How do students benefit from doing extracurricular activities?

How do students benefit from doing extracurricular activities?

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...

Students benefit in a range of ways from doing extracurricular activities. They gain new skills, for example a sport, workshop skills if they're doing DT, right way through to mentoring and peer support skills if they're looking after a younger student. They also gain motivation. It's a real chance for them to enjoy school and choose to do something they are really interested and passionate about, and therefore their motivation for learning and their motivation for their teachers and the school increase. They also gain empathy. For example, if you're in a sports team and you're having to pick every practice who's on your team, you're going to start to develop those skills whereby I don't want you to feel left out. We're a team. We've all chosen to be here. Let's make the most of this club or group. So, a lot of the skills you're going to see are learning not in the traditional sense of knowledge, but certainly in terms of social skills and teamworking skills.