after school activities?

Janepig

DD does gymnastics on Monday, Thursday and Saturday, £60 per term, plus the odd time when I might need to get a leotard for a competition or something (although the last leotard she had was out of sponsorship funds). She also does rugby training on a Friday, game on Sunday, and that's about £30 for the year, but also has to pay £1 once a month when they use the Scarlets training barn, plus she gets free tickets to Scarlets matches, etc.. with that. Kit is provided by the club, which is given back after each match for one of the mums to wash, and we paid about £25 for body armour and about £15 for togs. She used to do Cheerleading, which was the most expensive, not for lessons but in terms of uniform, trainers, competition fees and going away, etc... She also did swimming for a while but wasn't really much good at it, that wasn't too expensive.

DD also does after school sports club once a week which is free and is a slight bone of contention at the moment as she is struggling to get them to let her play rugby - much more nonsense from the PE teacher and I will be sticking my oar in. She also runs cross country for the school and does dawnsio gwerin for the school (folk dancing). Oh and she has flute lessons. How that child has time to breathe I'll never know - and it's all stuff she's asked to do, I'd be happy if she did nothing!!

DS does gymnastics on a Saturday which is £4, pay as you go, and also football training on a Friday, matches on Sunday, which is £2 subs and you have to pay that whether he goes or not. Like DD with rugby, his kit is provided by the club and we spent about £15 on togs. He's also been given afew pairs of togs after some of his friends as he's the smallest out of his peer group. I'm going to look to get him into swimming lessons soon I think - I was going to try and get one to one lessons with him because he'll just mess about in a class with afew other children in, but I might try him first, see if he'll surprise me (he won't ).

I have to say, I take my hat off to their rugby and football coaches, who turn out in all weathers to train the kids, all voluntarily.

Jx

jellyhead

eldest -
guitar £8 per week (college)
gym £4 per week (leisure centre)
youth club £1 per week plus £2 tuck

youngest -
gymnastics £4 per week
swimming £5 per week
youth club free

MERFE

At the moment they pay nothing, DD does maypole dancing and gymnatics as well as going to film club but she is due to start horse riding next month which will be £16.50 for lead rein lessons to begin with and once she is happy group lessons will be 23.50 a week. Hopefully she has a place at brownies due to start after easter if they do have a place, not sure of the cost but alot less than the horseriding.
DS goes to an it club at school, did football last term which cost £15 for some boots but he didnt want to carry on with it. He used to do swimming lesson and he loves swimming so may start this up again and he is after learning to play the guitar so we are looking into this for him too.

mummyroysof3

at what age do your children start doing these activities? so far mine just do the activities school put on

balletshoes

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

at what age do your children start doing these activities? so far mine just do the activities school put on

my DD's school don't really do afterschool activities (she can't wait to get to secondary school so she can do some there). I took her to swimming lessons at age 6, and she's been going to dance school since she was 4 (that was her Dad's idea, but she loves it and always has). She tried a cheerleading class too at age 8, but it was really disorganised so she didn't stick with it. Oh and she did a year at gymnastics aged 5 - she found out about the last 2 classes at school through friends.

rachbc

my dd is 5 and does gymnastis at £4 a week.

DS footy (£1) and did do cubs (£2) but the leader was rubbish.

My friends kids do something everynight it must cost her a fortune (not mention her kids are always knackered and never have time to for play dates as they are always at an activity)

peachyprice

mummyroysof3 wrote: »

at what age do your children start doing these activities? so far mine just do the activities school put on

It depends on the acitvity. DD has been dancing since the age of 4, she's started Brownies when she was 8.

She swam from 5 - 8 years.

guccigoo

My dd (6) goes to Beavers £2 per week and swimming lessons once a week £70 for 10 lessons. Im also thinking about letting her do Gymnastics but worried this could become too expensive for me.

Lindz_Delirium

DD does Brownies £24.50 a term, Gymnastics £64.00 for ten weeks and disco freestyle dance most of my wages every bloody week.
Disco freestyle is hideously expensive, classes are only £14.50 a week but then add private lessons at £16 for twenty minutes and team practise, competition tickets, hotels and the costumes and you're looking at hundreds or even thousands.

She's lucky she's an only child

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Showshack dance around £400 per year
Ballet around £250 per year
Gymnastics around £200 per year
Swimming around £300 per year

Swimming is 50 weeks a year but the others are termly, with about 8/10 weeks per term.