Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Other subjects
Original poster

following on from another thread (because i dont want to hi-jack) how many extra curricular clubs do your children attend?

53 replies

misdee · 15/03/2007 10:32

mine dont do any atm (for obvious reasons) but am wanting them to start swimming lessons once dh is better and we can take them as i feel its an important life skill, plus its fun and keeps you healthy. my kids are vwery active (would rather run/scooter to school than use the car), play outside for 3+hours after school(only coming in to eat and watch 30mins of lazy town), love walks round the lakes etc etc.

OP posts:
annh · 15/03/2007 12:02

Too many! DS! (8, yr 4) does private guitar and drum lessons. He is musical and enjoys these so don't want to cut them out, although we have said no to keyboards which he also wants to do. He also does football for 2 hours on Sat so we have cut out his after-school football which used to be on Thursdays. And he does a drama class on Friday - this is very much for fun and isn't thought about from one end of the week to the next, if you know what I mean, rather than the music lessons which require practise and nagging in between! I think that's quite enough!

DS2 (5, yr 1)only does after school football on Thursdays, although would like to do gymnastics if I ever get around to organising it.

I like them to do some things but think it is easy to go overboard and let your life become completely ruled by your children's afterschool activities. In your case, I think swimming would be great (luckily the boys can do it through school)but otherwise the most important thing kids can do is be active and socialise and it sounds like yours are fulfilling that admirably - without the cost of all the clubs!

Beetrootccio · 15/03/2007 12:06

ds1 choird twice a day seven days week
monday judo

(3 instruments 0 not sure if that counts)
ds2
moday tennis
wednesday tennis
thursday hockey
friday football
sat hockey
(2 instruments)

ds3
as ds1 but not judo
(2 instruments)

dd

monday tennis
Tuesday Hockey
wed swimming
thurs drama
sunday riding
(2 instruments)

CODalmighty · 15/03/2007 12:07

i think ther is a balance to be sturck tbh
a dn also i let them nag me a LONG time abotu wanting to start somehting before we do( liekt eh recent guitar thing)

ComeOVeneer · 15/03/2007 12:07

Currently dd (5) does none. She was doing swimming, but I haven't organised it since we moved. However she would like to do riding, swimming, ballet ,football and gym. I think that is too much especially as she is still pretty tired after school. I will do swimming, rainbows and ballet to begin with and see how she does, will then intoduce riding in the summer if she is coping. The trobleis if I have to stay with her for the activity as I have to bring ds (2) along and he is very disruptive.

Beetrootccio · 15/03/2007 12:07

yes cod adn then they cannot give it up!!! well at elast for a term

CODalmighty · 15/03/2007 12:08

yes
swimmign is non neg( altho we have moved to ad hoc one on one lessons)

beavers anc ubs
soem is seasonal too like circket

Nemo2007 · 15/03/2007 12:09

Ds[3] goes for swimming lesson once a week on a saturday but he hasnt started school yet, goes to playgroup 3 mornings. Then we have to fill afternoons with trips to park, playing in garden, games in house etc.. Have to do something every day or he gets very bored and isnt type to sit and watch tv.He has also mentioned wanting to do football!!

puddle · 15/03/2007 12:10

ds (just 7) does woodcraft and swimming.

DD (4) does ballet.

That's enough for the moment.

Fimbo · 15/03/2007 12:11

DD (8)
Monday-Ballet/Tap
Wednesday-Ballet/Tap practise for forthcoming exam & school nature club
Thursday-Brownies

GrumpyOldHorsewoman · 15/03/2007 12:22

Not as many as she used to.

We've moved and our new locality is crap. I am struggling to find things for her. She really wants to carry on with the swimming (and I want her to - she loves it and is good at it) but it's hard to get a place.

There is very little going on in the way of sports for girls, here. Yes, there are boys cricket clubs, rugby and football but she used to go to an excellent athletics club twice a week in our last town. It really was fantastic. She did gymnastics for a while, too, until they pulled the plug on the club. She would like to do rugby, but is 12 already and they only let girls play up to 13 (I've asked). She is starting guitar and drums soon at school - does that count?

mytwopenceworth · 15/03/2007 13:33

ds1 does pottery and beavers and ds2 does piano and beavers. other stuff we do (ok, dh!!) with them rather than them going to clubs, eg swimming, hill walking, etc.

other than that its park, back garden, and toys and games!

