestra, choir, gardening, film, chess, tag rugby, woodwind ensemble. There are also occasional clubs depending on teachers interests, drama, running, art, computers, photography, trigolf, tennis, wildlife club. There is football, not sure if this is charged or not - it was in Infants

takver Am of the free instrumental lessons. I pay lots for these (during school lessons), but recorders are offered free (also during school).

[Takver]

Raspberry - I wouldn't be that jealous, the woodwind teacher has 40 minutes to teach however many signed up, when dd tried the flute he had 6 children all at different levels (mix of flute & clarinet too) to fit into that time - so effectively each got about 5 minutes.

[angelinterceptor]

My DDs primary school, only offer a few things and these are hard to get into and only for certain year groups or classes.
The school run ones, only run for about 4 weeks, as there is so many children who want to do them - they are free.
There are also some private ones, they cost usually £6.00 per session/hour.

[RaspberryLemonPavlova]

I take your point. Ours are meant to be subsidised- I pay £7.00 for 15 mins individual because he is the only one learning his particular instrument. If he was in a group it would be £5.00 for 15 mins.

[Joyn]

Most are free, (run by teachers,) this last year (that i remember,) there's been football, yoga, cricket, film club, Lego club, multisports, netball, cheer leading, home work club, cookery club, dance, choir, conker tournament, Spanish dancing, wii fit, recorder group, touch rugby. Most clubs are only open to a limited group, either ks1 or yr 3-4 or yr 5-6 & numbers are restriced. I think our school tries really hard to make sure there's lots going on i just wish there was opportunity to do more 'thinking' & creative clubs like chess, photography, drawing or French, but you can't have it all, can you!

[munstersmum]

Free includes cookery, choir, gardening, running, art. Not all are open to all ages.
Pay because outside providers - football, judo and dance.