£66 for an after school club?

Schools can use pupil premium finding to cover the costs of pupils on it whos parents can afford it to provide them extra opportunities.

In fact they should be using pupil premium for those entitled for this type of thing. It may be a case you can only choose 1 of the 3. But pupil premium finding to to help support the gap between those who have and those who need support to access.

None of the kids school clubs are free at my dc school. Vary in price, the ones provided by school teachers are around £80 per term but others are higher. My daughter is doing coding which is £40 every 4 weeks! Amazed you ever had them for free tbh, the places must go like hot cakes.

What overheads can they possibly have on top of the funding they already receive from pupil premium students!

The teacher. Or do you expect them to do it for free?

I’m surprised after school clubs were ever free.
Who pays the teachers running them if they are free?

So Yes
I think to pay for the teachers and the facilities of course there should be a charge for all.

Our school in London is £50 per term for 10 club sessions but reduced to £20 for any children receiving pupil premium which is reasonable I think. Not aware of any schools offering completely free clubs and can’t really see how they could be sustainable.

People need paying. I'm.from a poor background. There was loads of things I wasn't able to do due to money- didn't kill me. We can't always have what we want.

So then ask the school if they have exemptions for low income pupils.

Pay £11/session at after school club and sometimes there is an activity (like football, karate etc) which can be booked as extra as external providers deliver them - usually about £20 for 6 sessions. Even sports coaching they do outside of school is cheaper than £11 for 40 mins so I think it sounds a bit much

I truly believe all kids should have the opportunity to attend - extra curricular activities.

The tax payer can’t fund everything. Who is going to to do this for free?!

Crikey! Ours was 35p for breakfast club in 2021!
It's just gone up to 50p.

I pay £60 a term for drama , works out less than £6 a week which i think is pretty good.

After school activities were around £5 a session when my Uni aged kids were in Primary School 15 years ago. Honestly, that seems fine pricewise to me. Not particularly sure what the activity is, or whether I'd want to pay for it, but in general, I'd think around the £10 per session mark seems about right for an afterschool activity.

That’s cheap! It’s an activity with overheads and it’s chargeable

Ds’ primary school did very few clubs after school, when I asked why they said that they couldn’t staff them so would have to get an external provider in which was too expensive for some parents. I volunteered to run one of the sports clubs for a year and that encouraged other parents to do the same. Soon had stuff on every day…

There are loads of extracurricular clubs at lunch, before school and after school at our state primary. Some charge as much as £100 a term, others are free. The local school with the highest proportion of FSM pupils gets more funding and they have far more free sports clubs. Ours does not have that many FSM pupils, and so everyone is expected to pay up, as it should be.

But what does it actually involve? You implied you don't know, so yes it might be a school teacher overseeing it but maybe there is something more to it?

At my kids school it's the same with teachers generally running clubs for free, but there are some clubs that do get offered where they have to pay. Pupil premium students do not have to pay the full amount (and I believe if they talk to the school then they might be able to get a place covered completely).

I think OP is having a hard time with PPs. £11 per session is steep for a non-specialist class.
what does daring to believe involve?

at our school groups like this, run by teachers, are either free or nominal amount (about £25 for a whole term).

Schools are in dire financial positions.

My school runs after school club in house to try and raise a bit more money for the school.

It can be bought through tax free child care though which means the government pays the school 20% of it - it's £4 per session and there are two sessions after school running until 4.30 and the second 4.30 to 5.30. With TFC that's £6.40 for 2 hours after school childcare which is an absolute bargain.

If you don't need it for childcare and your child isn't interested in the activity don't use it. Things have changed the last few years in schools and they probably can't afford to offer it as a nice free extra anymore.

I don’t no what the activity is. But yes I think it’s fine. My school charge us to buy own own children’s crafts though so maybe I’m just used to the added cost of everything at school 😅

I do nit thunk £11 per session is bad at all.

No of course afrer school club isnt free.