Does your school charge for after school activities?

[MatildaM]

My children used to do football, cookery, French and other subjects after school.All were run by teachers free of charge. Their primary school now has a new head and gradually all these things are being "contracted out". I now have to pay for football and tennis as a private coach does these, although the netball and cooking are still free as staff do them.
I don't need childcare but I presume this is to do with wrap around childcare.Can't help resenting it.

Yes, we pay for extras after school as it is above and beyond 'regular' school hours.

I pay about £4 a session for DS1's football coaching after school. The course is run by a coach from Fulham FC so I guess the school has to pay him. The charge seems reasonable to me.

we generally pay a pound for after school activities, whether they're run by teachers or outside people. after school club is different & costs £5/session. i suspect the school waives the fees for the activities if people can't afford them.

Yes, we have to pay. Our head claims a virtue of it, saying that the teachers are "Not allowed" to do after school clubs, so that they have time to prepare lessons etc. I think head is right really. Teaching is enough of a job without being expected to do extra hours for free.
But I do think for older children, any after school training for sports teams and drama shows I would expect to be done by the PE or drama teacher. But this would be on the basis of the children being picked for it, rather than paying for a club.

In the meantime, I'm happy to pay between £3 and £6 per hour (depending on the club) for top-notch child care.

DS's school doesn't have any clubs run by teachers. The school acts as a venue for afterschool tennis and french clubs, which are about £4-6 for an hour - paid termly up front.

In some ways I am glad the teachers don't have the extra workload of clubs, but I admit to being envious of other children who get the opportunity to do gardening, computer club, cooking, football, choir, dance etc.

The school doesn't do breakfast or after school care either. It does do education very well though

£10 a term for 'equipment', although they have more or less the same ones each term and use the same equipment as the term before. It's a private school though so I suppose it comes as part of his fees.

most are free - multiskills, nature, dance, gym, touch typing, plus others for the older kids that I can't remember.
Lunchtime football costs (outside provider).
For a small (100 pupils, 4 classes) school they have alot of clubs.

The school you where experiecing was a very good school offering clubs for free, that does not happen much now....believe me.

Only football is contracted out, I am not sure that we have a school team for this that is free. Other than that everything else is free.

Some are free some not.

The PE co-ordinator ran a netball club with pupils from local secondary school, ditto dance club.

These were both free.

But science club which was contracted out was not. I think it's fair enough to pay tbh and happily did so. In fact I would be happy to pay for the free clubs too. Even if teacher is happy to give up her time (tho why should she?) there might be costs involved.

I pay for football training from the local football club, after all.

Seems it's the norm now. I guess I was spoilt having it all free before.