After school clubs

[Pud2]

Teachers - do you get paid to do after school clubs?

[YouMakeABetterDoorThanAWindow]

It's a really mixed area financially Doctordonna, none of the clubs are free. If a teacher says to a parent in front of the child " x is amazing at singing, I'd love him to join singing club" it puts pressure on the parent to pay money they don't have. The money has to be paid in a lump sum on the first week of term. I can see this would be totally different if the club was free.

[MargoReadbetter]

Teacher run clubs at our DCs school are free. One DD attends a couple after school (and a paid one) and the other DD a couple at lunchtime.

I'm surprised teachers still run them, given how overworked they are. The same pressure as on other professions to give more, more, more :(

[DoctorDonnaNoble]

I happily suggest joining clubs. The vast majority of ours are free.

[YouMakeABetterDoorThanAWindow]

I'm a parent and pay £3.50 per hour for various after school clubs. Mostly they are run by TAs but a few are run by teachers. I think this is very cheap for the wonderful care and opportunities the DC get.

I suppose I never thought too much about who gets paid what. I sort of assumed the TAs got paid by the hour and that as the teachers that do clubs work pt it was part of their contract?

I would be upset if staff felt obliged to do clubs.

I do get slightly miffed when a teacher suggests a DC join a club with no realisation that the money might not be there to pay for it!

[FizzySmile]

Primary teacher in Scotland here, and like previous posters have said, no we don't get paid.

However, when I first started doing an after-school club, about 15 years ago, I was paid, £10-ish per hour, worked out at an extra £50 per month. We were paid from the 'supervised study' budget I believe.

It's 'expected', though not enforced, that all teachers in my school will contribute to running either a lunchtime or after-school club.

[itshappenedagain]

Yes. As its out of hours. However I didn't in my previous school. Both secondary.

[jojomom]

School staff of any sort should not be given a free school meal, unless of course all staff are given one. Otherwise it becomes an item you should declare for tax purposes! Mad but true.

[Starlight2345]

Not a teacher but my DS's school hire in people to run clubs. The football one is chargeable but the rest aren't..

[FV45]

Thank you for giving up your time teachers!
My yr3 son goes to tennis and multi sports after school. We pay for the former as he comes into school just for that, the latter is free but is run by a chap who just does PE, but not on the teaching staff. I guess he's employed by the school.
XC Club is during lunch hour and run by one of the office staff and a couple of TAs I think. Maybe one teacher as well.
The biggest pain in the arse is drum lessons which is a private teacher who asks for payment each week rather than in advance. I don't know if he's new to it, but am pretty sure he'll soon be fed up chasing people!

[exLtEveDallas]

Our school stopped the teachers clubs and instead invited a local business to come in and supply 4 clubs at a reduced rate if we gave them the hall for free. He usually charges around £5.00 per session and instead is charging £2.50. It's cheaper than after school childcare though.

[hels71]

I have never been paid to do clubs, and in my last school I was expected to run 5..(I did the music).

[Longlost10]

no in 9 out of 10 of the schools I am currently involved in. The last one pays an hourly rate for a maximum of three sessions, per teacher, per KS, every year. So, a maximum of 9 paid sessions. Staff probably do around 20-30 extra sessions each, often these are on Saturday, Sunday, Bank holiday, half term, etc.

The stipulations are quite strict, and the actual money is quite difficult and time consuming to get hold of

[goingmadinthecountry]

No. There were strikes about it many years ago - late 1980s. I was a secondary music teacher then and gave up many any hours.

Primary now and not paid, but we all do one after school and one lunchtime club. We also have one lunch duty each per week when we eat with the children - we get a free school dinner but we don't have to eat it. Different day each week. So last Monday I had break duty, lunch duty, lunchtime club and after school club - with children from 8.45 to 4.30 without a break. On the plus side, my classroom is really near the staff loo!!

[Pud2]

Million - it's interesting to hear your POV as a parent. It's very unusual for teachers to be paid for clubs. I dothing though, with the increased pressures on teachers, it's no longer realistic to expect them to run a weekly club.

[newmummyagain]

At our school teachers no, but TAs yes.

[CandODad]

At interviews you often seem to be told that there is an expectation of one after school club a week.

[Millionprammiles]

I can't believe teachers aren't paid for ASC!

Dd's (state) primary charges £5/hour for each ASC. There's a wide range of activities, always oversubscribed and parents are grateful for them. I hope that money is going to the teachers and not just to general school funds.

[DoctorDonnaNoble]

Nope. The kids seem to think we are though. I'm paid to teach (and mark/plan) some lessons for the boarders but that's curriculum based and is an extension to our timetable (not optional). Many parents think we're paid.
It annoys me. Not that we're not paid but that some teachers sail through never doing any enrichment activities and get paid the same amount. Ho hum. Not going to be a martyr about it.

[BetweenTwoLungs]

No, but our TAs are paid until 4 daily and they run a lot of them.

[cherrypiesally]

I wish I was paid for all my after school sessions.

[BackforGood]

as long as it is part of the 1265 directed hours, tilly ......?

[Tillyscoutsmum]

Nope. We're also told that every teacher is expected to run one at some point during my the year (Primary)

[RamsayBoltonsConscience]

The only place I know of where staff are paid to do after school clubs is a private school where my friend works. They charge £5 per child and the staff take all the money!!! State sector- no payments...

[Scorbus]

No (Primary) but most of the teacher run clubs are at lunchtime. The after school clubs are run by TAs and carry a charge, the TAs are paid for these clubs.

[Gmbk]

Nope in secondary.

Clubs tend to be more "after school intervention" and aren't included in directed time but expected that you do them