How many clubs/activities do your y2 children do?

[Babyboomtastic]

I think my child does enough already (she's also in after school club a couple of nights a week) but there are so many interesting clubs out there, and some kids seem to do far more.

What's the average amount for this age?

She does

Swimming
Brownies
School choir
Theatre club

Her best friend does 9!

In Y2 we did Athletics, Tennis, Gymnastics and Violin plus Swimming.

Drama and ballet club through school
Tennis and horse riding outside of school
So 4! We don’t bother with swimming since they do that weekly at school but if they didn’t we do that too. 9 is quite frankly mental! The poor kid must never have a minute. Unless they’re counting stuff like school lunchtime clubs or breakfast club?!

3 regular activities
Celo lessons
Swimming
Trampolining (fun sesson but weekly)

We also have a weekly 'play date' with some family friends, which takes up another day. I'm considering adding scouts, but not sure as he really likes & needs his down time.

My year 2 does 3, plus has just started an after school club so I suppose 4. But I think you can’t view this in isolation as she also gets dragged along to watch 3 her brother does as there is nobody to leave her with

Thanks. It sounds like we are in the 'about average' camp then.

Monday's is choir until 4.15, home, then out to brownies at 6.
Tuesday is after school club till 5 after school club then home
Wednesday is after school club till 5 then straight to swimming lessons
Thursdays is theatre school from 4.45-6.15
Friday is usually home at school end, sometimes a short stint at after school club.

So it's activities on 3 days, after school club on another day, and just straight home 1 day.

Weekend swimming
wednesday after school dance

and then gymnastics and cheerleading in school lunch hours- both of which she now wants to give up.

reluctant to add more to her spare time because she has a sister to play with, we have homework and I want her also to just have downtime to be a child and play.

swimming, BMX and football - options limited by what days & times activities are on and what days parents work and can get them to activities in an evening.

I don’t think it is the number so much as what your evenings and weekends look like, whether able to have downtime, do homework, get a good nights rest. We do piano, for example, which is a lesson during school, but then comes with practice obligations outside of school. Mine could do an extracurricular through school every day of the week and it would be fine, but when we had dance lessons one day a week that required driving and a late home arrival it was mega stressful for me and impacted heir ability to get proper rest that evening.

In Yr2 it was just swimming and Beavers, plus a free school club if available.

We also took them camping, canoeing and to the dry ski slope sometimes.

Swimming (2x a week)
Football
Rainbows (Brownies from Easter)
Forest School (this is after school and she’d need to go to this or after school club anyway)

also has singing lessons but these are done in school time

Mine does swimming, Brownies, dance and drama, spread out through the week / weekend. She'd like to add in gymnastics but we'd get no downtime so no. Plus we do parties / softplay / outings at the weekend, so we're fairly busy.

When DD2 was in y2 (she's y3 now) she did:

After school club 4 times a week
Gymnastics once a week (after ASC on a Wednesday)
Swimming once a week (Saturday AM)
Piano once a week (at school during the day)

She also at various points did after-school activities at school - so she'd do whatever it was from 3.30-4.15 then they'd take her to ASC for me to collect her by 6. It worked well and meant she could still enjoy those things without my having to run around too much!

Year 5 DS has never done more than 2 school clubs and hockey training on Sundays.

DD1 does 7 in total: one each day of the week. She doesn't do any after school club and she does 3 of her activities on her school site, so she's home by 4.30pm on those days. Musicianship and violin are off-site and is quite a journey away, but it's an amazing teaching method and much better than the in-school lessons. Saturday swimming lesson is done by 8.40am, so we have all day to spend as a family.

Honestly I'd love her to be able to do more off-site activities as there are great opportunities around here too, but that is enough for all of us. I don't know how I'll manage to juggle things when DD2 gets old enough to want to do activities!

Mine did Beavers, swimming & riding lessons in Yr 2. The first two were after school, and riding was on a Saturday.

2 in school and 2 out of school, I feel that's a nice balance.

Three - swimming, drama, and a dance class. It all happens on a weekend, which isn't ideal but it's a struggle to fit things in on an evening because of after-school club and my inability to drive! I'm considering Brownies, but we'll see! I wouldn't want to do much more than that personally.

Swimming
Beavers
Martial Arts
Gymnastics

And we try to squeeze in some form of after school ‘play’ every other week

Just swimming, art club and rainbows. Oh and I guess you could add church?

Mine are much older now and have gradually stopped activities/ specialised.

In Y2 we did no wraparound care and no lunchtime clubs (they weren't offered). 1 x instrumental lesson, 1 x swimming lesson or a family swim, 1 x other sport, 1 x Brownies. So 4 evenings with something on, 1 weekday and both weekend days free (except for church). I found it a good balance between activity and free time while there was only one child doing it, much more difficult to manage with more than one when it wasn't something they could do together.

It was 3 as I recall

Swimming, Judo and Music (Piano & Guitar)