What after-school sports clubs does your junior school offer?

[cornflakemum]

I want to ask our Head to consider expanding the range of after-school sports activities on offer, and just wondered how reasonable a request this was.

Can you tell me what your school offers (for 7-11 year olds), and by way of comparison how big a school it is, and whether state/private?

Ours offers football/ rugby/ cricket/netball, but I want them to introduce something of a more individual nature for those children who perhaps don't naturally gravitate towards team sports (i.e. my kids! )

I was thinking stuff like Judo, Gymnastics, Trampolining or Fencing - that type of thing?
I wouldn't mind if I had to pay extra for it (e.g. if it was provided by a 3rd party using the school premises).

Karate, archery, sailing. Probably more but can't remember them.

DCs school is a 2 form entry state primary school (420 children) and it offers football and multisports. Multisports is provided by an external company so quite pricey, Football is run by the school caretaker and costs a nominal amount. Absolutely abysmal provision for sport, imo, given the number of cricket pitches and tennis courts we have in the area.

Football, Netball, Karate, Tag Rugby, Fencing, Tennis, Linedancing and Cheerleading, and we're trying to start up a ski team (not on site!). 2-form entry, 360 pupils, state primary.

Running
Morris Dancing
Basketball
Football
Badminton
Table tennis
Tennis
Cricket
Rounders
Athletics
Multi-skills

It is a two-forms per year group state primary. So quite large.

DD's (private) prep school offers:

Preprep/PP - is infants (pp1 = reception)
Prep/P - Y3 to Y6

Monday
Lunchtime Brass Band P1-P4
4-5.15pm Art Club PP2-P4
4-5.15pm Speech & Drama P3-4
4-5.15pm Playball Pre-Prep

Tuesday
Lunchtime String Group Prep
Lunchtime Playball PP1 - P1
4-5.15pm Art Club PP2 - P4
4-5.15pm Cookery Pre-Prep
4-5.15pm Gymnastics PP3 - P4

Wednesday
Lunchtime Flute Choir Prep
Lunchtime Badminton Prep
4-5.15pm Art & Craft Pre-Prep
4-5.15pm Mandarin Prep

Thursday
Lunchtime(12.30) Netball P3 & P4
Lunchtime(12.30) Tennis Prep
4-5.15pm Gymnastics Prep
4-5.15pm Drama PP & Prep

Friday
4-5.15pm Judo Prep

Clubs are £4-5 a session

Oh - and a small school, just under 90 girls in the school

I work at a state junior school (currently about 230 pupils)

We currently have tag rugby, football, karate, tennis & netball & fitness club on the sports side, also choir, cookery a craft club and two different drama clubs. We also have various clubs that run for a few weeks at a time -we've had golf, cricket & street dance recently, run by outside organisations and most of the teachers do at least a couple of clubs a year for a term or half term each - stuff like card games, art clubs or gardening clubs, as well as various sports.

The tag,choir, cooking & one of the drama clubs are run by teachers, the netball & fitness by our sports coach from the company who covers PPA and the football is done by Reading FC as part of their outreach programme.

We'd like to have more - the problem is finding space to run them in, especially if it rains....

Rusty - that sounds like a great list! I'd really like the school to start a Lego Robotics club and enter the Lego League too.... in fact DH's company offered to sponsor buying the equipment!

I think having some 'individual' sports options is really important. DS2 is youngest in the year and not really into the traditional football/ rugby teams. The same 'alpha males' tend to dominate these anyway, and he is fed up of being bossed around by these boys . I think some children who don't like football do very well at something like judo or fencing etc?

I thought you just wanted after school sports clubs?

Oh if you're after non sports clubs we also have Orchestra, French, Spanish, various instrument groups (recorder, guitar, etc), Art and Imagineering (aka building things with Knex). And athletics in the summer term, plus cross-country for Y5/Y6 only.

Do they have any student teachers on placement at the school? If so, maybe they might like to try running a new club for a few weeks. Our final teaching practice students always seem to run a club - don't know if it's a course requirement, or just something our head likes them to do - the craft club I mentioned is being done by our current student.

Private junior school - after school clubs or lunchtime activities are

Main team sports (all invitation only)
Rugby
Swinning
Cricket

Other sports
Tennis
Football

Music
2xchoirs
Orchestra (invitation only)
String group
Brass group
Guitar group
Jazz group

Other stuff
Drama club
French club
Chess club
Bridge club