To ask how many after school activities do your kids do and how much do they cost?

[PinkKecks]

Just that really. My DC is in reception and already most of his class have classes after school/at the weekend (gymnastics, football, music, ballet etc.)

Covid stopped classes for ages so it sort if went from my mind and I've not put DC in any classes yet, but just hoping to get an idea about what sort of classes kids do, how many different classes, how often, and costs per week per child?

Thanks

Tbh I have recently cut down our activities as my dc were exhausted!

We used to do

Mon - swim £30 per month x 3dc
Tues - kickboxing £30 per month x 3dc
Weds - Parkour £30 per month x 2dc
Fri - cubs 100 annually x 2dc
Sat - private tuition £80 per month x 1dc
Sun - football £20 per month x 2dc

We now only do swimming, parkour and cubs and we are all much happier !

DD in Reception
Swimming on Saturdays
Gymnastics & Dance during the week
Was doing football but we dropped that

@Zimmumuk

DD in Reception Swimming on Saturdays Gymnastics & Dance during the week Was doing football but we dropped that

Swimming £27 a month Gymnastics & Dance £4 (term time only)

Private swimming lesson (£20) and a horseriding lesson (£20) a week for DD6. She has mentioned gymnastics but I am loathe to start that when it gets so expensive for everything.

Brownies and swimming. Brownies is £35 a term each, swimming is £7 a lesson each.

My D's is 4 and in reception, he goes to football on Saturdays which is £40 for the year and includes a training top and shorts. He is on the waiting list for swimming lessons at the local leisure centre and I take him to the pool on Sundays which is £3 for him and £4.50 for me. He's also on the waiting list for beavers but I don't think they start that until they are 6. He likes running around and socializing at football but he gets upset when tackled I'm not entirely sure he likes it so I am looking to get him to taster sessions for dancing and gymnastics to see if he prefers one of those, if he does prefer one of those then we will give football a miss for a bit because I think one structured activity plus swimming lessons/being taken to the pool is enough at the age of 4, school makes him very tired and we want time to do unstructured family activities/just play too.

At reception age swimming, approx £35 per month and beavers, approx £25 per term.

I added it up and cried a little inside tbh. I realise we’re very lucky to be able to afford it but like a few other posters I’d not added it all up before.

Toddler- water babies £18 a class and gymnastics £11.25 a class

5yo
Swimming £30 a month
Ballet £80 a term (works out £7 a session)
Gymnastics £13 a session
Tennis £7 a week
Music £24 per 30 min private lesson

Out of all of them, it’s probably waterbabies that is the biggest expense given it’s a group lesson versus private piano and not that much less. That will have an end date though and become much cheaper once we move to leisure centre lessons.

We then have after school care on top which includes some sports.

DC1&2 Martial arts x1 a week term time, £85 for 6 months.

DC2 sports club once a week, currently free because of Covid usually £80 per year.

DC 2 £290 music lessons, 1x week term time 6 months.

DC2, £200 sports club membership for the season, £40 refund if she helps out at other team matches least 3 times.

Swimming, I'm not sure I want to calculate...£570 for both to go swimming 13 half hour lessons. (But there are max 4 children per class and they are willing to teach my child with SN which no other swim school was.)

Just dodgeball at school - £5 for an hour and a half. He isn't interested in any of the other ones on offer.
He wants to go back to swimming but it's hard to find a space after Covid. Might bite the bullet after Christmas and pay for 2 to 1 lessons.

DSD 7
Brownies - £30 per full school term
Swimming - £66 per 12 week block (£5.50 per week)
Ballet - £3.75 per week
Stage (acting/singing/dance) - £4 per week
Adding in lyrical, musical theatre dance and tap dance after Christmas so they do these classes back to back for £6.50 per week or another £3.75 if she only does the 1 class.
Hockey - £3 per week
Park run - free although she wangles a Costa hot chocolate after to 'warm her up' so £3.50

We've done gymnastics and tumbling which was £6 each per week since she was about 3 but in September she wanted more dance.

Just swimming!

30 mins a week £25 a month. He's only 4 and we don't want to start lots of clubs and not be able to give DD the same choices. x

When my dd was 6 or 7 he had a weekly swim lesson for 45 minutes, attended Stage Coach singing, drama and dance for 2 1/2 hours, 1 hour cricket in the summer and football in winter and cubs. Stage Coach used to be 27.50 a week but swim and cricket £3 per session.

Now he is in Year 11 he does swimming X3 times a week. Cricket training 3 hours a week in winter but in summer he plays for 4 teams and plays Saturday and Sunday every week from April until September and often a mid week game too. Games last about 5 hours. He also does karate for 2 hours a week. He also has a tutor for 1 hour after school each day. He also runs two or three times a week. Swimming is now £3.50 per swim plus annual membership of £35 per year, karate £70 for half term, plus fee to do belts £42 per belt. Annual licence £70, cricket matches are £4 per game but training is specialised so expensive at £375 per term for one lot and £425 for second lot. He is at County level.

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DS is nearly 5 and would be in Reception in the UK. He does private swimming lessons on a Saturday and a multisports class on a Tuesday during pre-school. He'll probably start football and karate next year when he starts school. They are part of the after-school programme, though.

DD 16-
3 musical instruments about £250 per term
Music theory £250 per term
LAMDA £250 per term
Group Tennis lessons £200 per term

DS-
Rugby £59 per term
Hockey £50 per term
Drum lessons £250 per term

Mine do swimming which is about £60 a term.
DS does football £60 a year
DD does gymnastics competitively £40 a month
DS kickboxing £35 per month
DD piano about £13 a lesson.

Both kids go to after school club Monday-Friday so that's £30 each per week. Eldest also attends a performing arts class once a week which is £20 a session (expensive but she enjoys it and we use childcare vouchers to cover the cost) and also goes to Brownies, which costs £2.50 each week.

Forgot to add piano lessons that eldest also does £15 a lesson.

5yo girl.

Climbing once a week (£7 session, payable each half term)
Ballet once a week (no idea, DW set it up)
Razzamatazz once a week (I think this is about £45 / month)
Language class once a week (online, about £5 a session)

We may suspend some of those next term for practical reasons (I'm likely to be away with work for a month, and I'm usually doing the fetch and carry for climbing and ballet while DW is at work). Generally, though, it seems to work for us, and DD enjoys what she goes to.