DS is 5 and in reception. He does a few after school clubs, at his request. On a Monday it's a particular sports club, run by a reputable local organisation that is very well thought of in the sport, hosted at his school.
Reviews were mixed for the first half term in autumn, but then he really seemed to enjoy it, and especially just before and after February half term he was buzzing every time when we picked him up, and so excited talking about what a great time he'd had.
Three weeks ago we picked him up after the club and it turned out he hadn't played the sport at all because he'd apparently hurt his foot, so he said he'd spent the time playing on "the hay bales" instead (no idea why there are hay bales involved... It's not a hay related sport!). Okay, all fine. But then we picked him up last week and eventually it became apparent he had not joined in the sport at all again, and was just playing on the hay bales for an hour. We had a talk with him that we're paying for the club and he needs to actually join in or he won't be able to go, and we reiterated this morning when we dropped him off that he needs to join in. But again after I picked him up it became clear he hadn't joined in at all for the whole hour.
He has no explanation as to why, but it also appears from what he says that several other children are also sitting out the entire club and just mucking about on the hay bales instead. We see one of the people who runs the club when we pick him up and at no point have they mentioned that my son is not joining in at all, which I find really odd after 3 weeks! The people who run the club are quite young, early 20's at most and I'm wondering whether they just don't really have control of the class, but it seems really weird to me that they've not raised this as an issue with the parents and I guess I'm also a bit concerned about whether the kids are supervised during whatever they're doing with these mystery hay bales.
Would I be unreasonable to try to raise this with the club in a non accusatory way to try and work out what is actually happening (mindful that possibly I might not be getting the full picture)? Or just impress on my son that if he's not joining in we'll just end the club after this term? When I thought it was just my son not joining in I thought he was just being awkward but it sounds like they have a low-level hay bale based mutiny on their hands...