How many extracurricular activities does your 4-5year old do?

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Covid permitting obviously. Seems to hugely vary in DS’s Reception class.

Mine did swimming only. No energy for anything else.

I think at that age mine did swimming and one of the two did football. Both on Saturdays. Round here that’s typical. Rare at reception age to do much more I’d say.

Year 1
Afterschool club (childcare) - 3 days a week
Afterschool club (fun, sport run by PE teacher) - 1 day a week.

Just signed up to Junior Parkrun at the weekend (just until Jan when hopefully swimming will have spaces at the weekend).

In reception my eldest only did swimming initially. I figured it was tiring enough with the transition to school. By the spring term he seemed to be coping fine and started on a couple of sports clubs at lunchtimes. My youngest did nothing because of covid but now does three clubs in the week and one at the weekend. Two of the ones in the week are effectively childcare e.g. it was a choice of after school club or tennis at school so picked the one I thought he would enjoy most. Its only been a couple of weeks and he his tired but think he would be anyway. Bloody expensive though.

Rugby league for 30 mins midweek.
He was doing gymnastics before he started school last week but it’s just too much, he’s so tired from school. He was given the choice to keep rugby or gymnastics.
I’ll get him into swimming lessons next year I think.

Music class (more a music and movement class) on a Saturday when his brother is also doing music.
A gym class after school.
Swimming on Sunday when his big brother is swimming as well.

So only one thing after school, other two on weekends.

Mine just does gymnastics once a week atm but I'm planning to start swimming classes for him in a month or so.

Oh should add we are on the waiting list for swimming but it's long because of covid.

coding & drama after school. weekend football/dance & swimming. Still waiting to get back to swimming

DS has just started reception so I haven't signed him up for anything extra, apart from after school club twice a week for childcare (DH and I both working). I figure he needs some time to adjust to school.

However, I do want to sign him up for swimming lessons and will hopefully do that to start in January; it depends on availability (there are various options near us but im holding out for our preferred one). I am prioritising swimming as he enjoys it and it's an important skill.

Im undecided about whether to sign him up for a Saturday morning language school. We're a bilingual family and it's important to us that he has some education in the other language. But it seems a bit much when we only have weekends together now.

Mine does a weekend ballet class and weekend swimming with us as a family. She also does pony riding every other weekend. Next year I’ll give her the option of doing more classes by this is enough in reception class for now, she’s just started and gets very tired in the evenings at the moment!

Gymnastics one evening, swimming on Saturday morning

At that age my dds had one swimming lesson (midweek after school) and 2 dancing lessons back to back on a Friday evening.
They did dancing for about 2-3 years and stopped swimming at about 12. I was so happy, I always hated the ferrying about, also had a younger dc and dh wasn’t around much for watching the little one so he had to come too most of the time. Right pain in the arse!
Never did rainbows/brownies etc, no weekend clubs or anything. Through choice though, they just weren’t interested.

At that age they did swimming and ballet . I let them choose something else when a bit older .

None, I'm happy that his energy goes into settling into reception. I doubt other kids do much either, and frankly I'm shattered and haven't got it in me to be ferrying kids around or trying to generate the income to pay for things.

Tennis on a Sunday and swimming lessons on a weds after school. That's it, anything more is too much I think. I have friends who try and do an extra activity most days during the week and something at the weekend and they just seem to be stressing themselves out, and tiring out their child for no reason. Starting reception is a big enough thing at this age.

90 mins of football on a Saturday. Hoping to start Beavers in the new year when he's 6. He is year 1.

Would like both him and 3 year old to be swimming but there are waiting lists a mile long

Swim, gymnastics, 3x days of after school club and Cubs after after school club on one day. I’d like to move one to the weekend but Exh will not take him to any weekend clubs on ‘his’ weekend.

I think swimming is a life skill and he doesn’t want to quit gym- he asked to join cubs. If he wants to do anything else I’ll tell him he has to choose one of the non-swim ones to quit.

One child did very little - swimming and gymnastics- because he was a home body and didn't want to do lots

Other child did dancex2, swimming, and theatre school and was always asking to do more! She is an outgoing energetic extrovert and would do 3 clubs a night if I let her!

Dancing after school once a week.
Football Saturday morning
She went to swimming club during the school holidays once a week

Irish dance and swimming at the weekend. Nothing after school, but she does go to a childminder 4 out of 5 days.

Thank you. Those of you who use wrap around care or a childminder, do they do sports or go the the park, or just playing/arts and crafts/tv?

When I collected DS from after school club the other day, it was good weather and they had been playing outside in the playground; there's play equipment and plenty of space to run around and play ball games.

Ds year 1 swimming lesson. And football tots.

He goes to after school club on the 2 days I work. If the weather is nice they play games on the field otherwise it's craft, boardgames, tv.

Dd is 4 and in primary 1 in Scotland. So far she doesn't do anything extra but is going to be starting girls brigade on Monday night. However the last week after school she's been very tired so I'll see how she gets on.