Soapbox · 15/03/2007 13:37

Mine do:

DD
Mon:Lunchtime Judo, evening splash club
Tues:choir
Wed:drama
Thur:netball
Friday:patchwork quilt making

All at school, free of charge, and three clubs a week min required.

Ballet (saturday - morning noon and bloody night at the moment with exams and show coming up)!

DS
Mon:Rugby
Tues:handicrafts
Friday:football.

All at school £75 a term.

DD's school clubs finish between 3.35 and 4pn and DS's all finish at 4pm.

They love them all!

Aloha · 15/03/2007 13:38

ds is five and goes to a half hour french class once a week. That's it.

sandyballs · 15/03/2007 13:39

None. Tried beavers and they hated it, tried gymnastics/trampolining and it was too much of a rush for a 9.30am start on a Saturday - too much like a school day start when they wanted to be chilling in their PJ's and watching TV first thing. They're only just 6 so I'm going to wait a while.

foxinsocks · 15/03/2007 13:40

ds (reception) is doing nothing this term as it's his first term of full time and he's tired! Next term, he'll restart football.

dd (yr2) - choir and French (lunchtime) and afterschool Spanish club (which she loves).

Both will restart swimming next term if we manage to get them a space and dd is (and has been on for a year!) the waiting list for gym club at school.

hoxtonchick · 15/03/2007 13:42

ds does swimming & drama. and french at lunchtime. all once a week.

JackieNo · 15/03/2007 13:43

DD (7)
Monday: Gym club at school
Tuesday: Football club at school
Thursday: swimming
Friday: ballet

DS (3), erm, nothing.

MrsMills · 15/03/2007 13:44

DS1 (6) has swimming and tennis, but has been nagging me to start skiing and icehockey. Perhaps next winter, if he is still banging on about them, he can start those too.

DS2 (3) would like to go to dog training classes if they would have him.

motherinferior · 15/03/2007 13:46

DD1 does a dance club wossname (which she adores - they do it to the Pulp Fiction music, it's fab) after school at school on a Thursday.

Both Inferiorettes do swimming on a Sunday. Same class, as DD2 is physically brave and DD1 is a bit of a wuss, and most of all because it's convenient for me.

Apart from the swimming I would really like to keep their after school stuff at school, on site.

JackieNo · 15/03/2007 13:47

MI, I now have a vision of your DD1 as a mini Uma Thurman.

Marina · 15/03/2007 13:48

Ds Beavers one evening and tennis at weekends. Is also member of School Press Club but that meets at lunchtime
Dd Ballet at school, prob. Rainbows when she is four
We leave it to them to decide what they want to do with the proviso that we're not doing too much, for their sakes and ours

Mercy · 15/03/2007 13:53

dd, 6, has done a couple of classes since she started in Yr1; one during lunch-time and the other after school (on-site). I think they run for about 4/6 weeks and that's it.

I think dd's school has more things available once they are in Yr 3 - chess, computers etc.

Mercy · 15/03/2007 13:55

School Press Club sounds interesting, Marina. What does it involve?

Original poster
misdee · 15/03/2007 14:12

dd1 is also very interested in gymnastics/dance and is very flexable. she has shwon an interest in that for years, and feel she should start soon, but where to begin? after school she is too tired, and i really dont think that the weekend should be filled with organised activities. atm we vary weekends between parks, lakes, visiting relatives, cinema and just going out. (we get 3hours on saturdays for the girls to get some sort of normal outing), then during holidays we will do one or two full days out a week to farms etc.

dd2 would love to start trampolining, but what can she get out of lessons, she can already bounce well at home on her own trampoline.

OP posts:
Marina · 15/03/2007 14:13

Editing a termly school-wide newspaper mercy! Ds is Trips and Outings Correspondent. They all seem to be loving it.
A teacher started the idea after the school was featured in First Times. She brought in her own old school newspaper and it evolved from there.
Ds is not much of a joiner-inner generally and this club has got him really fired up.