£66 for an after school club?

£11 per extra curricular activity sounds about right. My son’s swimming lessons are £13 a time (30 mins) Gynastics is about £50 odd a month which works out similar. We do have one ‘after school’ activity at the school which is football, and that’s £45 per half term so a little cheaper which we consider a bargain (run by external team) So there is some variation but this doesn’t sound out of the realms of normal. We’re in Surrey if relevant.

I agree. The OP sounds ridiculously entitled.

I don't think many are told as no one I know of knew about it when I told them. It was only this academic year I found out and it was shared as being a new thing.

I stand corrected.

That's good - certainly when I was a class teacher we were expected to run clubs, but were not paid for the extra hours.

That's a great price OP!

We're in Bradford... Definitely not a super expensive area! But still have to pay for all school clubs!

As a headteacher we had two different offers.

1. The free/low cost after school club, offered by staff, often something the staff member enjoyed, a hobby they wanted to share. No pressure at all on staff to provide Short session, time limited ( 6 week blocks). Flexible approach. Not childcare. Minimum if any contribution.
2. After-school, wrap around care. End of school until 18.00. Everyday, reliable, consistent. Range of activities during.

Parents always advised NOT to rely on option 1 for childcare around work. Option 1 might not run, due to staff absence, might not be repeated after the first 6 week offer, might be full or might be offered to a different group of children each time it ran.

Teachers can claim for clubs now the gov has said.

Depends on how they they're run. Ones led by school staff are usually much cheaper - ours charges £1 per week (teachers aren't paid overtime to run them - it' voluntary so no staff payment needed). However, external specialist ones are much more. I've just paid £75 for a term's worth of cookery club sessions., led by a chef.

That kind of price is normal around here. It's an activity that's run by a company inside the school, that's why it costs more.

Both can be paid. Teachers certainly can claim for clubs. LEA schools are included in this. It is documented by the gov.

The school will have a published pupil premium policy on their website. You can also request a copy.

If the club is being run by TAs they will need to be paid.
If there is equipment to buy - the school may now need to charge (if budgets were healthier in the past they may have absorbed these costs)
If outside agencies are involved they will be paid.

If teachers run the club- they won't be paid. At least they might be in academies who have more freedom with pay, but not in LEA run schools. Teachers are just expected to give up their time, which makes it even more frustrating when parents moan.

Reasonable and good value. Who do you think should pay for them?

£11 is about the hourly rate…

My friend is a teacher and that’s when she cleans up the classroom, does marking, sets the classroom up for the next day, has meetings with parents or other staff, that sort of thing. My daughter’s planning meetings were usually just after school for example. Maybe schools can timetable a rota of teachers to cover extra curriculars as well?

If the club is run by school staff it’s unusual for there to be a charge (except perhaps for things like ingredients for a cooking club).

The school has to publish on their website details of how they spend pupil premium money.

Are teachers contracted hours the same as school hours? I lived opposite a school that finished at 3.15 but teachers didn't come out until around 5. TAs would leave at the end of the school day but not the teachers.

That does seem expensive for a school run club, especially as I assume it's the one below which is free to download. I would assume that the school is being hard hit by budget issues in particular rising unfunded wage bills and they have decided to start charging for their afterschool clubs.

https://www.daretobelieve.ie/about/

Sorry that last post was in response to @Merryoldgoat

Oh well no, admittedly this is a weekly charge! But the teachers are working an extra hour (on top of the hours of marking that is to follow) so I think pretty reasonable to expect to pay! The teachers who don’t run clubs don’t have that extra hour of childcare…. I think at least £8-10 would be reasonable per week)….

Our afterschools clubs have always been paid for by parents - I don’t know any schools that do them for free! I’m up north as well as saw you comment on London schools. The clubs ran by teachers like Lego club is cheaper than ones like football which is an external provider . And it is childcare. They are looking after your child and you pick them up 45 mins / an hour later than usual time which is massively helpful for working parents. £5-7 per session is average price.

Nope they do not, they can claim for extra time. It is not well known. I only found out last year but yes they can and should be claiming.

Teachers should be paid extra for any after school clubs.

I scanned through the responses here but am
mostly surprised to see that teachers are working outside their contracted hours to just - run clubs for a random group of kids? For free? I had absolutely assumed this would be paid work.

there is nothing after hours for free at the primary school but there are a few things in school hours (lunchtime clubs) that I now understand teachers would be giving up their own lunch break to do. That doesn’t feel right at all and I’m going to ask about it at the next pta meeting.

the high school has loads of lunch clubs and several after school clubs - they have a school musical this year so loads around that and a bunch of other stuff. Again, assumed they were being paid for their time!

there are also several paid after school classes in the building - my kids have done dance and football and coding club. All paid and dance and coding are I think £12-15/hour (it’s hard to work out as they have different terms and random weeks off and such). Football is cheaper as it’s a council thing and we are in a deprived area so get some funding for inclusion. We use the after school club for primary school as well but I see that’s not what this is about.