Do extracurricular activities help academic performance?

Do extracurricular activities help academic performance?

Phil Avery (Geography Teacher) gives expert video advice on: How do students benefit from doing extracurricular activities?; Does participating in extracurricular activities help you get into university?; Should students' interests outside school be valued? and more...

Extracurricular activities can help academic performance in two ways. Firstly, because you've chosen to be in that club and because it's something that you're fairly good at, you're developing confidence which can only help you in the classroom.The second way in which it's going to help you is that you're developing relationships with teachers in a different way. It's not that classroom based in-front-of-the-whiteboard person. They are suddenly someone you are able to relate to and to develop a relationship with that you can bring back into the classroom and aide their teaching and your learning.