By Harry Boeken
Age 10
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I wanted to find out if children at my school
liked after school clubs.
I also wanted to make other after school clubs
for pupils to enjoy.
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What do children at my school think about
after school clubs?
What I wanted to find out
 What kind of after school clubs people do
 What types of club they would be interested
in.
 How many hours of after school clubs they do
per week.
 How long they think an after school club
should last.
My participants
 My participants were all the children in Key
Stage 2 (45 children). However I only received
15 back.
 I chose these children because I thought they
would understand the text.
 I also thought older children would give me
more ideas about after school clubs.
My methods
 To collect my data I used a questionnaire
 I used a questionnaire because they were
quicker to do than interviews, and because I
could get more responses.
 I used mostly closed questions and a couple of
open questions where people could write in
boxes
Analysing my data
 I collected my data in a tally chart for each
question.
 I did this because I just had to put marks in
tables, so it was simple.
 I had a few open questions where people could
write their answer. I just listed their answers
because I didn’t get many responses.
Ethical issues
 To make my questionnaire ethical, I told
participants not to write their name, so it was
anonymous. I told them that it would be
confidential and I gave them a choice whether
to participate.
 After I had finished I destroyed the sheets.
 I made the questionnaire simple so younger
children could read it.
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What after school clubs do children at my school take part
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•The most popular club was hockey – 4 children took part
•The least popular clubs were football, Lets Get Physical, Art and Hula. Only
one person I asked said they took part in these. This may be because some
have been running for a while and people are bored.
•Out of the 15 people who replied, 3 do no clubs.
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Which of these types of after school clubs would you be
interested in?
Club
•The club most people wanted to see was drama (7 children)
•4 people wanted comic club, 3 First Aid, and 3 skateboarding
•The least popular were gaming, gym, music, and cooking (1 child)
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Year4
Year5
Year6
Approximately how many hours of after school clubs do
you do per week?
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Year5
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•The most common amount of hours was one (6 children)
•Least common was 3, and only 2 did 4
•This might be because children may not have a lot of time to do lots of after
school clubs, or the clubs might be full.
How long should an after school club last?
Number of children
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Half an hour
One hour
Two hours
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Time
•Most children think that clubs should last for one hour (10 children)
•One thought they should last half an hour, and 3 thought 2 hours.
Do you have any other comments about after school clubs at our
school?
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Please can we have cooking?
There should be more choice
They are fun
Would like roller skating
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I have learnt that most children want to see new after
school clubs.
Of the people I asked, the most popular clubs were the
new ones (hockey). Perhaps this shows that some
people want new clubs.
Most people I asked did an after school club. Only 3 of
the people I asked did not do a club.
Most children thought that a club should last one
hour .
That was the number of minutes the children did. so
that just proves they’re happy with the schedule.
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I think that my project went really well.
The hardest part was the tallying.
I would keep all of it the same if I did it again.
If I had more answers it would make it harder
because it would be confusing.