To ask what enrichment activities your DC's secondary school offers

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Saw enrichment activities mentioned on another thread and thought about DD's high school. They don't run after school clubs because it's in a rural community and many of the children are bussed out as soon as the bell goes.

Lunchtime is less than 60 mins - no clubs offered, just sports practice on an ad hoc basis i.e. when teacher is free.

What happens at your DC school?

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Really no idea - not sure if it's because DS doesn't tell us/get involved or if there really isn't much going on.

I know there are various sports teams but if there are any more activities they are not at all well publicised.

STEM; DofE; all the sports have clubs and teams; art club; computer gamers; drama. Not many really when you look lically, but I am shocked by schools offering none at all.

Loads at lunchtime, not many after school because of the same problem of there being only one bus home.

Off the top of my head: chess, knitting, orchestra, guitar group, science club, Latin club, girls' choir, boys' choir, mixed choir, environmental club all take place at lunch time. Drama, dance and art club are after school.

I completely forgot about sport! (Can you tell I don't have athletic children?)

loads of clubs both at lunchtime (they get an hour for lunch) and after school.

Loads. There's upwards of 50 clubs all told, both at lunchtime and after school. Sports, drama, arts, music, STEM, bands, orchestras, you name it they probably have it. We're very lucky.

My dc's secondary school (state comprehensive, semi-rural area) has between 5 and 10 different lunchtime clubs every day and about 3 after school clubs per day. All the clubs and after school activities are displayed on noticeboards at school and on the school website. Activities like Duke of Edinburgh also run at weekends sometimes.

My kids aren't joiners, but our school has all the typical sports (football, soccer, tennis, bowling, track, basketball, baseball), music (band, orchestra, choir, show choir), language clubs (Spanish, French, German, Latin, Russian), art club (#2 son does do that one), drama club, some weird ones like Magic the Gathering club, Key club, which I think is for kids looking to do volunteer work. There are lots of others but that's all I can think of. I think they're clubs that are offered at most American high schools.

Thanks for replies. DD goes to sports practice on the rare days it's offered. It's rather cliquey though - the same group of girls get into the teams for every sport. I suppose they want to win when they play other schools but I wish it were more inclusive.

Various sports, study support, DofE, knitting, art clubs, music groups, CCF, Latin, Astronomy, photography, Ten Tors, enterprise opportunities.

We're in a market town and most live locally enough to partake.

We have a whole brochure of clubs - school expects years 7-9 to do at least 2 lunchtime clubs a week - lots of sports plus unusual ones like fencing and synchronised swimming, several dance and drama groups, choirs, bands, orchestras, chamber music, art, one for each academic subject plus foreign language films, book groups, med soc, debating, law, current affairs, knitting, embroidery, sudoku..... we are really lucky but it can be exhausting - one day one of my daughters has clubs before school, in morning break, all of her lunch hour and after school. But she is a real joiner and hates to feel she's missing out.

The school buses don't leave until an hour after school has finished - those without clubs are expected to get on with homework.

About 80 clubs per term - loads of music, sports, DofE, academic & homework clubs, STEM, drama, MFL etc etc. I would be very unhappy with none whatsoever, both DC's at the school do lots of extra curricular activities.

Various after-school clubs - at least two run each day (STEM and sports focused).

School visitors - a mix of 'guest speakers' at assemblies throughout the year relating to curriculum items (or RE lessons - if that's what they're called these days) & visits from city farms/local small mammals people/reptile handlers/birds, etc. so that the children get to see and touch and interact with whatever creature has been brought in.
Curriculum-related outings/Outdoor learning - to local places of interest where they undertake a day of outdoor activities related to a curriculum topic.
Visits within the local community.

Bonus lessons where specialists to come in from time to time and give a one-off lesson in a particular topic usually as a prelude to an after-school club that will be running.
Pantomime - actors come in and perform. They also work closely with senior schools in the area so may have a lower senior school year come in and perform.
Healthy eating/cooking - using facilities at school and their own garden to prepare food for lunch.

Hockey, netball, football, rugby (girls and boys), gym and dance, choir, drama, string orchestra, big band, wind band, Dof E and more. At a bog standard welsh comprehensive. It is a very big school though so more teachers to share the load.

Ds1's school do lots. Off the top of my head: usual sports clubs, art club, knitting club, pet care club, code club, robotics club, young engineers, school band, book club, drama club, choir, table tennis club, Warhammer club, science club. There are quite a few more.

It's a big school (1,700) in a small town. Part of the catchment is rural.

Lots of after school clubs- most sports I believe ( DS is only interested in rugby!), IT, science club, homework club, STEM

They also have Enrichment week in July. Yr 7 have a choice of several daily activities. Yr 8 all go camping. Yr 9 similar to yr 7 but includes some foreign trips. Yr 10 have work experience